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Taylor has NEVER been in the ring with or even pressed for that matter by a Bona Fide power puncher and is untested in that regard, if Tito was on his azz 3min a round walking him down feeding Taylor left hooks Tito will chop Taylor down...We havent seen how Taylor reacts after getting his clocked clean to see how he responds..
JT bro,I think JT was hurt by B Hop late in their fight! I'm sure he was,I'll watxh it again just to make sure. As for the thread,I think JT is too big for Tito although Tito may land the odd bomb,I think the size will tell!
Thats true . Taylor isnt as masterful as Winky and Bernard defensivley so I suppose its a case of if Tito can land his punches . He did have to sih out a fair few to get rid of Mayorga and he was a blown up light middle . Tito also had to take a count in that fight and Taylor is far from a washed up welter . He is big for middle and I dont Tito has ever met a guy with his power before either .Quote:
Originally Posted by JT Rock
To win Tito would have to try to cut off the ring , dont waste punches and force Taylor back with power shots . Whats good about Jermain though is he never allows himself to be dominated . He wont take unanswered punches as he always throws back flurries instantly . His jab thrown from a crab like defence would keep Tito at range and set him up for the right hand and lets not forget Tito was down regulary at welterweight .
As for Jermain being hurt by Nard , Yes he was . In both fights . His stamina went late on and he was on wobbly legs . He also almost scored a knockdown in teh 1st fight and if teh ropes werent there to keep B-hop up , he would have got a 10-8 round . We can probably gather from this that if Nard troubled him then Titos power would also but theres no guarentee that Tito can last til the late part of the fight
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Originally Posted by JT Rock
im pretty sure that b-hop hits harder at 160 than trinidad did, and b-hop caught jermain with a few solid shots.
not to take anything away from tito (hes an all time great in my book) but he sacraficed a LOT of power by going up to middle.
its too bad he made that jump cause imo he would probably still be undefeated king at 154 (assuming there was no rematch with oscar ;))
actually i wouldn't say that Hopkins was a HARDER puncher, i'd say he was a SMARTER puncher, just use all 3 (Trinidad, Hopkins, and Taylor's) fights with Joppy as a reference, Trinidad clearly did the most damage, i think at 160 he could beat
Sturm
Catillejo
Miranda
Abraham
Eastman
Soliman
and possibly Taylor
if not him and DLH could easily rule the 154 division again, just like they did the welterweight division
I get what your saying bro,Quote:
Originally Posted by frozensolid_702
Hurting a fighter is one thing capitilizing is another, the last few years Nard was ultra conservative even when having someone hurt he wasnt gonna take a chance of opening up and getting caught...
When Tito catches Taylor and hurts him you better believe he is jumping in with both feet and will try to finish the Job with reckless abandon.Thats the kind of agression that will rattle Taylor and I feel gives Tito tha advantage
yea Taylor doesn't really react too well to getting tagged, just watch how he would get when Wright had him on the ropes, and that's that Wright has really no power
trinidad doesnt belong in the middleweight division.....his power doesnt help him against bigger guys who are more agile then he is....
no one at middle is really all that agile not even Taylor, he usually just skips his way into punches so yea... don't get what you're saying, his power is better than pretty much all the middleweights right now