Taylor - Hopkins Rematch Scenarios

Keys for Bernard: - Start early, keep busy, do not give away too many early rounds. - Expose the weaknesses in Taylor he showed in the first fight. Keys for Taylor: - Better conditioning, save a little for the last rounds. - Work the body, be more busy - Learn from the first fight and correct your flaws. Since Bernard has been fighting this style of starting late and being cautious for a long long time. i do not see him getting THAT much more agressive. Taylor impressed me in the fact that he did enough to win even while being out classed and outboxed, cut and beatin badly the last 3-4 rds. He will not want to take the beating he took in rds 10 and 11 and improves on his conditioning and does not fall into as MANY traps as he did in the first bout. I see the rematch being a matter of an old dawg not learning enough new tricks and the young pupil learning greatly from his first lesson. Taylor improves on his first performance and Bernard pretty much fights the same fight. Taylor UD or late rd stoppage.

I thought Hopkins won the first fight, and I think he'll do it again. He'll counter him more often, and maybe we'll see a victory Toney-Jirov style, where Taylor is the agressor but effective counterpunching gives B-Hop the UD. Taylor will also fight a smarter fight, and not gas out early, but that'll keep him from being as busy, which will make B-Hop's countering more noticable than it was in the first match. He'll still make many mistakes, like dropping his right when he jabs, and throwing wide, looping punches. Hopkins will pick up on those even more so, and make Taylor pay for the mistakes he makes. Neither guy gets KOed. He did hurt Taylor in the end, but Taylor was really tired. B-Hop wins a UD the next go around.

I pick Hopkins because he has something more to offer, while Taylor has given his best and has possibly left something in the ring. Taylor fought the fight-of-his-life against Hops, as he was expected to. He did not dominate Hopkins, as many exoected he might due to the size difference and all the other assets that youth should provide. I figure that Taylor cannot do any more than he did in fight #1. He can't and won't be busier, in fear that he runs out of gas late in the fight. So, what does he do instead, fight a more measured pace, which favours Hopkins? No f*ucking way. In the ramatch, like the first fight, it will be Hopkins' actions that dictate the outcome, not Taylor's. Taylor will again bring his "A" game, which Hopkins has seen now. And Hopkins simply needs to be slightly busier, that's all. Very probable that Hops will take Taylor's belts in the rematch for that reason alone. Then there's Taylor untested mental game. We might not see the same Taylor in the rematch. He knows that an old man like Hopkins not only "got to him", but took his best and started to mess him up late in the fight. How does that fit in Taylor's mind. Maybe he sees himself as the belt holder, not the Champ? We'll see.

i'm gonna pick taylor again, simply cause he'll be more exprienced and will know what to expect while nard will be older...

look at the photogallery of the "entire fight" from Taylor's website...they made it seem like he beat Hopkins down when really all of Taylor's highlight shots shown there are missed punches...except for the top of the head punch: http://jermaintaylor.com/photos.html

The outcome of Saturday’s fight has mentally set Hopkins up for victory in the rematch. Throughout his career, Hopkins has viewed himself as being on the outside of boxing looking in. He has railed against the boxing establishment for robbing him and treating him unfairly and, rightly or wrongly, he has used this as motivation to achieve what he has in the ring. Hopkins feels that he won Saturday’s fight and by unanimous decision. He feels that HBO took the opportunity to steal his belts to give it to the fighter that they project as being "the future of boxing". Now he truly has something to fight for. I predict that Hopkins will train like a madman (even more so than he normally does) and he and Bowie Fischer will devise the perfect fight plan to use Taylor’s youth, speed and aggression against him. I think Hopkins realizes that he started too late and, though he won’t jump right on him from the start of Rd 1, he won’t wait until the middle of the fight either. He will, however, make Taylor believe he’s coming after him from the opening bell by making select pre-fight comments. Hopkins will set all kinds of traps for Taylor and be generally successful at catching Taylor with counters. This will have Taylor thinking back to the later rounds of the first fight when Hopkins had him hurt. On the other side of the ring, I feel that Taylor believes that he got away with one last time and will be motivated to prove that he deserves the mantle of Undisputed Middleweight Champ. This time around, a sharper Hopkins will hurt Taylor earlier than he did in the first fight and, will eventually either drop Taylor and win a majority or unanimous decision or catch him in a corner and throw a barrage of punches at Taylor prompting the ref to stop the match.

I think Bernard would come in to this fight with the mind set that this was his last fight. And he would kick Jermain Taylor's ass all over the ring.

Bhop wins easily imo. He's too smart for Taylor.

It is my belief that BHop will emerge victorious in a rematch. His pride was clearly trampled by that huge loss and he will spare no efforts to beat Taylor. That rematch will take so much out of Ex that all his fights afterwards will probably end up as losing causes, including a third encounter with Jermain Taylor.

B Hop a lot easier........the thing that taylor would learn is that B HOP ain't no pushover and that he has power also......thus taylor wouldn't be as busy, which will play into the hands of bernard........ taylor won because of bernard not being busy at the start.........not because he was the better fighter.

Taylor will be ready, but I highly doubt B-Hop will let Jermain KO him. Both men will fight smarter, and this time experience will come into play with B-Hop learning more from his loss to Taylor.

Taylor will win by Ko because bhop will rush him to early and Taylor will be ready. ;)

B-Hop will fight the same fight as he did in their first match. Jermain will think that B-Hop is doing the same thing and that he is going to win again because B-Hop will start late so he'll work hard in the first rounds and B-Hop will keep backing up and countering. In the 7th B-Hop will explode. He'll get in some good shots, but he will stick to countering. In the 9th, he'll go extremely hard at Jermain and it will tire Jermain in the 10-12th. B-Hop wins by UD.

Hopkins will try to get started earlier. Taylor will respond much better than he did in the late rounds, having weathered Hopkins best in the first meeting. By mid to late rounds, Hopkins AGE will start to show(call me crazy all you want, but nobody expected RJJ to fall either). Taylor will take over the fight with his jab, win rounds until the 10-12. At this point I see two things happening. A brutal stoppage after Taylor finally gets through the Hopkins D with a wicked combo. ORrr, the same thing as the first fight. Hopkins gathers himself in desperation and pulls out the last few roudns, which again, will not be enough to salvage victory. People are saying Hopkins didn't age at all in this fight, but I really think he did. I mean he normally does SOMETHING in the first 7 rounds, but this time it was like he was saving himself for that big finale. The problem was that this finale was against a bigger and stronger guy who wasn't going anywhere.

the same as the Zab-spinks fight. But Spinks was beaten mentally by one punch the 1st time he beat Zab. Taylor was beaten bad in 4 rounds.

Taylor - Hopkins Rematch Scenarios Give your opinion on how the rematch goes, should it ever take place. Try and give intelligent reasons. Dont lick testicles and scream how your boy was robbed, or sqeal about how your boy lost too much blood..etc. Tell me what your fighter learned from the first fight, how he will use it in the second, and what the results are. Represent. I have an even older hopkins never landing that huge right in the 9th that turned it around for him and losing out on the cards again. Taylor MD.

Boxing decisions are not without doubt and much more so with the latest Taylor-Hopkins title clash. Many are crying for a rematch simply because many thought that the win was not convincing nor was it definitive enough to say that one fighter truly outclassed another. B-Hop may be adding up in years but we have to admit that he probably still has enough fight in him to take on Jermain Taylor on any given night. If a rematch pushes through within a year, would B-Hop win it or would the new king humiliate the old? Your thoughts... I think Jermain wins again. He learned alot from that fight, and his nerves wont be an issue the next time around. And the next time he'll be fighting to KEEP his titles!