Maybe I should've posted this on the biggest myths thread...
Taylor was not dominating the Chavez fight. At the time, I thought that, when Taylor went down, that that kd would seal the win for Chavez. I had him ahead by a point or two without it. Chavez hurt Taylor in the 2nd and 5th rounds and landed the harder punches throughout.
When the boxing magazines came out following that fight, the consensus was that it was a very close fight and that the judge that had Taylor up by 8 was an ass. Curiously, writers that wrote that then now subscribe to the 'Taylor dominated' version of events.