By Mark Vester
In an interview with Kevin Iole of the Las Vegas Review Journal, current middleweight champion Jermain Taylor said that December 9 bout against former champion Kassim Ouma will be his last at 160-pounds.
Taylor said it's been getting hard to get down to middleweight limit of 160, and his next bout in 2007 will be at the super middleweight of 168. Taylor said that he plans to retire at 30-years-old, and he turns 30 in August of 2008.
"It's all but impossible for me to do it now," said Taylor. "As I age and fill out, it's not going to happen."
The man he would like to fight most is IBF/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, and gain a measure of revenge for the beating he gave to his friend Jeff Lacy in March.
"Jeff made a lot of mistakes in that fight, but I know he's a lot better than he showed," Taylor said. "(Calzaghe) knows that Jeff's a better fighter than that. Anyone who knows boxing knows it. Calzaghe is a fight I would love, because he's supposed to be the man there and those are the guys I want."
