Taylor Wins Snoozer by Split Decision
In the end, two-of-the-three judges scored the fight for Tayor: 117-111 and 115-113. The third judge had it 117-111 for Spinks. A look at the punch stats tells you all you need to know about this stinker: Taylor landed 101 out of 319 punches thrown (32%) -- an average of 8 out of 27 per round! Spinks was busier but even less effective: landing 85 out of 542 (16%) -- or just 7 out of 45 per round!
Thankfully for fight fans, the televised co-feature was action-packed and established a viable challenger for Taylor's next defense. Kelly Pavlik (31-0) put Edison Miranda (28-2) down twice in the sixth and stopped him in the seventh to earn the next shot at Taylor. Hopefully, Pavlik will get the next shot at Taylor as his punching power and willingness to trade punches should force Taylor to come out of his shell and give the fans something to cheer about. Who knows, maybe it will be Pavlik - and not Taylor - that turns out to be the middleweight division's next true superstar . . .
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It is getting obvious Taylors handlers don’t want to risk putting him with anyone who can punch. Cory Spinks and that Obuma guy together couldn’t knock out a Sunday morning school teacher. Even with these light hitters Taylor was a very cautious fighter he needs a challange with some heavy hitters like Pavlik, Miranda, or Calzagie then we will see wheather he runs or fights. Please no more boring powder puff punchers for Jermain he putting to sleep the whole fight game.
It is getting obvious Taylors handlers don’t want to risk putting him with anyone who can punch. Cory Spinks and that Obuma guy together couldn’t knock out a Sunday morning school teacher. Even with these light hitters Taylor was a very cautious fighter he needs a challange with some heavy hitters like Pavlik, Miranda, or Calzagie then we will see wheather he runs or fights. Please no more boring powder puff punchers for Jermain he putting to sleep the whole fight game.
It is getting obvious Taylors handlers don’t want to risk putting him with anyone who can punch. Cory Spinks and that Obuma guy together couldn’t knock out a Sunday morning school teacher. Even with these light hitters Taylor was a very cautious fighter he needs a challange with some heavy hitters like Pavlik, Miranda, or Calzagie then we will see wheather he runs or fights. Please no more boring powder puff punchers for Jermain he putting to sleep the whole fight game.
It is getting obvious Taylors handlers don’t want to risk putting him with anyone who can punch. Cory Spinks and that Obuma guy together couldn’t knock out a Sunday morning school teacher. Even with these light hitters Taylor was a very cautious fighter he needs a challange with some heavy hitters like Pavlik, Miranda, or Calzagie then we will see wheather he runs or fights. Please no more boring powder puff punchers for Jermain he putting to sleep the whole fight game.
It is getting obvious Taylors handlers don’t want to risk putting him with anyone who can punch. Cory Spinks and that Obuma guy together couldn’t knock out a Sunday morning school teacher. Even with these light hitters Taylor was a very cautious fighter he needs a challange with some heavy hitters like Pavlik, Miranda, or Calzagie then we will see wheather he runs or fights. Please no more boring powder puff punchers for Jermain he putting to sleep the whole fight game.
It is getting obvious Taylors handlers don’t want to risk putting him with anyone who can punch. Cory Spinks and that Obuma guy together couldn’t knock out a Sunday morning school teacher. Even with these light hitters Taylor was a very cautious fighter he needs a challange with some heavy hitters like Pavlik, Miranda, or Calzagie then we will see wheather he runs or fights. Please no more boring powder puff punchers for Jermain he putting to sleep the whole fight game.
Pavlik and Edison brought back memories of Hagler and Magabi to me. Pavlik risked showing his manhood by outpunching the puncher. Then afterwards showed Taylor respect by saying he is the champ and I want to fight him but will be kept busy in the meantime. Taylor has become another Hopkins by defending against the lower weight jr middleweights instead of giving his own division their shot’s. I believe that Emmanuel Stewards reactions between rounds told the whole story and I agreed with 117-111 for Spinks. How punch stat could say a righty outjabbed a southpaw is unheard of. Taylor’s jab was like Oscar’s was in rounds 8 thru 11, MIA. If Taylor will fight who brings the most money than I guess Bill Gates will get the next shot. That is if he isn’t over 154 pounds.
Taylor VS. Calzhage this is the best fight for the end of the year
This fight was an absolute miserable fight from Taylor’s point of view, but not too shabby from Spinx’s point of view. Once again Taylor looked tentative, non-aggressive, almost ineffectual except that he kept coming forward. Spinx would be awesome if he had a punch. He is smart, very fast and knows his way around the ring. I scored it a draw because Taylor did not show effective aggression and although he chased, Sphinx ran well and did some good pot-shotting, better than his connect numbers indicate. Taylor was much the bigger guy but just did not use his talents–he is better than his last fights indicate, but he may forget how good he is. His end of the fight bravado and poor sportsmanship are not appreciated. He is not a fun guy these days.
The Pavlik/Miranda fight reminded me of Hagler at his best, Gatti anytime, but not Gatti/Ward–Ward has more heart than Miranda and more talent. I do agree that a new force in the division has emerged in a quiet and dignified way, Pavlik. I do not think he is as goog YET as Taylor when Taylor was at his best, but I think taylor has forgotten how good he was. What a shame!
I would like to see Pavlik do one more really good fight, just to sharpen his skills a bit and get that extra confidence. In the mean time, it would be great to see Taylor take on a real strong and tough big opponent to get back some of his skills and perhaps confidence. A more confident Taylor would make a great Taylor/Pavlik fight–Pavlik has all the confidence he needs.
The Taylor-Spinks “thing ” was a real stinker. I saw Don King with the Spinks entourage. I always expect something fishy/funky when Don King is involved ; like the 117-111 scoring favoring Spinks’ track meet-like performance.
They were truly up-staged by the first match and the excellent and sustained great strategy of Pavlik. I doubt that Taylor and his backers would want anything to do with Pavlik or Edison.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE JUDGES/HBO CREW WANT ? SPINKS DID THE SAME THING MAYWEATHER DID AND THEY HAD HIM THE LOSER . DE LA HOYA THREW MORE , LANDED MORE THAN TAYLOR AND THEY HAD OSCAR THE LOSER AND TAYLOR WINNING FOR DOING LESS? THIS IS WHATS BAD FOR BOXING , EVERYONE HAS TO MAKE UP THERE MIND, DO YOU HAVE TO BEAT THE CHAMP , OR JUST OUT POINT HIM ? I SAW OSCAR WINNING AND TAYLOR LOSING AND I’VE BEEN A SERIOUS BOXING FAN SINCE I WAS 12 AND HAVE NOT MISSED A FIGHT IN 26 YEARS….
MAYWEATHER RULEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!