go get them jermaine

Exactly....Bute vs. Ward would be a much more relevant fight.

 

Have you been hit in the head before? I think the "experts" you are referring to are not necessarily experts, but rather people who know the feeling of a hard shot to the head, let alone numerous shots over several years. If this were all a big video game your reasoning would be just fine.

 

Pavlik, Froch and Abraham are quite different stylistically and Taylor was knocked out by all of them. Taylor always needed his speed advantage to win rounds, against Ward he will face a fighter with faster hands for the first time.

Sorry, but Taylor's time is up. He already lost to two super six fighters and will obviously never beat Abraham in a rematch. Three knockout losses, the last one with a concussion and memory problems, take their toll on the brain. With some accumulation of damage, even lighter punches are damaging. Taylor once was undisputed middleweight champion and he will obviously never attain something like that again. Why not retire wiht his health intact, looking back on the career of a proud warrior who won some, lost some and was always willing to step up to the biggest challenge. Maybe, by some miracle, he can beat Ward, then what? He will pay a price by eating more punches and then face Kessler, who is likely to knock him out again.