Originally Posted by greynotsoold
  I think that Trinidad would win, probably by a knockout (almost  a certainty) unless Taylor has a better chin than I think he has. I pick Trinidad because he is the hrder puncher, as well as the guy throwing the shorter more compact punches. He would beat Taylor in about 8-9 rounds, I think, battering him badly in the infighting. In the first few rounds Taylor would try to fight at a distance but Trinidad would begin getting close as soon as he tried to, at least periodically and more regularly as rounds pass. By the 6th they'd be fighting up close all the time and Taylor gets his clock cleaned in that fight. If he kept to his preferred distance Taylor would still lose but maybe he'd hear the final bell.
  Hopkins outboxed Trinidad handily and Wright kept him onm the end of his jab all night. That they did these things doesn't mean that everyone can do them, and Taylor simply isn't all that good. He does not have the unflappable calm of Wright, nor his nearly impossible to penetrate defense, and he is not a south paw. He doesn't have the brains of Hopkins, his mobility, the same ability to throw short blows, nor does he have the mentality to stick to a fighjt plan like Hopkins did that night. Judging by the lunging awkward displays against Hopkins Taylor would end up going to Trinidad not keeping away.