Jermaine Taylor - Great dude, great fighter?

His resume speaks for itself..back to back fights with quality opponents..he is a good fighter but lacked something special.

 

He fought Cory Spinks, not his dad. Winky is really known as a Jr MW and one of the best at it. I agree that Taylor's fights with Hopkins were controversial.

 

Hopefully the time off would clear Jermain's head and he could come back stronger, more focused, and hungry.

 

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Great fighter my ass!

 

He's a good fighter, not great.

 

Great person but very flawed fighter who was blessed with a ton of natural talent but didn't have the ability to maximize it in the ring. But even given this fact, he accomplished a lot. But he could've been so much more if he could've fine tuned the simpler things of the sport like defense, footwork, lateral movement, not being so tense all the time, et.

 

Good fighter, seems like a decent guy. Didn't really have the warrior mentality to be a great. Until the Abraham fight which really was last chance saloon time he seemed to have an absolute phobia of setting foot outside the states where he was the big name golden boy. Good fighter but everything was set up for him to do well.

 

Very good. I don't think great. Terrific athlete, good tools. But they didn't come together all the way.

 

After he fought Hopkins the first time and was talking about how much he learned and how he couldn't wait to get back in the ring again and use it, I thought 'Maybe this is the start of a big historical career.' At least he had a very good one.

 

Taylor was on this way to becoming a great fighter, but then outside things took his mind away from boxing. I have mentioned what it was many times. You could really see the difference in Taylor before and after. Before I think he would have beatten every fighter that he faced in his career, after he wasnt able to. It was a simple factor of not being in shape, or lacking ring IQ as some are saying. If you cant get your mind right and train to fight elite fighters you arent going to win fights, its really that simple.

 

its not that. taylor was a gifted fighter and that never changed.
but there's a difference between picking off fighters who are stepping stone fighters and fighters like pavlik and froch who will expose (i hate that word but it's true here..) a flaw in the makeup of a fighter.

taylor's a fighter who is technically sound but unfortunately doesn't have the whiskers to hold it together for 12 rounds.

that part is just luck, but it's a shame for taylor's part, because he's such a nice guy and was the first talented fighter at MW in quite a while to step up and take the title away from hopkins.

a younger and more overbearing hopkins (ala tito..) would have beaten taylor.

 

I like the guy,good fighter and comes over as a nice bloke.