Does any fighter have a more impressive list of last 10 opponents than Taylor?

Probably the best list out there.:good

 

The problem is he arguably lost eight of those fights.

 

Outstanding.:good

 

Pacquiao and Marquez have had better opponents in their last 10 fights IMO, but Taylor's is very impressive indeed.

Also, stop stealing Ishy's thread which he posted in the Brit forum

 

COMPARING ALL THREE...

Jermain Taylor's Last 10 (5-4-1):
Bernard Hopkins x2 (160) - W, W
Winky Wright (160) - D
Kassim Ouma (160) - W
Cory Spinks (160) - W
Kelly Pavlik x2 (160, 164) - L, L
Jeff Lacy (168} - W
Carl Froch (168} - L
Arthur Abraham (168 lbs.) - L

Manny Pacquiao's Last 10 (10-0):
Erik Morales x2 (130) - W, W
Hector Velasquez (130) - W
Oscar Larios (130) - W
Marco Antonio Barrera (130) - W
Jorge Solis (130) - W
Juan Manuel Marquez (130) - W
David Diaz (135) - W
Oscar De La Hoya (147) - W
Ricky Hatton (140) - W
Miguel Cotto (147) would be #11

Juan Manuel Marquez's Last 10 (7-3):
Victor Polo (126) - W
Chris John (126) - L
Terdsak Jandaeng (126) - W
Jimrex Jaca (130) - W
Marco Antonio Barrera (130) - W
Rocky Juarez (130) - W
Manny Pacquiao (130) - L
Joel Casamayor (135) - W
Juan Diaz (135) - W
Floyd Mayweather (147) - L

I'd actually go with Taylor's resume as being the toughest if you averaged the difficulty of all the fighters on each resume. Both Manny and JMM have some average non-titleholding fighters in there (For Pac: Solis & Velasquez; For JMM: Polo, Jandaeng, Jaca, and Juarez). But Pacquiao is #1 P4P because he beat all the fighters over a span of four weight classes on that list while Taylor lost almost half of those over a span of two. Can you imagine where Taylor would be on the P4P and even ATG list if he won all of those fights convincingly? Makes you wonder if DiBella handled him the right way.

 

Taylor's is the toughest overall.

Well done and with the remainder of the Super Six the succession of hard top fights is gonna be almost unbeatable...

 

There is no question about it, Jermaine Taylor has fought top opposition, ducked no one, and win or lose gave an account of himself in everyone of those fights.

.......have'nt seen the Abraham fight yet, but I'm told it was highly competitive.
I'll have to see to it I take a look at it.

 

It is indeed a great list.

But do you remember how criticised he was for the Spinks, Ouma and Wright fights? Man ESB was crazy "he's not fighting the true middleweights, a pathetic champion".

In perspective it turns out he has one of the best resumes in recent times, it's a shame his career is probably over.

 

Hopkins' isn't quite there, but still pretty good (Eastman, Allen, Joppy were all pretty good at the time).

Kelly Pavlik
Joe Calzaghe
Ronald Wright
Antonio Tarver
Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor
Howard Eastman
Oscar De La Hoya
Robert Allen
William Joppy

 

Hopkins's list is clearly better. Pavlik (best mw in the world), Tarver (best lhw in the world), Wright (#5 p4p), Calzaghe (best smw in the world and #3 p4p), Taylor (undefeated no.1 challenger then undisputed mw champion and p4p ranked champion), Oscar (6 weight world champ, WBO mw champ).

Eastman, Allen and Joppy were better than Ouma, Spinks and Lacy, coz Eastman and Allen were middleweights whereas Ouma and Spinks were not.

 

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