Just watched JCC vs Meldrick Taylor

Wrong. You stop a fight when a fighter is so out of it that he can't respond to questions anymore, NOT ONLY to save him from punishment, but because the other fighter has legitimately won. Chavez beat Taylor into a semi - conscious mess. To say Taylor deserved two more seconds is to say Chavez deserved to have the rules bend against him.

 

Man we can agree to disagree. He didn't seem so out of it when he was looking over trying to hear what his trainer was saying. Like I said before what in the hell was going to happen with 2 seconds left in the 12th. He got up at the count of 6. I already said tech the ref was right. IMO he shouldn't have stopped the fight. It is whatever. You can believe that the fight being stopped under those circumstances is right and I will believe that is wasn't. No one opinion is going to change anyway :good

 

The strange thing here is that some people here say JCC vs Taylor was a bad stoppage (I do not agree with that, but that's beside the point), but say Bute should have lost the first Andrade fight. :think

 

he took some amount of injures during that fight like broken eye sockets etc and pissing pure blood!!

If you watch the HBO Legendary Night the story of Chavez-Taylor it gives you the list of injuries that Taylor took that night. They also show a video of him talking a few years later and he is punch drunk.

 

Steele was right to stop the fight. In the heat of the moment he didn't know if there was 2 second left or 20. Taylor was not fit to continue; end of.

 

Though some people argue the fight should have continued the truth is that Chavez did end Taylor's prime and one more punch could have crippled him. It is a tough call to make but look at Nonito destroying Montiel the ref allowed it to continue and that outraged everybody...however people argue that melderick should have been allowed to continue.

 

Richard saved Meldricks life.

 

Why gamble with a mans life like that?

 

Worst stoppage I've ever seen. This was an event promoted by Don King.

 

In boxing it only takes one punch..ONE PUNCH.. to completely change the outcome of a fighter.. what if Chavez would of landed a punch. That one punch could of physically damage Taylor

Look at the Omar Chavez vs Marco Nazareth(RIP) bout Nazareth took one to many punches from O.Chavez and look at the outcome of the fight.

 

or Bute :verysad

 

but is timekeeping the job of the ref?

 

did you not see mayorga vs mosley with 1 sec left...mosley had less time left and managed to knock him the **** out !!!

chavez would've had 6 seconds left....

 

But in this fight seeing the damage Taylor was taking and being dropped hard in that last round why take such a chance? If a ref carries on a fight when he KNOWS a fighter is really badly hurt then he's not doing his job. Time frame has nothing to do with it.

 

Get outta here with this mess. Had the fight gone on, Meldrick would've been more than likely been OK. That's not to say that Steele did the wrong thing, though. I'm torn on the ending, but what's done is done. Chavez was the better fighter, I'm comfortable in saying that much.