Fight Jermain Taylor D PTS 12 (12) Ronald Wright

Before we could get a question in, Winky Wright told Boxingtalk.com, "I know I won that fight. It was a great fight and I showed the fans that I could beat HBO's Golden Child. But I had to show them that it ain't over and I'm still here." GL: Was there anything about Taylor that surprised you at all? Winky Wright: "He surprised me by how much he could take. read more ...

Winky Wright was a no-show at the postfight press conference Saturday night. Representing Wright was his promoter Gary Shaw, who vociferously announced that his fighter deserved to have won. He made no apologies for his fighter having stormed from the ring following the announcement of the final scorecards, but relayed Winky's statement that he believed he had given Jermain Taylor a boxing lesson. Shaw announced that Wright claimed read more ...

WBC/WBA/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (25-0-1, 17 KOs) retained his three world titles with a twelve round draw against mandatory challenger Winky Wright (50-3-1, 25 KOs) on Saturday night at the Fedex Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. Taylor got off to a good start, connecting with some good right hands and body shots to counteract Wright's jabs. Wright crowded Taylor in round two and scored well with accurate punches, as Taylor read more ...

Both middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (160) and challenger Winky Wright (159.5) made weight on the first try Friday in Memphis for their showdown Saturday night at the FedEx Forum. Taylor will be defending his WBC, WBO and WBA (super) titles, however Wright says he will only pay a sanctioning fee to the WBC where is is the mandatory challenger. read more ...

After Lou DiBella welcomed the crowd and thanked everyone involved, including Wright's promoter Gary Shaw and Prizefight Boxing's Brian Young, HBO's Kerry Davis boasted that "I think we (HBO) are the only network to marshal the resources to put an event like this on our network for subscribers to see (versus charging as a pay-per-view)." Kerry continued by read more ...

The setting for Winky Wright's public work out Wednesday evening in the Grand Casino Tunica contrasted to that of Jermain Taylor's. Wright worked out in the casino's Grand Event Center under air conditioning and for a much more intimate audience. Wright spoke to the media once he arrived in Tunica. When asked about his approach for his fight with Taylor, Wright said read more ...

Jermain Taylor broke a sweat at a public workout held outside Tuesday at the Pepsi Pavilion in historic Handy Park. Taylor's workout began roughly about the time that his opponent Winky Wright was scheduled to arrive in Memphis at Wilson Air Travel. Taylor arrived in Memphis last Saturday and has reportedly been training at the Memphis Police Boxing Gym at the Mid-south Fairgrounds on Hollywood. Taylor appeared on stage from a Pepsi read more ...

Boxing is a sport where the best and frequently most logical things don't always occur like they should. There are bad decisions, worse rankings and frequent mismatches. The fights that are supposed to be made frequently aren't. And when they are, they occur often too late in the fighter's careers or they're tainted by a loss in a previous tune-up fight. So imagine boxing fans' (and members of the industry's) delight when all of the read more ...

The on-off-on-off-on roller coaster known as the Jermain Taylor-Winky Wright negotiations has left Sam Soliman as the odd man out. Soliman's promoter Dan Goossen had twice agreed with DiBella Entertainment for Soliman to challenge Taylor in April for his world title belts, only to have last minute maneuvers result in Soliman being passed over in favor of a deal with Wright. "What can I say?" stated Soliman from his training camp in read more ...

The WBC has received confirmation from Lou DiBella and Gary Shaw that they have reached an agreement for the Jermain Taylor vs. Winky Wright fight. Consequently the purse offer scheduled for today has been cancelled. "The World Boxing Council is very pleased that both promoters reached an agreement, as the fans deserve to watch fighting the best two middleweights of the world in this WBC mandatory defense," read more ...