Who Thinks Meldrick Taylor Was Screwed

[BIG H]

The ref is not the timekeeper, his sole purpose, is the safety of the fighter.

Meldrick Taylor had a broken eye orbital, had swallowed up to a pint of his own blood, because of an internal injury; if Steele was guilty of anything, he was guilty of stopping the fight too late.

Steele done his job well; Duva should of pulled Taylor out of there a lot earlier, with hindsight, IMO.

CC

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.

Yeh but at the end of the day the time is still of no relevance whatseover - and if you wanna talk about 3 months of training, wot about JCC, he trained just as hard, but you think he should've been denied a win because of what the clock says. The fight was not stopped coz of the time it was stopped coz he didn't respond when questioned by the ref End of!!