Did Jermain Taylor train to LOSE WEIGHT or WIN FIGHTS???

[why-o-why]

He always seemed to run out of gas. If you see him in the off season. He is fkin close to 200 ponds.

So that might explain his bad conditioning if he had to lose all that weight. Why not just keep urself near fighting weight???

[dstew]

He always seemed to run out of gas. If you see him in the off season. He is fkin close to 200 ponds.

So that might explain his bad conditioning if he had to lose all that weight. Why not just keep urself near fighting weight???

Jermain has been very open about this lately, saying that his training camps were basically "fat camps"." He is well aware (in hindsight, unfortunately) that this played a major role in the downward turn his career took after the Hopkins and Wright fights.

During his current hiatus he's been in the gym with a personal trainer several times a week, and has said that he plans on going into future training camps at 175 instead of 190, so more time can be spent focusing on strategy than on cutting weight.

If you want my opinion, he wised up too little too late. I hope I'm wrong though.

[dannnnn]

Earlier in his career, a short while before he fought Hopkins, I remember reading an interview where he said he could make 154 if he wanted to and that he wasn't a naturally big middleweight, it's just that at 160 he could eat what he wanted. Maybe he just lacked discipline in that area.

[dstew]

Earlier in his career, a short while before he fought Hopkins, I remember reading an interview where he said he could make 154 if he wanted to and that he wasn't a naturally big middleweight, it's just that at 160 he could eat what he wanted. Maybe he just lacked discipline in that area.

He boxed at 156 lbs in the olympics so he may have been able to get down to 154, but it would have been a stretch. If he could have done it healthily, he would've been a beast at that weight.