What is your opinion on Jermaine Taylor?

One of the biggest over achievers I've seen in my 40 yr life in all of sports. This guy won every fight off talent and heart alone.

You can clearly see he is a average at best in all boxing aspects, while horribly below average with training. Dude was way too tense, like odh which zapped their stamina that lead to two totally separate career paths.

Not comparing their boxing talents and honed skills levels, they are too far apart for that. What they both had major problems with was to stay relaxed while fighting.

Odh could still think clearly, even when dead tired. The opposite was true with jt, he fought strictly off instinct, with no punch resistance that was his undoing.

Jt lost to horrible skilled fighters, all anyone needed to beat Taylor was stamina. .

 

They way he dragged his foot like a bull charging always cracked me up. It's cracking me up now

 

Funny thing was I would do that in high school to get a reaction from people. I could not remember whom I got it from then I remembered it was JT. My high school English teacher called me "chicken scratch."

 

Never rooted for him

Used to be a massive Hopkins fan and despised him back in the day from the Phil Collins entrance music to the bull dance to Lou Dibellas lisp and complaining about Hopkins

I will say I think he won both Hopkins fights but lost to Wright

He fought a lot of tough world class fighters but he suffered some awful KO's that ended his career effectively

He never quite reached his full potential I think

 

A glass chin fighter. Can't take a big punch.

 

:good

 

my opinion is he would KO tf out!

 

I think he was 1-1 against B-HOP ( which is very good of course) and obviously came very close to having victories over Froch and Pavlik. Considering his limitations he did quite well.

 

Not really, he has taken some big shots in his career with no big effect. Taylor's issue is that he had too much nervous energy in the ring and it would drain him later in fights. His punch resistance seemed fair early on in his fights.

 

It's weird, when I was watching Taylor as a young prospect, I was not impressed, with the exception of his win over the smaller Alex Bunema. He had a nice jab, but telegraphed that bow-and-arrow right hand, a lot of technical flaws. He was matched up carefully with quite a few smaller boxers. I thought that with all those weaknesses, that there was no way that B-Hop, even at 40, would not exploit those weaknesses and beat Taylor clearly. Then they fight twice and Taylor wins two narrow decisions. Regardless of whom you thought won, I think pretty much everyone can agree that they were very close fights.

You may have written it off at the time as a case of B-Hop's age catching up to him, perhaps also finally outgrowing the weight. Then Taylor fights Winky and again, a very close fight IMO. I had zero problem with the draw decision, I also had it a draw. So after 3 razor-thin fights with excellent tacticians, top p4p fighters, I figured maybe Taylor was the real deal, and better than his sloppy and flawed style would have me to believe. He did land a pretty good number of right hands between Winky's guard.

Then he hit the smaller Kassim Ouma with everything in the kitchen sink and Ouma went nowhere. Still, he won by a wide margin so I wasn't too critical. He fought the tricky but smaller and light punching Cory Spinks and looked awful. Then he finally fought a puncher in Kelly Pavlik, and was stopped in a great fight. He gave a good effort in the rematch, losing 7-5 on my card. Not too long after that, he was stopped by Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham, extremely late in the fight.

I guess he had a tendency at times to fight to the level of opposition. It doesn't speak much of his abilities that he fought such few punchers, and was dethroned of his title the first time he faced a big middleweight puncher. But he did fight on even terms with one of the greatest middleweights ever (who went on to score some big wins afterwards) and also against Winky Wright. On the plus side, he had a good jab, quick hands, decent power and ****nal of punches, heart. On the negative side, he had poor footwork, leaky defense, was fairly sloppy all-around, not a good finisher, and tense in the ring. The nervous energy he expended had him more prone to fatigue.

Overall I'd consider him a "good" fighter. Decent champ, not as bad as some of his poor performances would lead you to believe but not the equal of Hopkins or Wright. Styles come into play, he did much better than Tito did versus those two fighters but I think Tito would have stopped him at 160.

 

Great athlete, limited fighter

 

Clearly?

 

Beat Hopkins twice back when no **** was beating Hopkins but fighting Hopkins ( especially then ) could ruin someone win or lose , go ask Pavlik.

Good fighter but left too much in the ring to beat Bhop

 

Tito was never a middle ( despite the 4 or 5 fights there )

I think Jermaine would have been too strong , Tito didn't carry up Joppy and Cherifi don't a great MW make.

 

Along the same lines as Jeff Lacy, looked good until he came up against British steel.