Whilst I admire your loyalty and subsequent arguemnet, I have just on counter question:
Why would he say he would like to fight Taylor and then turn down the fight when offered?

He's Talking a good game and not following up on it...The idea of the Contender was to elevate the status and publicism of a fighter. It was then the responsability of the fighter to use his status to the best of his ability. Do you think Mora used his boost well?
I feel the first thing he should have done after the Contender is fight some twelve rounders....It's his managers choice whether or not to do that.....
So he's confident enough to drop Kelly Pavlik's name but not confident enough to fight a twelve rounder