Taylor-Baranchyk And Inoue-Rodriguez Weigh In And Face/Offs...

Serge · May 17, 2019

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Man, I really like Baranchyk too. I mean, how can you don't enjoy watching him? He always in phenomenal shape, always coming forward, launching bombs, willing to take shots to give 'em, power in both hands, and he's strong as hell. I just happen to think Taylor is better and could really put a whoopin on him. But this one has the makings of a barn burner, man!!
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I like him too but JT is one of my favs so obviously pulling for him. But Ivan B is a very dangerous customer. In fact, I was watching a YT vid the other day where some guy said he considers Ivan stylistically a more dangerous opponent for Taylor than Rougarou (albeit not as skilful as him) and I think I agree with that assessment. Ivan has legit KO power in either hand and he's bull strong and very aggressive so JT has to stay focused for every single second for as long as the fight lasts. I do think JT's class (I rate his skills and technical ability as high as anyone on here) should be too much for him, but I'm a little concerned about how he looked at the weigh in and anyone who can punch like Ivan poses a threat to any fighter at 140.

f1ght3rz · May 17, 2019

What a clown Taylor is. Goes off on Baranchyk who is a very likeable person without any kind of trash talk coming out of his mouth. Taylor is nervous. Hopefully he's getting KTFO.

Xplosive · May 17, 2019

Josh is coming across as a hot head. I hope he composes himself by tomorrow, cause if he fights off emotion and trades with Baranchyk, he gives Baranchyk his best chance.

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Lou DiBella on Baranchyk vs Taylor
Having spent 11 years at HBO Boxing during its pomp, and chalked up 18 years at the head of his own promotional firm DiBella Entertainment, Lou DiBella is a man whose views and insights are always worth listening to.

And DiBella is convinced that Ivan Baranchyk — who he promotes alongside Max Alperovich, Alex Khanas and Tony Holden — is the real deal.

“I’ve been with Ivan pretty much his whole paid career,” DiBella told Boxing Monthly over the phone from his New York office.

“When I saw Ivan’s amateur background, I was obviously impressed and after one fight I realised he was like a bull. He’s a tremendously entertaining, strong, power-punching kid. And remember, he’s still a young guy.”

The 58-year-old DiBella – speaking before Baranchyk moved to LA to train with Freddie Roach - credited his link-up with Pedro Diaz as having been crucial to Baranchyk’s development.

“He was a little bit one-dimensional early on in his pro career but now he’s been training with Pedro Diaz — the former Cuban Olympic coach who’s sort of a genius — Ivan’s entire game has got better.

“Here’s the thing that differentiates Ivan from a lot of guys — he’s a good learner, a very good student. Pedro realised there was a lot of work to be done, but Ivan really wanted to improve and he’s really progressed. With each fight with Pedro, he’s looked better and better.

“He’s still a devastating puncher but now he’s a much more complete fighter. His punches are much more proficient, they’re much straighter, he’s using his jab and setting up his combinations more and he’s showing better defence.

“Earlier in his career he was a little wilder, he threw big haymakers and giant shots and was knocking people out brutally. He’s still hurting people and stopping them but he’s a much more well-rounded and complete fighter.”

DiBella feels that Baranchyk’s WBSS quarter-final victory against Anthony Yigit was the most complete performance of his career so far.

“That’s the best he’s ever looked,” he said. “Yigit is a world-class fighter, a terrific boxer and a tough kid, with as big a heart as you can find in the game, and Ivan dismantled him. He really tore him apart. It was a tremendously impressive effort.”

DiBella sees Baranchyk’s impending showdown with Josh Taylor as a clash between two of the best young fighters in the world.

“When you’re fighting against a guy like Josh Taylor, I’m not going to make any predictions,” he cautioned. “But anybody that’s thinking Taylor is going to have an easy time is not paying attention.

“I think Taylor is one of the best young fighters out there but I also think Baranchyk is one of the best young fighters out there. It’s going to be quite a fight. Probably Ivan has never fought anybody who is as complete a fighter as Taylor, but I definitely don’t think Taylor has ever fought anyone as good as Ivan.

“I think it’s going to be a gruelling, really tough fight for both guys. But I think it could be the kind of fight where it doesn’t really hurt either fighter’s stock, that’s how good I think both of them are.”

While DiBella coined Baranchyk’s 'Beast' moniker, he says it doesn’t reflect the fighter’s out-of-ring personality.

“Ivan is a sweetheart,” DiBella said. “A really nice kid. A family guy who has a very beautiful wife, who he is very devoted to. He’s a very grounded, together, stable young man. A really good person.

“Outside of the ring, he is the sweetest, nicest kid on earth but when he gets in the ring every punch is thrown with authority and bad intentions.

“Outside of the ring, very few guys are as far away from being a beast as Ivan, but in the ring, Ivan’s a beast, he really is. A strong, aggressive fighter whose intentions are to hurt his foe. He’s a handful, man! He will be a handful for Josh Taylor, and a handful for anyone.”

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Even as a guy who's been picking Taylor the entire time, Baranchyk seems a helluva lot more composed of the two.

Taylor's being emotional. Contrast him with Prograis three weeks ago. Regis was cool and composed the entire fight week. Taylor seems on edge for some reason.

Will that make me change my prediction? No, I still think Taylor will beat him up.

But it definitely makes Baranchyk more of a live underdog.

f1ght3rz · May 17, 2019

Baranchyk is such a nice person. Humble. Taylor on the other side is an arrogant brat. Hopefully Ivan punching his head off tomorrow.

Serge · May 17, 2019

Xplosive said: ↑

Even as a guy who's been picking Taylor the entire time, Baranchyk seems a helluva lot more composed of the two.

Taylor's being emotional. Contrast him with Prograis three weeks ago. Regis was cool and composed the entire fight week. Taylor seems on edge for some reason.

Will that make me change my prediction? No, I still think Taylor will beat him up.

But it definitely makes Baranchyk more of a live underdog.
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I think he just likes to try and intimidate his opponents but he does have a fiery side to him.

Serge · May 17, 2019

f1ght3rz said: ↑

Baranchyk is such a nice person. Humble. Taylor on the other side is an arrogant brat. Hopefully Ivan punching his head off tomorrow.
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Nah JT's a good guy too he's just trying to intimidate Ivan but it's not working.

BaileyBlack · May 17, 2019

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Taylor almost missed weight and looks terrible, I already was feeling a Baranchyk upset after seeing Taylor at the weigh-in I feel much more confident it could actually happen. Come on Belarusi Blue Beast!
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Even before the weigh-in I was leaning towards Baranchyk and if I was a betting man, I would be putting down a few quid on him. I do think the occasion and expectation may be getting to Taylor. Skills wise, I see this as a real 50/50. Taylor the better technician and Baranchyk a top level pressure fighter.

Paranoid Android · May 17, 2019

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Are Glasgow people not boxing fans? The energy at the weigh in was non-existent. Weak claps. Terrible weigh in. Terrible one question interview post weigh in.

Xplosive · May 17, 2019

Taylor will certainly have to physically break Baranchyk, because I don't see Baranchyk quitting like Ryan Martin and O'Hara Davies, two mental midgets.

TheMotorCityCobra · May 17, 2019

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I like him too but JT is one of my favs so obviously pulling for him. But Ivan B is a very dangerous customer. In fact, I was watching a YT vid the other day where some guy said he considers Ivan stylistically a more dangerous opponent for Taylor than Rougarou (albeit not as skilful as him) and I think I agree with that assessment. Ivan has legit KO power in either hand and he's bull strong and very aggressive so JT has to stay focused for every single second for as long as the fight lasts. I do think JT's class (I rate his skills and technical ability as high as anyone on here) should be too much for him, but I'm a little concerned about how he looked at the weigh in and anyone who can punch like Ivan poses a threat to any fighter at 140.
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Did you think he looked that bad? I didn't think Taylor looked too sucked in. He's a tall, lean Scottish dude, so I kinda think he always looks super pale and super skinny on the scale.

Serge · May 17, 2019

TheMotorCityCobra said: ↑

Did you think he looked that bad? I didn't think Taylor looked too sucked in. He's a tall, lean Scottish dude, so I kinda think he always looks super pale and super skinny on the scale.
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It's not just how he looked but also that business with him drinking water after thinking he's made weight only to be told he hadn't and then having to go sweat it off, that and the 10lb rehydration clause the following morning. They did it for their last fight but I get the impression from Shane McGuigan that it's something they're not comfortable with even though JT won't actually weigh much more than that all when he climbs into the ring.

He only rehydrated to 149 when he fought Alfonso Olivera and he came in 2lbs over the light-welter limit for that one. But that was 2.5 years ago and he's filled out more now. In fact, he looks like he's added some more muscle for this fight.

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Paranoid Android · May 17, 2019

Inoue!

JacK Rauber · May 18, 2019

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Josh Taylor – The Motorcyle Diaries

‘The fighting instinct takes over when people try to intimidate me. There seems to be a switch in there.’ Josh Taylor tells John Dennen how his ‘wee man’s syndrome’ has fuelled his rise to world title level

JOSH TAYLOR tends to a motorbike. He maintains it, cleans it, starts it up to keep it running. But he won’t ride it. Not until his boxing career is over.

“It’s not worth risking your career that you’ve been working hard for,” he said. “You might get knocked off, break your wrist, break your arm, break your shoulder or break your leg. That’s your career.”

“I still have got a motorbike but I haven’t been on it for about two years now,” he added. “I’ve put the bikes away until the boxing’s finished.”

Some of his earliest memories involve motorbikes. He’s been riding them since he was a child. As he grew older he began to compete. “I raced motorcross myself. I was pretty good. I just never had the money to be really competitive,” he recalled. “It’s just never ending, it’s a never ending money pit. Guys at the top end have got sponsored bikes, maybe two or three bikes and a lot of money behind them and teams giving them stuff. You just can’t compete with them.”

But he notes, “I was pretty good. By the end of the season I was getting top fives in a field of 40. So I was doing alright, I think I got a couple of thirds on a standard engine. I think I only had my suspension done and that was it. Because I was so light the suspension was too hard for me… I was getting top fives and top threes out of a field of 40 bikes, so I was doing alright.”

These were thrilling events. “It’s not like a grid set up like in Formula One, in motorcross you’ve got a line and it narrows down into the first corner. You’ve got 40 bikes in a line going into the first corner so that can be quite daunting,” he said. “But at the same time going as fast as you can and jumping the big jumps, it’s adrenaline, adrenaline and the only thing that comes close to that rush is boxing and that’s the same kind of rush I get in boxing, the same adrenaline. You get the fear. You get the nerves. You get the excitement all in one and it’s just a great feeling, you know, it’s brilliant.”

Back then Taylo was a small, angry man. Before he got into boxing he was a 15-year-old weighing less than 48 kilos. He was tiny. Growing up in Prestonpans, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, he remembered, “I had what you call ‘wee man syndrome’. I used to stick up for myself. I wouldn’t let people bully me or anything.”

“You had to look after yourself. If you got picked on, you had to look after yourself,” he said. “I never had any big brothers or big cousins look after me and I was the tiny one in my year as well so… I would always find myself in wee scraps.”

“I had to defend myself because they thought it was easy pickings because I was so small,” Taylor said with a smile. “If I got knocked down I’d get back up and say let’s go again, let’s go again, until I won. I always did that.
“Guys would [think] I’m not fighting him again, I’ll be fighting all day.”

He has grown, into a leading super-lightweight contender, but he still has that edge. The ‘wee man syndrome’ isn’t too far from the surface. In his last contest for instance, his opening bout in the World Boxing Super Series, Ryan Martin, who lost tamely in seven rounds, appeared to sense it. Taylor said, “I’m not scared of anybody. I don’t think intimidation tactics work on me. The fighting instinct takes over when people try to intimidate me. It doesn’t work. There seems to be a switch in there.”

The machinations of Ivan Baranchyk’s team in the build up to their May 18 clash for the IBF super-lightweight title at Glasgow’s Hydro have also drawn his ire. It is a World Boxing Super Series semi-final so should essentially have been a done deal. But the Belarussian’s manager publicly distanced his fighter from the event before reconciling with the Super Series. Taylor takes a dim view of such antics.

“When I do get in there and if I hurt him, I am going to jump on him and I really will punish him for this.

I really will look to be doing a number on him. If I hurt him, I’ll jump on him and I’ll try and put him away,” the Scotsman said cheerfully. “You can’t sign up to a tournament and a contract, then win a title then decide you’re not playing anymore. You can’t do that.”

“It’s completely ridiculous,” he continued with intent. “To a lot of people he’s a coward [but] it seems to be his manager’s playing all the games and doing all this stuff, you know, trying to pull him out and not wanting to come to Scotland and all that carry on. But I think it’s tough tattie, as they say in Scotland. You’re going to have to. You signed up to it, you’re going to have to come. It’s been a little bit frustrating not knowing what’s going on. But the goal stays the same. Train hard. Work hard. Spar hard and get as fit as I can, as strong as I can.”

Taylor is also unimpressed with the conduct of Regis Prograis, who boxes WBA super-lightweight champion Kiryl Relikh in the other Super Series semi-final this weekend. “He kind of irritates me a wee bit. His arrogance. His ****iness becomes arrogance. I don’t think it’s confidence, it’s arrogance,” Taylor said. “He calls himself a world champ and he isn’t a world champ and he walks about with his two belts over his shoulder.

“I could call myself the Silver world champion for f**k’s sake. I’m not world champion because [Jose] Ramirez is [the WBC] world champion. So why is he calling himself world champion? But he isn’t.”

Taylor’s sole focus is on becoming a genuine champion, winning one of the major world belts. He expects to do just that on May 18 fighting for the IBF title. “I really do think I’m going to win this tournament and I do think I’m going to win this belt in this fight and I think I’m going to do it in style,” the Scotsman says. “[Baranchyk] can box and keep tight but eventually he’ll come forward and throw his big swinging punches and get wild.

“It’ll suit me but if he tries to box me, it’s even better. Because there’s no way he’s going to outbox me. I’m too tall for him. I’m faster than him and I think I can hit just as hard as him as well. I think I can outfight him as well. I think I can beat him in every department.

“I can’t wait. It’s my big shot at getting a title, becoming a world champion – my dream. I’ve always spoken to you about it and said I will do it. So I’m grabbing this opportunity with both hands.”

The next part of the dream would of course be winning more belts. “I’d love to become [Scotland’s] first undisputed world champion since Ken Buchanan, that would just be awesome,” he reflected. “Take the belts back to Scotland and show him them.”

Buchanan, even at 73 years old, still comes into Lochend, Taylor’s former amateur club in Scotland, to do some training. “I see Kenny a lot back home, when I go home,” Josh said. “He’s still got the moves there and he comes in and gives me bits of advice.”

“Mistakes that he’s made outside of the ring as well,” he continued. “You get all the fight stories as well. I just love listening to him… In those days they were warriors. They don’t make them like that anymore.

“They were real fighters back then.”

Real fighters take fights. It’s a lesson Baranchyk or at least his team could learn. For his part Taylor insists he would never back down from fighting anyone. Even if the peerless Vasyl Lomachenko were to step up to a fourth weight class, Taylor would gladly take him on. “He’s not got any challengers really. Mikey Garcia, that’ll probably be the one that he’ll chase I think but he might come up to 140lbs as well. I’d love to get in the ring with him,” Taylor said.

Years ago, he almost met the Ukrainian in the World Series of Boxing, the quasi-pro league for Olympic style boxers. “I was supposed to fight him in the WSB. I had to pull out because I smashed my hand up, I broke my hand against [Domenico] Valentino,” he said. “I wanted to fight him but you can’t fight a guy like that with one hand.”

It is a fight he’s thought about. “You can’t stand off him because he comes at you and changes his angles. [You’ve got to] go at him and f**king push him. Really just break him down, just go for him and keep on top of him. You’ve got to be physical with him, use the size, the strength, get on top of him and just keep breaking him down really.”

“I was up for it,” he added cheerfully. “I’ll fight anybody. I’ll fight my own shadow.”

He’s waiting to ride his motorbike again, waiting until his fighting days are done. But he loves the thrill of boxing. Beyond winning multiple titles, becoming undisputed or being hailed the next great Scottish fighter, Taylor just wants to see how far his talent can carry him. “I just want to become world champion and be the best that I can be. I’m not interested in topping anybody else’s records,” he says. “I just want to be world champion and see how far I can take it.”
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Summary, please. A sentence would be nice. wink

JacK Rauber · May 18, 2019

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Man, I really like Baranchyk too. I mean, how can you don't enjoy watching him? He always in phenomenal shape, always coming forward, launching bombs, willing to take shots to give 'em, power in both hands, and he's strong as hell. I just happen to think Taylor is better and could really put a whoopin on him. But this one has the makings of a barn burner, man!!
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Baranchyk has a build similar to GGGs. They are lean but thick through the back, well muscled.

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