Jermain Taylor - I miss this guy

Jermain is coming back at 160, and will have a very good chance at becoming the first man to reclaim the true middleweight championship since Nino Benvenuti did ii in the spring of 1968.

 

:deal that's about right. taylor will have a great chance to make some noise.

 

i hope your joking!

Taylor was all class. A good guy in and out of the ring, I always liked him and respected him...

 

Jermain was a sick fighter and I would like to see him make a comeback. When he used it his jab was a thing of beauty.

 

I never liked Taylor til recently

he was a blue chip who got a belt quickly and defeated a legend twice and took wright to war in a fight that needed a rematch

couldnt find a middleweight to fight so he beat ouma and spinks belt holders below

critisicms he never really fixed his flaws and progressed seemed to fight down to opponents and never crossed the pond or had some one cross it to unify at middle

he was ahead vs Froch and jsut needed like 10 seconds

he fought maybe the best fight of his career vs abraham and then got KO'd

id have picked him to give Ward hell who is like bhop a guy he beat twice

i hope taylor comes back and beats sturm

 

I like Jermain but I am also concerned about him. A person's body can only take so much. When you get stopped like that three times and you're not starving on the street...I'm not in favor of a return.

 

Those trying to **** on JT, **** You...that's all.

 

I think that Taylor should stay retired. He was a great but it wont be healthy if he suffers more knockout losses

 

JT is all heart. He should have won the Froch fight, and should have lost the AA fight on points. But to quote Paul Williams, that's the way the cookie crumbles. JT comes across as such a good guy, and he always gives 100% in the ring, you have to root for him. I wish him well whatever he does. I just hope he doesn't seriously hurt himself. He's taken some brutal KOs.

 

Fixed. Your trolling is really coming along, Boo.

 

Who can miss this guy, he never did sht after Hopkins. He lost to Winky and got a gift draw just because he was HBO's special fighter.

 

Taylor isn't a bum. However he is not a confident fighter and his ring IQ is horrible. He could have taken the knee against froch and won. A high ring IQ could have allowed that possibility. He was a strong fighter but very predictable and expended copious amounts of energy with his nervous style of fighting. He never really listened to his corner, especially Manny. I will always wonder how he managed to "beat" Bhop twice and I don't think it was "styles makes fights." I think even the king of the mental game, Bhop, got a bit blinded by the Taylor Hype train. Taylor is unlike Dirrell in that he can use different speeds and angles for his jabs and movement. I think Bhop could have capitalized on that better in hindsight. Outside of Hopkins, Taylor never really looked good against "good" competition. The higher he went and the more hype he got, the more he got exposed. Again, he is a GOOD fighter, but not elite and it's mostly his mental game that caused his decline. He fought nervous almost all of the time.

 

No sense in him coming back and having his Glass Jaw shattered again and we all know that's exactly what will happen because, as the old maxim says, "once they crack, they don't come back"!

 

Me neither. His whole career is based on hype. After the Olympics, he was HBOs latest poster boy. He then basically fought the usual suspects on the way up and then got a series of very questionable decisions against Hopkins and Wright and was then exposed by Pavlik, Abraham and Froch.

Without the HBO backing, he would have almost certainly not gotten those decisions against Hopkins or the draw against Wright. And those are basically the only decent fighters he "defeated."