Arnold Taylor
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Arnold Taylor (15 July 1945-November 1981) was a South African boxer who won the Lineal and WBA championships in 1973.
Pro career
Arnold Taylor made his professional boxing debut against Ray Buttle on May 20, 1967, when he was disqualified after six rounds in Transvaal. He lost the Transvaal Bantamweight championship with a ninth-round knockout of Buttle in his second fight, held in Johannesburg on the 30th of the same year. He defeated Buttle over eight rounds in a non-title match, which took place in Johannesburg on December 11th.
He won the South African Bantamweight title on February 19th, defeating Andries Steyn over twelve rounds by decision in just his fourth fight. He lost the title and suffered his first career disqualification when Dennis Adams was disqualified in the first round by Dennis Adams on July 1st of the same year.
He had eight victories in a row, three against Herby Clark (one by disqualification in six rounds and one by decision), and one against Edward Mbongwa (on September 7, 1968, his first fight in Swaziland) and one over Anthony Morodi. Clark's third victory over Clark, a twelve-round draw on May 12, 1969, was actually worth 15 pounds (roughly 1.1 stone) because of his natural fighting height.
The next match was a rematch with Adams. Taylor lost weight to face Adams for the South African Featherweight title, winning his third regional title along the way, knocking Adams out in round eight, just 12 days after winning the Lightweight title. He decided to leave the Featherweight title and focus on defending his Lightweight crown, but he lost the title on his first attempt against Steyn on July 4, 1969, which resulted in a knockout in round eight.
On December 6th, he defeated Ray Buttle's brother, Mike Buttle, in a rematch for the South African Bantamweight championship, beating him by a fifth-round knockout three weeks before. Taylor won the title with a sixth-round knockout, so the rematch lasted one more round.
When Taylor met fellow world Bantamweight champion Johnny Famechon, of Australia, on Saturday in Johannesburg, he began his 1970s with an improvement in opposition quality. Taylot lost in his first fight against a current or future world champion. He defeated Ray Buttle once more in his upcoming fight, this time winning in the ninth round for the South African Featherweight Championship. This began a streak of nineteen victories in a row, including five in Australia (where he lived for the first half of 1971) and one in Zimbabwe. He was given his first world championship shot after he had won sixteen consecutive matches in a row.
Taylor met Lineal and WBA World Bantamweight champion, Mexico's Romeo Anaya, in a match refereed by Stanley Christodoulou on November 3, 1973. Many of boxing's greatest battles are regarded as one of the boxing's best fights. One South African sportswriter called it "the deadliest fight in South Africa boxing history." Taylor was cut and was struck twice in round five and three times in round eight (the WBA has since introduced a rule where a fighter is automatically declared a knockout loser if he or she is knocked down three times in the same round). Nevertheless, Taylor made the champion out of the tournament, and he connected with a right hand to Anaya's jaw, knocking him to the ground. Taylor yelled to his trainers, "He's gone!" screamed as he seemed to be on his way to become a world champion. From a neutral location. Taylor took the World Bantamweight crown after two minutes for Anaya two minutes.
Taylor defended his title for the first time against Soo-Hwan Hong Kong, who was also in Durban on July 3r 1974. Taylor was dropped four times in what is also considered a boxing masterpiece by many. He was shot three times early in the game, and he produced a comeback from ten to fifteen, firmly pinning the challenger against the ring's walls and wires, but he was disqualified for a fourth time in round fourteen, ending in a unanimous decision by a fifteen-round unanimous decision.
The bulk of his career was uninteresting. He won four fights in a row, but after losing two fights back to back, he fought to a halt, he decided to drop. A rematch with Anaya, whom he defeated again by knocking out in eight rounds by Vernon Sollas on December 24, 1975, was one of his last fights. In Norway and England, respectively, his last two battles took place.