Julio Cesar Chavez - Ring Interview 'Best I've faced' (March, 17th 2020)

A 38 year old, 110 fights into his career, looks like this.

 

No arguments from me.
JCC was beyond shot.

 

Taylor actually did reply. He was looking over at Lou Duva jumping on the ring apron and acting a damned fool. You can see Taylor looking at Duva and then looking back at Steele to answer Steele's 2nd attempt of "Are you all right?" with a "Yes", but about a split second rrrrright before Steele raised his hands to waive it off with 2 seconds remaining.

CLASSIC!!!

A bit similar to Carl "The Truth" Williams replying to referee Randy Neumann's attempt at an answer after Tyson's left hook sent him to that canvas soft spot. But instead of Taylor's soft spoken reply of "yes", Williams shook his head to clear the cobwebs after Neumann's second attempt and THEN replied with a "yes" a split second too late.

Taylor should've been allowed the victory. And I do feel he beat up Chavez far more than Whitaker did.

 

Taylor suffered a broken eye socket, broken ribs, badly busted up face, had a lot of blood pumped from his stomach, was ****ing blood for weeks and was in hospital for almost 2 weeks following the fight and chavez was th eone beat up, lol!!!

 

I said Taylor beat Chavez up more than Whitaker did.

LeRN tOO ReeD

 

I'm just quoting posters who ran with the "Lou Duva got up on the ring apron" when there is no evidence at all that he did.

 

Just as I guessed, best fighter goes to Taylor, someone he beat, not Whitaker.

 

"Frankie Randall was also a hard puncher"

 

Boxers are so predictable.

 

A long in the tooth, over his best weight Chavez bravely held gimmick fighter Whitaker to a draw.

 

Although saying Rosario is a harder puncher than Kostya is not a stretch.

 

The judges stood for much of the bravery in that one. Brave enough to rob Whitaker blind.

 

Uh, that was not a draw. Chavez clearly lost. The term robbery is often overused but that was a legitimate robbery.

 

I had Whitaker by a round. A draw seems fair. It's not about winning individual rounds emphatically, short of a KD. It's about compiling rounds. Tremendous performance by Julio.

 

Of course Chavez gave the nod to Taylor as the best he faced in his prime.
It was his biggest fight against one of the biggest names of that era. Taylor was undeafeated, and a fight he won in the last seconds.
But personally I thought Taylor was running on borrowed time. I always thought even before the Chavez fight Taylor got hit cleanly far more than a fighter with his speed, quickness should.
He seemed to always be there for the receipts, after he cashed his checks. I saw this well before the Chavez fight.
So it really wasn't that big a surprise to me Chavez busted him up physically the way that he did, even though the ending was controversial.
If the fight was 15rds.... No controversy.
Though Camacho and Rasario wasn't undeafeated when he faced them, they in my opinion were the best he faced during his prime years. Not Taylor .
Past his prime of course Whitaker and Deloyhoya would be the best he ever faced.