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Othro wrote:Seems uncharacteristic for Taylor . He seemed like a good guy

News outside the ring: Cops arrested professional boxer and former middleweight champ Jermain Taylor over the holiday weekend in South Beach. Charges: disorderly conduct and resisting officers.

Happened during Urban Beach Week, at 10:45 p.m. Sunday, in the 1400 block of Collins Avenue Taylor, 30, driving a Rolls-Royce, allegedly stopped the car in the road, blocking traffic. When told to move, he climbed back in the Rolls, drove it another 100 feet, then stopped again. He got out and ''began to yell and dance,'' a police report says. A crowd of about 50 gathered.

Officers tried to arrest Taylor for breach of the peace when he resisted and pushed a uniformed cop in the shoulder, the report says. Police got him to the ground, cuffed him and booked him into Miami-Dade County Jail at 2:23 a.m. Memorial Day. He spent three hours in the pokey before posting a $5,500 bond. Arraignment is set for June 15 before Circuit Judge Yvonne Colodny.

Former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor was arrested Tuesday night at his home in Maumelle, Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock, in connection with the shooting of his cousin, according to police.

Taylor was taken into custody, booked into the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility and charged with two felonies -- first-degree domestic battery and aggravated assault -- Lt. Carl Minden, the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office spokesman, told ESPN.com.

The cousin was in serious condition at a hospital after being shot multiple times, Minden said.

Minden said the police responded to a 911 call from Taylor's wife, Erica, at around 6 p.m. CT.

"Mr. Taylor's cousin and another individual came to his residence, and there was some sort of altercation," Minden said, adding that the two who showed up at Taylor's home were unarmed. "At some point, Mr. Taylor retrieved a handgun and fired several rounds. His cousin was struck multiple times. The cousin is alive and in serious condition at an area hospital. He has pretty serious injuries. The other person was not struck, but Mr. Taylor had fired several rounds and missed."

Minden said that when police arrived at Taylor's residence, he was "very cooperative with our investigators. He was very calm, and there were absolutely no difficulties."

Minden said police were investigating what led to the shooting. He said Taylor would be arraigned Wednesday morning.

The incident comes just two weeks after Taylor (32-4-1, 20 KOs), 36, finalized a deal for an unexpected shot at world titleholder Sam Soliman of Australia.

The fight is scheduled to headline an ESPN2 boxing special Oct. 8 at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Taylor, a 2000 U.S. Olympic bronze medalist, was middleweight world champion from 2005 to '07. He won the title by outpointing Bernard Hopkins, ending his record-setting title run at 160 pounds, and then beat him again in an immediate rematch.

Taylor made four successful defenses before getting knocked out by Kelly Pavlik in the seventh round of a dramatic fight.

In 2009, Taylor suffered a small brain bleed as a result of a brutal 12th-round knockout loss to Arthur Abraham in a super middleweight fight that was part of the Super Six World Boxing Classic.

After the injury, Taylor dropped out of the round-robin tournament and took off 26 months. But after going through extensive neurological testing, Taylor secured a boxing license in Nevada.

He returned to the middleweight division, reunited with original trainer Pat Burns, who had led him to the title, and has won four fights in a row, including three by knockout, since launching his comeback in December 2011.

The 40-year-old Soliman (44-11, 18 KOs) won the belt by outpointing Felix Sturm in Germany in May and got a lucrative offer to make his first defense against Taylor.

The Insider wrote:That's the Soliman fight down the tubes then.
http://www.boxingrevolution.com/jermain ... ng-cousin/

Tarkus wrote:

The Insider wrote:That's the Soliman fight down the tubes then.
http://www.boxingrevolution.com/jermain ... ng-cousin/

With all these ridiculous match ups you are almost glad hearing such tragic news

Any chance of Soliman fighting someone worth watching instead. Like his countryman Geal at least.

sucracristo wrote:i don't suppose rubio would take $20k to postpone his golovkin fight until after a ggg-soliman
unification. rubio would be getting $20k for not getting destroyed by ggg (good deal), with a
guarantee of fighting him later for the same money he was going to get, and maybe take
another fight in the meantime.

Tarkus wrote:I know its OK to shoot unarmed man in USA

sucracristo wrote:

Tarkus wrote:I know its OK to shoot unarmed man in USA

as opposed to being stabbed in the throat or beaten with a bat, hell yeah.
you weren't there. i wasn't there. until there is a full investigation nobody
knows what happened. we don't even know they were unarmed for sure
until there has been a full investigation and hear both sides.
yeah, in the USA we actually investigate stuff and give people trials
in front of their peers and people have a right to defend themselves.
crazy, hunh? please don't turn this into some pussy thread about your
half baked politics. some people deserve to get shot. i have no idea what
happened and maybe jermain is wrong or maybe the other two were.

Broomhall wrote: Is that the start spangled banner I hear in the background?

sucracristo wrote:, in the USA we actually investigate stuff and give people trials
in front of their peers and people have a right to defend themselves.
crazy, hunh?

Perseus wrote: Will espn still be on board without Taylor?

Impractical Poster wrote:Let's wait for all the facts. His cousin may have been rushing him.

ReggieDiggs wrote:

Impractical Poster wrote:Let's wait for all the facts. His cousin may have been rushing him.

Heard the cousin had stolen some Swisher Sweets from Jermain earlier in the day. Mfer had it coming imho.

Lenny Cravats wrote: Well, you don't do it very well. In fact, if Tarkus is from Western Europe it's more likely that his country have a much fairer system.