Why didnt Taylor take a knee??

[El Gamo]

That is a great question but I think only Taylor knows the answer to that one but..
One can only speculate and say maybe it was pride?
Taylor beat Pavlik in the Olympic trials of 2001. Taylor thought he was all that because he beat the LION of lions B-Hop. (IMO he did not beat B-Hop) anyway.. Maybe he thought he was not that hurt and thought he could shake it off. Had Taylor taken a knee, he would have shown weakness in a fight were he was supposedly dominating Pavlik, had him hurt, queering, out on his feet and down on the canvas in the second round.
I think Pride played a big factor. I am sure if he had to do it all over again, he would have taken the knee, who knows. I loved seeing Taylor laying in that corner like a garbage bag. That was joy, joy, joy.

I wear a suit! That makes me more of a champion than Kelly Pavlik.
"Jermain Taylor"

Although Taylor showed some heart, Kelly Pavlik showed tremendous heart and then some.



If you watch the fight again, you will see that when Kelly sees Taylor is hurt, Kelly shifts gears and lands one of two upper cuts that would seal the deal. The window of opportunity that Taylor had to take a knee was not long enough.

Who said Kelly was slow?

Fast enough to knock you out

Kelly reminds me of Cotto. You can hurt him but he comes back and taxes and waxes that azz.

It's comments like that, which will make Pavlik fans or even fans in general want to see Kelly get knocked out now just to see you quieted.

But you don't annoy me THAT much, but you're not helping Pavlik with comments like that

I think people that chose Pavlik have a right to gloat in light of remarks along these lines from Taylor and his camp:

Pavlik is average.
We beat him in the amateurs,it will be easy.
This is an easy fight
And the best one(amongst amny I didn't mention)-Steward:"this will be a tough fight....for 1 round"

When a guy and his camp make claims such as those and get KTFO by a humble,strong as an on kid,of course his fans are going to gloat. If you're going to open your mouth,back it up.JT didn't.

Oh I don't have a problem with gloating.

But let's not forget Danny_G was the one who posted the Pavlik "Don't believe the hype" picture

Pavlik now beats Taylor and he's all over him. Remember that Jetson?

Hmmmm....I do recall Danny was not too hot on Kelly UNTIL Kelly wiped the floor with Edison, if I remember correctly.Hey,usually,I would not gloat either,it's not my style BUT JT had a big mouth before this fight. Although this is far as I go,no vids for me!

What about the time he said he would have shut Sergio Mora's mouth for free but made this video

[youtube=425,350]kSFCbaYPZ1U[/youtube]

JETSON!!!!!!

Derek BTW is Jetson a compliment?

[Majesty]

That is a great question but I think only Taylor knows the answer to that one but..
One can only speculate and say maybe it was pride?
Taylor beat Pavlik in the Olympic trials of 2001. Taylor thought he was all that because he beat the LION of lions B-Hop. (IMO he did not beat B-Hop) anyway.. Maybe he thought he was not that hurt and thought he could shake it off. Had Taylor taken a knee, he would have shown weakness in a fight were he was supposedly dominating Pavlik, had him hurt, queering, out on his feet and down on the canvas in the second round.
I think Pride played a big factor. I am sure if he had to do it all over again, he would have taken the knee, who knows. I loved seeing Taylor laying in that corner like a garbage bag. That was joy, joy, joy.

I wear a suit! That makes me more of a champion than Kelly Pavlik.
"Jermain Taylor"

Although Taylor showed some heart, Kelly Pavlik showed tremendous heart and then some.



If you watch the fight again, you will see that when Kelly sees Taylor is hurt, Kelly shifts gears and lands one of two upper cuts that would seal the deal. The window of opportunity that Taylor had to take a knee was not long enough.

Who said Kelly was slow?

Fast enough to knock you out

Kelly reminds me of Cotto. You can hurt him but he comes back and taxes and waxes that azz.

It's comments like that, which will make Pavlik fans or even fans in general want to see Kelly get knocked out now just to see you quieted.

But you don't annoy me THAT much, but you're not helping Pavlik with comments like that

I think people that chose Pavlik have a right to gloat in light of remarks along these lines from Taylor and his camp:

Pavlik is average.
We beat him in the amateurs,it will be easy.
This is an easy fight
And the best one(amongst amny I didn't mention)-Steward:"this will be a tough fight....for 1 round"

When a guy and his camp make claims such as those and get KTFO by a humble,strong as an on kid,of course his fans are going to gloat. If you're going to open your mouth,back it up.JT didn't.

Oh I don't have a problem with gloating.

But let's not forget Danny_G was the one who posted the Pavlik "Don't believe the hype" picture

Pavlik now beats Taylor and he's all over him. Remember that Jetson?

Hmmmm....I do recall Danny was not too hot on Kelly UNTIL Kelly wiped the floor with Edison, if I remember correctly.Hey,usually,I would not gloat either,it's not my style BUT JT had a big mouth before this fight. Although this is far as I go,no vids for me!

What about the time he said he would have shut Sergio Mora's mouth for free but made this video

[youtube=425,350]kSFCbaYPZ1U[/youtube]

JETSON!!!!!!

Derek BTW is Jetson a compliment?

that depends..would you do this?

[youtube=425,350]yY7qOoMN2zs[/youtube]

[sexydarin]

And if you take a knee nowadays, the stupid ref will call the fight to early. I've seen it happen before. The guy takes a knee and the ref calls the fight. over done.

[BoomBoom]

And if you take a knee nowadays, the stupid ref will call the fight to early. I've seen it happen before. The guy takes a knee and the ref calls the fight. over done.

Corley rings a bell, I think it was vs. Cotto.