Happy Birthday to Richard Steele who turns 79 today.
WBA welterweight champion Eimantas Stanionis vs. Vergil Ortiz Jr. is reportedly rescheduled for April 29.
Middleweight Chris Eubank Jr. has a rematch clause for an immediate return bout with Liam Smith. Team Eubank still has a few weeks to decide whether they want it or not. Smith says he’ll do the exact same in the rematch.
Eubank Jr will take the fight if he has any pride, if he turns tail it’s a bad look. He has to go again and win convincingly or he’s finished as a serious contender
Richard Steele has been out of sight & out of mind for me for a long time. I pictured the 40-something year old version of him when I saw his name in the article above. Strange reading that he just turned 79…
Richard Steele was an excellent referee. He did the right thing in stopping the first Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor bout even though there were only two seconds left. It wasn’t Steele’s job to watch the clock. Taylor was never the same after that fight; he took such a beating! Too bad the HBO team blasted Steele for making the right decision.
Yes, feel really bad for Taylor to have been that close to a huge win and to have it stopped at the last second. He sacrificed a lot of himself in that fight only to come away with an L, but I don’t fault Steele though. Taylor was in bad shape, and it’s the ref’s job to pull the fighter out when they’ve had enough. I agree with you that he was an excellent ref. Almost feels like I’m in a time warp when I read that he’s 79. Crazy how time flies.
There is a ten second warning before the bell-could have let it go two seconds more.
Understand your opinion totally disagree….the whole issue is whether Taylor could continue and if Taylor’s life would be endangered by continuing the fight…and further punishment was not possible cause it takes a few secs…just to walk across the ring..remember this is not boxing in the old days…after a knockdown Chavez had to go a neutral corner..fight was over…the ref should have had awareness of all issues involved in making such a decision and the time element is one issue…NBA…NFL..etc.all other sports refs keep up with time…. understand your argument though….anything with Don King involved just has a slimy …dirty..feel…Steele was the ref in some historic matches….along with Mills Lane….Happy Birthday Mr.Steele…..
Rematch. why?..
Tyson-Ruddock 1 was a horrible stoppage. I know that much.
That was a tough one…..if you have not watched that fight…that is a great fight to study….watch Ruddock explosive unorthodox hooks…and watch Tyson counter right hands… Irrespective of what they say Tyson was a student of the game…good stuff JT
If I was managing Eubank I’d steer him towards retirement but if he insists on fighting it needs to be at 68. He looked bad once Smith started making contact.
Eubank was boxing well until he made a mistake and got hit by a timing shot…if Eubank was smart ..he would do what his fellow British counterpart did Lennox Lewis after being stopped in the same way twice….learn….give a rematch ….come back stronger it can be done….
There’s the illegal elbow that Liam still has to explain. He is not thinking to do the same again in the rematch, is he? It’s absurd how the mainstream media is silent about such a blatant foul when they were all over the verbal exchanges that were uttered in the pre-fight presser. They urged the BBBoC to investigate the matter and to penalize both fighters.
Isn’t he still doing fights