i just rewatched the documentary on hbo and just figured id say how depressing taylors story is.....hes one of my favorite fighters and wow his speed was amazing it seems faster every time i watch it
That was the best of the series. But Lampley was wrong at the end when he said the rematch was one-sided. That was a good competitive bout.
It wasn't merely this fight made Taylor a shot fighter. Similar to Trinidad-Vargas, it was the main fight in their declines, but not the sole reason. Taylor was still a pretty good fighter later, who moved up and defeated undefeated Aaron Davis for a world title, but he in general took too much punishment. And moving up to 154 to face Terry Norris??? I wonder what his team was thinking there.
cant give HBO applause enough for their cheerleading during the fight and in the making of the documentary...i looove..absaultly loooved how hbo showed taylor flurring through the fight ... then all of the sudden the documentary cut to like the 9th round...mean while the whole thing is just taylor landing blow after blow... 9th round cuts in...taylor looks like tina turner after a renunion tour with ike turner... i look at my dad .. i say ..now by just watching this damn thing you'd think that man got jumped by someone out side of the ring....when'd you even see chaves landing on him?... suuure they showed chaves landing after the fact .. but it was like a 2 or 3 min clip followed by steele talking about how chaves was landing to hurt and break bones... then it went back to nothing but taylor offenses... this fight in my eyes is the biggest misconception of the sport ever
Taylor deservered the win however Richard Steel given what he new did the right thing. I'm sure your going to disagree with me. If Steel knew there was just 2 seconds left I would agree that It was a horible call. However by looking at the flashing lights on the ring posts Steel could there was 10 seconds or less posibily enough time for Chavez to land one more big shot to the clearly hurt Taylor. It is one of the bigest hart breakers in the history of boxing, but in the end Steel did the right thing.
Yep. Just like when Lou claimed he entered the ring after the Pazienza-R. Mayweather fight to "break it up".
Paz and Mayweather hit each other after the bell after numerous rounds. Finally this happens after the final bell. Lou comes out and rushes Roger, and ends up with a cut face in the ruckus. Lou had to be held back by people from going after Roger, meanwhile Vinny was actually the one later holding Roger, as their after-the-bell punches had ended. Lou claims "I went over to break it up".
dont seem like mayweather and lou liked eachother from the day mayweather fought rocky lockridge "spelling"
steele did the right thing as a ref to watch out for the safety of the fighter but if i was the ref i would of let it continue knowing taylor fought his heart out and only had 4 seconds left so chavez wouldnt of landed another blow
The referee is not the timekeeper, his two purposes in the ring are to make sure it is a fair fight, and most importantly make sure both fighters are as safe as is possible. Steele felt Taylor could not continue. Agree or disagree with that is fair enough, but I am sure Richard Steele would not of changed his decision even if he knew (which he might of) there was two seconds left.