Boxingscene.com reports that middleweight Jermain Taylor is being investigated on rape charges. I want to stress that he has NOT been charged with anything yet, and I’m thinking that eventually he will be cleared. Unfortunately, then he still has to deal with the fall-out with his wife Erica, pictured below. Even if he didn’t commit rape, he most likely still committed adultery.

Supposedly, he was going to meet with a woman to pay her for sex at a hotel room. They got into some sort of altercation and she claims that she was raped. Now, as much as I think it’s my duty to always stick up for women, I have a feeling that he didn’t rape her. If he was paying her to have sex, then it wasn’t like there wasn’t an understanding of what they were there to do. It was probably a dispute over money, and she angrily decided to go to the police to get revenge, because maybe Taylor is a cheapskate or refused to pay her.

Either way, after Jermain Taylor’s lackluster performance against Caleb Traux, and now these rape charges, the Jermain Taylor that once ruled the middleweight division is definitely in the past. I wish him and his wife the best, because it’s obvious that Erica Taylor really loved her husband. I still remember how sad she looked when Taylor was so horribly knocked out by Arthur Abraham.