Jermain Taylor vs. Joachim Alcine possible for April 14th

By Boxing News - 02/24/2012 - Comments

Image: Jermain Taylor vs. Joachim Alcine possible for April 14thBy Scott Gilfoid: A mouth-watering bout between former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (29-4-1, 18 KO’s) and former WBA World junior middleweight champion Joachim Alcine (33-2-1, 19 KO’s) is being talked about for April 14th, according to Canadian press.

This is a really nice fight if it can be made, because Taylor, 33, needs a good opponent to continue his comeback progress and the 35-year-old Alcine is the perfect guy to give him a good test. Alcine was thought to be over the hill by more than a few boxing fans. However, he responded big time in his last fight, beating former highly hyped middleweight slugger David Lemieux by a 12 round majority decision last December. Alcine weathered an early storm by Lemieux and then came back to hurt Lemieux and outbox him the rest of the way to earn an important decision on December 10th.

Taylor made his ring return after a two year layoff last December, beating the very capable Jessie Nicklow by an 8th round TKO despite Taylor having injured his right hand early in the fight and having to use exclusively his left until blasting Nicklow out in the 8th.

Taylor came into training camp for the Nicklow fight already in shape, and had no problem getting down to 160 to fight at middleweight for the first time since Taylor lost his WBC and WBO middleweight titles in September 2007. Keeping his weight down before he started training camp made a world’s of difference for Taylor, as he didn’t have to use the camp as a fat farm and didn’t drain himself by having to drop massive amounts of weight like Taylor has done in the past during many of his training camps.

Taylor will be a major force at 160 if he can continue to shine. He never really had a chin problem. Taylor’s problems were more related to conditioning, because he was taking off too much weight during his training camps and it was leaving him weakened for his fights.



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