IMO the Taylor camp is already making excuses for his loss to Kelly Pavlik. If Taylor loses, they cite the weight issue. If Taylor wins, he vacates and moves up to avoid a re-match. (Taylor can beat Pavlik if he fights a very smart fight, but he wouldn't beat him twice.) It's just my opinion, but win, lose, or draw, Taylor has never taken a beating like he is going to get from Pavlik! Boo
btw, i think it's a good move. He fought B-hop twice, Wright and now Pavlik. After that there are not many MW's at this moment, only a few germans, but the chance that they will fight a guy like Taylor is almost zero. If he would beat Pavlik and stay at 160, there are no fights for him, only LMW's and the audience doesn't seemed to buy another Taylor vs a LMW. So he would and up fighting mora, joval or some like that. And if you look at 168. There is Kessler, Calzaghy, still Lacy, Bute, Winky Wright II (?), Miranda, Froch, hell even Trinidad or Roy jones could be an option. There are just numorous good fighters out there, with after november only 1 title, who as as legitimate and undisputed as you can ever get in boxing. It;s gonna be an exciting division the next few years.
Taylor is not making excuses .... He is moving up AFTER the fight with pavlik no matter what.... He will kick pavliks ass... There will be fireworks... Pavlik is there to be hit.... Taylor is there to be hit... Taylor will move better than miranda and will hurt pavlik...
in one of the recent instances not being able to knock out a jr. middle is understandable. kassim ouma is a tough tough guy even though he doesnt have the size to be competitive at middleweight. i can understand him not being able to knock him out. oumas only stoppage loss came from a three knockdown rule, not b/c he was hurt
but as far as the pavlik fight taylor gets the exact same as edison miranda with a middle rd big big ko!!!
i just hope if he goes down it is swinging like a champ not running like a little woman. where pavlik has to chase him for the knockout
Pavlik is supposed to move up in weight soon also. Taylor wont be able to hang with skilled fighters at S.Middle.
the Taylor-Pavlik winner vs to the Calzaghe-Kessler winner seems like the obvious way to go...but this is boxing we're talking about... :verysad
The guy that says Taylor loses by stoppage! NO WAY! Im not jermains biggest fan, but he does not get stopped by Pavlik
interesting... I'm glad the Pavlik fight is still going on. People that are saying he's already getting his excuse ready should stop and think. At least he's still fighting Pavlik, he could have just went right to 168. Stop trying to discredit everyone all the time. Man, boxing fans are babies sometimes. I think he's gonna have a hard time at 168, they're are some real solid fighters up there.
I hope there is an avatar bet for the taylor/pavlik fight. It won't effect me, because I don't dislike either of these guys. I think the loser of the avatar bet has to have a picture of the winner of the fight for a week. I'll go ahead and pick Taylor. Pavlik won't be able to just walk into him and punch away. He'll have to contend with Taylor's jab, and Taylor won't just be stationary.