Quincy Taylor rated No.1 by the ring magazine in a list of top 10 middleweights on March 1996

You seem to base yr entire boxing knowledge off this 1 month magazine from 96. Go on ebay and buy one from 82.

 

I used to read KO Magazine. They used to have a cool poster of different boxer every month

 

I had posters of Heather Thomas, but to each his own.

 

But to answer your

I just googled Heather Thomas...niiiiice

 

You must be young!

Or, I'm just old.

 

But to answer your question...no Quincy Taylor would not have been a test for Roy

 

Those were the bomb. Can’t get that in the internet/cell phone age.

 

Magazine dates are a couple of months ahead of date they are printed (a March 1996 would be probably published in January).

His most recent win at time of publication was over Julian Jackson, which explains his ranking.

Just so happens that in March of 1996 he got stopped by Keith Holmes.

So, no, he wouldn’t have been any kind of threat to RJJ.

 

The middleweight division was in a state of flux at the time, with no-one standing out from the pack. Hopkins obviously changed that towards the end of the decade, and stamped his authority over the division by winning the unification tournament against Trinidad.

Taylor was on a nice run at the time, but rather like Frankie Randall in that era he seemed to get it altogether too late in his career (he was not as good as Randall, but followed a similar trajectory). Holmes, who is generally underrated I feel, was just a bigger and better southpaw and was all wrong for Taylor.

Either way, he was the type of guy that a mid 90s Roy would either toy with or blow away.