A close look at Jermain Taylor's career: IS HE A HALL OF FAMER?

Let's look at Jermain Taylor's career and especially at his world title fights. Some say he won none of the 2 Hopkins fights. I disagree but I don't think he really won the fights, it was more Hopkins' inactivity that made me think giving the decision to Taylor is okay.
So I can see how you might give those fights to Taylor somehow. Not really clear wins, but still wins in my opinion. His next title fight was against Winky Wright and the fight was ruled a draw and most pple think Wright won this fight.
Next Taylor fought Kassim Ouma and that was his ONLY "real" clear win during Taylor's "reign". But bottom line is Ouma never was a middleweight, he was more like a small light middleweight and was clearly outsized in this fight. Then Taylor fought Cory Spinks next in a fight which was close. The judges gave Taylor the win, but only by Split decision. And lets not forget Cory Spinks is a natural welterweight (!!!!!), not a middleweight.
Then Taylor ran into Kelly Pavlik and that was it.
What I am trying to say is that Taylor basically never won a single fight clearly except against a much smaller opponent (Kassim Ouma).
Later Taylor fought at super middleweight and got stopped by Carl Froch (who got later outclassed by both Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward in my opinion) and Arthur Abraham (who got outclassed and outsized in all his following fights).
So my question: what are your thoughts about Taylor's career and do you think he should be voted in the Hall of Fame someday? Vote on the poll

Funny thing is that I am 100 % sure he will be in the HOF someday, just cause he "beat" Bernard Hopkins, an ATG middleweight.
There are quite some pple who got into the HOF because of 1 big win. Barry McGuigan is one example. Jermain Taylor will be another example.....

 

hilarious thread. why haven't the mods banned you yet?

 

can you explain to me what is "hilarious" about this thread? And why would I be banned if I post a normal thread?

I totally agree. The boxing world knows HBO wanted to hype him to make money with a new "great" middleweight. I got nothing against Taylor, he seems like a nice guy. I am just convinced he will be in the HOF but I dont think he should be in the HOF. Winky Wright belongs 10 times as much into the HOF as Jermain Taylor.

 

why would he be inducted you fuking ******?? the comparsion with McGuigan doesn't even make sense either because McGuigan was 3x the fighter Taylor was

 

well, this thread makes absolute sense to me because I am 100 % sure that
1.) Taylor doesnt deserve to be in the HOF
2.) Taylor WILL BE in the HOF some day.

Randy Turpin was a good fighter from Great Britain and he had a beautiful jab. But the only thing he really did on international level was beating Sugar Ray Robinson once. Other than that he didn't win the big fights. But he got into the HOF because of his one big win.
Barry McGuigan basically only had a big win over Eusebio Pedroza which got him into the HOF. Other than that he didnt do a lot. So, no way is Mc Guigan "3 times" the fighter Taylor is. They are both good fighters, but both shouldnt be in the Hall of Fame.
But I am 100 % sure that Taylor will be inducted some day, just like Randy Turpin and Barry McGuigan were inducted.

 

I disagree. So you mean the Hopkins fights took so much out of Taylor that he never was the same after those fights? And thats why he only had a handful disputed wins following the hopkins fights?
I felt he didnt take a lot of punishment against Hopkins simply because Hopkins wasnt even throwing a lot of punches.