140 Is LIT REGIS PROGRAIS-MAURICE HOOKER 4/17, JOSH TAYLOR RETURNS 5/2, JOSE RAMIREZ 5/9!

If he'd killed himself during the fight that would have been something.

 

Errol "Pulled a Johnny Owen" Spence

 

That's why he needs to move up. He will be 25 percent better immediately at 147 as he won't have to weaken himself to burn down., then he should develop up from there once his body is used to it. He is all muscle, very little body fat percentage. He worked all out with the Charlo's when he was an amateur, Omar Henry, Vanes Martirosyn and Kermit Cintron. He needs that defining win to really hit his stride and take off and I think it's at welterweight. He's like Jerry Quarry in that he's always without fear in a fight.

 

Regis should have showed more "fearlessness" in the Taylor fight. I think he's more talented than Josh... Taylor just wanted it more and was willing to dig deeper.

 

Yeah he didn't strike me as afraid when he went on the road to face Taylor and he made some changes to bust Taylor up a bit when it seemed the fight was slipping away from him in the mid-rounds.

 

He did, he had Taylors face falling off a bit in the end. He was just a smaller man in there.

 

A guy like Prograis, who had won every single round of every fight prior to Taylor, sometimes isn't used to kicking it into second gear in a rough fight.

We'll see how he looks versus Hooker, but a Taylor rematch is winnable for Prograis IMO.

He can fight better. I dunno if Josh can ever fight at that level again.

 

Prograis is a badass and I'll always have respect for the guy for coming over here and having a go. That fight could have gone either way and there would be no issues with me if the decision had gone with him. I would also agree that he perhaps could go further than Taylor in the long run. Taylor is also a badass for the record, and I wouldn't read too much into the state of his face after the fight. He tends to get a bit busted up after every fight, even in the scraps he wins clearly.