"Two Seconds From Glory" - Meldrick Tayler

['Sugar' Freddi]

What a shame. I was just watching Legendary Night: Chavez vs Tayler and I felt so sad about Tayler, who should've been able to continue. It's sad, really. I just read that Tayler wrote a book called "Two Seconds From Glory" and if I find, I am really going to read it.

Anyways, what do you guys think about that decision? Did Steele make the right decisions by stopping the fight or no?

[Suckmedry]

That still annoys me today Steele stopped it, terrible decision. Meldrick deserved better than that.

[Method Checker]

Taylor definitely deserved the decision. The only reasons someone would say he didn't are either because they're die-hard Chavez fans or because they have no heart.

[Obama]

Good call by Steele. Terrible, terrible advice from Lou Duva.

['Sugar' Freddi]

I just saw the fight again, what a heart breaking. That ****ing idiot Richard Steele shouldn't have stopped it. The expression on Tayler's face was really heartbreaking when Steele called it. Damn, what a decision.

['Sugar' Freddi]

Good call by Steele. Terrible, terrible advice from Lou Duva.

What terrible advice from Duva? Because in the Legenday Nights show, Duva said that he told him to just dance around and not fight, but some say that he told him to win the 12th round.

[Obama]

Steele definitely did the right thing. Taylor didn't respond when Steele asked him if he was ok. Taylor was too busy trying to figure out what his idiot trainer Lou Duva was yelling at him to do. First Lou gives him the wrong strategy for the last round, then he distracts him at the most crucial moment of the fight.

[Obama]

What terrible advice from Duva? Because in the Legenday Nights show, Duva said that he told him to just dance around and not fight, but some say that he told him to win the 12th round.

I suggest getting a copy of the real fight. The Legendary Nights series is mostly fantasy anyways. Duva most certainly told him to go out there and "fight". "You gotta get him", something like that. Lou was far from a great trainer...bout the only thing he was good at was complaining. I wouldn't credit Duva to any of Meldrick's success either. That distinction goes to Willy Rush, who brought him to the gold medal.

['Sugar' Freddi]

I suggest getting a copy of the real fight. The Legendary Nights series is mostly fantasy anyways. Duva most certainly told him to go out there and "fight". "You gotta get him", something like that. Lou was far from a great trainer...bout the only thing he was good at was complaining. I wouldn't credit Duva to any of Meldrick's success either. That distinction goes to Willy Rush, who brought him to the gold medal.

Yes, Duva did distract Tayler after that knockdown because you could see when Steele asked Tayler if he was able to continue, Tayler was looking at Duva scareming from the corner.

I mean, regardless, there were a couple of seconds left in the fight, and Steele shouldn't have stopped it.

[Obama]

Referee isn't given a clock to look at. Nor is he told to break the rules under any circumstance. Taylor didn't respond. Steele just did his job. I rate Steele as one of the greatest refs of all time tbh.