Chavez vs. Taylor - Commentating sucks!

Watch the start of Pea-Chavez for the reverse.

 

Your watching the fight through hindsight because you know the shots Chavez are landing took effect on Taylor, they were watching it live in person so they couldn't know that yet.

 

Was that the commentary by "Bob Sheridon" i.e another round for Taylor!! another round for Taylor!! He never mentioned Chavez once, but the ending was lively DOWN GOES TAYLOR!! HE'S UP!! THE COUNT IS? HE'S STOPPED IT!! i'll have to watch it again to check, I was at the fight & it was hard to score as being there always is, but i've never got the scoring the same ever, chavez actually blocked a lot of Taylors work.

 

The atmosphere was incredible, no i was'nt pissed off just ****IN RELIEVED my yank cousin ****ed off & left me as he was convinced we'd get battered so he missed the end, the noise was ****in incredible, there's goosebumps on my arms as i type this, i just lept up screaming along with all the mex's.

I remember the right hand that hit Taylor about 30 seconds from the end, Kerrrrumppper, thats how it sounded, then mayhem as everyone was screaming, then bang DOWN GOES TAYLOR, everyone's going beserk, i see Taylor get up, then i see Chavez raising his hands, could'nt believe it, did'nt know what was going on, the ballroom was just a ****in frenzy, unbelievable night, never ever forget the experiance, absolute ****in mayhem, thank god chavez won, i'll tell yer now, the mex's there were some of the meanest in yer face lookin ****ers i've ever encountered, why i started sqeakin in a speedy gonzalez accent i don't know?

It looked like Taylor was on top but hard to study a fight live as so much is going on around you, i think i had Taylor up by 3/4 if i recall but that was way off really once i'd watched it on tape, it's always different, i'll watch it again tomorrow & we'll compare cards, ****IN GLORY DAYS & well worth the 18 hour nightmare flight over:deal

 

Appears you have Taylor up by 3 not 1.

 

:smoke

 

For what it's worth, I've never heard a really good call of that fight. I've heard at least parts of 3 different calls and none of them really seemed to get what was going on. Still, the HBO cast was really pretty lacking. You'd hear more noise if you dropped a pin than you would from the HBO crew when Chavez was landing punches.

Usually I think that group does a decent enough call, but they were completely out to lunch in Chavez-Taylor.

 

Lampley was on Meldrick's dick like he would later be on the dick of another Taylor about a decade and a half later.

All throughout the fight, most noteworthy saying "Chavez on the verge of going down" in either the 9th or 10th. He didn't look hurt at all.

This wasn't unnoticed among fans at the time though.

I remember letters in magazines, either KO, The Ring, or Boxing Illustrated, with fans complaining about how biased the HBO commentary was.

 

The Chavez-Taylor fight was the beggining of many biased calls to come for the HBO boxing team.

.......years later, Jim Lampley admitted to having sat down and rewatched the replay because so many fans were coming to him and telling him how biased he and the HBO team called the fight......

......Lampley admitted that he was lacking in his effort to see and give Chavez credit for shots that would later have Meldrick debilitated.
.....furthermore Lampley said, "I still scored the fight for Taylor, but it was alot closer than how we depicted it on the air."
......which takes me to how Lampley and Co. criticized Lou Duva for not telling Meldrick Taylor to just survive the last rounds.....Lou Duva was seeing a close fight, and you dont tell your fighter to stop fighting and pack it in when a fights competitive.


Having admitted that their call was lacking in fairness, sadly, it seems Lampley and Co. did'nt learn a damn thing about leaving their biases at the door when calling a fight.:-(