Jermaine taylor basketball
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Jermaine Taylor (basketball)
American basketball player (born 1986)
Jermaine Taylor (born December 8, 1986) is an American former professional basketball player. Taylor was a starting guard for the University of Central Florida basketball team before being selected with the 32nd overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by the Washington Wizards, and soon after traded to the Houston Rockets.[1]
High school career
Taylor attended Tavares High School in Tavares, Florida. As a senior at Tavares High School, Taylor averaged 25 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists per game. He finished his senior year second in the Florida Class 3A Player of the Year voting and was named to the Florida Class 3A All-State First Team.
Taylor also excelled on the gridiron as a wide receiver for Tavares, gaining 481 yards and 8 touchdowns as a senior. He turned down offers from Florida and South Florida to play basketball instead.
In addition to football and basketball, finished second in the Florida Class 2A Track and Field Championships in both the triple jump and high jump. He curren
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Taylor, Jermain
1978—
Professional boxer
From the time he was a small boy helping to raise his younger sisters, Jermain Taylor has responded to challenges with a fierce determination to overcome them. Whether it was training himself to speak without a stutter or convincing his mother to allow him to learn to box, the soft-spoken Taylor simply set a goal and worked persistently to achieve it. In his boxing career, this has meant a relentless drive for success that has led him first to an Olympic bronze medal, then to a world middleweight championship in all four of the organizations that sanction professional boxing. The first Arkansas-born boxing champion, Taylor has become a hero in his home state and has repaid his home state fans with his very public loyalty and pride to be an Arkansan.
Taylor was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on August 11, 1978. When he was five years old, his father abandoned the family, leaving Taylor's mother Carlois to raise her four children alone. While his mother worked as a nurse's assistant to support the family, Taylor learned to care for h
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Jermain Taylor
American boxer (born 1978)
For those of a similar name, see Jermaine Taylor (disambiguation).
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[a] 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, and to date, only 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.[4]
He made his professional debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl Márquez a
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