Leave Jermain Taylor alone DLH should get criticized for fight Junior Welters !

I agree. He should be looking to guys his own size.

 

I can't believe DLH is looking to fight Hatton.

He just wants to go out by beating a top guy, no matter the size.

Dispicable if you ask me.

Ricky proved he can't hack it at welter.

If they do fight, I will be rooting for Hatton, even though all along I've been a DLH fan.

 

im with you.....i dont care for Hatton but for this fight...i'd hold a beer in one hand and sing that stupid Hattonland song!

 

I never understood why Taylor got criticised so much for his choice of opposition. He fought Taylor twice, then fought Wright. He followed that up against a tough Ouma. After that fight he supposed to fight Mora(ranked as a top 10 WW), but then Mora pulled out. Dibella tried to replace Mora with Castilliejo, Sturm and Abraham(they turned it down for one reason or another). With not much time to find a replacement, Dibella was able to get the JMW champ to get in the ring with Taylor. Now Taylor is fighting Pavlik. That's 3 top 10 MWs in 5 fights(would've been 4 out of 5 had Mora not backed out). That's pretty good.

 

De La Hoya himself has moved up in weight to fight the best available competition there was, and I highly doubt he " forced " Floyd to move up in weight, after all he didn't have to accept the fight.

Taylor on the other hand? It's highly doubtful he's ever fought at welterweight. And it's not so much that he's criticized for his choice of opposition, but more so that he's beaten them very unconvincingly.

 

Maybe its because if he fights the best at 154, yes Cory Spinks, it will be ugly as all hell and the money wont be as great....also Cory would win at this point.

 

Hatton-DLH is a meaningless fight cuz,

It'll be a repeat of DLH-Gatti

Hatton needs to fight either Malignaggi or Mayweather, he's running from them if he doesn't

 

De La Hoya has been criticized over the years for fighting smaller guys and guys with way less experience at a weight class than where he was.

But since he's fought such an elite level of opposition, he usually gets a pass.

His opposition level has still been top-notch.

 

Well, Floyd looked pretty successful at 154, did he not?

DLH at this point is taking the biggest money fights he can, Taylor on the other hand is taking the easiest. And either way, like Erratic Behavior said.. DLH has been criticized for it.

 

hatton will use his height and reach advantages to stop DLH getting in close , and box a saftey first fight from range , to stop DLH closing him down and holding hatton`s arms to stop him from working .

then hatton after he beats DLH will fight taylor and box a saftey first fight on the back foot , backing off all the time from the aggressive taylor.

then hatton will call out paul williams the now ruler of the weltwerweights and hatton will be critisized for picking on a smaller man .

 

i agree with you.

dlh started at a lower weight class too.


i think at 135

 

Yet when he is the smaller man(Hopkins Trinidad Vargas)they dont give him credit for being the smaller man.

You can throw alot of fighters into this mix.Aside from the vastly overrated Tarver Hopkins biggest CAREER defining wins came against 2 smaller men in Tito and Oscar.