For those of a similar name, see Jermaine Taylor (disambiguation).
Jermain Taylor
Born
(1978-08-11) August 11, 1978 (age 45)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Other names
Bad Intentions[2]
Statistics
Weight(s)
Middleweight
Super middleweight
Height
6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[1]
Reach
78 in (198 cm)[1]
Stance
Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights
38
Wins
33
Wins by KO
20
Losses
4
Draws
1
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing United States
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney
Light middleweight
Goodwill Games
1998 New York
Light middleweight
Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion,[3] having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring middleweight titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' ten-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first, and to date, only male boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight. He once again defeated Hopkins six months later, making him the only fighter to have defeated Hopkins twice. He retired as a world champion in the months that followed his capture of the IBF middleweight title for a second time, after making a substantial recovery from a brain injury sustained earlier in his career.
Taylor made his professional debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl Márquez and William Joppy. Taylor, who began boxing officially at age 13, earned numerous accolades throughout his amateur career, starting with his achievement of the 1996 Under-19 Championship. He went on to win a pair of Police Athletic League (PAL) Championships and National Golden Gloves titles and he finished second and third at the 1997 and 1998 United States Championships, respectively. In 1998, Taylor won a bronze medal at the Goodwill Games. Then, in 2000, he earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic boxing team, becoming the first ever boxer from Arkansas to compete in the Olympic Games. At the 2000 Olympics, Taylor won a bronze medal in the light middleweight division.
During his reign as unified middleweight champion, Taylor won an immediate rematch against Hopkins and defeated Kassim Ouma and Cory Spinks, as well as fighting Winky Wright to a draw. Having vacated the WBC and IBF titles, he lost the remainder of the unified and lineal middleweight championship to Kelly Pavlik in 2007, in what was his first professional defeat. A move up to super middleweight for a rematch against Pavlik the following year was also unsuccessful. In 2009, Taylor challenged Carl Froch for the WBC super middleweight title, but was stopped with seconds remaining in the final round. At the end of the year he participated in the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament, but was again knocked out in the closing seconds of the final round by Arthur Abraham.
Subsequent neurological issues forced Taylor out of the ring for the next two years. He returned in 2011, winning five consecutive fights and defeating Sam Soliman in 2014 to claim his second IBF middleweight title. Later that year, Taylor was arrested and detained on gun charges but avoided a prison sentence in 2016.
^ ab"TALE OF THE TAPE Kelly Pavlik vs. Jermain Taylor". The Vindicator. September 27, 2007. Archived from the original on November 19, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
^"Q&A: Jermain Taylor". ESPN.com. June 16, 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2009.
^"Jermain Taylor Officially Stripped of IBF Middleweight Belt". 6 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
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