Carl Froch Admits to Training Injured For Taylor

[DonTaseMeBrah]

Jermaine taylor has built himself quite a solid if not spectacular career. A couple of more solid wins & titles he might be making a case for HOF;

2 wins vs hopkins
draw w/ winky
2 loses to pavlik
wins vs ouma, spinks, joppy, lacy.

He didnt quite live up to his hype & potential but he's had a very good career. Never ducked anyone.

[ugly2000]

Not being an ass but the only way Taylor can get into the HOF is if he pays for his ticket. He lost to Bhop 2x and to Winky no matter what the official judges recorded. His other title defenses were boring wins against smaller fighters. All he really is or has been is a star starved HBO creation.

[dstew]

Not being an ass but the only way Taylor can get into the HOF is if he pays for his ticket. He lost to Bhop 2x and to Winky no matter what the official judges recorded. His other title defenses were boring wins against smaller fighters. All he really is or has been is a star starved HBO creation.

You failed.

[kocface]

tha excuses begin before the fight huh

[nathan_nall]

Not being an ass but the only way Taylor can get into the HOF is if he pays for his ticket. He lost to Bhop 2x and to Winky no matter what the official judges recorded. His other title defenses were boring wins against smaller fighters. All he really is or has been is a star starved HBO creation.

You can make a case for Jermain not winning the first B-Hop fight. While he didn't dominate B-Hop in the rematch, he won cleanly and easily. Not only did Taylor clearly defeat B-Hop in the second fight, he is a toss-up with RJJ as the person who gave B-Hop the most sound defeat of his career.

The fight with Wright goes to whoever you like more, or against whoever you dislike more. Two different styles that served both men well. A draw was a fair decision despite Winky's childish protest.

[Dave Rado]

You can make a case for Jermain not winning the first B-Hop fight. While he didn't dominate B-Hop in the rematch, he won cleanly and easily. Not only did Taylor clearly defeat B-Hop in the second fight, he is a toss-up with RJJ as the person who gave B-Hop the most sound defeat of his career.

After the second fight:


Boxingscene.com

In need of a clear, decisive win to cement his identity, Taylor’s rematch with Hopkins was twelve rounds more of the same – the same tentative performance, the same mechanical and mental flaws, the same unanimous decision going his way while a majority of informed observers filled their cards out in favor of the forty-year-old.

the sweet science:

Sometimes controversy is as clear as things will ever get.

Jermain Taylor and Bernard Hopkins could fight all they want and it would probably always be close and disputed. That's not to say it would always be thrilling. Taylor successfully held on to his middleweight title, but if you listened to the people from ringside to rafter at Mandalay Bay arena whether he proved to be the better fighter tonight is still highly debatable.

All judges (Dave Moretti, Chuck Giampa, Patricia Morse Jarman) saw it at 115-113 for the defending champion.

The result was less clear to the rest of us. An informal exit poll showed equal support for each side. Maybe the question is whether or not Hopkins did enough to take the unified belts. The intangible edge said to favor a champ may have been the only margin of victory Taylor had. Such an edge is not actually supposed to exist on the scorecards.

[ugly2000]

You failed.

Nope, Jermain did and to an amateur LOL