That right hand just finished Jermain Taylor's career

Who is his next opponent?

 

tayor will not make it past 5 against kessler.

abraham showed that taylor no longer has it and kessler fightss with a faster pace and has the power in his hands

 

I'd like the winner of Bute-Andrade 2 to step in for him

 

Jermain...PLEASE retire. That was Sad. I felt scared for him. He seems like a nice kid and i wish him the best in the future

 

I hope Bute gets to repalce him if nad when he beats Andrade.

 

Props to Abraham. Good fight. Taylor came to fight but he got outboxed and outpunched. I picked Taylor to win and Abraham took this one. Gotta hand it to him.

 

He can't compete at the top, his past few fights were at the top and he fell short. It's hard/sad for me to say this but he's better off retired. That KO was BRUTAL.

He bad bad stamina and can't stay active yet fought all the top aggressive fighters out there. If he fights someone with no KO power he can definitely do better but the division is packed with big punchers.

 

I feel for him. A unanimous loss was inevitable, but the KO with only 12 seconds to go was painful on the eye!

 

Doubt it.

 

Taylor signed up for 3 fights, and he went to Germany in his first. He deserves a second chance, Or atleast some time to think it over.
If he pulls out himself, then we can talk about his replacement

 

agreed.
this was taylor's chance to prove himself and if i was taylor i wouldnt be looking forward to the rest of the tournament.

i'm sure he feels the same way.

 

Very sad, I hope he call it a day.

 

The winner of Bute v. Andrade cannot replace Taylor because he would start on 0 points and would be at a severe disadvantage compared to the others. Nor could they just give him 2 or 3 points out of the hat either - that would be unfair to the others. Some people who have praised this tournament as a faultless set-up clearly aren't deep thinkers. Hopefully, they get it now. Taylor will not pull out; he will fight two more and get KOed at least once more, by Kessler. Sad but true.

 

I haven't been able to watch it...it's hard to sit here and read all this. Pity for Taylor; I like the guy.

 

They probably have a backup rule, like a replacing fighter getting the average of all fighters points by that time.