Did Chavez Quit Against Randall In The 2nd Fight?

Yes should have been a retirement on Chavez s part and the fight Frankie retain the title.

 

Quit job.

 

Chavez was a sore loser

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It was a masters class in my view.

 

Chavez could have learned a lot from Ruben Olivares in terms of continuing to fight with an actual horrific gash.

Instead Chavez acted like a giant gash.

 

Yes. He quit.

 

That's how I saw it. He probably knew that if it went to the scorecards they would give him the decision. Not his finest moment

 

In retrospect, Julio's run at 140 after the Meldrick Taylor fight was very disappointing for someone supposed to be arguably the best in the sport. There's really not a lot of quality there by that standard, or even by IBF/WBO mandatory of the day sort of level, in fact his opposition was no better than quite a few splinter champs of the time that were given criticism for it, but his previous rep built fighting good fighters up thrugh 1990 was cashing in that credit for almost half a decade. His best post-Taylor I opponents up until the Whitaker superfight were a washed up Camacho (who had become a parody of himself by then) and Greg Haugen. Then after that travesty we get the Randall dodgyness, but never fear, the gravy train is saved, so we can watch it get drawn out for another few years with classics like taking on a similarly aging Tony Lopez, and shot Meldrick taylor again.

1980s-1990 Chavez was a great fighter, but the one after that had something missing...maybe Meldrick chipped the swagger and sense of invincibility out of him, or perhaps it was just a typical loss of desire (plus inevitable ntch or two of physical decline by 91/92'ish) as his career moved into it's second decade. This version would not fare greatly in matchups with other top historic 140-147 fighters, imo.

 

We need to make a survey on which ATG takes his Ls worse: if Duran or Chavez

 

This fight pretty exemplifies why I never was a big fan of Chavez. He lost the first fight, then hinted that he wasn't properly motivated, and guaranteed a KO of Randall in the rematch.
The rematch came, and Chavez was getting owned. He was clearly losing at the time of the stoppage cut, yet was awarded the W. That never
sat well with me, because Chavez was not winning the fight, and would've surely lost again had it continued.

 

Chavez won every round and was on the verge of stopping Randall.

The ref wasn't saving Julio. He was saving Frankie.

 

Yup