Jermain Taylor

Boxer

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Born

11 August 1978, Little Rock

Citizenship

United States

Sport

boxing

Discipline

middleweight, light middleweight

Occupation

boxer

Height

185 cm (6 ft 1 in)

Weight

76 kg (168 lb)

Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed champion in the middleweight division, having defeated Bernard Hopkins in 2005, and in doing so ending Hopkins' ten-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first male boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight. He defeated Hopkins in a rematch six months later, making him the only boxer to have defeated Hopkins twice. Taylor retired as a world champion in the months that followed his capture of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) middleweight title for a second time in 2014, after making a substantial recovery from a brain injury sustained earlier in his career.

Competitions

Awards and honours

• Ali–Frazier Award 2007
• IBF World Middleweight Champion
• The Ring World Middleweight Champion
• WBA World Middleweight Champion
• WBC World Middleweight Champion
• WBO World Middleweight Champion

External links

• Wikipedia
• BoxRec
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q725795 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.