richard steele's decision in chavez-taylor 1

[Sweet Pea 50]

I may have been a little harsh in my previous posts about wanting to do bodily harm against Steele.
Maybe.
Just a little bit.
Its just that it comes to a little thing I like to call AWARENESS. Steele had been in dozens of championship fights before this.
He knew the stakes that these two warriors were fighting for.
Meldrick got up. He had only two seconds left to go until the final bell. TWO.
It's not like Chavez had a half round to hunt and destroy.
It was TWO seconds.
Apparently, Steele didn't comprehend, or didn't care about this. RING AWARNESS. The ref have better have some to when it comes to a situation like this.
But hey Chavez won. I'm still bitter about it. Can't even lie.
But Taylor should have had his chance to be a champ.

[NeXt In Line]

I see the **** going both ways:

"Why are you stopping this fight? This guy poved his worth, he's a CHAMPION, where in the hell do you get off stopping this fight?!"

"When you look at it in perspective, you have to see the big picture: One guy got ASSAULTED, so should he have stopped the fight? Yeah, they should have stopped the fight..."

Both quotes by Ron Borges of the Boston Globe.

I feel for both arguments, but I think I feel more with the first one. Any championship level fighter, who has the skill, combination ability and star power of Meldrick Taylor, who can stand TOE TO TOE, LITERALLY, with the P4P star and toughest SOB in boxing, for 12 rounds, after giving him a ****ing clinic, DESERVES the right of those last 2-5 seconds.

[joepal]

I may have been a little harsh in my previous posts about wanting to do bodily harm against Steele.
Maybe.
Just a little bit.
Its just that it comes to a little thing I like to call AWARENESS. Steele had been in dozens of championship fights before this.
He knew the stakes that these two warriors were fighting for.
Meldrick got up. He had only two seconds left to go until the final bell. TWO.
It's not like Chavez had a half round to hunt and destroy.
It was TWO seconds.
Apparently, Steele didn't comprehend, or didn't care about this. RING AWARNESS. The ref have better have some to when it comes to a situation like this.
But hey Chavez won. I'm still bitter about it. Can't even lie.
But Taylor should have had his chance to be a champ.

Well, he did have a point in saying that he thought Meldrick was hurt. It was actually a 50-50 thing, but then you have Eastman-Joppy which went the other way.

IMO, that was very unfair for MT.

[demirturk]

meldrick taylor should have gotten his victory ! , richard steele ****ed meldrick taylor up ! hes the one i blame for everything that has happened to meldrick.

[Sweet Pea 50]

Thats all I was trying to get at BHOP. Meldrick should have gotten his place with the champs. And it's sad to see in my eye's with this. Steele ****ed up. It happens. But on this scale, man, it just burns me.

[Thunder Lips]

" 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"

Uh No. You can clearly see Steele grab Chavez and walk him off camera towards the neutral corner before starting the count.

[Sweet Pea 50]

Talyor won this fight.
Plain and simple.
Anybody thinking different, is Chavez's family members.
Argue what you want....

[crillz]

Uh No. You can clearly see Steele grab Chavez and walk him off camera towards the neutral corner before starting the count.

right you are, I didn't realize it because of the bad camera angle but Steele still didn't properly evaluate him, he was supposed to tell him to step forward and put his hands up because he was resting his arms on the ropes, before he would have even finished asking him to step forward the fight would have been over.. he keeps saying it's his job to protect a fighter but from what? the fight was over and not 1 punch more was going to be landed.. **** it lets give him the benefit of the doubt and say he didn't hear the 10 second warning, he still didn't properly evaluate Taylor to see if he could continue, he just asked him twice are you okay with a 1 second pause in between each time he asked and then just waved it off which is atrocious, he was supposed to tell Meldrick to step forward because his arms were rested on the ropes which is illegal because it's like he's using the ropes to stand up and he wasn't even looking at Steele..

Steele was supposed to take more time with him, he was asking him if he was okay and was clearly seeing him looking elsewhere, if the crowd was so loud that Steele couldn't hear that 10 second warning then it's possible Taylor didn't hear him ask him if he was okay that first time and since he waved it off so quick the second time there was no room for response, he was highly dazed and looked like he didn't hear him, if he truly couldn't respond why did he put a face of discontent when Steele stopped it? he just plain and simple was supposed to do more to see if he could continue and he didn't.. I don't know what else to tell you dogz.. 100