Quincy Lee Taylor (born July 18, 1963) is an American former
professional boxer
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who competed between 1986 and 2001. He held the
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middleweight
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Boxing Professional
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title from 1995 to 1996.
Professional career
Taylor, a
southpaw
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, turned pro in 1986. In 1987, he nearly KO´d Sugar Ray Leonard whilst sparring in preparation for
Leonard's match against Marvin Hagler and which in Sugar Ray Leonards biography he gives credit to Quincy Taylor for helping him prepare for that fight. In 1994, he landed a shot at
WBC
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Business
*Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, a former large India broadcaster now folded into CBS
*Westpac (New Delhi Exchange code: WBC), a multinational Financial services company
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middleweight champion
Julian Jackson. Taylor scored an upset TKO victory over Jackson, but lost the title in a forced mandatory title defense in his next fight and coming off knee surgery which was not fully recovered to
Keith Holmes.
After a two-year layoff and a victory in 1998, followed by a three-year layoff and a victory in 2001, Taylor retired from boxing. He coaches amateur boxers at the Boys and Girls Club and trains along with them.
Professional boxing record
See also
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List of world middleweight boxing champions Championship recognition
1884–1910
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1963 births
Living people
American male boxers
Boxers from Texas
Sportspeople from Dallas
African-American boxers
Middleweight boxers
World middleweight boxing champions
World Boxing Council champions