Mikkel Kessler vs. Jermain Taylor

[Dice]

Landing jabs and knocking people out is also easy when your opponent is Danilo Hausler. As I posted earlier, and as other people posted, who has Kessler faced??

Taylor by no means doesnt always look excellent but he at least fights names and wins most.

Taylor lost decisively once and his other loss was a loss that could go either way. Kessler stepped up his competition and got beaten decisively, although he looked good early, against Calzaghe.

Its a toss up fight but i'm getting annoyed cuz while few of you Kessler fans have the right to argue for a Kessler win, most of you "Kessler fans" have never seen him fight before the Calzaghe fight and just assume he's great simply because he did good early in the fight, forgeting that he got figured out in the end

[dstew]

landing Jabs on Jeff lacy is an easy task for any half decent boxer... Tsypko,Manfredo etc etc..

The fight before, he was completely out jabbed by Pavlik.. which is why he LOST..

methinks it is you who is living in the past... and remembering a Taylor who was 22-0.. and not the one who made his OWN reputation today..

Pavlik will outjab most anyone... including Kessler.

But that doesn't change the fact that Taylor averaged 24 jabs per round against Pavlik in their 2nd fight, MORE than he did against Lacy.

If you want to criticize Taylor's overall punch output, I'm with you 100%, but to say he's not gotten back to his jab is ignoring the fact that 61% of his punch attempts in his last two fights have been jabs.

[GTL]

Taylor is too athletic
He would have to train is ass off to win this fight tho...

Id like kessler to win tho..

[TheManchine]

im not sure

i would give Kessler a very slight edge

hopefully this fight happens sometime, would be very interesting to see how it plays out

[SHB]

Bad matchup for Taylor. Kessler is too much for him.

[Ian_ST24i]

Kessler would win this. I wouldn't be overly confident, but Kessler would win late on, with his superior power and strength, but it'd be close.

[roundingace]

Taylor would stand a good chance in this and my vote, based purly off of not seing Kessler in against elites, minus that Joe guy, would be Taylor by UD. Taylor has the ability, experience against GOOD competition and overal athleticism that would be needed, as in the JC fight, to win.

[roundingace]

Kessler would win late on, with his superior power and strength, but it'd be close.

Ask Lacy how that worked out for him.

[Banderivets]

I think this would be a great fight.

I havent seen a lot of Kessler but from what Ive seen he looks solid.

They should make it happen.

[DiegoFuego]

Besides Joe Calzaghe,where he lost, who has Mikkel Kessler faced?? The man has talent but its easy to look good when your fighting sub par competition. Jermaine Taylor has a much better resume, and when he on, he more difficult then people think. Taylor UD12

exactly. Kessler has never looked good against a fighter with a pulse, so how can anyone take him seriously yet?