Jermain Taylor let Pavlik survive

......by not finishing him off. I am sick of hearing Pavlik supporters say that he "stuck his chin out and was acting cocky". BS. Pavlik was hurt by the right hand that started the flurry of punches that put him down. Every fighter knows that when you see someone acting like they did not get hurt from a shot they took, they are in fact hurt from the shot they took.

I am also sick of hearing Pavliks fans praise him for surving the 2nd round because he has a great chin and wasnt really that hurt. BS. The only reason Pavlik survived that round is because Taylor let him. I challenge the Pavlik supporters to go back and watch that round. After Pavlik was knocked down, and JT threw those wild ass punches trying to get him out of there, what happened? JT's ass was tired. You can see it, JT was going for the clinch and grabbing Pavlik while Pavlik still didnt know what the hell happened to him. Pavlik was out on his feet. If JT hadnt spent all of that nervous energy in the beginning (and even before the fight started actually, you could see him pacing), he would have had the energy to finish him off.

Honestly, Pavlik was finished. He was there to be knocked out. The only thing that saved him was the fact that JT didnt have the stamina to keep throwing. It doesnt even matter if he was throwing wild punches, if he had just kept throwing, Pavlik would have been out.

 

Im not contradicting myself. The point im making is that the reason Pavlik survived is because JT didnt apply the pressure on him when he(Pavlik) was most vulnerable. It wasnt because "Pavlik could take JT's best shots" like his fans on this board say. Its because Taylor let him off the hook by not selling out and finishing the job.

 

You are right, a lot of refs would have stopped the fight. If JT would have kept throwing, Smogger would have had no choice but to stop it. Instead he opted to clinch, which was the worst thing he could have done.

 

Exactly, Taylor needs to fight a controlled fight, which is why I have doubts about Manny Stewarts ability to coach a fight. Even Lennox Lewis picked up on it from the get go when he said "Jermain Taylor needs to settle down". Manny never once tried to settle his fighter down into a good boxing tempo, but instead, reinforced that he was losing the fight (which he wasnt), which in turn, caused JT to expand more energy going for broke.