Taylor was always massively overrated

Porter is better than everyone Josh Taylor beat

 

It's probably Crawford's 4th best win. Maybe 5th

 

How long ago was that?

 

Exactly

He had talked about moving up for years

I remember after the first Catterall fight he said he'd only do the rematch at 147

Then proceeded to fight Lopez, Catterall and Essuman at 140

Taylor and his team knew that he'd have little chance at beating Ennis, Crawford/Spence pre fight, and even guys like Barrios, Rocha, Norman and Stanionis would be hard

Not even like Essuman is a big money fight at 140

 

He was afraid to move up

He wasn't confident he could beat the big dogs at 147 with his one dimensional stand in the middle of the ring grinding style

 

Ya it's funny how when it comes to Taylor people on here bring up the opponents accolades but with Crawford they don't use that standard for Julius Idongo who was a unified champion

I happen to not think Idongo was all that but a little consistency would be nice

 

In 2016 I think

 

Spence has a better record than Postol. Crawford took both their zeros

 

Tbf, I do think Porter is a better win for Crawford than Postol - Madrimov it remains to be seen after he lost to Ortiz Jr it took a bit of the shine off it for Bud.

I think it was clear that Prograis was seen as a better win at the time than Postol, same with Ramirez, but both those guys have went on the same trajectory as Taylor himself since they lost, which has had an 'aged like milk' effect on Taylors resume.

There is an argument that Spence and Taylor have another thing in common - IMO they were both clearly changed fighters after a key event - Taylor after coming off the rails post-Undisputed, and Spence after the car accident.

No one can really ever say for sure exactly how much those things affected them both, but they 100% had a noticable effect IMO.