I never noticed before that right as Pavlik is landing the shots that hurt Taylor and drove him into the ropes and ultimately the corner where he is knocked out, Larry Merchant is quoting Taylor as saying he didn't think Pavlik was much of a puncher. Nice timing Larry. And then when it's all over Merchant goes "Mucsle memory strikes again" What the hell does he mean by that? The guy is losing it.
Muscle memory of training your muscles and body to react when you're fighting. Larry was talking about it during the HBO countdown on Pavlik having some muscle memory for fighting through Youngstown's rich boxing history.
You see at some point Pavlik lands a jab and Taylor's pectorial muscle twitches. That was the beginning of the end. Guy has heavy hands.
I know what muscle memory is but Merchant sounds like a senile old ******* yelling it out at that time.
It's the first 1-2 in the center of the ring that does it. Taylor goes to throw a counter left as he gets hit, and you just see his arm go limp.
Larry Merchant is a ******. That part of the fight pisses me off... I think he did the same thing at Margarito/Cotto... babbling like the old fool he is until I think Max Kellerman cut him off. They should force him to retire. Why HBO keeps him is beyond me.
He is senile and stupid. HBO has to talk in his ear to tell him what to say. Doing that at least half of the time will keep him from thinking on his own and and talking bad about his own companies' product.
He means that Taylors brain has shut off the "higher thinking" part, and is soley going on "muscle memory" as in he was unconscious, but his muscles were trying to stay upright. Larry still has it.
It was not a jab, it was a right hand that caused the twitching. It went like this... Merchant says "nobody likes to get hit" & then BAM, a good right hand. Pavlik knew he landed flush, so a few seconds later, another 1-2, with a fully loaded right hand this time (thats the twitcher punch) & Jermain shuffles off into the corner, twitching, only to get brutalized.
