Is Jermain Taylor retiring ?

[Dorian]

..... wtf is wrong with boxers these days? scared to lose that zero? Him and Floyd will never be an all time great...

yeah it looks like they will die if they lose one fight... all the Boxing Legends and great lost fights ... Ali is considered the greatest and he lost 5 fights(although 3 war when he was old)... Larry Holmes lost fights....

looks like now everyone is scared....that's why you barely see p4p fighters fight each other and so on...

[Abe Attell]

It is too soon. He is not yet proven. He will not go down as a great if he does indeed retire this early.

In all honesty, who cares about "Proving Yourself" in the boxing ring:

Boxing is a business, it is about making money, and trying to get as much money without taking to much damage.

This is why I like the ***ish fighters of the past: they would fight, knowing it was about earning money, getting enough money so that they could retire early, go back to college and get an education so they can live out their lives in a different life-stlye, a life-stlye where you don't have to take shots to the head.

There was a great program on this on ESPN called "Duke It Out", where they did a documentary on the Immigrants like the "Irish", "Italians", "***s", and "Blacks."


Take for example the boxer's name I have taken as a screen name: he was a power-punching brawler type, but learned that it was smarter to "box", to hit and not to be hit, and you could still think straight after you retire.

http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/attell.htm

"Early in his career, Abe thought that "the easy way was to knock 'em out." In fact, he had done just that to his first 24 of 28 opponents. However, watching the way James J. Corbett and George Dixon "slipped, blocked, ducked and side-stepped punches," Abe learned that "a fellow could be a prize fighter and not get hurt, provided he was smart enough" (Hawthorne, 1970). Developing a Fancy Dan style based on these two greats, Abe never forgot this lesson. It was still fresh in his mind in 1957 when he told a reporter that the fighters of the day were "right-hand- crazy amateurs" who tried only to "bomb the other guy out quick" (San Francisco Chronicle, 1970)."