richard steele's decision in chavez-taylor 1

[WHB3]

Really? Hmm. I was thinking that the rules used now were used in that fight and maybe Steele had that in the back of his mind.

[Thread Stealer]

steele tried to find the perfect oppurtunity to stop the fight and he did. every one knows steele was tied to Don king. Taylor was winning the fight hands down. the man was going to be shot, at least give him the biggest win of his carreer. what steele did was selfish. what would have happened if he had sent taylor back out there? nothing because chavez wouldnt have even landed a punch. THERE WAS ONLY 5 SECONDS LEFT

who is everyone?

just because a liar like lou duva says it's true, it doesn't make it so.

where's the evidence?

there's one other fight in which steele acted in favor of a king fighter and one other fight in which he acted against king's main guy at the time.

where is this history of steele acting in favor of king's guys?

[bdevils]

Steele did the right thing - adrsan84, bigsmoothh, blackirish137, Bobby Pazuzu, brently1979, Contenders, deevel79, ds91, DWiens421, JohnnyQuppercut, mbandit, mrpain81, pelonxsoldier28, quelinost, Ramamaiden, rambov, raysan, SAN D13GO VILLAN, Slotff, The Underboss, Thunder Lips

You should be ashamed of yourselves. No way in hell should that fight of been stopped with what 3 secs. left

[Sweet Pea 50]

Look ,I have been watching this great sport for 20+ years. So I pretty much know what the ref's job is inside the ring.
There is no REASON at all to overanalyze this B.S. Steele ****ED up. Plain and simple. There is no "well da fight goes twelve rounds" bull**** to argue. Yeah, Chavez was starting to put on a ass whoppin in the latter rounds. I'll totally agrue with all of you on that point. I just think Steele's stoppage was wrong. No hate towards JCC on my part.

[Ace Rockolla]

All you people saying "There were only 2 seconds left, Chavez wouldn't have even been able to land another punch" are missing the point. Steele didnt know there were 2 seconds left. That wasnt his job to know that. If he knew there were 2 seconds left he would have let Taylor continue.

[askoe]

If the knockdown had happened in the 1st round he would never have stopped it. Steele is a thief.

[raysan]

If the knockdown had happened in the 1st round he would never have stopped it. Steele is a thief.

If a fighter doesnt answer you, or even worse looks away like he has no clue where he is at, the ref has to stop it, so yes even in the first round it would have been stopped because he didnt answer. He was holding on to the ropes, who knows if he couldve even walked forward or stood on his own for two seconds.

[crillz]

Steele didnt just wave off the fight.
He counted up to 9, then asked him twice if he was ok. Taylor didnt respond. So he should then of asked him some more questions??? How many questions should Steele of asked until Taylor responded?



He didnt even have to ask him if he was ok, but did because Taylor was busted up . He gave Taylor a chance to show he was ok to continue, and Taylor didnt respond.

Also, Steele did make sure Chavez went to a neutral corner. Its the first thing he did. Watch the video, and look and Steeles feet wen Taylor goes down.
Not that its at all relevant .

yea but Taylor was ON HIS FEET by 5, he wasn't stumbling or nothing he actually had his arms on the ropes which isn't legal, you can't even do that, using the ropes to rest your arms in the corner, the referee was supposed to tell him to step forward and ask him something to see if he answers correctly but before anything he's supposed to direct the other guy to the neutral corner before even starting to count, he didn't even bother to do that, I was the one who posted the video dogz I saw it like 100 times this morning, he didn't direct Chavez to a corner THEN start counting, Chavez went to a corner once he knocked Taylor down and Steele just stepped in and started counting, Steele cracked his neck Chavez's way real quick and even then he still wasn't fully in the corner he was more towards the red ring post, pay close attention to that whole sequence you'll see what I mean..

my whole point is that he was talking all this good referee **** when he actually skipped procedures, he just jumped in when Taylor went down and started counting and Chavez was more towards the red corner when Taylor got up, Taylor was up on his feet by 5and was looking in the direction of his corner, he was so tired and dazed it may have been even a delayed reaction but Steele didn't give chance, he acted like it was the 6th round and there was sooooooo much more left to go that he felt a need to protect him, the official stoppage was at 2 seconds until the bell meaning had he done that **** with the eye and the finger moving side to side, directed Chavez to his corner before anything, asked Taylor a question and tell him to step to him and put his gloves up.. a vet referee like him could have done all that especially in such a high profile event where Taylor was clearly winning, got up at 5 and showed no signs of being out on his feet, tired yes, but out? no.. the stoppage is the worse I can recall at the moment in the history of the sport.. 100

[joepal]

sorry 2 beat a dead horse again but i like seeing polls and different opinions.

Steele was a douche. Taylor was up even before the 4th count.

That referee gravely abused his discretion when he made that call.

[slicksouthpaw16]

who is everyone?

just because a liar like lou duva says it's true, it doesn't make it so.

where's the evidence?
there's one other fight in which steele acted in favor of a king fighter and one other fight in which he acted against king's main guy at the time.

where is this history of steele acting in favor of king's guys?

where is the evidence that he wasent tied to don king? i meant everyone that i know and all of the boxing experts that i hear talking about it says that Don King had something to do with it. you dont go and stop a fight with 2 seconds in a round left because you care about the fighter, its because he was getting paid. ok, how about when chavez lost a split decision to Frankie Randall when he clearly lost that fight by a wide margin to most people. are you saying Don King had nothing to do with that as well?