Worst stoppage you've ever seen?

Was it Steele then too?Don't remeber,just remember the bad stoppage.Sure Mayweather was winning but the guy wanted to go on,give'em a chance.

 

I was going to say Calzaghe Manfredo too.

 

I never once argued with Richard Steele's decision. I only had a problem with somebody trying to say 2 seconds was enough time for Taylor to be seriously hurt, again. Other than that, I have no quarrel.

 

No further comments Your Honour.

 

Duran-Moore and Duran-Bizzarro were dangerously late stoppages.

 

atsch Oh man.

He should have been allowed to fight on, but I haven't condemned Steele for stopping the fight. I have not criticized him in any way for being unaware of how much time was left in the fight.

The only problem I had in this thread was people saying two seconds was enough time for long term damage to be inflicted on Meldrick Taylor.

It was you who mis-understood my post, not the other way around.

 

He maybe gets flattened, yeah, maybe he gets seriously hurt, and maybe Chavez doesn't land another single punch and Taylor wins the fight as long as he isn't KO'd. Maybe I'm too hard on Steele, but I heard that mother****er in an interview flat out say that it isn't his job to know how much time is left, and that pissed me off. I guess it can see it being both ways. Fighter safety wise it may have been the right thing to do, but it did completely change the outcome of the fight, and I generally hate when referees get involved to the extent that it changes the outcome.

 

Didn't change the outcome of the fight, IMO, so I was fine with it. Manfredo didn't belong in there with Joe.

 

Irrelevant. The decision was wrong. There was no need for a stoppage at that point. With your attitude, they may as well not have had the fight at all. Take that up with Joe & Enzo, who accepted such a pitiful opponent to begin with.

 

Dear oh dear. Check the two quotations I highlighted. If you don't understand how you have completely contradicted yourself, the education system has failed you badly amigo.

 

My opinion is that he should have been given the chance to see the final bell. I have not argued against that.

This is now redundant. You mis-understood me from the word go, and now you won't admit so. It's over.

 

I don't think its much of a "maybe", if Chavez gets across the ring then Taylor will def. get knocked down again IMHO. I really don't think Steele can be expected to know to within a second or two how long is left. He's got the fighter in front of him on his second KD of the round and who isn't responding to his questions, thats where his focus is not whether theres enough time left in the round for Chavez to make it across the ring. If he's 2 or 3 seconds out in his guess then Taylor gets hurt, you just can't gamble like that.

I hear ya on refs deciding fights but I think this was just one of those calls that had to be made at the time but that gets questioned by people with slo motion and a timer in the corner of the screen.

 

Yeah, they may as well not have. Exactly. It wasn't a fight, it was an exhibition. Tell me you think Manfredo may not have been TKO'd at some point anyway and then we'll have something to argue about.

 

Can you read?? Do you understand the English language??

"I've never argued with the decision... but Taylor should have been allowed to see out the final seconds"

That IS arguing with the decision. Quite clearly! You contradicted yourself completely, if you can't see that then I can't help you! atsch

 

Just to be clear, the official ruling was 2:58, but it was more like 4 to 5 seconds left when Steele made the decision to stop it. The official ruling is often a couple seconds later.

Not that it really matters, as I don't think it was enough time for Chavez to land one more dangerous punch. Possible, but unlikely. Say Steele wipes off Taylor's gloves, and then looks at Chavez and signals that it's okay to fight, the final bell might've rung anyway.

I wanted Taylor to win, but I would've had more of a problem with the stoppage if Taylor had verbally responded to Steele, rather than giving a slight nod while looking behind Steele, at Lou Duva in the corner.