Jermain Taylor's Stamina And Chin Issues

J.T has been terribly overrated ever since HBO robbed Hopkins of those decision wins, and tried to make J.T the face of HBO boxing. Pav exposed J.t's fighting style. J.T has stamina issues, and he can't fight inside. Everything is fast forward, and that won't work in boxing.

 

I watched this fight last night with disbelief! I think that JT needs to learn the "art" of boxing. His corner should have known he was tiring, which is ok. The problem is why the hell did this guy not use his movement and hold in the final round? He spent a lot of time "looking" at Froch in the middle rounds. You could tell when JT was losing and trying to regain his rhythem. And those were the times Froch would try to do something. Boxing is about winning. He had already put up an impressive display of jabs and clean shots to Froch and knocked him down for the first time in his pro career. I think JT should likely either did not listen to his corner or they did very little to advise him to just make it through the fight. Take a knee, do something, but why blow it by going toe to toe? So close, but yet so far. He could do a rematch but he would absolutely have to learn how to coast a couple rounds to regain some wind and box not fight....

 

There is nothing wrong with Taylors chin it wasent as if he was taken outcold by 1 clean shot. He was stopped by two powerful punchers and both were due to stamina issues. Maybe he does his road work and his time on the treadmill and puts in the hours in the gym but in my opinion theres no intensity to his training and dosent push himself to the limit.

 

Taylor himself will tell you he has stamina issues. This is no debate. It is sheer fact.

 

I can't see too much wrong with his chin. If you notice, the shots Froch lands before round 6 (admittedly not many - but there is a flush right hand) they don't budge Taylor at all. Froch has heavy hands, so if his chin was poor I'd expect to see more damage.

Not many can take punches when they are tired, unfortunately for Taylor he gets tired quicker than most.

 

True, he ate that punch like nothing. He didnt even have to shake it off and he came back and countered right afterwords. I thought either Froch's power is overrated(it is) or JT has a good chin.

 

You're joking, right??atsch