Taylors fall from grace is shocking to say the least.

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  • Dan...
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    #61
    Originally posted by warp1432
    I won't say Hopkins Taylor 2 was a robbery, but that was the clearest 7-5 fight you could have. I've written a good long post about that fight, I'll see if I can dig it up. I thought Hopkins clearly lost the first fight though, he started too late.

    As for Wright-Taylor, I thought Wright won, but I really like that fight and I think Taylor did a good job.
    Agree on Taylor-Wright. That is a really underrated fight for mine. It would be my favourite Taylor fight.

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    • Crazylegs77
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      #62
      Originally posted by street bully
      I watched his fights from Hopkins up until Abraham and I can not believe how poorly he has done since those two fights. I mean he has had the physical and athletic advantages over everyone since, but he seems off. I can't believe he has went from giving and taking with one of the greatest middleweights of all times to losing to inferior scrubs like Froch after sonning for 11 rounds.
      Yeah after the Pavlik fight it was a slippery slope he took, I think the first KO loss and then going back to Ozell Nelson immediately was the wrong move.

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      • Kevin Jesus
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        #63
        Taylor edged Hopkins both times imo and the Winky fight was too close to give to either fighter.

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          #64
          Originally posted by street bully
          Says the guy who had Direll beating Froch.
          Wtf? And???

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          • Dynamite Kid
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            #65
            Originally posted by street bully
            I watched his fights from Hopkins up until Abraham and I can not believe how poorly he has done since those two fights. I mean he has had the physical and athletic advantages over everyone since, but he seems off. I can't believe he has went from giving and taking with one of the greatest middleweights of all times to losing to inferior scrubs like Froch after sonning for 11 rounds.
            Thats what happens when Taylor is not forced to fight and there is like 2 punches a round.

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            • -EX-
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              #66
              I thought Jermain won the first B-Hop fight and had the 2nd one a draw...

              Winky fight cudda went either way...

              Jermain said it himself...beating Bernard won't be hard, holding onto the titles as long as him would be...he was right


              I think leaving Pat Burns=bad move
              Picking on Jr. Middleweights= bad move

              What else can Ozell Nelson show him?

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              • BEEHOP
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                #67
                In 20 years Taylor will be remembered as that "guy" that "beat" Hopkins twice, and then got knocked out twice in a row in the last 20 seconds of the fight.

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                • El_Cholo
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                  #68
                  Hopkins claims to have taken his soul after their fights

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                  • Mikhnienko
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                    #69
                    Originally posted by The_Executioner
                    I thought Jermain won the first B-Hop fight and had the 2nd one a draw...

                    Winky fight cudda went either way...

                    Jermain said it himself...beating Bernard won't be hard, holding onto the titles as long as him would be...he was right


                    I think leaving Pat Burns=bad move
                    Picking on Jr. Middleweights= bad move

                    What else can Ozell Nelson show him?
                    Especially when guys like Karmazin and Judah destroy them and Taylor has to use the "they have akward styles" excuse to explain why he couldn't do ****

                    Taylor was a HBO hype brainchild. He's got some natual athleticism but was never anything special.

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