Jermain Taylor vs. Carl Froch - WBC 168 lbs Title

sean's view.

He gives Froch around 20-25% of winning.

 

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Originally Posted by Dorfmeister

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I believe in hit power but only when it comes along with an effective gameplan on the ring. Problem is that both Froch and Taylor are solid hitters but when it comes to implement game plans, Taylor comes second best... Jermain has proven in so far that he cannot adjust and control a fight mentally. All he can do is that physicallity and more physicallity and more... He doesn't know how to use those angles, he can't really countermove on his opponent's lead and he can't absolutely fight patient. Froch will most probably dominate using controlled aggression if he doesn't freeze or gets too cocky.


Good summary of this line of argument, Dorfmeister!

Taylor is with his old trainer now...no longer with that guy Emmanuel Steward, who near ruined him. He'll be fighting more controlled, more intelligently, pacing himself more, thinking more, losing control of the situation less...

...Froch, controlled aggression? Only when he fights punching bags...

...against C level Magee and against B- level Pascal, he showed anything but controlled aggression...and if Taylor doesn't fold late on, Froch will not be able to gain the upper hand...and even if he does, it might be too late for a points win, by then.

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I agree.:good

Yes, and that is a concern, especially when he walks back in a straight line when under pressure. This is why Froch has a chance, with his reach and uppercut down the pipe, especially with Taylor content to just keep a high guard and not move his head much.

 

Taylor needs to "stand up" to Froch early on, though, just like Pascal did. He needs to let Froch know he's the boss in there if Froch tries to walk all over him, as he tends to do against lesser opposition, early on. Then, Froch will freeze a bit and he'll become less dangerous. Froch is a confidence fighter and you need to dominate him mentally if you want to do your thing.

 

Yeah...Froch's used to having a longer reach than his opponent. This time, he doesn't. Jab wil be important and Taylor should use it as he did in Pavlik II, for example.

 

No...it won't play right into Froch's hands at all, not unless Taylor asserts himself whilst throwing caution to the wind, going crazy and punching himself out, brawling. Watch the Pascal fight again, and see how Pascal standing up to him early on, after a great start for Froch, makes Froch more reluctant to open up. Had Pascal not done that, he'd have gotten stopped.