Jermain Taylor
Jermain Taylor
Jermain Tayloris an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion, having unified the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, The Ring magazine and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' 12-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight. He has also held the IBF...
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth11 August 1978
CityLittle Rock, AR
I remember Sergio Mora as a real good boxer. He surprised me. He surprised everybody.
I'm hoping it's in Little Rock. If not in Little Rock, somewhere close, so my Arkansas fans can come.
I gave it 110% and I feel like I won it. Bernard is a very tough man and I have to give him respect. He is a very tricky fighter and he's really tough to hit cleanly. But you have to work to get him. I thought the decision was fair because I outworked him. If Bernard wants to fight me again, we can do it. In the sport of boxing anything can happen.
If I had lost that fight, I wouldn't be saying I got robbed. It was a close fight, and in those later rounds, he did get off. I give him that. But in those early rounds, I did just enough to win and get my respect.
I did a lot of things I don't normally do in that fight and it bothers me. There were a bunch of nerves when I first walked out there, it being for a championship and all. I won't give him so much space. I won't waste so many punches or chase him around.
If he was any kind of man, he wouldn't be crying the way he is right now.