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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Jermain Taylor: Quick to the Draw!

In what was a highly anticipated fight between 2 champions in there own respected divisions for Taylor’s WBC/WBA/WBO middleweight title turned out to be controversial. This bout made for some great action When the two fighters met in the middle of the ring and started trading fists. Winky showed that even though he was the smaller man on the square canvas, he was not to be intimidated. Forging ahead with his skilled jab, Winky seemed to confuse Jermain with his south paw attack. Jermain, on the other hand, seemed to think he was still in a sparring session, trying to figure out the best way to deliver his own offense. Jermain was successful with his powerful right hand cannon that clubbed Winky's head through most of the early to midrounds; though, around the mid to late rounds, Taylor seemed confounded at what to do next to his unrelenting opponent. Jermain, in many instances, was content to lay on the ropes or in a corner and let Wright fire off shots freely to his own skull possibley thinking that this would wear down or disheartened his attacker. This led me to believe that Jermain Taylor hasn't seem much tape of Winky to help him know better! Winky showed just how "RAW" Jermain "Bad Intentions" Taylor really is. Given Jermains inconsistent performance and the amateurish defense he displayed in this fight, he was very lucky to of secured a draw.

Regardless, at the end of this championship bout, Jermain seemed satisfied that he went to the school of Kronk and then to the school of "Hard Knocks" to eak out a draw against Winky. On the other hand, Winky saw the reminiscence of past fight horror at the hands of Fernando Vargas when he lost an obvious bad decision against "Ferocious Fernando". Though this time, I am thinking this particular title fight meant more to Ronald than when he faced Fernando Vargas. In that bout at that time, Winky was just content to show the world his elite ness against any top ranked contender he could possibly secure a fight against, but this particular title fight meant middleweight supremacy and canton history against a fighter who beat Hopkins, who in turn, beat just about every one else in the middleweight class. This genealogy can not be contested given the fact that Ronald "Winky" Wright has been fighting for as long as Bernard Hopkins has, and, just like The Nard Man, is still going strong.

So....What's left. Well, that depends on the fighters of course, but to the fans such as myself, I would personally like to see a rematch with these two boxers and make the conclusion more definitive even though after the fight, Ronald seemed to scoff at that idea by making some legitimate points of his own based on his performance against Jermain saying he was the man who landed the more clean shots and being the more busier fighter. Upon hearing the score cards after the bout had concluded, Winky stormed out of the ring in disgust. Feeling extremely dejected and not waiting on the customurial post fight interview with Larry merchant; instead, taking up the interview microphone in his dressing room. Rematch wasn't on the mind of Ronald at that moment; contraire, very far from it. But as the day turns into night and Mr. Sand Man hits their eyes the $$$ will come calling and the offer on the other side of the table jeeeeeeuuuuuuuust might be RIGHT, it could have a strange way of changing minds. When Winky and Jermain go home and sleep on it, they both just might wake up in spite of the headaches and body aches to decide a rematch might make more cents. ;)

Conclusion: With Jermain Taylor's 3rd defense; though, not exactley a successful one, you could call this defense the Luck of the draw that kept him from relinquishing his belts. The verdict is still out on this young champon, is Jermain Taylor legit?

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well written review. Although I disagree with your overall synopsis of the outcome, I do agree with many of your points. At times Taylor did look confused in the ring. (just not to the extent that you describe) Also, I do think that you failed to mention that at times Winky looked frustrated. In my opinion, Taylor never looked hurt. Unorthodoxed and perhaps a bit off balance. This has alot more to do with his lack of experience though than any shot that Winky landed. On the other hand Wright was flat out being moved by alot of Taylors blows. I agree with you that Jermain is still very raw and unpolished. As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, JT still has a long way to go if he wants to hold onto those belts for any significant length of time. (particularly defensively) In summation, I just don't think that Winky did enough to take Taylor's belts away from him. Remember, Winky was the challenger in this bout and it's up to the challenger to leave no doubt in the judges minds that he did enough to take the belt(s) away from the champion. I like your take on the fight though. If you'd like to continue this discussion, or want to comment on my opinions, feel free to send me an e-mail in reply? I can be reached at MrCrowesGarden5@aim.com

3:50 AM  
Blogger Bob said...

Thanks Mr. Crowe, will do! ;)

9:18 AM  

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