Came across this, with the standard HBO commentary a couple months ago and threw the Spanish commentary on it. I will likely upload the HBO version as well. The A/V is off by a hair through about half of the fight. It is hard to pic up though thankfully.
A fight that many eyes saw as ending in an extremely controversial manner. So controversial in fact that fans who weren't yet even born at the time the fight was actually held will argue their opinions in comment sections all over the boxing internet. What just cannot be argued is that it is a great fight
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Meldrick Taylor 140 lbs lost to Julio Cesar Chavez 140 lbs by TKO at 2:58 in round 12 of 12
Date: 1990-03-17
Location: Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Referee: Richard Steele
Judge: Jerry Roth 108-101
Judge: Chuck Giampa 104-105
Judge: Dave Moretti 107-102
WBC Super Lightweight Title (3rd defense by Chavez)
IBF Junior Welterweight Title (3rd defense by Taylor)
See also: Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor (2nd meeting)
Notes
Chavez earned $1.4 million, and Taylor got $1 million.
The fight aired live on HBO.
Dr. Flip Homansky, who examined Taylor after the fight, said, "Meldrick suffered a facial fracture, he was urinating pure blood, his face was grotesquely swollen...this was a kid who was truly beaten up to the face, the body, and the brain."
The fight was named Fight of the Year and Fight of the Decade by The Ring.
After the fight, Taylor said he was having too much difficulty getting down to 140 pounds and moved up to the welterweight division. Chavez was comfortable at 140 and stayed at junior welterweight. The rematch didn't happen until 1994, when Taylor went back to 140 to meet Chavez.
