The Rise and Fall of Jermain Taylor

dbouziane · Jan 15, 2010

booradley said: ↑

I'm an avid fisherman myself. A day on the river with Jermain Taylor would be an honor of the highest order. I used to fish with this guy:

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Fishing with JT would be WAY better!
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:happy thats awesome

IntentionalButt · Jan 15, 2010

And let's not forget that Jermain gave us one of the best comedy moments in recent boxing history...

During the video segment of the first Super Six photoshoot, when the photographer is trying to get them into all sorts of silly poses, and orders Jermain to place his glove on top of Abraham's head only to have it immediately swatted away, and JT goes "Uh...nah...Arthur ain't feeling that, man..."

I still think of that and bust out sometimes. :rofl

Hermit · Jan 15, 2010

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As you can see I rarely post on this site. I like to read everyone else's views even though I hate the back and forth fighting between posters over boxer's. We have our favorite fighters and back them but we are not them.

Now I saw this post and started to think what was the fall of Taylor. Some say it was Pavlik? Some say it was Froch? but really I believe it was right after he won the title that he started his decent. I mean when your at the top you can only go down. After Taylor beat Hopkins for the 2nd time I think that took alot out of him. He goes on to fight Winky Wright to a draw a LMW who beat Trinidad a fighter who was broken by Hopkins coming off a 4 year layoff not counting his one fight with Mayorga . Then Taylor fights Ouma, a guy with a name but a LMW that Taylor would beat 9 times out of 10. Then fights another LMW in Spinks, I remember watching that fight vividly because I am a Pavlik fan and he just dominated Miranda. After I saw Taylor struggle against Spinks, I knew that Pavlik would beat Taylor. It just looked like Taylor was like alot of guys who get to the top. Once your there you do not train like you use to, you mind set goes from being the aggressor to being a little more defensive because you know the Judges will usually score the champs way if it's a close fight. I believed both those occurances happened to Taylor. In the first Pavlik fight, I think he was even stunned that he had Kelly on the ropes and pretty much gassed himself in the 2nd round. The score cards leading up to the 7th round were a joke, there was no way Kelly was down 2 to 3 rounds. Hence that lead to my 2nd point about becoming a champion and the judges usually siding with you. However, you could tell after the 2nd round that Taylor was getting more tired after every round and lost to a hungier guy. Hungry like Taylor was going into the Hopkins fights.

Now the next Pavlik/Taylor fight went to the cards but was far from exciting and Taylor hung in there and as we all know the rest is history. I like Taylor he is a great boxer however my take is that he was on the down hill turn right after his 2nd fight with Hopkins. He reached the mountain top, beat a HOF'er twice and after that really has not been the same. I think someone posted that turning him into a defensive fighter was his downfall. I believe some of that to be true. It's like in football, you will go offensive and score to take the lead and then your defense goes into Prevent and you lose.

As I said I am a Pavlik fan and look at what he has done since he reached the top. Lockett, Rubio and Espino as wins and a bad loss to Hopkins.

It seems like a lot of fighters wear out on their journey to the top and when they reach the mountain top they tend to relax a bit, get a few paychecks and fight off their name.

So to me, Taylor like a lot of fighters their downfall was becoming the Champ.
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Very nice post. You SHOULD do it more often. We need to outnumber the haters and just ignore them. :thumbsup

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