Froch vs Taylor - A forgone conclusion?

Nice, well thought out post. Hope your prediction is right as it's pretty much the way I see it.

 

Just based on the way these two guys fight I think we are in for another contravercial Taylor decision or a slim Froch UD.

Froch likes to stay out of range and counter his opponent. Jermain Taylor likes to flury with more speed and less power. So I can see this fight looking a lot like the hopkins fights where in some peoples minds Taylor's activity wins him the rounds where as in other people's minds Frochs cleaner harder punches win him the rounds.

 

atsch That tells me right there you do not know JT too well. JT is a warrior.

JT wide UD. :good

 

You noted Taylor's so called inabiity to slug it out against Pavlik. That's not actally what happened. The first fight was a nip and tuck pier 6 brawl for the first 3 rounds. After round 3 Pavlik's corner told him to stop swinging for the fences and start measuring with the jab, the fight tuned into something a bit more tactical, and Pavlik took over. The second fight was never a brawl. That version of JT would tear Froch up. Carl Froch is no Kelly Pavlik.

In addition I don't see where you are really taking Taylor's vastly superior speed into account. All Jermain needs to do is blister and move, keep Froch swinging at the places he used to be for the first 8 rounds. After that, when Taylor's known stamina issues might come into play, all JT needs to do is fire off quick 3-4 punch combinations, and then clinch. If he'll stick to a fight plan like that, he'll win an embarassingly wide UD.

 

I don't think this fight is a foregone conclusion at all. Taylor looked sharp, fast with his combinations and just excellent over all in his last fight against Lacy. Froch had a close brawl with Pascal. Bring it on!

 

Pablogod your a great anayalist!! This should be a good warAs far as JT being a warrior ,what he facing PeeWee Herman!!:|

 

fail

 

i aint a big froch fan but what if he's the real deal and ko's taylor way more convincingly than pavlik did. I know he probably isnt and wont . Its just i think he must be very confident to go to the states to fight a very good fighter in only his first defense. I have it 60/40 taylor but lets wait and see

 

Taylor didn't beat Wright.

You are clearly ignoring the number of comments by Froch that he will "smoke Taylor's boots," and how he basically labeled him a coward for six months prior to signing the fight. If that's what you call "respectful" comments toward one of the best resuméd fighters active in the sport, you are clearly delusional.

Taylor has only said he had never heard of Froch until recently, and that many people he talks to in the US have never heard of the man. These are facts, and understandably so. If you consider that kind of talk to be Taylor's mouth writing checks his ass can't cash, you again are showing some obvious bias toward your man Froch.

 

most fighters would do that at the drop of a hat which is why promoters can be both good and bad for a fighter.
it's a fight that offers more for froch if he wins than for taylor though, and froch is a lucky man to have taylor come knocking on his door.


the truth is that froch hasn't done anything siginificant to warrant interest from proven fighters stateside but good luck to him.

 

good post.

 

I don't know how this fight is going to play out. I think it really all depends on how Taylor uses his jab.

Taylor's jab has changed post-Hopkins. Look at Taylor's jab pre-Hopkins and you see a hard stiff jab. Then in the Hopkins fight, Hopkins countered him over the jab well. For the most part since the Hopkins fight you see a lazy pawing jab. Part of that was also Steward's fault as well.

If Taylor comes out with that hard stinging jab in Froch's face and follows it up with the right hand, he can win the fight on the outside comfortably. If he does that pawing jab crap where he paws with it and waits for Froch to come inside more before hitting him with the right, Froch is going to KO him.

I lean towards Froch, but, it is more in my lack of trust in Taylor making that pick. I think Taylor is the more talented fighter, but, I don't trust him to use his talents to their full abilities.

 

Froch is not a lucky anything. He got a belt in the division, all Taylor has done is beaten a shell of Jeff Lacy. They need each other. Taylor needs to prove he is the same fighter he was at middleweight by beating a top contender, Froch needs a name like Taylor on his resume.

This fight is far from a "forgone concusion" as the topic would suggest. I don't know what you could be looking at to see that kind of difference in level between the two.

 

Bad intentions your mental. - "froch is a lucky man to have taylor come knocking on his door"
Froch has been calling Taylor out for the last year or so and Taylor purposely avoided fighting Froch for the vacant title, opting instead to fight Lacy in an eliminator for the same title he could have fought for in the first place.
Now i'm not saying Froch will win or that taylor is scared or whatever i'm simply dismissing your claim that Taylor has come looking for this fight, because Sir, it's simply not true