Josh Taylor vs. Ekow Essuman & Nathaniel Collins vs. Lee McGregor - Round by Round.

Ok now I'm gonna watch the itauma vs balogun fight I missed, which should be quick

 

Sadly I think JT’s time has come and gone. In the early rounds he was looking like The JT of old but the longer the fight went on and particularly in the 2nd half it was all Essuman.

 

Thank God the judges scored it correctly.

 

Yes not scoring it round by round whilst watching the fight but the 116-112 card seemed fair. It was a good fight but Josh Taylor is a shell of himself as others have posted.

 

He would wash Essuman tbh

 

Yeah but there comes a time when u think do i want this anymore and if you cant dig deep infront of your home crowd then sadly time is up

 

Looks like Taylor is being a sore loser. He lost a competitive but clear fight imo.

 

taylor was overrated due to being around when there wasnt much real talent, so made good fights against other overrated fighters like regis. good fighters, just very beatable by the talented. good career for his level. kinda the way i view a guy like barrios, who is also good, but not real good, yet has managed to make some coin and headline events.

 

Taylor is indeed washed and should hang em up, but I'd like to use this opportunity to remind the forum that almost 50% of you said that Taylor could beat Crawford 4 years ago.

Would have been a Scottish funeral had Crawford-Taylor ever happened.

 

Taylor thinking he won ? Guy is delusional.

 

Unfortunately, Josh hit his peak high during Covid, and didn't see the fruits of that. Probably should have gone up then, but would have been outclassed by Bud anyway. He then had a massive comedown from the fall out of not taking Catterall seriously.

 

Balogun vs Itauma
10-8 Itauma
KO by Itauma

Great looking KO. I don't mind Itauma KOing these journeymen on undercards but march him out every couple of weeks, not every 5 months and have him do this. It's ridiculous he's gonna sit on the shelf for another 4 months. Let's also all hold anointing this guy the next Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali or Joe Louis. Lot of guys looked great destroying older and limited journeymen turned into ones themselves when they met someone who could stand up to them and had could start asking real questions of them.