Eddie Hearn is serious about signing Josh Taylor and doing a fast rebuild job on him earlier than throwing him in with the Sharks at 140. The soon-to-be 34-year-old former undisputed gentle welterweight champion and two-time Olympian Taylor (19-2, 13 KOs) has misplaced his final two fights and has been winless since 2022.
The rebuilding job that Hearn plans on doing with Taylor will possible be just like how he rebuilt Anthony Joshua by feeding him second-tier opposition to make him appear like 24k gold earlier than throwing him in with a reside shark at 140 and watching the feeding frenzy.
It will be a good suggestion for Hearn to not make investments as a lot effort and time into the rebuild job as he did with Joshua as a result of that chewed two years of his profession. What a waste.
Hearn can use Taylor as an opponent for his Matchroom fighters, Subriel Matias, Regis Progais, Liam Paro, Richardson Hitchins, and Jack Catterall. Taylor already fought Catterall twice, so there’s much less want for a 3rd after he was overwhelmed of their rematch final Might.
It will be higher for Hearn to start out matching Catterall in opposition to higher fighters than persevering with with the rerun cycle with Taylor. The rivalry is already performed out. If that is all Caterall goes to do in his profession is combat Taylor again and again, it’s pathetic.
This might possible be a brief contract that Hearn offers Taylor, just like the one he gave to Shakur Stevenson on his salvage job for the struggling New Jersey native.
It will be insane for Hearn to signal Taylor to a six-fight contract and watch him lose his subsequent combat in opposition to a lower-level man. Taylor has arguably misplaced his final three fights since 2022, and a type of defeats was a one-sided 12-round choice loss to Teofimo Lopez.
It was embarrassing to observe how outclassed Taylor regarded, shedding to a fighter who was seen as on the draw back of his profession. Teofimo has regarded horrible in three out of his final 4 fights. The one one by which he carried out effectively was in opposition to Josh.
Hearn says the “numbers” should work for him to sing the Scottish fighter Taylor to his Matchroom Boxing firm. He factors out that Taylor is accustomed to creating huge cash previously for his fights.
With a document of 0-2 in his final two fights, Taylor might must drop his asking worth if he’s to be inked by Hearn on considered one of his salvage missions.
“We’ve spoken to him. I like Josh loads. It’s started working for everyone, and that’s us included. Clearly, he’s used to incomes some huge cash, and there’s a little little bit of a rebuild job to do, for my part. I believe we wish to construct some momentum, mentioned Eddie Hearn to iFL TV, speaking about desirous to signal former undisputed gentle welterweight champion Josh Taylor to his Matchroom firm.
If Taylor desires a fortune to signal with Matchroom, it gained’t work. He should view himself as being a world champion, and that may very well be an issue as a result of these years are lengthy gone. He gave up his belts, after which was overwhelmed by the washed Teofimo, making him look higher than he really is at this stage of his sinking profession.
“Clearly, these fights, the rebuild fights, aren’t essentially going to be [Liam] Paro and [Jack] Catterall 3. There’s a little bit stage. It’s started working for everyone on the numbers, but when it did, I’d like to convey Josh to Matchroom. If the numbers don’t work, then he would possibly look elsewhere. He’s a superb fighter, and I nonetheless assume he’s obtained loads to offer,” mentioned Hearn.
