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 give nothing but respect to Bernard Hopkins. He fought very well, and he has proven that he's a tough fighter and a true champion. But right now, I'm the champion. I feel like I am a champion.
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.
Every boxer that puts on the gloves dreams of someday hearing the words 'and new champion...'
Whoever comes to Little Rock, I'm knocking him out!
I'm so sick of it, I'm crying. So I brought him a few things. Did I rob him? I got nothing to do with the judges.
I'm still going to respect him and the fact he held those belts that long,
Having held my last training camp there, and it being just two hours from Little Rock, Memphis is like a second home to me. I can't wait to perform in front of my fans from Arkansas and my adopted hometown fans in Memphis. It's going to be a great night.
I don't have to have a knockout. I just need to win this fight and leave no doubts in the minds of my fans or his fans,
I feel like I have all the love and respect for him, I know he's just a scared man, he's nothing else. And now he doesn't have the belts anymore.
He showed me he has the tools and the heart to be a champ ? once I'm gone,
He has nothing, ... You were the champion. I gave you too much respect and now I'm ready. It's time for the man to go and I'm going to do it.
That fight was way too close for comfort,
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.