This got started in the middle of another thread..I say he got screwed and deserved to finish the few seconds left of the fight of his life he was winning…It was a Heartbreaking robbery
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one of the worst, most crooked nights of boxing ever
richard steele KNEW the fight was almost over and if he cant tell when a round is almost over or hear the 10 second notification when it goes off then he has no buisness being a ref
1 important question…was don king promoting chavez at the time of that fight?
because that would explain a whole lot if thats the case
biggest robbery of all time imo
that night was a black eye on the sport
When you look at thge accumulative damage of Meldrick if time wasn’t a factor that fight would have been stopped I think the whole controversy is that it was fight with 5 seconds left.
Ask yourself if there was a minute left in that round would you have stopped it?
Thats exactly what the controversery is!!!I cant tell you if I would have stopped it with a minute left…If Chavez engaged him and he couldnt defend himself and wasnt punching back than yes Starr his life is woth more…5 seconds left if anybody in the enire history of the human race deserved the benefit of the doubt it was Meldrick Taylor.He was a proud Philly fighter that won the war of attricition over the legendary Chavez, He payed the ultimate price in that fight he was never the same and his Medal Of Honor should have been his hard fought victory…
Taylor got screwed alright, by Lou Duva, who told him he needed to go out and win the last round 
Time should be disregarded unless the fight was over completely. Taylor was unfit to continue, he was clearly out of it. When a referee looks into a fighter’s eyes and sees a guy who doesn’t know where he is, it’s the referee’s responsibility to protect that fighter from his own ighting spirt. Taylor was out of it, I don’t think anyone can argue that he wasn’t. The rules don’t take time into account. They do take fighter safety into account, and very bad things have happened in 10 seconds. I have absolutely no problem with the stoppage. Richard Steele has been in the ring a hell of a lot longer then anyone here and when he looks into a fighter’s eyes, he knows if they are there are not. I won’t second guess him, because if I was second guessing him, it would be because he let a concussed fighter who was clearly out of it go in for more against one of the hardest punchers in the sport.
SRKO… Ill Mitch is a “phony rapper…who do not write.. phony rapper..who do not excite” ;D
fighting so hard he EARNED the right to stand and take those last 3 seconds of punishment
it was a ridiculas stoppage i think Steele had money on the fight …(reichard is a great ref if it wasnt for that fight)
Ok, I wans’t around when this fight happened (I was a little kid) and when I watched this fight for the first time i knew nuthin about either guy and I thought that meldrick was done and dusted, and the fight was stopped correctly, fck the time, and fck anyone who thinks it was the worng decision, julio still had time to inflict irreversible punishment, considering how punch drunk meldrick is today, richard steele made one of the bravest and compassionate calls ever by a referee.
If steele had money on the fight he’d have stopped it when JCC was introuble earlier in the fight, I don’t wanna hear that crap.
It was one of those what if situations. Say the ref let it go on, JCC was right behind him ready to pounce on Taylor. He had enough time to get one last shot in that could of done permanent damage. IMO its a fine line, refs cant pay to much attention to how much time is left in a situation like that. I dont think Taylor got screwed as much as JCC got EXTREMELY lucky.
:coolclick: yoitsdan I agree with you 100%.
Well, had the fight gone on he might have had something to show for being beaten retarded.
Bad at cha dude, I agree with u too bro, JCC pretty much hit the lotto that night, meldrick took him to school, but if your done your done.
SC. That is just not right. There is no trinket out there worth that.
I loved Meldrick in the ring. It broke my heart when he lost that match. All that being said I hate that Steele stopped the fight and I hate Duva for telling Meldrick he needed the round and for yelling at him from the ropes when steele was counting but I can’t falt Steele for stopping it. By the rules it was the correct action, but it wasn’t right. Meldrick deserved to be the first man to beat JCC.
Actually Juan Laporte did.
Thats a terrible statement means…
He fought so hard he deserved to (take another 3 shots that could have possibly ruined him for life, or even worse)
Time is of no key when a fighters life is on the line, 99% he probably would of been ok, but in the refs mind theres 1% chance he wont be, he had no choice, Chavez could have fired 3 major shots in that time, and what could of happened, is not bear thinking about, because if he didnt we could all be sitting here today saying, should the ref have stopped the fight…and that would have been far worse…
Finally someone comes out with the biggest factor…Duva told Meldrick to get chavez and Meldrick was winning the fight!!!had meldrick boxed instead of banged we wouldn’t be having this discussion!!! all he needed to do was box…He had it…His corner, not Richard Steele…took that fight from taylor due to horrible instructions!!!
True…CC
If that stoppage had happened a minute earlier I don’t think people would complain because he was badlt beaten up and didn’t answer the referee, he just stood there eyes glazed over. As it happened with 2 seconds left to go it was terribly un lucky and very dodgy looking, but the guy didn’t answer and the ref is supposed to stop a match if the guy can’t carry on after getting knocked down. Steele could have dragged it on for a few more seconds so that the bell rang and saved him, but then he really would have been fixing the fight. It’s just one of those things, it happens in all sports, unfair penatlies, hand balls letting Argentina knock us out of the world cup, that’s life.
Here is the fight you decide Meldrick got up in plenty of time looked down to the ground looked at Steele..Correct me if I am wrong but wasnt one of his trainers(I think it was Duva)was shouting from his corner to get his attention so he looked away for a sec and Steele waves off the fight Bullshit…The camera was close to him he looked fit to continue especially for a few seconds..
That was the most controversial stoppage ever in our modern era…There was plenty of fights before that one and have been more since then that have been allowed to continue with fighters that have looked a lot worse with more time than what was left with a few seconds in the last round…Watch the fight again and tell me he was up at 4 and didnt look half as loopy as most that I have seen..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPSVBPknb0&search=TAYLOR%20CHAVEZ