ABC-TV's call of the Chavez-Taylor ending

I agree with you entirely.

 

Interesting how much this commentary is similar to the actual HBO commentary. Both broadcasts said verbatim, "Unbelievable! Richard Steele stops the fight with 3 seconds...".

On another note, I feel like it took Jim Lampley a good couple of year to be able to encapsulate the drama of a given moment. I feel like early on, he was trying to play analyst more than commentator in a sense.

 

Thanks for posting this. Never knew that ABC had the secondary broadcast. And Wallou/Dierdorf was an underrated team.

I understand the drama of the moment, but if you’re a ref and you ask a guy questions and he’s staring off to the side and non-responsive, your duty is to stop the fight.

The bout was not scheduled for 11 rounds, 2 minutes, 50 seconds. Chavez rendered him non-responsive inside the scheduled limit. Game over.

 

Silly homer commentators have no place questioning a great man in a crucial position such as Steele.

 

Chills. HBO's call was great, this one is greater. Awesome find and thanks for the upload!!

 

Did ABC scorecards have it 11-0 Taylor as HBO did? Never respected HBO or trusted them after that. That fight was close.

 

Taylor was definitely ahead but not by 11 rounds, that's for sure.

 

Probably the last round definitely made it close.

 

Whether you agree with the stoppage or not, Jose Sulaiman's observations are borderline comical - that guy was protecting Chavez for years.

 

Yeah, I think Taylor would have won on a split decision based on the judges' tallies up to the 12th.

 

Back then practically nobody thought it should have been stopped. Today nearly everybody thinks it should have been stopped. I'm with the former. Both announcing teams couldn't believe he stopped it. Good upload

 

Back then us alleged smart fans put our savings smugly on a Taylor points win, and thus we were pissed.


Over thirty years of hindsight has taken the sting out of the loss for us, and we know Steele made the right call.

 

for sure, you can't be 11-0 up and half dead going into the 12th.

 

The HBO broadcast was done live. The ABC version was done after the fact, and the commentators already knew the results.