Question about Chavez/Taylor.....

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Taylor vs Chavez was a lot like Morales vs Barrera 1. Where Morales landed more shots than Barrera. But Barrera was landing the heavier shots. Only in this case the HBO crew had their pom poms for Taylor and therefore made it appear as if Taylor was totally dominating till he got caught.

In reality the fight was highly competitive. Dont believe that HBO legendary nights BS. They say chavez started punishing Meldrick from the mid point of the fight on. In reality the first of many cuts inside of Meldrick's mouth happened in round 2. He was also stunned pretty good at the end of round 2 by Chavez lead rights and left hooks. That whole Meldrick started boxing from the outside then he got close and thats why chavez messed him up is BS. Chavez was damaging him from the beginning of the fight.

Put it this way, While meldricks pace was incredible he threw over 1000 punches, Chavez's normal pace was virtually unchanged. Like Meldricks shots were having no effect on him. Taylor had a bad habit of throwing repated left hooks and lower his right hand and most of his opponents would cover up to not get hit, chavez took advantage and if u see the fight u see him almost wait for meldrick to throw his left hook so he can throw his own.

And thus the picture on my avatar.

Also while Chavez has never really gotten credit for his defence he, was truely a technically sound fighter and he blocked a lot of jabs, hooks, and rights.

[Xecutioner]

chavez showed a lot of skill in that fight, taylor was just too fuccing fast chavez would land one good shot and taylor would respond by bouncing numerous shots off his skull. the speed disparity was shocking. just an incredible performance by chavez, completely outclassed talent wise and was hit with like 30 low blows and still came on for the KO. if anyone wants to ***** about anything richard steele did in that fight it would be letting chavez get hit low so many times.

[MetalVomit]

Taylor vs Chavez was a lot like Morales vs Barrera 1. Where Morales landed more shots than Barrera. But Barrera was landing the heavier shots. Only in this case the HBO crew had their pom poms for Taylor and therefore made it appear as if Taylor was totally dominating till he got caught.

In reality the fight was highly competitive. Dont believe that HBO legendary nights BS. They say chavez started punishing Meldrick from the mid point of the fight on. In reality the first of many cuts inside of Meldrick's mouth happened in round 2. He was also stunned pretty good at the end of round 2 by Chavez lead rights and left hooks. That whole Meldrick started boxing from the outside then he got close and thats why chavez messed him up is BS. Chavez was damaging him from the beginning of the fight.

Put it this way, While meldricks pace was incredible he threw over 1000 punches, Chavez's normal pace was virtually unchanged. Like Meldricks shots were having no effect on him. Taylor had a bad habit of throwing repated left hooks and lower his right hand and most of his opponents would cover up to not get hit, chavez took advantage and if u see the fight u see him almost wait for meldrick to throw his left hook so he can throw his own.

And thus the picture on my avatar.

Also while Chavez has never really gotten credit for his defence he, was truely a technically sound fighter and he blocked a lot of jabs, hooks, and rights.

that fight was superbly classic. I saw it for the first time today. Absolutely astonishing. It was much closer than the ring boys were calling it. They must have been in favor of Taylor's outworking Chavez, but yeah, JCC was landing crushing blows. The K.O. punch was unbelievable. I missed the Legendary Nights telecast. What happened to Taylor? is he mentally damaged for life now?

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that fight was superbly classic. I saw it for the first time today. Absolutely astonishing. It was much closer than the ring boys were calling it. They must have been in favor of Taylor's outworking Chavez, but yeah, JCC was landing crushing blows. The K.O. punch was unbelievable. I missed the Legendary Nights telecast. What happened to Taylor? is he mentally damaged for life now?

Yeah HBO and basically every American was rooting for Taylor its probably the most nationalistic fight ever made. As for whats up with Taylor, he has chronic brain injury and has a speech impediment, some people didnt let him retire when he finally did think about it (one being Don King) and so he is very bad now.

[{BrownBomber}]

This is the first fight i ever saw.got me into boxing,not a lot of fights like this now a days.

[DLT]

i just finished watching this fight. He asked Taylor twice if he was ok, and Taylor didnt even look at the ref. Robbery? **** no. Miracle? Indeed.

Taylor did get robbed. If you dont know the story, what happened is when Steele was talking to him, Taylor's trainer Lou Dibella was up on the ring post talking to him. That's why Taylor didnt respond because he was looking at his trainer, plus there was less then 10 seconds left in the fight. The ring has a light on it that flashes with 10 seconds left. The refs are trained to pay attetion to the light and not stop the fight if it goes off in the last round

[jabsRstiff]

I'm a Philadelphian...& I rooted for CHAVEZ that night (even though I was a Taylor fan, also).


To this day, I still rate their fight as the BEST fight I have ever seen.
I've said it before....every great element of boxing was on display that night.


Taylor fought the fight of his life that night. He put everything he had out there.....& took a tremendous beating.
What this fight did to Mel's physical & mental state as a fighter cannot be calculated....

[Xecutioner]

Taylor did get robbed. If you dont know the story, what happened is when Steele was talking to him, Taylor's trainer Lou Dibella was up on the ring post talking to him. That's why Taylor didnt respond because he was looking at his trainer, plus there was less then 10 seconds left in the fight. The ring has a light on it that flashes with 10 seconds left. The refs are trained to pay attetion to the light and not stop the fight if it goes off in the last round

when your face looks like its been through a meat grinder and the ref asks you twice to respond to him after a vicious knockdown and you dont say anything, i dont know how steele could be faulted for that. if anyones at fault maybe duva shouldve shut his fat mouth and let taylor respond to the ref (if he was even capable of doing that)

[tracylee]

he fougtht the fight of his life and got robbed. he took alot of punishment too

I agree...2 damn seconds left and he stopped it Taylor's still paying the price and all for nothing!

[Tha Greatest]

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saddest story in boxing history

when i see meldrick taylor now thats sad

b4 thatfight he looked normal n great n healthy

ever since then his life has been messeed up n depressing

but if richard steele didnt stop that fight

what if chavez landed another BIG shot after that beating he took

he could've ended up worsee then ever
but tha saddest story in boxing today
if they gave him tha decision his life would've ended up tha opposite though