Question:
If Chavez KDed Taylor with 2 minutes instead of 2 seconds left in the 12th round, would you have stopped the fight?
Question:
If Chavez KDed Taylor with 2 minutes instead of 2 seconds left in the 12th round, would you have stopped the fight?
Last edited by Manju; 05-05-2011 at 07:22 PM.
no, i think a fighter that talented needs to be given a chance, but than again maybe i need to go back and look at the tape again
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.
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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.
I have seen that tape plenty and think Richard Steele didnt really give Meldrick a fair chance at continueing. If there was 2 minutes left, JCC Jr would probably have gotten the ko, legitimately. Too bad it was actually only 2-3 seconds left...
He never did the ok walk forward bit. He just waved it off, Taylor wasnt up at 8 or 9 he was up pretty early in the count, three seconds left....and miles ahead on any sane persons scorecard.
Taylor was not responding appropriately and the fight had to stop no matter what the time.
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