Quote Originally Posted by Lyle
That being said WACKO I think the first fight with Hopkins was AWESOME, here's a young guy willing to risk his future (which is very promising still but then even more so) to fight the best right away!

The same should be said with the rematch and the Wright fight.

On one level the kid is writing checks he can just barely cash and on the other hand he's not winning as people want to see KO's, Domination, outboxing, out muscling, etc.

Ouma is a guy who JT can counter and should do so effectively and he'll be able to work with Manny more and that's good, in all reality he wants to fight Winky again...that's great he has the heart to fight ANYONE....but like you I do wish for him to show the talent that he's able to BEAT anyone
The draw would have been better in the first Hopkins fight. Then Hopkins retires and Jermain is the heir aparent handing the veteran his first draw when he's just coming up. It would have been a wonderful for the hype train of taylor in terms of marketability to draw with Bernard Hopkins. But both of those "wins" hurt him more because it actually hurt his fanbase imo