Will you PLEASE explain to me this phrase!!!

[burglar]

"I hope Jermain Taylor wins, because it will be good for boxing.....".

Don't get me wrong Taylor fans. Its just that I always see this phrase everytime I check out threads that has anything to do with Taylor... the question here is why? How?

I already saw this in his fight with Joppy... then in his (2)fights with Bernard Hopkins. Now in his upcoming fight Winky Wright. I mean , come on, with the exception of his fight with Joppy, he is showing tentative, passive and sometimes , boring performances specifically his fights with Hopkins.If he is going to show up in the Wright fight with yet again another mediocre performance, how will it be good for boxing?? How will boxing , in general benefit from a linear middleweight champion who is satisfied with 2 or maybe 3 points win over his much older opponent?

I do hope that, should he wins over winky, he wins it BIG, otherwise not win at all. In short, Winky winnning over Taylor is better for boxing than Taylor winning lacklusterly over him .

[Easy-E]

Taylor is a class act, a young guy, and is pretty exciting, as you would have seen from some of his other fights. He has the potential to make the middleweight division popuar again. Wright is just a boring fighter and provides little to no excitement. Plus, hes old.

[Mech.]

Winky winnning over Taylor is better for boxing than Taylor winning lacklusterly over him

I agree that taylor needs to win convincingly for it to be good for boxing,but the same,or more so,goes for Wright.In fact most of the criticisms you have for Taylor could more fittingly be said about Wright.I dont know how long youve been watching Taylor,but you act like he never gets KOs or like Hopkins was a pushover he took it easy on.

[Rockin']

It means that he is "Marketable".

Rockin'

[Mr. Ryan]

Well, it has to do more with marketability than overall skill. In the next few years, more kids will be trying to be like Taylor than Wright. Taylor is a fresh faced young undefeated champion with a wealth of charisma. Winky isn't that type of personality. I think thats where your friend is coming from.

[grayfist]

Taylor is a class act, a young guy, and is pretty exciting, as you would have seen from some of his other fights. He has the potential to make the middleweight division popuar again. Wright is just a boring fighter and provides little to no excitement. Plus, hes old.

Yes, i agree with PBF34, Jermain does have great personality outside the ring: he's a good ambassador for the sport. If only he gets up to give sterling rounds inside the ring from hereon, then, he surely can be forgiven by fight fanatics for recent shortcomings and attract so much more attention for the sport from the mainstream. Among the current champs, Taylor is one of the very few who have been invited to grace non-sports (talk) shows, accepted the invitation and held his own. I saw him recently on an early morning gig on FOX.

And yes, the watch on his wrist as he gesticulated during the show...!

[burglar]

Taylor is a class act, a young guy, and is pretty exciting, as you would have seen from some of his other fights. He has the potential to make the middleweight division popuar again. Wright is just a boring fighter and provides little to no excitement. Plus, hes old.

I agree with you PBF, in totality, with what you said...I guess Wright himself is sometimes boring.Yet the fact is, Winky is the bigger name out of the two and should Winky wins, a lot more promising match-ups will come our way. Dela Hoya, Vargas ,Margarito, Calzaghe, Strum,Vargas, maybe Lacy, or maybe Pretty Boy... Imagine that, No. 1 versus No. 2 pound for pound fighters clash together for the ultimate fight. My point is, im willing to sacrifice 10 exciting years of championship boxing with Taylor who is good but sometimes passive champion, rather than the 2 good years of championship reign Wright could have, where he will engage in fights that we fight fans could only dream of....

[Easy-E]

Winky may be the bigger name, but Taylor is the Middleweight champ and his popularity is rising and it will go up even more if he beat winky.

[Grimgash]

Winky may be the bigger name, but Taylor is the Middleweight champ and his popularity is rising and it will go up even more if he beat winky.

Actually at this point, Winky is probably only bigger to big fans of boxing, I know a lot of people who dont really follow boxing that know of Taylor than Wright. Its because Taylor likes to been seen. He is a very talkative guy and loves to go to public events, making him very sociable and marketable. Winky doesn't really (as far as I know) open himself up to the public as much. I think I heard a quote once that, Taylor could probably win the spot as gov of Arkansas right now. Hes a very positive influence on the sport, and if he beats on Wright his name will soar, and looking at it... Dela Hoya (Probably won't fight Taylor OR Wright more then likly his next fight is his last, Vargas fighting say Taylor, Taylor would get trashed for even thinking about this fight id think ,Margarito would have to go up 2 divisions to take on the bigger stronger guy when really thats what he relys on at his weight that he is that guy, Calzaghe vs Taylor would be a better fight than vs Wright in fact Id like to see him fight Taylor, Strum in my opinion was scared and priced himself out of a fight with Taylor and I think Taylor would win anyhow and that being said Wright would take care of him handily as well,Lacy and Taylor are friends arent they? prob wouldn't occur and after Lacys lost to Joe I think Taylor could do the same =/, or maybe Pretty Boy Ill say this now and almost everyone will agree with me, PBF wants NOTHING to do with wright / taylor he might fight wright if he makes 30+ mil off it which will NEVER happen dont even include him in the talks, really what I did was take the fights you mentioned for wright an put em in taylors aspect, win or lose wright can fight vargas it doesn't matter, but really if Taylor wins Id love to see him fight someone like Calzaghe or Abrahm =/

[antihero]

Jermain Taylor may be a good boxer but he's dull to watch. Wright's not exciting either. I take Wright to win by decision.