Meldrick Taylor vs Arturo Gatti @ 140?

Taylor will fight him. He should box but he won't because it is not his nature, especially once he sees he can hit Gatti. Gatti could box some, too, and he never did because it was not his nature either.

 

Gatti's defense was his head. Literally. Watch his fights with Ruelas and Rodrigues. He hadn't defense at all. Prime Taylor that outboxed Chavez would stop Gatti in mid rds on cuts.

 

Gatti by KO. Neither man had any defence but Meldrick had a glass chin.

 

LMFAOOO!!!

You can always tell which posters belong on the general forum......

This is a complete mismatch.

Taylor TKO 6 in a one sided massacre. The gap in class here is HUGE.

 

Taylor was to fast for Gatti. He would knock him out in about 7 rounds.

 

This. Taylor would completely nullify anything Gatti had with his speed. This fight is no contest. Taylor by TKO somewhere around rounds 9-11.

 

Have to join the crowd here, Meldricks speed has his short combo's literally bouncing off Gatti's head. Foreman's jab, name the fights you saw Taylor show the glass jaw in.

 

This fight depends on which Taylor shows up, if he boxes and keeps moving and uses his superior ring generialiship he wins a decision...

However if Taylor chooses to go toe to toe, and turn the fight into a street brawl Gatti knocks him out, Gatti was physically the tougher , stronger man..

I wouldn't bet on it either way...

 

Taylor was simply a higher class of fighter.

Taylor dominated McGirt, and came within 2 seconds of defeating an ATG in Chavez who was in his prime.

Gatti had enough problems with the speed and activity of Ivan Robinson. Barring a miracle left hook, Gatti would lose comprehensively.

 

Taylor was much stronger than Gatti. It's not even really that close.

 

Taylor easy UD

 

Lmao @ Gatti being stronger than Taylor.

There are really some posters on here that know NOTHING about boxing.

Gatti twice lost to the HOMELESS man's version of Taylor in Robinson. The idea of him beating Mel is comical.

 

Yeah I'm not really sure where this stuff is coming from. "Gatti will win a war with him...he developed really good boxing skills....Taylor had a glass chin...Gatti only lost to bigger guys".

For one, his prime, when he showed his best boxing, was at 130 lbs. He was very big at 130-135. Hell, he unofficially weighed 160 on fight night after the weigh-in debacle for the Gamache fight, where he allegedly weighed in at 141.

He did his best boxing in the first fight with Patterson. Still, he was given a tough fight by Patterson, a good but smaller fighter. In their rematch, he was very lucky that the ref called a borderline body punch by Patterson as being low.

Gatti went life-and-death with Ruelas and Rodriguez. At 135, he had no size disadvantage when he lost three straight fights in 1998 against Manfredy and Robinson (2x). Gatti brawled with all of them and lost. Ivan Robinson had a similar Philly background as Taylor, and he was a good fighter, but not on Taylor's level.

A big reason why people in the early and mid 2000s said Gatti, at 140 (where this fight would take place), suddenly had these significant improvements in his boxing skills was from the hyperbole from HBO. He simply went back to the way he boxed back in 95' when he first won a title against Patterson. He still took a horrendous beating in his loss to Ward (I had it 94-94) and was getting caught with good shots in the 3rd fight. His opponent selection and HBO's hype machine caused him to be overrated by some. Watch him then and then watch his fights with Patterson. He is noticeably faster of hand and foot, and simply a smoother boxer in his younger years at 130.

Gatti could have easily been stopped/DQ'd in the 9th round of the first Ward fight if Frank Cappucino had seen Buddy McGirt get up on the ring apron to stop the fight. A guy who loses to Micky Ward, an old one for that matter, is gonna beat Meldrick Taylor? Taylor, an elite p4p fighter with some of the fastest hands ever who dominated McGirt and came within 2 seconds of beating one of the greatest fighters ever?

Because he outboxed old Micky Ward and Jesse James Leija? Because he LOST wars with Ivan Robinson and Angel Manfredy, it means he can WIN a war with a much superior fighter in Taylor?

I'm not even sure if Gatti at 140 defeats the Taylor who fought Chavez....in their 1994 rematch.

 

taylor had a glass chin? uh? he took a beating from chavez... do you know even who was meldrick taylor? i suspect that you don´t know a single **** about boxing