The Best of the Rest: 160lbs Tier II Tournie - Round 1 - Fight 3: Billy Papke KO13 Jermain Taylor

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by McGrain, Aug 15, 2021.


Who will win?

Poll closed Aug 18, 2021.
  1. Taylor T/KO

    11.8%
  2. Taylor Points

    35.3%
  3. Papke Points

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. Papke T/KO

    52.9%
  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    After controlling the early part of the fight, Jeramin Taylor was found out by a rampaging Billy Papke who continued to walk onto Taylor's jabs but began to find a home for his own lashing offence, work that Taylor smothered successfully until around the ninth round. After this it was all Papke, who, having found the inside, pushed referee بيتر روبرباب to the limit, deducting a point in the twelfth.

    By then, it may already have been too late for Taylor who was ahead on the cards but bleeding from the mouth and nose. Papke savaged him in the thirteenth, depositing him neatly on his backside for an exhausted count of ten.
     
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  2. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    Good write up, Matt. This seems entirely believable to me. Taylor couldn't hang with the rough housers - he just lacked the toughness to win this.
     
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