Just watched JCC vs Meldrick Taylor

Then Chavez would have fallen victim to the clock as opposed to the fighter... boxing to me is to find out who is the best fighter & that night it was Chavez.

 

It was a bad stoppage, and Chavez wouldnt have had any time to follow up.



But Chavez won the fight in the fact Taylor took more punishment on the night. So the victory was deserved.

 

Its irrelevant in a refs decision making to stop a fight in the last round with just seconds remaining, but to those that argue that there were two few seconds for Chavez to have landed another punch (there was actually 6 seconds and thats more than enough for a fighter to come out of a corner and land a punch) but the point I want to make is that I've seen so many times on the TV screen the clock strike zero, and the bell not ringing until a few seconds later.

.....and once Steele would have signaled for the fight to continue, who was going to stop Chavez' momentum as he raced full tilt at Taylor who in the condition he was in could very well have fallen pray like a deer on the road frozen looking at headlights.

This is still a damn sport, you dont play with a man's life like that.

 

The truth is Taylor did not have much defense as seen in his fights with McGirt and Meekins, so when he fought Chavez his hand speed could win the rounds but he was still getting hit. The fact he was stopped before the bell rang is not controversial. He couldn't continue.

 

it isn't for us to judge if he could continue, that was Richard Steele's role. Going down wobbling and getting up and looking away when the trainer is looking into his eyes is not a way to get the extra time.

 

Meldrick lost the fight, but it was up to him to come back and prove he was great by beating more guys and being great even after the loss, and he didn't. There was always controversy about the first Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns fight in 1981. Some people said Davey Pearl stopped the fight too soon. Regardless, Hearns came back and won many titles and beat Benitez and Duran and Hill and fought Hagler and Leonard again. He made things happen. Meldrick's career of never beating greats after this fight almost supports Richard Steele's action.

 

Had he let it continue Chavez would have had 7 seconds i belive to get there.

I will say the same thing i say every time. There was a rematch and the better fighter still won.

 

The rematch that took place 4 years later, post-Norris and Espana, was irrelevant. Not that I disagree with you on who was the better fighter.

 

exactly.....

all this "chavez wouldn't of had time to do ****" is ****en stupid...who would've thought that with 17 seconds left, he would've dropped taylor ???
taylor is lucky he didnt get dq'd, that i think was smart of steel not to do and tarnish such a great fight....duva was yelling on the apron for ****s sake, that's an easy dq.....

so many wanted steele to bend the rules, twice....to give meldrick a victory ???? what kind of ***** **** is that coming from hardcore boxing fans

 

one sec left...



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**** Lou Duva and his "I told him to dance" bull****.

He told Taylor that "The fight is close!"

Be a man and admit you were WRONG, Lou.

 

irrelevant because Taylor lost. Had Taylor won the rematch it would have been relevant. Hearns came back and pretty much beat Ray 8 years later even though it was a draw. That is why had Taylor been Thomas Hearns, not many people would talk about the Chavez fight as being as significant as it was. That is the Taylor claim to greatness. But since Taylor did not make greatness later in his career, that is all he has as far as beating a great. He was 2 seconds from beating a great.

 

What the hell are you even talking about?

 

you really don't understand? You want me to explain to you that the reason the fight is talked about and those 2 seconds significant is because that was Taylor's one chance to be great. If he beats the count he is great. If he doesn't and he isn't. Thomas Hearns is a guy who lost a similar first fight with Leonard and came back and proved he was great in other fights, so the first Leonard fight is just a blip in his career. Taylor did not prove he was great in other fights, so this one fight was his chance to prove he was great, and he was two seconds short.

 

So he was a great in your eyes?