Mora: Jermain Taylor Looked Fragile, I’d Take His Title

by David P. Greisman

Sergio Mora thinks highly of Gennady Golovkin and would be willing challenge the man he sees as the No. 1 middleweight for the right price, a range he put as between $500,000 and $700,000. But he’d also be willing to take less money, say between $100,000 and $200,000, for opponents such as Al Haymon stablemates Danny Jacobs and Jermain Taylor.

“And with Taylor, I’ll be picking up a world title, because whoever he fights next is going to beat him,” Mora told BoxingScene.com late October, clearly unimpressed with Taylor’s title win over a hobbled Sam Soliman earlier that month.

“Taylor looked very fragile. He didn’t look horrible, but he looked very fragile,” Mora said. “He looked like somebody who shouldn’t belong in the top 10. And for him to be champion and having to defend that against another Top 10 contender, it’s going to be dangerous for him.”

Taylor’s mandatory challenger for the IBF title is Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam, who outpointed Curtis Stevens the week before Taylor defeated Soliman.

Mora is scheduled to return on a Dec. 11 card in California. It will be his fourth bout back since a majority decision loss in a rematch with Bryan Vera in 2012. Since then, Mora topped Gregorz Proksa by unanimous decision in June 2013, knocked out Milton Nunez in November 2013 and stopped Samuel Rogers this past May, bringing his record to 26-3-2 with 9 KOs.

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