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Now you're just repeating the bull**** myth that Chavez "ruined" Taylor. The same myth you most likely picked up from "Legendary Nights".
According to Taylor himself, he was struggling with making 140lbs before the first Chavez fight. Whether or not that's an excuse, who really knows. What we do know is that after the beating from Chavez, Taylor immediately moved up to welterweight where he defeated a fairly solid opponet in Primo Ramos as a stepping stone for Aaron Davis, whom he soundly outpointed for the WBA title.
After that, Taylor had 3 more fights, two of which were defenses of his newly earned welterweight strap, and one of which was against another solid contender in Glenwood Brown who dropped Taylor twice, and later became a titleholder in the Middleweight division.
Then came the KO at the hands of Terry Norris, and the rest is pretty much history.
Point being : Taylor's career was not "ruined" by Julio Cesar Chavez.
According to Taylor himself, he was struggling with making 140lbs before the first Chavez fight. Whether or not that's an excuse, who really knows. What we do know is that after the beating from Chavez, Taylor immediately moved up to welterweight where he defeated a fairly solid opponet in Primo Ramos as a stepping stone for Aaron Davis, whom he soundly outpointed for the WBA title.
After that, Taylor had 3 more fights, two of which were defenses of his newly earned welterweight strap, and one of which was against another solid contender in Glenwood Brown who dropped Taylor twice, and later became a titleholder in the Middleweight division.
Then came the KO at the hands of Terry Norris, and the rest is pretty much history.
Point being : Taylor's career was not "ruined" by Julio Cesar Chavez.
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