Jermain Taylor-Allan Green are Poised To Clash on March 28

[dstew]

Maybe I'm just being old-fashioned, but I wanna see the best fighters fight each other. At the least I'm annoyed at Taylor since he's the one with the key to open up the division and I simply dont buy him needing yet another tune-up to hone his skills. Taylor fought brilliantly against Pavlik.

It could be argued that he should have won the first fight as some ref.s would have stopped the fight with Pavlik out on his feet in the 2. round and Taylor fought excellent in the second fight and a lot of people had him winning.

So for Taylor it's not an inability to land a championship fight this pointless fight against Green is Taylor's own choosing and that's highly dissapointing for this fan!

IIRC, didn't you grant Kessler two easy fights after his loss to Calzaghe before getting impatient?

Taylor lost twice after a string of uninspiring victories, and has only fought once in the last year (give or take a couple weeks).

If he fights Green in March, it will be only the 2nd time he's had a less than 5 month turnaround between fights since beating Hopkins for the belts. This shows me that he's serious about staying busy and getting quality ring time against guys his size (something he didn't do so well at as a MW).

Also, it's not entirely accurate to place blame on Taylor as having "the keys to the division." There is nothing preventing Kessler and Bute from unifying except the greedy promoters and the crooked sanctioning bodies... and the politics of those same sanctioning bodies are even more reason for Taylor to avoid a belt at this point. Bute's had a belt for more than a year now... how many attempts has he made to unify? His people even avoided talks with Taylor's camp only to sign a fight with the loser of the match for the vacant WBO belt (Zuniga).

Taylor/Green is definitely not the best fight to be made, but blame should be placed all around the division. I'm certainly not going to go sour on Taylor for not taking a fight with Froch at this time, since if Froch hadn't lucked into a paper title, nobody would even be talking about him.

[Addition]

since you can't tell the difference between landed punches(hopkins) and punching air(calzaghe) im assuming you are the ******.

Yeah, im the ******

Yet you still cant get over the match. Dip****.

[daggum]

Yeah, im the ******

Yet you still cant get over the match. Dip****.

why not point out the fact that calzaghe is the first person to win a boxing match without hitting the other guy cleanly in the entire fight. this was a momentous occasion. calzaghe must be the greatest if he can do that.

[Dorian]

Easy Jermain Taylor domination, Green is nothing but a glass chinned bum

[Addition]

why not point out the fact that calzaghe is the first person to win a boxing match without hitting the other guy cleanly in the entire fight. this was a momentous occasion. calzaghe must be the greatest if he can do that.

Not my problem, it's the judges who gave the fight to Zag, ask them why they gave it to him.

[sportsplato]

This will be an interesting fight. It should come down to technique vs hunger. If Allan Green comes ready and is hungry, he should beat Jermain Taylor by KO. As you can tell, I am no JT fan. But I just don't think he responds well when someone hits him on the chin. And Allan Green will eventually land something. If he comes agressive, Allan Green by KO.

[dstew]

This will be an interesting fight. It should come down to technique vs hunger. If Allan Green comes ready and is hungry, he should beat Jermain Taylor by KO. As you can tell, I am no JT fan. But I just don't think he responds well when someone hits him on the chin. And Allan Green will eventually land something. If he comes agressive, Allan Green by KO.

Allan Green doesn't respond well to getting hit on the chin either, and far lesser fighters than Taylor have managed to find that chin of his.

[BattlingNelson]

IIRC, didn't you grant Kessler two easy fights after his loss to Calzaghe before getting impatient?

Taylor lost twice after a string of uninspiring victories, and has only fought once in the last year (give or take a couple weeks).

If he fights Green in March, it will be only the 2nd time he's had a less than 5 month turnaround between fights since beating Hopkins for the belts. This shows me that he's serious about staying busy and getting quality ring time against guys his size (something he didn't do so well at as a MW).

Also, it's not entirely accurate to place blame on Taylor as having "the keys to the division." There is nothing preventing Kessler and Bute from unifying except the greedy promoters and the crooked sanctioning bodies... and the politics of those same sanctioning bodies are even more reason for Taylor to avoid a belt at this point. Bute's had a belt for more than a year now... how many attempts has he made to unify? His people even avoided talks with Taylor's camp only to sign a fight with the loser of the match for the vacant WBO belt (Zuniga).

Taylor/Green is definitely not the best fight to be made, but blame should be placed all around the division. I'm certainly not going to go sour on Taylor for not taking a fight with Froch at this time, since if Froch hadn't lucked into a paper title, nobody would even be talking about him.

The big difference between Taylor and Kessler is that Taylor pretty much can pick his opponents as he chooses. Besides Kessler's fight with Haussler was ordered by WBA so nothing he could do there.

Everybody (outside camp Taylor that is) knows that Jermain is ready to fight the best the division has to offer and that he'll be favored to win against any of them. So as a fan I'm pretty dissapointed.

[IMDAZED]

The big difference between Taylor and Kessler is that Taylor pretty much can pick his opponents as he chooses. Besides Kessler's fight with Haussler was ordered by WBA so nothing he could do there.

Everybody (outside camp Taylor that is) knows that Jermain is ready to fight the best the division has to offer and that he'll be favored to win against any of them. So as a fan I'm pretty dissapointed.

This is Jermain Taylor's third fight at super middle - actually second considering his first was the Pavlik rematch. How about we wait one more fight before judging? Especially for someone who fought Hopkins after barely 20 fights and has Winky and Pavlik on his dossier. For goodness sake, we waited about 40 fights before Kessler fought an elite opponent.

[BattlingNelson]

This is Jermain Taylor's third fight at super middle - actually second considering his first was the Pavlik rematch. How about we wait one more fight before judging? Especially for someone who fought Hopkins after barely 20 fights and has Winky and Pavlik on his dossier. For goodness sake, we waited about 40 fights before Kessler fought an elite opponent.

After the devastating loss to Hagler Hearns fought dangerous undefeated James Schuler and won a 154 lb belt after that if I remember correctly.

Taylor is supposed to be (nearly) as good for his generation as Hearns was in his. Taylor fails miserably when those comparisons are made.

PS: If you wanna talk Kessler then make a thread. It's pointless in this Taylor thread and when it comes from your pen directed at me it's ...........