Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
What if he had won the fight would his career have been different.
He may not have been looked at as such a tragic figure but I doubt his career would have flourished after the JCC fight because that fight took a lot out of him...obviously.

I think Taylor chose the wrong style to fight with and it cost him big time. If he used more of a Ray Leonard style or even a Pernell Whittaker style (and he had the skill set to do either) he would have had a longer more successful career.

That being said Meldrick Taylor is the epitome of a Philadelphia fighter, someone who's a beast of a fighter in the gym but couldn't hack it in the big fight. He had plenty of tools to be a Hall of Fame fighter, but he didn't use them properly and I blame him and more importantly his trainers and handlers because they allowed or advised him to fight in such a manner.