Does Taylor have a chance to beat Ward?

[Ryn0]

If Taylor beat Ward, that would really mess up the organised "hierarchy" of the tournament though, I want him to win.

Who would you have as the tournament favourite? Ward IMO is the fav now or Abraham, if Ward got beat by the Tournament "underdog" that would be incredible. It would finally show the haters of people like Kessler/Dirrell(if you can call him a loser since he should have won)/Taylor that in the highest levels of the sport anyone can be beaten.

[jazluvr]

I always liked Taylor, still do, but he isn't going very far in this tourney. Ward's going to ko him for sure. In fact I got Ward taking the tourney. His only real tough fight will be AA. If he can get past him, he's got it. AA has a hard shell of a defence, and when he comes out, it's all fast power, then back in his shell.

He's get a great style, but Ward is like a combo of Manny and Cotto. He's all over the place, he's fast, powerful, smart, awesome lateral movement. AA is pretty stationary, but inpenatrable defence, and he hits hard...really hard. He also has a great chin. And he's pretty dam fast.

So, no...Taylor doesn't stand a chance with Ward.

[dstew]

Taylor lost his punch resistance imo. Even light hitters are dangerous. He better step out. Ward can put some hurt on him too.

There's no evidence to suggest that Taylor's lost his punch resistance or that he can be hurt by light punchers (not that Ward is a light puncher).

When was the last time he fought a light puncher? Spinks in 07? Since then he's fought Pavlik, Lacy, Froch, and Abraham, who are some of the most devastating punchers from 160-168. And he's gone rounds with all of them before getting KO'd (by all but Lacy), taking their shots pretty well for the most part.

I think Ward is dangerous for him though, because of his speed and his ability to set up his shots. Taylor will get hit with punches he doesn't see coming.

[Tampatrader0468]

For those who don't know Ward or his resume yet are about to be like, who the **** is this? Dude has got some extreme ring skills and his movement allows him to be in any fight after seeing what he did with kessler. His defensive transitions were some of the slickest and smoothest I have seen in awhile props to that dude. He took Kessler out of his jab no doubt. As for the rest of the tourney I have to think he is becoming more and more a lock for the whole SS tourney...

[ShatteredGlass]

Im taking Taylor in this fight, War Taylor!!!!

[jazluvr]

Im taking Taylor in this fight, War Taylor!!!!

I admire your allegence to your fighter.

[ShatteredGlass]

I admire your allegence to your fighter.

I'm not a Taylor fan, but everyone else has abandoned him, ill go to the front line with him.

WAR TAYLOR!!!!

[King Koopa]

Taylor has no shot in hell...he should take an easy set of fights in Little Rock, maybe set up one more big fight and call it quits

The only reason I wouldn't say retire just yet is due to the fact that they're other fighters who need to retire first *cough*Jeff Lacy*cough*

Just find some 168lb guys with low knockout percentages and win 2-3 fights.

[daggum]

he has virtually no chance. ward will beat him up like hopkins did the last 6 rounds of both their fights cept from round 1. taylor could never handle that in his prime how is he gonna handle it now.

[Iceta]

Taylor can't even beat straight ahead brawlers. He really lost both times against Hopkins, and that was when he was in his non-diminished state. And then we have the Cory Spinks fight. That style was the last time he fought anybody close to what he'll be having to deal with in Andre Ward, and he looked like **** in that fight even though he deserved the win.