Joshua Clottey was supposed to have been a fighter who could run miles yet his punch rate dropped past 6 or so rounds. Poster Child: Jermaine Taylor OMG, only if he had stamina, history for several fighters would've been different. Hell Super Six Tourny would've saw Froch defeated by him, not Ward. Abraham would've been defeated. Bad intentions had a high punch rate for jabs. And that KD he did of Kelly was followed up by shear ass out fatigue. Pavlik would've lost. Bad intentions was the better boxer vs all 3, his stamina failed him. Every time.
Thought about Pascal, but not sure. Yes he did tire, but he went the distance quite a few times, which means what he lacked in stamina, he made up for it with grit & determination. I remember Manny Steward on Jame Toney, that while he was a very relaxed fighter which preserves energy, he did tire. But his skill level was such that he could fight tired and his foe wouldn't really know. Some thought he laid on the ropes to preserve energy, some thought because all that fat eventually fatigued him, so he used the ropes to fight when he was exhausted. His fight with Barkley to the McCallum proved he could throw all night as a MW to SMH.
Povetkin seems to look and feel tired pretty early then just runs on will power for the rest of the fight When he performs he strikes me as a guy thats been out of training for a while and got the call for a fight
Few in history could fight so explosively while maintaining good stamina. Taylo was always tense and had his finger on the trigger. It wasn´t because he had a shitty gas tank.
Korobov was pretty much schooling Lee, Jermallo, and Akeem for the first half of their fights and with the exception of Lee who caught him on the sweet spot mid exchange with his vicious pet right hook (Lee said had the ref not decided to wave it off that he himself would've likely got stopped a round or two later because his finishing assault of Korobov totally depleted his gas tanks) and he would've schooled all of them if his stamina wasn't so shitty. Same goes for CEJ who he was hitting at will and would've continued to do so. Even in his fights against lower level opposition and journeymen Korobov's lack of stamina has been an issue
Crappy gas tank or too tense still equates a guy who can't go 12 rounds. Plenty of fighters threw more powerful shots than JT & didn't have the same results fighter after fight.
We have a different view on who throws bombs after bomb If you think a fighter with 20 KO s out of 33 is considered a bomb thrower. Too many for me to name. I can't think of any bombs he landed on Hopkins 1st or 2nd fight. In fact we both know that Hop's output increased as Taylor's dropped past the 6th round. And this was against an old dude that threw so little in the 1st 1/2 of the fight. No reason to say Jermaine's punch output dropped because of.... Who cares the reason? So as long as we can identify a pattern in all his top level fights. The bombs that Froch & Kessler threw at each other in the final round of both fights are a testimony that Taylor never made it to the 12th to throw bombs. He clinched, headlocked in most of his final rounds. If we viewed round by round Taylor vs WInky, it is Winky pushing Taylor back all night. Jermaine fought courageously, but never threw any bombs to back Winky up. At all. Same for his fight with Ouma. We can go round by round & it's the Superwelter moved up that pushed forward while Taylor depended on a high workrate of jabs. Hard for me to say a person backing up is throwing, let alone landing bombs. 12th round Ouma is backing Jermaine who constantly went headlocking, NOT-head hunting. He did have a high connect of 244 to 177 for Kassim, but to land 188 power shots against a former Welter who didn't have the swollen eye (Taylor did) that's not my definistion of a bomb thrower. Bombs detonate my fellow boxing fanatic! His win over No-Hook Lacy again went to the score cards- great display of skill for Taylor, but it was Joe Calslappy that beat the hell out of Lacy, whereas Jermaine outboxed Jeff with over 100 of his landed as jabs. Again same with fighting another welter moved up in Spinks. Post fight commentators called it a borderline unwatchable fight. 101 landed for Taylor vs 85 for Spinks. Even if we say they were off by 10-20--heck lets go crazy and say they were off by 30. 130 punches for a MW isn't my example of throwing bomb after bomb. Unless we're talking shots missed. Stats claimed Taylor threw just over 300. I can't think of a single effort where he came out bombing like James Kirkland, David Tua, Bert Cooper, Ray Mercer, Ernie Shavers, Mike Tyson, Iran Barkley, hell 2Ton Galenta's fat arse threw bombs & wideload haymakers without succumbing to a low out put as the rounds wore on. In fact if we were to do a search on any forum of fighters throwing bomb after bomb Taylor name never appears. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/thoughts-on-jermaine-taylor.627741/ A few guys here say the same. Whether Taylor lost his fights with Abraham, Froch or Pavlik due to being too tense, doesn't negate that his punch output drops. But I have no problem reading your example of fighters with poor stamina.
