Julio Cesar Chavez vs Meldrick Taylor - Highlights (FIGHT of the DECADE) 

I was 8 years old and still remember this fight it was amazing and 38 now !!

@@bryanlopez4994 I was also 8 then, this was one of the best fights ever

Great fight, but Corrales vs Castillo 1 is simply the best fight ever imo

@@ontarionagasaki1441 nah the rematch was better

U are so right what a fight.

Retro Spec Taylor was so brilliant that he went to the canvas, how brilliant is that? LMAO

Well, he saw the lights.

@Retro Lover real talk they were being bias towards chavez

Frankie randal lol

Too much Chavez

Meldrick Taylor is just another AFRICAN GLORIFIED by the FAKE American Wht man just like Floyd Mayweather. Thank you.

right

That's Lampley for you. Calling shots that didn't land and not calling shots that did land. Chavez was landing all fight long, Lampley was blatantly bias.

Exactly!! I watched the full fight and from first round to the knockout, the commentators were speaking some blasphemy about how Taylor was winning every round. He was missing more than landing and if you notice as soon as Chavez turn the fight around in the 12 round before the knockout; the commentators stay quiet throughout the whole time. Fucking haters! Hating on the raza

Bascorasco facts

They wanted chavez to lose!

+18isActually 9 Taylor was never the same after that fight. I think Taylor not answering had a lot to do with his trainer jumping on the ring apron like an idiot and Taylor was looking in his direction.

Taylor said he was looking in that direction “for help”. Taylor also said Steele didn’t even give him a count or ask him questions. The truth is Taylor was knocked the fuck out on his feet. Had it not been for the ropes to pull himself up, the ring post to stop him from falling backwards as he clearly does, and then grabbing the ropes again with both gloves to keep himself upright (Taylor even admitted he was holding them for “support”), then Taylor doesn’t even beat the count. What the camera doesn’t show in the aftermath of this fight is Chavez being hoisted up on his late brother’s shoulders getting a victory ride as he’s pumping his fists, Duva chasing Steele around the ring, and as this is all going on Taylor still remains in the corner, still holding the ropes and not letting go. He was frozen like a deer in headlights. George Benton had to literally pry Taylor’s hands lose. It took 3 men (Duva, Benton, and Homanski) to escort Taylor back to his corner. I’ve met Homansky and I asked him about this fight. He told me Taylor didn’t know why Steele stopped the fight because he thought he had just “lost my balance”. Taylor didn’t even remember getting hit or remember a count or Steele saying anything to him. A clear sign of a concussion. He told me they also took CAT scans of Taylor’s brain and that there was swelling of the brain. He told me Taylor’s kidneys were failing him and had he not gone to the ER immediately after the fight he would’ve died in his sleep that night. He said Taylor should’ve never fought another day in his life. He also said that Taylor’s injuries were more consistent of that for a car crash victim, not a boxer. These are strong words coming from the doctor. How ignorant do people have to be to criticize Steele having to stop the fight.

@@havrisen6620 Excelent , coment 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👊👊👊👊

Meldrick Taylor is just another AFRICAN GLORIFIED by the FAKE American Wht man just like Floyd Mayweather. Thank you.

Te gane yo la veo más veces y no decifro como aguantaron a pie estos dos locos del boxeo taiylor tambien era gran peleador Chávez saco la casta y ganó al últimos segundos

I watch ALL the greats whenever there is nothing on the IDIOT BOX. DURAN, HAGLER, CHAVEZ, MARQUEZ, BARERRA. And this fight in particular is one of THE best. I do believe that JCC was not feeling well during the fight. But Taylor wasn't well for the rest of his life AFTERWARDS. Taylor threw 4 girlie, powder puff punches to Chavez 1 sledge hammer. As many have said, the commentators only saw the powder puffs. And were silent about the sledge hammers.

Amen brother

Meldrick Taylor is just another AFRICAN GLORIFIED by the FAKE American Wht man just like Floyd Mayweather. Thank you.

"In a phone booth"....great comment

No running like gaywheter

It wasn't in the last three rounds. He punished him throughout the fight. It was revealed that Chavez broke Taylor's orbital bone ever since the 3rd round. It was an accumulation of punishment that inevitably finished Taylor.

Meldrick Taylor rushed to the hospital and Chávez rushed to Mexico drinking margaritas and banging Señoritas🍻😎

@@alc2371 He was actually playing blackjack about 2 hours after the fight. Taylor was in bad shape in the hospital.

@@alc2371 Chavez was fooling around with Salma Hayek

Numbers don't lie. Taylor won the whole fight, look at the score. He got a BS call from a ref with a history of sketchy calls.

That's right and it's something you can easily see at the end of the fight. Both were good in that fight but chavez connect the best punches

However I do believe Taylor was up a couple rounds

@@deadarmd he was, it wasn’t until the last round that his corner even said he needed to do something big to catch up

@@deadarmd he was winning the fight tho

tsylor got robbed

Sal Sanchez es El mejor mejicano

Meldrick Taylor is just another AFRICAN GLORIFIED by the FAKE American Wht man just like Floyd Mayweather. Thank you.

That was pretty much the whole fight man. They were trying to hard to make it seems as if Taylor was fresh as a lettuce without damage and it ended up with him going to the hospital.

Lo bueno que no le tocó en la época de Monzón, porque hubiera perdido

The truth

A rematch? What? The first match was in 1990, and Chavez and the next time Chavez fought someone on the P4P list was 1993, and got hit 90 more times by Pernell Whitaker, which I predicted - Chavez even had his 145 catch-weight.

Don't rewrite history, Meldrick went on to do what Chavez could not do, as it didn't look good for Chavez fighting guys 5-2 and 4-3-1 while Taylor went to welterweight and fought the WBA champion 32-0 Aaron Davis (who just knocked out champ Mark Brehland) Meldrick looked great winning easily, and was P4P 5 and ranked best Welterweight in the world, as He called out Chavez who said he was going to , and look it up, go up to challenge Meldrick for his welterweight title, he never did. Meldrick went for greatness, he defended vs 22-0 Garcia, 34-2 Glenwood Brown and by January 1992 was 29-1-1 2 division champ and the P4P listing he was 5, at 3 was WBC Jr middle champ Terry Norris, (Chavez was 1 and Pernell was 2, but Chavez was the one not fighting anyone of any merit) So Meldrick Taylor moved up to Jr Middleweight, and challenged Terry Norris for his title and Meldrick won a gold as a featherweight. He would get stopped in the 4th, and then go back down to 147 and defend his welterweight title vs 27-0 Espana who stopped Meldrick and after two consecutive stoppages by Halloween 1992 he retired. Then Don King came to him and offered him a lot of money to fight 3 bums and work his weight down from over 150 to 140, as he should not have even been in a ring in 1994 and look at the scorecards, one judge had it even - and you never heard shit from Chavez after that (when Randall beat and dropped him and 2 points were deducted from Chavez he lost a SD and Chavez never wanted Meldrick or Pernell remetches, and he quit vs Randall in their 2nd fight and won a Split Tech Decision, BS. Then that 1994 BS fight vs Meldrick whose last time at 140 was 4 years earlier. Chavez shows up in 1996 as WBC champion 96-1-1 and talked smack and could not go 4 rounds with Oscar. Then he shows up in 1998 at 100-2-2 and quits. Then he would lose to Willy Wise and Kostya

Chavez had no heart. The first title holder he beat he was 56-0, never unified a division, ran from Whitaker at lightweight, which is why he dropped two belts and moved to 140 to challenge Roger who he already knocked out at Jr Light with at over 40-0, he never went near Camacho at Jr Light, either (Don't get confused,the last year Camacho was on a P4P list was 1986, Chavez fought him after he lost in late 1992 and no one cared) SO CHAVEZ VS P4P boxers - 1990, Meldrick (Controversial, and the reason Steele went on leave a year later add in Chavez named Jose Sulliman Jr's Godfather and called Don King his dad) 3 years later he blatantly lost to Pernell getting hit 90 more times, 1996 he couldn't go 4 rounds with Oscar, and then it just got worse. TOO MUCH HEART? IF MELDRICK RAN THE LAST ROUND YOU"D BE CALLING HIM A BITCH, he stood toe to toe with Chavez who never knocked him out and Steele made the quickest stoppage, seeing the opportunity, Meldirck went on to be Welterweight Champ, a title Chavez never got from being outboxed and quitting on his stool

You are being biased if you take anything from "Legendary Nights" ----Meldrick's camp protested Richard Steele being involved - and look what happened. A year later Steele was suspended and Chavez' IBF title taken as he only had WBC title (he named President of WBC Jose Sulliman as his son's Godfather, called King his dad, Flip Homansky, Bob Lee Sr of IBF who went to prison for taking bribes from King) You're telling me you trust the scorecards, too? One judge had Chavez winning? LOL --- And Chavez did not want a rematch, in fact, after Chavez at 69-0 fought a guy who was 5 wins, 3 losses, then a guy 4 wins, 3 losses, and 1 Draw (THE OBVIOUS SITUATION WAS A REMATCH ON PAY PER VIEW, and then at P4P 2 was Pernell who Chavez ran from at Lightweight to go to Jr welter to rematch Roger who he KO'd in the 2nd) Meldrick Taylor two fights later did what Chavez never would, win a welterweight title. Meldrick had too much heart, while Chavez fought no one running up his record, Meldrick beat 32-0 WBA Welterweight Champ Aaron Daivis (who just KO'd Mark Brehland) and Meldrick easily won. Then Meldrick defended his title vs 22-0 Luis Garcia, and won. And then by January 1991 Meldrick sucessfully defended a 3rd time beating 34-2 Glenwood Brown --- It would not be till 3 years later when Chavez would fight Pernell (for 3 YEARS CHAVEZ FOUGHT NO ONE - please save face and dont' say anyone cared about Camacho who was shot since 1986 and already lost, or that anyone cared about 4 loss Greg Haugen, Pernelll took Haugen's lightweight title and this was at 140 years later) LOOK AT CHAVEZ VS P4P COMPETITION --- 1990 - Meldrick 1993 Pernell (BOTH TOTAL FRIGGIN MESSES OF CONTROVERSY AND ROBBERIES) After Chavez lost to Randall by SPLIT DECISION (Ha, after he was dropped and deducted 2 points and lost blantantly one judge had Chavez winning) Chavez quits in the rematch and wins a Technical Split Decision and never fought Randall a 3rd time. Chavez by 1996 would show up 96-1-1 vs 21-0 Oscar and Chavez couldn't go 4 rounds, in 1998 at 100-2-2 Chavez quits on his stool vs Oscar then a couple years later King feeds him to his new Jr welter, Kostya - SO CELEBRATE CHAVEZ' 2 second highlight reel

Claro ese era el Chávez que entraba como león

Whose side was Taylor on? No wonder he almost went to Chavez corner, they were both trying to knock out the same guy. hahaha !

Indeed bro

Not true

Bascorasco yeah right the same way he destroyed Randall

@@choppertoteme5007 it is true, that's why he lost twice stupid

This looks real familiar and I've seen this fight several times. Never noticed until this commentary and highlights. Was his gloves loaded?.... Im the biggest Chavez fan just interesting.... cotto/margarito one fighter getting out classed but limited punches doing extreme damage from a non one punch ko puncher that breaks a fighter down but in both fights they're was no real breakdown in early rounds then out of no where apparent damage.... just saying... what caught my attention was the thudding sound of the punched you can hear in this breakdown from Chavez while taylors sound normal....

Tony Lopez i felt the exact same way its like due youre a commentator youre supposed to be neutral but hell no it wasnt ray was rooting for meldrick the whole time.

Tony Lopez Exactly, at one point Lenard said Meldrick hurt Chavez and that his knees buckled when this never happened; Chavez wasn't even fazed. And the other commentator said Chavez at one point was at the verge of falling, when Chavez was just dodging punches.

Tony Lopez Well, when Taylor won the first 9 rounds easily and the 12 isn't scored and a judge had it for Chavez? That was a quick BS Stoppage, I watched it Live, Chavez' BS record, too, fought no one, and got beat -- as I watched and knew Whitaker would beat him, Meldrick went on to become welter champ as Whitaker was as Chavez never did, he fought a bunch of no ones, who did he beat? This was a robbery, HE lost, Meldrick Schooled him this is a crap edit

Robert Earle Stanton newsflash homie, Chavez beat Taylor twice. Are you calling Taylor a nobody?

Tony Lopez He got the W, I watchted the fight Live, he needed help to get it

He got up and there was 5 seconds left

​@@2smooththeone dude he was hanging on the ropes he couldn't get up by himself and didn't respond to the ref and that's why the ref stopped it

Richard Sanchez Nice way to put It salute!

GOOD ANSWER...VERY TRUE.

Sadly, Taylor lost much more than the fight, he lost the battle. He was never the same.

Amazing

Agree 100%.....I wonder why Chavez and Terry Norris never fought at 147 ?

💨💨”Blind to the ways of mankind”

the ref should've walked chavez back to his corner. If he did that the fight would've been over before he could finish taylor

Disagree completely, Taylor was hurt yet, but this is a world title fight and Taylor deserved a chance to fight on. There are serious allegations against the ref and it’s hard not to think there was something dodgy with his decision. In my opinion Taylor should have been allowed to fight on - 100%

@@mrbigshot1986 Taylor was pissing blood in the hospital for a month. Imagine what injury he would sustain if Chavez ran up through him with one punch. He could of died, or been paralyzed. This fight already gave him enough brain damage that he lost everything

​@@mrbigshot1986 your assessment is 100% wrong...mel takes.1 more punch...he's dead...

Um, nah, it was because it was a bogus stoppage, why do you think Chavez is not mentioned at all?

Taylor got fucked up, thats it

@Sr.Gato -- Chavez got fucked up. MELDRICK WENT ON TO WIN WBA WELTERWEIGHT TITLE FROM 32-0 CHAMP AARON DAVIS, DEFENDED IT SUCCESSFULLY VS 22-0 LUIS ORTIZ and 34-2 GLENWOOD BROWN AND WAS RANKED BEST WELTERWEIGHT IN THE WORLD IN JANUARY 1991 WHILE CHAVEZ BEAT A GUY WHO WAS 4-3, then 5-3-1 then 34-12 before beating a mandatory he ran up his record AND LOST TO PERNELL AND IT WAS FIXED TO A DRAW - BE REAL - CHAVEZ NEVER WON A WELTER TITLE, HE QUIT ON HIS STOOL

Robert crybaby

Robert , fyi, Pernell Whitaker avoided Chavez in the 80's as well as the early 90's. I give Meldrick Taylor all the credit for meeting Chavez in his prime. Pernell Whitaker had lost to another Mexican fighter Jose Luis Ramirez in the mid 1980's in Paris and then he beat Ramirez in a rematch in his hometown . Whitaker was wise to avoid Chavez in his prime. The bias is quite obvious with US Commentators. Julio Cesar Chavez was 87-0 before he had that draw with Whitaker and then several months later, he lost his first fight with Frankie Randall, Chavez was obvious past his prime. Give credit where credit is due, Julio Cesar Chavez was one of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time.

No uno de los mejores el mejor

Paloma B H.. mi ídolo julio cesar Chávez. Pero Salvador Sánchez estaba x encima de Chávez con todo el respeto!!

El mejor chavez, por encima de cualquiera.

Axel_mtz estás equivocado/ no por encima de Salvador Sánchez, yo empecé a mirar boxeo desde los 80s mide tus predicciones Chávez es mi ídolo pero no enfrento a un hombre con 3 pulmones pregúntale a julio sr o a asuma Nelson!!

Francisco no uno de los mejores, es el mejor, el rey, el César, viva el campeon

Sara Meza for real!

no way, he didn't even deserve the win

Just pure excuses. There was 5 seconds left in the round.

@@jacobh7188 if you can't answer the ref he has to stop the fight

@@jacobh7188 bro you know boxing? How many punches do they throw in 1.5 seconds? I think mayweather throws about 12 punches if I remember correctly. One major punch and Taylor could’ve been dead. Also Chavez said that fight was one of his hardest ones, he wanted to throw up and pass out after the win.

@@eljokerjce where can i find this claim?

@@jacobh7188 5 seconds is 0 stfu

becouse fat lou duva stepped in the ri.g

@@yordanneshkov9242 😆 excuses

Old comment but reminds me of the Anthony Joshua fight. Just completely dazed when he was asked to fight on and looking to his corner

Right. Lou Duva was on the ring apron.

But I’ll beat youa ass tho

Yes sir well said

croplaya Thanks man. I just keep hearing idiots saying that Taylor was winning easy but he wasn't. He had to earn and fight to win each one of those rounds. Julio landed the harder damaging punches

I wouldn't say a fight should be judged by the way a fighter looks like. No doubt Taylor was winning the fight on points but he was taking tremendous abuse. It's one of those fights that will still be mentioned years from now.

Taylor was young they should have waited bit more time for this time. Taylor's body got destroyed.

fuck you

LOL Lampley was hilariously pathetic here. “Chavez the great body puncher reduced to head hunting now” *Julio immediately proceeds to land two savage left hooks to the liver* Lampley: “brilliant stuff by Taylor!” *Julio brilliantly slips and rolls with Taylor’s flurries*

😖

Lomachenko is legit for this generation

@@youngpesos9487 Legit overrated. I even rate Pacquiao today above current Loma. If Loma is so "great" why doesn't he move up to Welter or Super Welter?

@UCjxoj2fdYwdGCDRg3IK2Bow Pacquiao is shorter than Loma 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂. And Mikey is about the same height as Loma and moved up to Welter and is staying up there. Again. If Loma is so great, why won't he move up? Because he will get shit on. Casual. No more excuses. Loma lost to some bum russian and to an old washed up Salido.

One of the worst TV commentary ever, together with 4x400meters women relay Seul 1988, where for 3 minutes you keep hearing about the inevitable American victory but in the end you see the Soviet Union win. In total shock the voice was not be able to inform that Soviet Union won and was only able to underline that a new North American (!) record time had been established by the American team.

The commentators were a disaster, a real shame. They emphatized everything Taylor did, and were speechless when Taylor was knocked down. They just were not prepared/could not believe that Taylor could have lost.

Muy bien dicho.

El mejor

Se la maman con la poesía que le escriben a Chávez. De su 89-0 y sus más de 100 peleas no enfrentó ni a 10 boxeadores clase A; le regalaron un empate con Withaker, Randall lo exhibió y De la Hoya lo acabó a los 33 años. No es lo mismo tener un record inflado por enfrentar a taxistas y taqueros, que cuando enfrentas boxeadores de élite.

@@carlosmontalvo1779 Amigo no sabes NADA de boxeo, ese es puro comentario de ardido.

@@carlosmontalvo1779 como seras pendejo

The guy would get coked up before a fight. Where do you think that stamina came from.

they're in awe. they have absolutely nothing to say

They were very Pro Taylor. Very bias this fight. When have you ever had commentators go silent during a knockout.

If your in a fight for the championship of THE WORLD and you get knocked down if the the ref asks if you are ok you better look him in the eye and say yes!!! If not that title obviously didn't mean enough to you.

Black Vitriol Chavez steped up in weight 5 times. He started at 122 and he was breaking bigger mens bones at 140. Prime Chávez was a real monster.

Poor assessment Black Vitriol, the only one of the three who met Chavez in his prime was Taylor.

yes endeed

There was 5 seconds left he would have been saved by the bell before chavez could go anywhere near him stop trying to justify this horrible robbery

Randy Marsh saved by the bell lol what a loser

Billy Shears so many boxing legends have been saved by the bell like muhammad ali in his first fight against henry Cooper and floyd mayweather in his 2nd fight against marcos maidana

Continue with what when the fight was over, and saved by the bell applicable.

Best comment, best explanation.

Yeah he was a great ref really cared for the health of the boxer you can tell he stared straight into his soul and saw he was asleep.

Yep, it happens

@@jayduby5330 After this fight, Steele actually saved a Japanese fighter from dying. Hancho Boxing has a video on it.

BULLSHIT , he nodded twice that he was ok, he was up at like 3. Fuck outta here ! This was highway robbery !!!

Classic.

Chavez was able to withstand because he blocked and rolled with many of Taylor’s shots. Meldrick just had insane speed and output that he was out working Chavez for most of the rounds while slowly taking a battering round by round.

Moreno12 and almost went to the wrong corner

Lol. Yup. Ive only seen 2 boxers do that. Tyson fury & taylor.

annomous peliculascincoeguis

Ana Avelar what lol even Chavez admitted he was scared during that fight

@@luigi2018 Chavez is humble

Taylor was robbed.

@@luigi2018 i mean shit taylor was bigger not taller but he had more muscles but chavez didn’t need muscles to show off his strength

@lachina7773 you don't think so?

Chavez was not going down.

Oh man, lol, funniest comment by far :)

taylor punches were so fast and more than chavez punches but chavez punches were devasstating

Pos que no as visto la de canelo o que 🤣🤣🤣🤣...era sacarmo

I know right in the 12th round chavez was still throwing sharp punches the body the hooks everything looked perfect and that right hand oh my God just destroyed Taylor he couldn't even talk

But nobody is entertained by that...ppl wamt to see someone get knocked out and money wouldnt be able to do that even with chavez trying to slugg cause he'd see the canvas

marquez is a better boxer than chavez and he got taken to school by mayweather. like lets be real. chavez was got good and had great combos but he was easy to hit.

704ondeck remember what Jose Luis Castillo did to mayweather in there first fight Chavez's sparring partner

Javier Verdugo because he is