watched it last night and the ref and moores corner should have been thrown in jail for not stopping the fight. moore took a terrible ass whipping.
Pretty poor effort on both their parts...ref and the corner I mean..totally ruined a promising fighter.
pretty poor of an effort is not enough to describe these idiots its almost as bad as steele stopping taylor with 5 seconds to go in what looked to be a sure win for meldrick
taylor was in worse shape than moore was, and yet you think moore should have been stopped earlier... why?
taylor was ahead and got knocked down with about 28 seconds he got up before the eight count and steele asked him if he was ok, got no reply but was loking at his corner there was only 3-5 seconds left in the fight. steele however did make a great comment in that he was not a timekeeper but a referee and if he thought a fighter was in danger of being hurt bad it was his duty to protect him. to that i say kudos but the moore ref and corner seemed to have absolutley no concern for their fighter.
yeah i used to dwell on the amount of time left in the taylor fight, but i don't any more. the referee's job is to protect the fighters as best he can, and steele was concerned for taylor, who couldn't reassure him that he was ok. chavez was a relentless fighter, and he may have landed another punch before the fight was up... taylor could have been killed.
Too much of the talk about Davey Moore is focused on the Duran fight. He was an impressive fighter for a while, very good offensive tools. Unfortunately his defense never came along, and that's why Duran beat him as bad as he did. The battle of the punchers: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emMo0J-I-6k[/ame] Moore wins his belt: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W99uKNILAK4[/ame]
The thumb in the eye in round 1 was the beginning of the end. I could tell Davey was slowing down after, due to the gradual swelling shut of the affected eye. Not that Duran wouldn't have still eventually won, but this was largely why the fight was as one-sided as it was. Not to mention Moore's relative greenness. With another 10 or so fights, he would've had that extra "seasoning", so to speak.
Moore was a great heavy handed offensive fighter, shades of a rawer Ike Williams in his lead rights and combos. Howver he really was badly mismanaged.he was damaged goods but still good after the Duran fight imo.certainly not a finished fighter yet seemed to be largely discarded and moved into another title fight against the often underrated but inconsistent Drayton a bit too haphazardly, with little effort made to correct the flaws that were there pre-duran. Drayton just outlasted him in a forgotten classic with good skills and offense on display from both fighters.Incidentally Drayton is another career underachiever and too often forgotten as far as recent jr middleweights go, mostly remembered for his mid-thirties losses.Lazy, sparring partner mentality, but if you got him on a night where he felt like fighting he was very good, crafty and heavy handed. I think someone like Benton would have been a good trainer for the younger Moore.He was never going to be a slickster on defence, but someone like that may have instilled the calmer approach and ring-generalship that was needed to get the most out of his offensive skills, without needing to turn every fight into an attempt just to brute force his way to a win.
