Taylor Lautner fights for Taylor Swift's love in Saturday Night Live intro (VIDEO)

Taylor Lautner fights for Taylor Swift's love in Saturday Night Live intro. The New Moon
star spoofed Swift's VMA speech and put his martial arts skills on display. Photo/NBC

Taylor Lautner took to the stage to host Saturday Night Live (SNL) last night and it was rumored here (and everywhere) that Taylor Swift may come up.

Within three minutes of the show's intro, after hunky Taylor Lautner reminded fans he was "negative 18" when the first SNL hit the screen and he takes his shirt off "a lot", Swift would be mentioned.

"Too much, in fact, even Matthew McConaughey told me to cool it," Lautner added, before mentioning his "rumored romance".

"I've also become close with a singer named Taylor Swift," Lautner confessed. He then spoke about the VMA-Kanye episode, in which he told fans he wish he could have "done this".

Stripping off his leather jacket and leaping into a back flip, Lautner talks between two cardboard, stand-ups of Kanye West and Swift challenging Kanye by saying, "You messed with the wrong Taylors". 

Post-smack talk, Lautner presents the Saturday Night Live audience with a one-man MMA display - Quick karate chops, blazing feet work, a one-hand handstand into another back flip of some sorts and a final karate chop before more of the same.

See Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift kissing for the movie Valentine's Day

Taylor was definitely putting on more of an athletic display for the show, in just the intro! While Taylor (and the rest of the Twilight) crew has said they underwent intense fight training for the vamp series, Taylor's karate background travels back to his childhood- Winning top karate championships at the age of 11.

YouTube Videos: Taylor Lautner Saturday Night Live - December 12, 2009  

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