Jermain Taylor Deep in Camp For Abraham Bout

[Iceta]

This fight is hard for me to call even though I favor Abraham because the fight is in Germany. Can Taylor's chin and stamina hold up? Is Abraham going to be active enough to outwork or outbox Taylor if those aspects of Taylor's game are successful?

[extracurRICular]

Dudes...come on....does it matter??? does it really matter?? Jermain can train all he wants but he still has about as good of shot at winning this fight as Mike Tyson does of regaining the HW championship of the world.......just not gonna happen...Jermain is going to be lucky to lose by UD....honestly...he is ma dawg and all but im a realist his time has passed...he is doneski...true story....

[Queen_Leia]

Taylor and Kessler are the only guys im worrying about, the others will be no problem for Arthur.

I couldn't agree with you more.

[Queen_Leia]

I watched the fight live; you act like Froch landed a lucky punch to pull out the win. The fact is, Froch started turning the fight around in the mid to late rounds and that's what enabled him to press the fight and get the KO...

He did land a lucky ******** punch, that how he won the fight....he was down BADLYon two of the three scorecards and needed a KO to win.

Taylor outclassed him in the first 2 rounds, dropped him in the third and beat him to the punch for the rest of the fight until he gassed in the twelfth which Froch took advantage off.

Taylor had everything over Froch...hand up, speed, head movement, defense, good footwork, better jab..u name it.

Froch is ****.

[Dave Rado]

unless they rob him out there in Germany wich is no surprise cause that's what they usually do over there.

That's only the case when the ref and judges are German (or in Abraham's case, Armenian or German). But if Showtime had the sense to insist on neutral refs and judges for all of the bouts, that won't be an issue, and as long as that's the case, claiming it was a hometown decision would be a lame excuse.

Does anyone know whether the ref and judges for this fight have been announced yet?

[sweetpea87]

He better train harder than ever, cause if Froch knocked him out Abraham could probably kill him.

[RightCross94]

Taylor has the ability to win this fight comfortably. But past situations mean you can't rule out the possibility of a late round TKO victory for Abraham.

Either Taylor UD, or Abraham late TKO. Hopefully Taylor has his stamina problems sorted out. But if he hasn't it will most likely be a nasty ending for him.

[dstew]

Do remember what Jermain looked like after the less powerful Winky hit him repeatedly in the face?



I think Jermain is going to sleep.

A clash of heads caused his eye to swell shut like that, not any of Winky's punches.

[dstew]

He did land a lucky ******** punch, that how he won the fight....he was down BADLYon two of the three scorecards and needed a KO to win.

Taylor outclassed him in the first 2 rounds, dropped him in the third and beat him to the punch for the rest of the fight until he gassed in the twelfth which Froch took advantage off.

Taylor had everything over Froch...hand up, speed, head movement, defense, good footwork, better jab..u name it.

Froch is ****.

You really need to rewatch the fight or back off Taylor's nuts, because he lost rounds in the latter half of the fight by being completely inactive. Sure, he beat him to the punch when he actually threw punches, which was the last 30 seconds of each round if he was feeling ambitious.

And this is coming from a fellow Taylor supporter. One who expected Taylor to get KO'd as soon as his activity level dropped off.

As much as I hope Taylor fixes his stamina issues (which he's been trying to do since training for the Pavlik rematch) the logical assumption at this point is that he can't or won't, and that AA will find him and KO him late. I'd love for him to prove me wrong though.

[vrodz]

I see Taylor tiering as usual and Arthur winning by late KO.