Question about Chavez/Taylor.....

[mic573]

Taylor did fight the fight of his life but I don't see what HBO saw that night. I saw the fight 6 to 5 in favor of Chavez until the stoppage. Chavez consistently hit Taylor with the harder shots throughout the entire fight. Taylor threw more and landed some good punches but alot of his punches were blocked, ducked or slipped. It's amazing how the HBO crew ignored Taylor's swollen face until the last three rounds or so. The stoppage was correct Taylor was a beaten man in there.

[MetalVomit]

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

it looked to me like Taylor was looking toward Chavez

[mic573]

Chavez was on the other side Taylor was looking at Lou Duva.

[MetalVomit]

Chavez was on the other side Taylor was looking at Lou Duva.

what was duva doing there?

[FibreOptic]

what was duva doing there?

If anyone is to blame for Meldrick Taylor losing that fight, it is Lou Duva. He told Taylor that he needed to win that last round. If Taylor kept away, he probably would not have been caught in the final seconds of the fight. He also has no business distracting the fighter when asked to respond to critical questions.

[tracylee]

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

I keep thinking that with only 2 sec's remaining there wouldnt have been time for him to land any more big shots...JMO

[Tha Greatest]

ya

I keep thinking that with only 2 sec's remaining there wouldnt have been time for him to land any more big shots...JMO

ya i guess u rite

[tracylee]

ya i guess u rite

I dont know...I do wish that he had acknowledged Steeles quesion, and then by the time they met in the center of the ring again it would have been over...or so I thought. Its just very sad but I have to deal with that sort of thing if I'm gonna watch it

[Sir_Jose]

I really wish people would stop trying to say if Taylor had gotten to continue his life would have been different and better.

It wouldn't have the punishmenrt he took is what made him like that not the stoppage

[psychopath]

Well Taylor wasn't the same after that fight because he wasn't able to recover from the humilation and he wasn't able to erase that experience in people mind. He was exposed. The physcological scars from that experience is very evident from then on.