Breaking News – Jermain Taylor pulls out of Super Six, Green-Bika winner to replace him
January 12th, 2010
By Peter Wells: In recent breaking news former World Boxing Council/WBO middleweight champion of the world Jermain Taylor has dropped out of the Super Middleweights Super Six tourney after the 1st stage of the tourney. Jermain Taylor told reporters that he was going to give his body time to heal and will be back very soon.
Taylor was badly knocked out in his last fight against Arthur Abraham, after a promising start Taylor once again deteriorated and was knocked out by a big right hand. Taylor suffered concussion and slight memory loss and had a brain scan at the hospital. The talks of Taylor dropping out started then and after it all died down it looked like Taylor would give it another go, but has finally come to his senses and bowed out of the tournament. Lou DiBella was not only his promoter but a good friend and didn’t want to be responsible if anything happened to Taylor in the ring, so decided to leave him. Whether he’ll come back once Taylor gets back in the ring is yet to be known, but I would think he would.
Taylor was scheduled to fight unbeaten Andre Ward who had just beaten Mikkel Kessler last November, and then he would fight Kessler later this year. The replacement will be decided on February 6th in a fight between Sakio Bika and another American hotshot Allan Green. Allan is the favourite and will be very grateful to get his shot. I don’t know the full details on what will happen, because Green will probably need two wins that’s if he starts on 0 points. Green is a decent puncher and is 6ft 2in and will be a threat to his opponents. This means I’ll have to do my prediction for Wards fight again, firstly I’ll have to look up a bit about Green though.
So Jermain’s out and Green and Bika will fight it out for there place in the tourney, so that makes the already explosive looking fight even more explosive and with plenty more up for grabs.
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There are so many fighters who it would be good to see included, you have lucien bute who should of been in it from the start I think, sakio bika who’s better than people give him credit for, allen green, Robert Stieglitz if for no other reason he’s a champion, the big punching Edison Miranda what a fight that would be if he fought froch.
Or if they could move up from middle maybe Kelly pavlik or the much avoided and dangerous Paul Williams. It would be interesting to see how the tall and skilful Williams would do at the weight.
How about Lucian Bute?
why isn’t bute replacing him? i thought this was supposed to be the “best” of the smw division.
bika is alright but green is a fight dodging p*ssy who isn’t even that good. what has he done to earn this chance? duck every decent fighter he’s been matched with, constantly pull out of fights & get a bunch of hometown decisions? if they want all their fights postponed for no reason they should bring in allan green. if they want a guy to make up the numbers with no chance of winning they should bring in bika.
if they want the best at smw they should bring in lucian bute.
Good decision by Taylor. The winner of Green-Bika is deserving. Also the Canadian champ would have been a good choice as well.
loseing a fight can sometimes make a fighter beter, maybe coz you learn from the mistakes you made but losing by a vicous knockout twice!! how could you ever get your confidence back?
lol ok ppl, i dont really think he’s a bum or a loser, i was just dissapointed at a big name pulling out of the tourney
With a better corner taylor would had beaten pavlik n froch!! We all know that!!
i would prefer if Bernard Hopkins would not bother moving up in weight and entered this tournament if it is possible.
Atten simon!!
U must not really know boxin if u believe he was a loser!! U might think pac n floyd are the on champs in boxin!!
what a relief. Jernain Taylor should not fight again. The height of his career was two close wins over the ultra cautious Hopkins.
Thank God, I was worried he was going to die in the ring.
@simon
he was in it because he is a former undisputed middleweight champion with a big fanbase. his name added appeal and viewing figures.
also, after beating jeff lacy and earning his title shot with carl froch, he’d put himself back to the top of the rankings.
the tournament on paper at the time was built on a great mix of taylor the experience along with kessler who also brought in a title with fellow titlist froch. the young guns of dirrell and ward, and the unbeaten abraham looking to make a name outside of europe.
the poise was immense but then taylor just ran out of steam. he is by no means a “bum” and hasnt been made to look bad yet either. he was definitely “in” the fights with abraham and froch, he was even winning by a mile against froch until he ran out of fuel in the last round.
TAYLOR AS MADE THE RIGHT DECISION,GREEN BIKA INTERESTING.BIKA VERY STRONG CAN PUNCH,BUT CAN BE OUTBOXED.GREEN HAS A WINNING RECORD BUT THE ONE MAN THAT AS BEAT HIM AS BEEN KOD AND BEATEN UP BY ABRAHAMS AND WARD.I WOULD LIKE TO SEE BIKA GO IN SUPER SIX.BUT THATS MADE IT MORE INTERESTING
Why was this loser ever in the super six, he’s a bum.
good decision