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No, but Chavez almost certainly would have in the following seconds. It's what makes the fight so contraversial, Taylor probably deserved the chance to continue in my opinion, but there's very little chance Chavez wouldn't have stopped him brutally if any time had remained.
I thought the fight was properly stopped in the first place. My own guess is if Meldrick had been in the shape he was in at the end of the round with two minutes left and the fight had not been stopped?

Chavez would LITERALLY have killed him. Meldrick's neck was gone, he had no punch resistance left.
He took so much damage in that fight over the entire course. I doubt Chavez following up with a flurry to knock him out would have really done much more. But you're right I actually just watched it again and he was in terrible shape, not nearly as bad a call as I seem to remember it being. Also the referee is not supposed to be influenced by the clock whatsoever so the time left is a moot point really.