Quote Originally Posted by Starr
Why fight Kassim? He has heart but his defense is too leaky for Taylor, I believe in Ronnie Shields as a trainer but Ouma still has "prospect" weaknesses.
Because Jermain Taylor is HBO's new media darling and they will continue to put "names" on his record no matter how green or how shot they are, as long as they make sure he doesn't lose to them. They tried to do it with Mayweather but then he said "slave money" and they found someone else.

So now Jermain Taylor the "yessah master bald(dibella)" is their new Golden Boy, they had him defeat Hopkins was because Hopkins was everyone a champion should be "themself" and he didn't care what people thought as long as he won. And nowadays the powers that be don't like that. So what better then getting a Jermain Taylor that will say 'yes' to anything presented.

I think Ali said it best

"I am not afraid to be myself. All of you people are trying to convince me to be nice. Well Joe Louis was the nicest ya'll ever had and we saw what you did to him."