hmmmm, i'm gonna get butchered for this by i take taylor. locche was a defensive whiz and was able to slip and parry as easy as breathing but a puncher with the volume and speed of taylor would get something threw. locche didn't have the power to deter taylor and though he'd only land like 10% of his shots, it would be enough to pick up points. taylor's stamina at his peak was world class and i think he would settle into a rhythm of sloppy aggression. not a pretty fight, but a winnable one for tnt
Locche's defence is so good he can frustrate the best. The thing with Taylor is the speed at which he can let them fly, maybe he would be one of the rare guys with some kind of trump card to play against the untouchable one. Locche to me is the kind of guy where you can say before a fight 'nar he won't win this one, thie other guy's gunna outwork him', then he goes and just proves you wrong by doing it again. I end up picking Locche all the time in his mythical bouts round here. So i might take this opportunity to pick against him. I'll be back.
I'm sure Taylor would land his fair share of shots due to his handspeed and workrate, but I doubt he'd land many clean, effective ones. Locche's accuracy and Taylor's lacking defensive awareness would most likely see Taylor being tagged up by the much cleaner shots, even if they were fewer and further between than the glancing blows Taylor would likely land amidst his shoe-shine flurries. It'd probably be a very difficult fight to score, whoever won.
Taylor has the tools to win it. Do it the Peppermint Frazer way. Step in with fast shoe shines then jump out of range, Taylor could do that.
I think Locche would win via close decision. It would be workrate vs accurate punches landed, neither fighter would hurt the other. The kinda fight where people would disagree on the decision depending on what they held higher kinda like Martinez vs Williams.
