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Total Fights | 38 |
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Wins | 33 |
Losses | 4 |
Draws | 1 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 6 |
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Title Defenses | 4 |
Title-Fight KOs | 0 |
KO Wins | 20 |
KO Losses | 3 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 13 years and eight months, Jermain Taylor fought 38 times with 33 wins, 4 losses, and 1 draw.
Taylor retired from professional boxing with a record of 33-4-1, which included six middleweight world-title wins and four successful title defense fights. He had a 52.6% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 20 of his total 38 fights being knockout wins. Taylor suffered three knockout losses in his career, two of which were in title fights.
His last fight was a 12-round unanimous decision victory over Sam Soliman on October 4, 2014. Taylor won the middleweight IBF title with this win.
Some of Taylor's best fights and notable victories include wins over Hall-of-Famer Bernard Hopkins, Cory Spinks, Kassim Ouma, William Joppy, Jeff Lacy, and Raúl Márquez.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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38 | Oct 4, 2014 | 36 | Sam Soliman | Win * | UD |
37 | Dec 14, 2013 | 35 | Juan Carlos Candelo | Win | TKO7 |
36 | Oct 12, 2012 | 34 | Raúl Jorge Muñoz | Win | KO2 |
35 | Apr 25, 2012 | 33 | Caleb Truax | Win | UD |
34 | Dec 30, 2011 | 33 | Jessie Nicklow | Win | TKO8 |
33 | Oct 17, 2009 | 31 | Arthur Abraham | Loss | KO12 |
32 | Apr 25, 2009 | 30 | Carl Froch | Loss * | TKO12 |
31 | Nov 15, 2008 | 30 | Jeff Lacy | Win | UD |
30 | Feb 16, 2008 | 29 | Kelly Pavlik | Loss | UD |
29 | Sep 29, 2007 | 29 | Kelly Pavlik | Loss * | TKO7 |
28 | May 19, 2007 | 28 | Cory Spinks | Win * | SD |
27 | Dec 9, 2006 | 28 | Kassim Ouma | Win * | UD |
26 | Jun 17, 2006 | 27 | Winky Wright | Draw * | SD |
25 | Dec 3, 2005 | 27 | Bernard Hopkins | Win * | UD |
24 | Jul 16, 2005 | 26 | Bernard Hopkins | Win * | SD |
23 | Feb 19, 2005 | 26 | Daniel Edouard | Win | TKO3 |
22 | Dec 4, 2004 | 26 | William Joppy | Win | UD |
21 | Jun 19, 2004 | 25 | Raúl Márquez | Win | RTD9 |
20 | Mar 27, 2004 | 25 | Alex Bunema | Win | TKO7 |
19 | Jan 9, 2004 | 25 | Alex Rios | Win | TKO1 |
18 | Nov 8, 2003 | 25 | Rogelio Martinez | Win | TKO7 |
17 | Aug 8, 2003 | 24 | Alfredo Cuevas | Win | UD |
16 | May 17, 2003 | 24 | Nicolas Cervera | Win | TKO4 |
15 | Mar 31, 2003 | 24 | Marcos Primera | Win | TKO5 |
14 | Jan 30, 2003 | 24 | Lionel Ortiz | Win | TKO2 |
13 | Dec 20, 2002 | 24 | Keith Sims | Win | TKO1 |
12 | Nov 9, 2002 | 24 | Johnny Rivera | Win | TKO4 |
11 | Aug 17, 2002 | 24 | Sam Hill | Win | UD |
10 | Jun 15, 2002 | 23 | Grady Brewer | Win | UD |
9 | Apr 27, 2002 | 23 | Joe Garcia | Win | TKO6 |
8 | Mar 15, 2002 | 23 | Ron Carnell | Win | TKO3 |
7 | Nov 23, 2001 | 23 | Undra White | Win | TKO4 |
6 | Nov 2, 2001 | 23 | Dave Hamilton | Win | TKO2 |
5 | Aug 11, 2001 | 23 | Efrain Garcia | Win | TKO5 |
4 | Jun 23, 2001 | 22 | Marvin Smith | Win | UD |
3 | May 8, 2001 | 22 | Antonio Baker | Win | UD |
2 | Apr 7, 2001 | 22 | Kenny Stubbs | Win | TKO2 |
1 | Jan 27, 2001 | 22 | Chris Walsh | Win | TKO4 |
* World-title fight
Jermain Taylor (Bad Intentions) is a 45-year old retired American professional boxer. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. on August 11, 1978. He is a former middleweight world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 13 years — from 2001 to 2014.
Taylor made his professional boxing debut against Chris Walsh at the age of 22 on January 27, 2001, defeating Walsh via 4th round TKO. He went on to win 24 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 16 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 26 on July 16, 2005 after 23 professional fights, against Bernard Hopkins for the middleweight WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring titles. He defeated Hopkins via 12 round split decision to become the middleweight champion of the world.
Jermain Taylor was a one-time undisputed middleweight world champion, and has won six world titles at middleweight. For all the details about Taylor's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Taylor had a total of four losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was on October 4, 2014 against Sam Soliman for Soliman's middleweight title. Taylor won the fight via 12 round unanimous decision and won the IBF title. It's been 9 years, 6 months, and 15 days since this fight.
Taylor had a total of eight world-title fights, which includes winning six world titles and four successful title defenses. He won five of these fights, lost two, and drew in one.
Jermain Taylor fought for middleweight world titles in three fights and won two of these fights. In total, he won six middleweight belts.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Oct 4, 2014 | Sam Soliman | Middleweight | IBF | UD |
Jul 16, 2005+ | Bernard Hopkins | Middleweight | WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, The Ring | SD |
Jermain Taylor had five middleweight world-title defense fights. He won four of them and lost once.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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May 19, 2007 | Cory Spinks | Middleweight | WBC, WBO, The Ring | SD |
Dec 9, 2006 | Kassim Ouma | Middleweight | WBC, WBO, The Ring | UD |
Jun 17, 2006 | Winky Wright | Middleweight | WBC, WBO, The Ring | SD (draw) |
Dec 3, 2005 | Bernard Hopkins | Middleweight | WBA (Undisputed), WBC, WBO, The Ring | UD |
Jermain Taylor lost one world-title defense fight, and lost three titles in the fight.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Sep 29, 2007 | Kelly Pavlik | Middleweight | WBC, WBO, The Ring | TKO |
Taylor fought a total of 38 times during his professional career, which includes 8 world-title fights at two weight divisions. He put on some very good performances in these fights. These eight fights are the highlight of his career.
June 19, 2004: Jermain Taylor puts on the first remarkable performance of his career, defeating Raúl Márquez via 9th round RTD.
December 4, 2004: Jermain Taylor beats William Joppy via 12th round unanimous decision.
July 16, 2005: Taylor becomes the undisputed middleweight world champion in his first world-title fight by beating Bernard Hopkins via 12 round split decision. He now holds the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring middleweight world-champion belts.
December 3, 2005: Taylor successfully defends the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, WBO, and The Ring middleweight titles against Bernard Hopkins, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
June 17, 2006: Jermain Taylor has a draw against Winky Wright via 12 round split decision. He was defending his WBC, WBO, and The Ring middleweight titles.
December 9, 2006: Taylor successfully defends the WBC, WBO, and The Ring middleweight titles against Kassim Ouma, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
May 19, 2007: Taylor successfully defends the WBC, WBO, and The Ring middleweight titles against Cory Spinks, winning the fight via 12 round split decision.
November 15, 2008: Jermain Taylor beats Jeff Lacy via 12th round unanimous decision.
Taylor knocked out 20 of his 38 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 52.6%. Of his total 33 wins, 20 of them were via KO (60.6%).
Taylor's first world-title win were the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring belts at middleweight. He defeated Bernard Hopkins via 12 round split decision to win the titles.
Taylor won six world titles at middleweight.
Taylor had a total of five title defense fights. He was successful four times and lost one time.