Quote Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING
Quote Originally Posted by Britkid
Quote Originally Posted by gbrandon

Wow, this guy up top saw the HBO special on Taylor and Chavez and is quoting the injuries. But since you want to quote HBO here is one for you "If Meldric Taylor would have continued he would have won a split decision" hahahaha. This is a man who thouroughly outboxed and outclassed his opponent for the first 10 rounds and he only would have won a split decision, that should raise eyebrow's right there, obviously not yours you are just focused on the injuries. All this despite harsh word's from other refs in the sport such as Joe Cortez, Mills Lane, but you are not worried about that though. It's not a referee's job to worry about the time? Insanity. 3 months of training for the biggest fight of your life, you get into the ring and perform brilliantly and it's all taken away from you, and then you have critics that say the fight was correctly stopped? Obviously those critics don't know what dedication is. Broken eye socket? What boxing have you been watching in the last 16 years. So many fighters have went on fighting with broken jaws such as Tarver, or broken eye sockets such as the kid who just fought Cotto, or what about broken hands such RJJ and Mayweather, concussions such as Mosley against Forrest, brutal cuts such as Tyson or internal injuries such as Holyfield. (All of them kept fighting). Premature stoppage, I have seen fighters beat half to death and the ref let's them continue such as (Trinidad Vs Vargas) after the second KD in the twelth Vargas got up drooling, wobbley, and dazed and was still in condition to fight. What about (Mayweather Vs Corrales). The ref could have stopped the fight after the second KD after the brutal beating he was taking but he let the fight go on, (Mosley Vs Forrest 1) Forrest hit Mosley with a tremendous body shot that made Mosley scream but knowing that Mosley is a warrior the ref let it go even though he wanted to stop it. Chavez knocked Taylor down once! Taylor was not wobbled or out on his feet, he didn't even take the whole standing 8 count, he was distracted by Duva and Steele knows that he heard Duva scream to Taylor 3 feet away. It was a robbery and whoever thinks that it wasen't has no form of empathy at all. Chavez went on to have other robberies such as Whitaker and Randall. Don King is the man.

One more thing, all fighter swallow blood, at least if they have cut's in their mouth, you do the percentage on that.
I am British I do not get HBO...

I am just using memory

And the fight was getting closer and closer as it went on, as Taylor was very badly hurt. So I can understand how a judge had Chavez a point up...

I put a lot of money (for me, at 15) on Taylor, everyone with a bit of inside knowledge, knew this would be a devil of a fight for Chavez, and it was, but you cannot be bitter IMO. After 35 minutes and 58 seconds of two fighters giving it their all, at (Taylor) or near (Chavez) their prime.
right i know this is very old topic but was searching on google see this so i had quick look and i wana have my say first theres is red light on taylors corner the red light shows 10 seconds left no way could chavez had been point up taylor outlanded by this much
Taylor landed 418 out of 1,060, Chavez landed 235 out of 634. chavez would not of made it across plus ref should of made sure chavez was in neutral corner all refs do after fighter was knocked down i have seen taylors injurys and i for one think they should of let this brave warrior have his dues not for giving taylor a favour but because he won by 10 rounds to 2 outboxed chavez easily and unless chavez is carl lewis no way he could of got across the ring the ref should of seen taylor looked at his corner and asked him 3rd time by which then fight would of been over poor meldrick got robbed of his victory and im not taylor fan i respect his skills
I definetly agree with you....CC and that was argument through the whole topic..