Flashback Chavez vs Talor

Taylor got ****ing destroyed.

 

Be honest, I bet you're a big Chavez fan right?

Interesting you say in the USA the bias in scoring is on defense and speed? In the UK and the rest of Europe we always tend to say that US Judges seem to favour the more aggresive boxer over the more defensive minded skillful boxer.



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This thread pops up like every week....just sticky already

 

I understand both sides of the argument and really don't feel that strongly about my opinion that the stoppage was alright since Taylor didn't verbally respond. To argue the other side, Chavez wasn't in the neutral corner, Steele looked back and most likely saw Chavez standing in the middle of the ring, and should have warned him since a fighter isn't supposed to be that close. Steele, just two years earlier, let Hearns go on against Barkley, and his legs were in worse shape than Taylor.

No, what I feel more strongly about is how people buy into this myth of how Taylor went from the next ATG to a scrub overnight. He was still a world class fighter afterwards, had the second best win of his career after Chavez, and was gonna struggle regardless. I have not heard one solid argument on how Taylor, with his size, style, and temperament, was going to excel in that WW division, about to be loaded with talent, strong guys who could pop.

Revisionist history is rather annoying.

 

There's no greatness in finishing the fight busted up and barely conscious, while your opponent is still fresh and ready to finish you.
The amount of time left on the clock is irrelevant. He was in no condition to continue and couldn't answer the ref. Stoppage is perfectly correct.

 

Putting the first L on an ATG's record and in the fashion that he fought the first nine or ten rounds would have assured him of Boxing immortality. Chavez would not have finished him because the bell would have sounded before he could have crossed the ring to get at him therefore making your assertion that the time on the clock was irrelevant utterly wrong. There was no legitimate reason to call the fight at that point because not only could Chavez not have damaged him any more but I have seen fighters far more hurt than that be allowed to continue with more than two seconds left. Let the fight reach it's natural conclusion, I say, and this fight's natural conclusion would have been Chavez losing by split decision.

Also, he could have answered Steele, he didn't because Duva was posturing on the apron like a ****ing idiot and distracting him when his focus should have been solely on the ref in front of him. Duva made two gross errors, first telling him that he needed to decisively win the final stanza and secondly with the apron bit.

 

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