The difference was Joe was fighting a former TV reality star and Taylor was fight ing the 154 lb champion who was ranked #1 by Ring Magainze, also Spinks is a defensive fighter and Manfredo is not.
Yeah a 154lb champ who has been KO'dat welterweight and had no big punch there either. Taylor is good and very talented but is heart is not in the game he should've walked through spinks all nightand KO'd him. He fights like that against Calzaghe hell get even more embarrassed than lacy did. He can't be called p4p#1 after that!
For Starters He is one of the few to beat Hopkins
he fought Winky... in a fight i though he just edged it out...he gave winky his hardest fight.
Beat Ouma who was #1 at 154
I thought Sammy gave winky the most trouble!!! not taylor!!! He should be in there somewhere in the top 5!!! not first Cotto or Pacman would be my number 1!!!
Not as ****** as this post! You're a bitter Bitchnard fan and you have the nerves to say Rafa could very will be on top, then you question me having Taylor at #1 after Floyd is retired.
Rafa has better credentials than Sad Intentions to be p4p #1, he moved up in weight, 4 of his last 5 fights are NOT controversial, and so on.
Your ignorance of lower weight classes and general lack of understanding of boxing and inability to apply logic do not change facts.
eduard was a joke. joppy and marquez were mediocre fighters way way past their "primes". it doesnt matter who or what spinks and ouma are, it matters that taylor stuggled with both of them when he really shouldn't have. his 1st fight with hopkins was a fluke. ill give him the 2nd fight.
regardless of who you think won the wright fight, again the focus is on taylor. winky wright, the defensive expert with very little power, backed up taylor onto the ropes and taylor couldnt do anything when winky pressured him. ouma and wright are both blown up jr middleweights with little power and they easily pressured the much larger taylor into going on defense.
the spinks fight was just the latest example of how mediocre jermain taylor is. the money and status as champ has gone to his head. he'll lose to pavlik... assuming he has the balls to fight pavlik... which i doubt he does.
Exactly what I was thinking. The Marquez and Joppy examples were giggle worthy. Edouard is like 5'6 and has had a draw with a clubfighter in Pierre. I don't blame Taylor it is his management hiding his flaws. Furthermore Hopkins fought not to lose their fights, not win them.
Joe Calzaghe is obviously better than Jermain Taylor. They both fought smaller opponents in their last fights, and look how different the results were. I've always kinda liked Taylor, but from what I saw Saturday night, he's not in the top five p4p.
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