one last thing, this was not a flash knockdown. Taylor was being hit more cleanly in this round and gradually leading up to this round-and you could see something like this happening, then he was hit near ring center with that nice right hand which made him stagger, then he ended up on the ropes to get that last Chavez right. But had the knockdown against the ropes happened without that stagger maybe and probably Steele would have let the fight go on. But Steele could see this was the result of a long drawn out fight.
My friend was at the fight with his mom, and he said that on HBO they acted like Taylor was winning easily, but in person you could see Taylor getting hit cleanly and wearing out. He said it was amazing to see the difference from being there live to coming back and watching the fight on HBO.