Did Jermain Taylor's style change at some point

[Fox McCloud]

"It won't be hard beating Bernard, it'll be hard holding onto the titles as long as he did"

You said it Jermain...

What an odd statement to make... who in the middleweight division was going to be a threat after Hopkins? Wright coming up from 154 certainly, but... Felix Sturm that he beat in the Olympics? Nobody knew who King Arthur was at the time.

However, that odd statement came completely true shockingly enough.

[-EX-]

Yeah its crazy smh...that's from Countdown to Hopkins-Taylor 1...I always remembered that, especially that its true now...

[elgu]

Jermain was actually a pretty good boxer...awesome jab and pretty good power on his right.....his flaws were lack of stamina and keeping his left hand low.

Hopkins hurt him late in the 1st fight because of Jermain stamina issues.

Pavlik knocked him out because Jermain ran out of gas and kept getting hit by the right hand because he kept the left one low.

The second Pavlik fight i acutally think Jermain won because he fixed his defense and kept his left hand up but again his stamina failed him and he got hurt by a body shot in the 11 that may have cost him the fight.

Jermain would have won the froch fight if not for his stamina.....again!!!!

By the time he got to abraham he just wasnt the same fighter anymore.

If Jermain had learn to keep his left hand up from the beginning and had worked on his STAMINA i think he would still be undefeated.

[Spray_resistant]

He looked the same to me throughout his career, that blistering jab that he threw in doubles and triples was just beautiful and he had a good straight right hand. A damn good athlete with good hand speed to, but he always looked so tight in the ring like he wasn't comfortable.

I wonder if how tense he was and how when he threw his jab like it was a power punch contributed to his stamina issues.

The only fight to me he really looked very different in was the AA fight, he looked very intimidated and like he was fighting to not get ko'd.

[lefthook2daliva]

Jermain was actually a pretty good boxer...awesome jab and pretty good power on his right.....his flaws were lack of stamina and keeping his left hand low.

Hopkins hurt him late in the 1st fight because of Jermain stamina issues.

Pavlik knocked him out because Jermain ran out of gas and kept getting hit by the right hand because he kept the left one low.

The second Pavlik fight i acutally think Jermain won because he fixed his defense and kept his left hand up but again his stamina failed him and he got hurt by a body shot in the 11 that may have cost him the fight.

Jermain would have won the froch fight if not for his stamina.....again!!!!

By the time he got to abraham he just wasnt the same fighter anymore.

If Jermain had learn to keep his left hand up from the beginning and had worked on his STAMINA i think he would still be undefeated.

The emboldened statements are the heart of it, imo.