Meldrick vs Chavez

taylor deserved those 2 seconds more then anybody at that moment.

 

One of the worst robberies in the history of the boxing. Taylor was robbed of his sure victory and should have had his moment **** that POS Steele who should have never been allowed to officiate again.

 

Now I agree with this. Taylor and his corner were really stupid. He had the fight won but his corner should have told him to hold and stay away for the last round but Taylor's Philly fighter mentality was his undoing.:-(

 

Bull****. The fight was legitimately stopped within the 3 minutes of the final round, I don't see how anyone can cry robbery. No fighter "deserves" any extra chances in any fight. That's bias and has no place in the sport. He got knocked down, and failed to convince the referee that he was ok. So it got stopped. Period. :deal

"Meldrick suffered a facial fracture, he was urinating pure blood, his face was grotesquely swollen... this was a kid who was truly beaten up to the face, the body, and the brain" A quote from a doctor in the wikipedia entry for this fight. Even if he had been allowed to continue and won the decision, he was pretty much done. It wasn't Steele's decision that killed his career, it was this fight as a whole.

 

Psychological damage was only half the story. Seeing the way he turned out after the fight doesn't bother me too much about the decision. I voted that he should have gotten it but it's not like he was as good as he was before the fight. Fighters have won decisions in fights which took a lot outta them.

 

No, it was taking too much punishment in general, and management's genius idea of matching Taylor up with ****ing Terry Norris above welterweight in 1992.

Taylor was still pretty good after Chavez, even if never quite the same.

 

I don't see what would have been that much different about his career even if he'd won it.

So what happens later? Taylor said he had problems at 140 (although he made 140 in 1994), so he vacates his belt at 140, moves up to 147 and beats Davis for a title. He's still too brawl happy and the damage he's taken in the ring and in the gym adds up.

147 was deep in talent around this time period, so eventually he's going to likely lose to one of them.

He would have been the first to beat Chavez, and had that great win on his resume, but I don't see his career at the top being that long regardless.

Too much punishment and too much talent at 147 at that time period anyway.

 

Chavez destroyed Taylors whole existance in the 12. Good stop by Steele.

 

That sounds like a guy that lost a fight.:yep

 

if he had responded, sure. He didn't so he lost.

 

Exactly......I've read quotes from the medical team that treated Taylor at his multiday hospital day......"Its the worst condition overall that a fighter has ever come in to see them after a fight, that was'nt in a coma."

Call it a Taylor schooling if you wish, but JC Chavez systematically in a process throughout the fight physically destroyed Meldrick Taylor that night!

 

I am also a licensed boxing referee and as controversial as it may seem Steele did his job. Last 10 seconds, who deserves it, it is all irrelavent. Taylor was given a standing 8 count, Steele asked him several times if he was ok to continue. Taylor was clearly out of it and didn't respond after an 8 count which counts as a knockout. Taylor probably had 10 seconds to recover and didn't respond to the ref which is a stoppage no matter what time is on the clock or who deserves the victory. Mosley dropped Mayorga with 2 seconds to go last year and the ref waved it off with 1 second to go... Mayorga dominated that fight and possibly could have got to his feet inside 10 seconds and wouldn't have had to recieve another punch but that is not the point. The fight doesn't stop until the final bell

 

you're saying Mayorga dominated the fight against Mosley? watch it again. it a good thing you're a ref and not a judge.

 

I saw the fight on more than one occassion. It's a classic fight. Intriging contest I saw Meldrick make Chavez look slow, off balance and weak defensively. He won in my opinion 9 out of the first 11 rounds, but I also saw when Chavez landed he was landing hard shots to the body and head. Chavez also used a few well placed dirty shots that Steele did nothing about. Meldrick never complained he just would tear into Chavez with sweet, powerful combos. Meldrick just ran out of gas and got caught is how I saw it and if Steele would have been on his game, he would have let taylor finish what he had done and get the win.