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WILLIAM JOPPY VERSUS JERMAIN TAYLOR FIGHT ANALYSIS
By Michael Amakor
On Dec 4 Former WBA Middleweight Champion William “Torelle” Joppy challenges Jermain “Bad Intention”Taylor for his WBC Continental Americas Middleweight Crown Title at the Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Bad Intentions is a 2000 Olympic Bronze medallist with an unbeaten streak 21 victories including 4 defenses of the Crown he first won in August 2003 against Alfredo Cuevas.
Since seizing that Crown he has remained very active crushing all opposition from ex middleweight champion Raul Marquez to former WBC Continental Americas Light Middleweight champion Alex Bunema in devastating fashion unleashing an angry barrage of punches ending the bout in the seventh round.
All boxing experts agree that he is the future of the middleweight division and believe that with proper handling he will one day challenge undisputed Middleweight champion Bernard “The Executioner Hopkins” for all the titles.
The general consensus for now is too match Bad Intentions against progressively higher calibre fighters to achieve the objective of getting him ready to take on the King of Division, and the think they may have picked the perfect opponent in fading but slick William Joppy.
Torelle is a former NABF Middleweight Title and three time WBA middleweight champion whose boxing ability is unquestioned despite losing to Felix Trinidad in the Middleweight championship series in 2001 and suffering an incredibly Brutal pounding from Bernard Hopkins in a grudge match that left him a grotesque mess with retirement on his mind, but a rethink about his past victories against Howard Eastman Hassine Cherifi and Julio Cesar Green in title winning bouts has given him the confidence to believe in himself and he seems determined and has vowed and predicted that he will kayo the bad intended Jermain Taylor and suppress his insurrection for good.
This matchup will be highly intriguing to watch how a slick and highly ring savvy former champion relegated to the status of a gatekeeper will stop the punches from a powerful young blood dying to carve a niche for himself and seize all his hope of reclaiming his throne.
Most analysts may be inclined to have bad intentions but may change their minds when the run into a time tested and experienced adversary overqualified to instill the necessary discipline to make for an Epiphany.
May the Best Man Win
