I was just wondering about the judges in Taylor-Chavez 1. Apparently going into the 12th, 2 judges had Taylor ahead. Who was that 3rd judge, how the HELL did he have Chavez ahead, and what other fights, if any, was he allowed to work on?
True enough. I've watched the fight repeatedly and have never been able to give chavez more than 2 rounds but different judges prefer different things i suppose...
Taylor was winning IMO, but not as far ahead as many (like the commentators) say he was, and there's been a lot of far worse scorecards from judges than that.
Depending on how you score fights, Chavez could have been winning the fight. He was doing way way WAY more damage than Taylor was. He was pounding his body and hammering Taylor's head with HUGE punches... You should watch the fight with the commentators muted. They had a lot to do with why people thought it was such a robbery. They praised Taylor every time he landed a punch or two, and said nothing when Chavez did his damage...
easiest way to score a fight when your not sure is by asking yourself "which guy would I least like to be rightnow?" and clearly it was taylor.
I agree no question he should have been up on the cards. And its not like taylor was hitting chavez with feather fisted punches. He was doing a lot of in fighting and really turning on his shots. He hit chavez with a lot of bombs in that fight. I can see someone having it close or maybe even but it would be hard to have him ahead. That being said in my book with the knock down chavez gets a draw or wins. so even if he doesn't get stopped in my mind its a mute point anyways.
its just too bad richard steel was such a corrupt ***** and had to rob taylor of the win. Personally, I'd be willing to let this one incident slide but with the amount number of other dodgy stoppages he made I'll glad he got chased out of boxing....the tyson rudduck stoppage was just bull****.
i remember watching this fight at the time, i was like wow chavez is taking a beating, i was also shocked and dissapointed at the result but when i watched the fight again after about 5 or 6 years later i didn't see the same fight.
Steele made 2 well-known questionable stoppages, the Tyson-Ruddock 1 being an obviously quick one. When else did Steele have a dodgy stoppage? There was the time he probably Barkley-Hearns I go on too long....what are the numerous others? Steele was a solid ref for many years, who unfortunately gets remembered for a couple of bad or questionable nights rather than how good of a ref he was for a long time.