Did Froch ruin Taylor?

Of course credit needs to be given to opposition for Taylor running out of gas. But I do buy it. Taylor has a penchant for starting strong and losing it late. Obviously his opponents have alot, if not everything to do with it.

 

:thumbsup

 

When I said Taylor outboxed Froch for large periods, that would roughly be the half of the fight I was talking about.

Froch did come on second half no doubt, but the point I'm making is that Taylor was still a good boxer when he went in with Froch, though he wasnt the same when he left the ring that night.

Not quite as severe, but almost like the Chavez-Meldrick beatdown. slow, brutal, and the recipient was never the same.

 

I don't remember Hopkins-Taylor II very well, but Taylor was definitely gassing the second half of Hopkins-Taylor I (which obviously took place before the Pavlik fight).

 

I think that Pavlik ruined him. After the defeat to Pavlik I think that Taylor doubt himself, and that is what has kept him through persevering in tough fights since.

 

Taylor always had a glitch in his game where at different points in rounds he would lose focus almost like he was out of the fight mentally. Almost every time he has gotten rocked it was one of those mental lulls. Still kills me that he got the decision against Bhop in the first fight. even a draw could have kept the belt in the right hands.
Since than I can never root for Lou Dibella fighters.

 

He fought the very best fighters in the world back to back for years.... Of course he wore out sooner than some might.

 

Hopkins exposed him, Winky punished him, and then Pavlik destroyed him.

 

Froch came to America and fought Taylor. Ward would never do anything like that.