Soon after Márquez arrived to his corner, his trainer told the referee to stop the fight, resulting in a technical knockout victory for Taylor. Around 10 clean hard shots from Froch landed before the referee stepped in to stop the bout with only a matter of seconds left in the final round, earning Froch the technical knockout victory.[39]. It was the first time Taylor had lost in his professional career and the first time he had ever been knocked down. Lou Dibella resigned as Taylor's promoter because he was concerned with Taylor's health following the knockout from Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament. He would also later hold the IBF middleweight title for a second time, after making a substantial recovery from a brain injury sustained earlier in his career. On December 30, 2011, after 26 months away from the ring, Taylor finally returned and faced Jessie Nicklow. Pavlik began rising in popularity after an upset victory over Edison Miranda in a Middleweight Title Eliminator to determine the number one contender to fight Taylor. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion, having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine, and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' twelve-year reign as middleweight champion. Taylor controlled most of the action and survived a knock-down in round nine in order to win a unanimous decision victory. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion,[3] having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine, and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' twelve-year reign as middleweight champion. Taylor was remanded to the custody of the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility in Little Rock in lieu of a $27,000 bond. He was jailed on five felony counts of aggravated assault, three felony counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, and a misdemeanor count of drug possession after he was found to have a small bag of marijuana. Directed by Wayne Johnson. Taylor's next bout was against Juan Carlos Candelo on December 14, 2013. [32] During their amateur careers, Taylor had defeated Pavlik on February 9, 2000 in the opening round of the United States Olympic trials. Near the end of the ninth round, Taylor landed a right uppercut that staggered Márquez. Taylor did not pay the fees to the WBA amid controversy of the organization removing him from their rankings after questions of whether Taylor followed all procedures for the WBA before his rematch with Hopkins. “Jermain Taylor was probably the worst it got as far as nerves,” recalled Froch, who boxed Taylor in 2009. “I thought my heart was going to explode at one point during fight week. 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. Taylor was hospitalized with a severe concussion, suffering short term memory loss, unable to remember details of this bout. [18], On December 3, 2005, Taylor defeated Hopkins by unanimous decision in a rematch at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. [46] He is known to be an enthusiastic fan of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks and has visited the Arkansas campus to talk to the football team. Taylor made his professional debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl Márquez and William Joppy. SE winds shifting to W at 10 to 15 mph.. [46] In 2007, Taylor was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame along with former NFL players Rod Smith and Willie Roaf. He was reinstated at the top the organizations' middleweight rankings, but his title remained under review. All three judges scored the bout 115–113 for Taylor. 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We Recommend. In December 2000, Taylor signed with boxing promoter Lou DiBella. [49] Taylor has modeled for Everlast, GQ and Vogue.[44]. At the 2000 Olympics, Taylor won a bronze medal in the light middleweight division. From heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and middleweight legend Sugar Ray Robinson to the undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor and UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture, Everlast is the brand of choice for generations of world champion professional athletes. [41] However, the fight was cancelled after Taylor suffered an injury and was also later arrested and charged with multiple felonies following an incident on January 19 (see Personal life below). He was also sentenced to probation and will have to serve 120 hours of community service, pay a $2,000 fine plus court costs, and will have to submit to regular drug screens. For the majority of the fight, Joppy made the more aggressive Taylor chase him, while landing few punches and seeming more content to frustrate Taylor. A follow-up right hand put Márquez down just before the bell rung to end the round. ET.. The WBC had ordered Taylor and Wright to begin negotiating on the fight on December 12, 2005 and if the two sides could not agree, a purse bid would be ordered. [21] On December 10, 2005, Wright defeated Soliman by unanimous decision to retain his number one position in the WBC and WBA Middleweight rankings and take over the number one spot in the IBF Middleweight rankings. Missoula, MT (59801) Today. After twelve grueling rounds, (Soliman injured his knee badly midway through the fight) and knocking Soliman down four times (Soliman actually went down on his own from the knee injury, not primarily from punches from Taylor), Taylor won with a resounding unanimous decision. [22], On June 17, 2006, Taylor fought Winky Wright at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. In round five, a clash of heads opened a cut on the top of Taylor's head. [30] On May 19, 2007, Taylor went up against former Undisputed Welterweight Champion Cory Spinks at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. Taylor controlled the fight by using his jab and right hand throughout the one-sided contest. He then took on then-undefeated Caleb Truax (18-0-1) on April 25, 2012 in another fight scheduled for ten rounds. Retained WBC Continental Americas middleweight title. Police are saying that Jermain Taylor shot his cousin Tyrone Hinton multiple times in an altercation last night at the boxers home. During the second half of the fight, Taylor gradually began to tire and suffered a cut over the left eye. [23] An agreement was made 10 minutes before a purse bid was to take place. He tended to move forward, while Hopkins was patient and waited for openings in Taylor's defense. [40] At the time of the stoppage, the judges scorecards read: 104-102, 107-102 and 106-102, all in favour of Abraham. Taylor has now been released on a $25,000 bond. [5] He made his professional boxing debut on January 27, 2001, at Madison Square Garden in New York City against Chris Walsh. [11], Taylor fought Bernard Hopkins for the Undisputed Middleweight Championship on July 16, 2005 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. [29] Afterwards, the WBA announced that Taylor was no longer the holder of its Middleweight Super Championship. Taylor landed 101 of 319 punches, while Spinks landed just 85 of 542. In the tenth round, Hopkins hurt Taylor with two right hands that made his legs wobble and forced him to clinch. Taylor hurt Ouma early in the first round and continued to control the fight through the middle part of the fight with jabs and hooks. Taylor responded by bringing a doll with Hopkins' name on it to the final prefight press conference to suggest that he was a "crybaby." [47] Taylor often sports a large Razorback on the back of his boxing robe and trunks for his fights. He allowed Ouma to back him into the ropes often as the fight came to an end. Foxwoods Resort Casino, Ledyard, Connecticut, U.S. MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Alltel Arena, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. Mandalay Bay Events Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Taylor was a bronze medalist in the 2000 Olympics and was the Middleweight Champion of the World from 2005 to 2007. 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. 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 a similar situation to the first fight, Hopkins started slowly and began pressuring Taylor in the later rounds. [10] In his next bout, Taylor fought Daniel Edouard on February 19, 2005. In a fight scheduled for ten rounds, Taylor won via technical knockout in the eighth round. On January 19, 2015, Taylor was arrested without incident and a gun was recovered. Entering the seventh round, Taylor had a commanding lead on all three judges' scorecards. [27] The scores for the fight were 115–113 for Taylor, 115–113 for Wright and 114–114. Taylor could not recoup or defend himself, desperately curling up against the ropes. 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. In January 2010, Taylor, one of the original members of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, officially withdrew from the tournament. On October 4, 2014, Taylor fought Sam Soliman, in Biloxi, Mississippi for Soliman's IBF Middleweight World Championship belt. On August 26, 2014, Taylor was taken into police custody and charged with two felonies after officers said he shot his cousin during an altercation in his Little Rock, Arkansas, home. Wright was winning the bout going into the final round on two of the judges' scorecards, but he was generally passive in the round. After being released from the hospital, Taylor released a statement saying that he's doing just fine and wanted to congratulate Abraham on his victory and wish him well in the tournament. Taylor then faced boxing veteran Raul Munoz on October 12, 2012. World-Famous April the Giraffe Has Died in Harpursville, NY. Taylor won the bout by unanimous decision with scores of 117–111, 115–113 and 118–110. [48] He was named "Arkansan of the Year" for 2005 by the Arkansas Times. He made short work of Muñoz, winning via second-round KO. Wright only paid sanctioning fees for the WBC belt, while Taylor paid fees to the WBC and WBO. [9] On December 4, 2004, Taylor fought former WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy in his hometown of Little Rock. At age 40, Hopkins entered the bout with a record 20 consecutive successful title defenses and had not lost a fight in 12 years. [20] Hopkins ended the fight with a 101–60 advantage in power punches, while Taylor had success with his jab, outlanding Hopkins 64–29. [52], Super Six tournament and first retirement, Troubles outside the ring and second retirement. Watch monologues about racial profiling, free on the Apple TV app. The rematch took place at a weight of 166 pounds (75 kg), six pounds higher than the middleweight limit. With Melvin Jackson Jr., Christine Guerra, Ellyana, James Matthew Poole. Spinks, with a much shorter reach, had difficulty getting within a closer range against his opponent. On November 15, 2008, Taylor defeated Jeff Lacy by a dominant unanimous decision to earn a mandatory fight against the winner of a bout between Carl Froch and Jean Pascal for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title,[37] a fight that was won by Froch. [42] The IBF subsequently stripped him of his title on February 6, due to his inability to defend during his ongoing legal and mental health issues. [12] Hopkins entered the boxing match as a 3–2 favorite to win. [33] In the second round of the bout, Taylor landed a right hand and followed-up with several more punches which resulted in the first knockdown of the fight. Ebro talks to the cast of 12 Angry Men...and Women on Apple TV. EXCLUSIVE FILM. High 67F. Jermaine has a son also Jermain Taylor JR.[44] Taylor gained popularity in the state for frequently mentioning how proud he was to be from Arkansas. [38] On April 25, 2009, at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, Taylor fought Carl Froch for the WBC Super Middleweight title. In the third round, Taylor knocked Froch down for the first time in his career with a right hand. [25] Taylor received $3.75 million for the fight and Wright made $3.5 million. Pavlik got up and managed to make it to the end of the round. Taylor was a bronze medalist in the 2000 Olympics and was the Middleweight Champion of the World from 2005 to 2007. [8] Taylor's next bout occurred on June 19, 2004 against former IBF Light Middleweight Champion Raúl Márquez. [31], In his next bout, Taylor fought Kelly Pavlik on September 29, 2007 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. By regaining the belt he had lost to Pavlik in 2007, Taylor became a two-time middleweight world champion. Taylor competed in the preliminary round of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, a tournament by Showtime, to find out who is the best boxer in the super middleweight division. Sunny, along with a few afternoon clouds. — Nicky Taylor ... denying Scott Arfield and Jermain Defoe late on, but Gers could care less as their long wait to return to the top of Scottish football is now almost over. This was not an easy decision for me, having discussed it with my family, trainer, friends and my adviser Al Haymon, because I'm a very competitive person-but I know this is the smart road for me to take." He got up, but Froch quickly went after him, trapping him against the ropes and landing a barrage of hard and fast punches. 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. [43], Taylor was married to former Louisiana Tech University basketball player Erica Taylor,[44] who was selected in the second round of the 2005 WNBA Draft by the Washington Mystics. "I plan on keeping myself in shape and making a return to the sport sometime in the future. In 1998, Taylor won a bronze medal at the Goodwill Games. Coming 2 America has finally arrived on Amazon Prime Video but what songs and music appear in the film’s star-studded soundtrack? [45] Jermain and Erica Taylor have three daughters. In the third round, Taylor landed a 10-punch combination that hurt Edouard to the point that the referee decided to stop the fight. It's important that I give my body and mind some much needed rest, because I have been boxing for nearly 20 years," said Taylor. On February 6, 2015 Taylor was scheduled to defend his title against Sergio Mora on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights in Biloxi, Mississippi. See All Rap Life Apple Music Hip-Hop Sleep Sounds ... Taylor Swift BIG PURR (Prrdd) [feat. [6] He went on to fight six more times in 2001, resulting in six more victories. With less than a minute remaining in the round, Pavlik landed a right cross that sent Taylor into a corner. Later that year, Taylor was arrested and detained on gun charges but would avoid a prison sentence in 2016. By the ninth round, Wright had swelling above both his eyes. [19] Days before the fight, tensions rose after Hopkins mocked Taylor's speech impediment and called him a "phony champion." [15][16][17] Hopkins appealed the decision, but was denied by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. Taylor managed to knock Walsh down twice with his right hand and won his debut after forcing a stoppage with 16 seconds left in the fourth and final round. [36], After the two losses to Pavlik, Taylor moved up officially to the super middleweight division. Pavlik closed in and threw a left uppercut followed by a left and right hook and right uppercut. He hurt Spinks with a right hand in the seventh round. Taylor was arrested and booked into Pulaski County. In order for the rematch to occur, Taylor vacated his IBF Middleweight title on October 11, 2005. [5] Fighting at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on February 16, 2008, Taylor lost the rematch to Pavlik by unanimous decision. Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. Taylor won the bout by split decision with two judges scoring the fight 115–113 for Taylor and the other judge scoring it 116–112 for Hopkins. Defender Ash Taylor has a thigh strain picked up in the midweek defeat to Livingston. [51], On May 20, 2016, Taylor was given a suspended sentence of 19 years to be served concurrently, amounting to a six-year suspended sentence for three cases. [24] Ozell Nelson, unsatisfied with Taylor's progression between the first and second Hopkins fights, helped convince Taylor to replace Pat Burns with hall of fame trainer Emanuel Steward. 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. Jermaine won with a seventh-round TKO. Entering the final round, Taylor was ahead 106–102 on two of the judges' scorecards, while Froch was ahead 106–102 on the other. Taylor was able to control the first two rounds of the fight. LISTEN NOW. [28], On December 9, 2006, Taylor fought Kassim Ouma at the Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. On October 17, 2009, in his first fight in the Super Six tournament at the O2 World Arena in Berlin, Germany, undefeated Armenian-German former champion, Arthur Abraham, defeated Jermain Taylor by KO in the 12th round with less than 10 seconds left in the fight. Taylor dictated the fight by staying away from Spinks and landing one punch at a time. Taylor had been knocked out two times prior to the Abraham bout. 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. [13] Taylor was able to successfully use his jab to control the first two rounds of the fight, though neither fighter was taking any major risks. Taylor has now been released on a $25,000 bond. Two of the three judges gave the round to Taylor, which resulted in a draw. However, Ouma was unable to be effective with his punches. With the victory, Taylor became the new Undisputed Middleweight Champion,[14] winning the WBC, WBO, IBF, WBA (Super), The Ring and Lineal Middleweight Championships. A move up to super middleweight for a rematch against Pavlik the following year was also unsuccessful. During the round, Froch landed two right hands that sent Taylor to the canvas. Two more left hooks dropped Taylor to the canvas as the referee stepped in to halt the fight. Taylor Swift’s re-recorded version of her debut album “Fearless” comes with bonus tracks taken “From the Vault,” and the singer announced Wednesday morning that “You All Over Me,” the first such song, will arrive Thursday night at 12 a.m. He once again defeated Hopkins six months later, making him the only fighter to have defeated Hopkins twice. Subsequent neurological issues would force Taylor out of the ring for the next two years. [35] Due to disappointing performances, Emanuel Steward was fired as Taylor's trainer and replaced with Ozell Nelson. [4] Pat Burns became Taylor's trainer as a professional and Ozell Nelson became an assistant. [26] The bout was evenly competitive through the first 10 rounds, with Wright winning most of the early rounds before Taylor became more active in the latter part of the fight. Find the latest sports news and articles on the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA college football, NCAA college basketball and more at ABC News. [34] One month later, Taylor exercised a rematch clause in his contract with Pavlik. Taylor won the fight by split decision, with two judges scoring 117–111 and 115–113 in favor of him and the other scoring 117–111 for Spinks. Former Undisputed Middleweight Champion and Olympian Jermain Taylor has been arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault and Battery in a shooting at the boxers home in Little Rock. [50] Taylor was out on bond for his October 4, 2014, bout versus Sam Soliman. In 2009, Taylor challenged Carl Froch for the WBC super middleweight title, but was stopped with seconds remaining in the final round. After the fight, Taylor said that he would welcome a challenge against the winner of a fight between former Undisputed Light Middleweight Champion Winky Wright and Sam Soliman. Taylor was later replaced by Allan Green. 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