JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ'S BIG 5 - Part 3

THE GREAT 5 OF JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ – part 3

The success that helped the Mexican become the best in the world

Julio Cesar Chavez is a boxer with incredible successes that can be talked about and written about constantly. The Mexican fighter has over 100 wins in his professional career and has won world titles in three different divisions. This makes him one of the classiest of his time. The "Caesar of Boxers" has won a bunch of important fights, and we already reminded you of his victories over Hector Camacho and Greg Haugen, which we believe are the most significant of his career. Julio Cesar Chavez's Top 5 Fights continues with a fight that made him the number one boxer on the planet according to Ring magazine.

Light welterweight is the category in which the Mexican made history. His first significant match was the second victory over Roger Mayweather, in which he also won the World Boxing Council title, but the most significant success came on March 17, 1990, when Chavez faced Meldrick Taylor for the first time. At that time, the younger American still did not know defeat and was the holder of the belt of the International Boxing Federation.

With 24 wins and one draw in his career, Taylor is nearing his peak despite being only 23 years old. He is preparing for the third defense of his world title, while the 27-year-old Chavez makes a third bid for the WBC belt. The Mexican has played 68 matches in the professional ring and has as many victories. The Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas hosts a match in which, as the media write, "Thunder" and "Lightning" meet in boxing at the time. These titles emphasize Taylor's speed and Chavez's power.

Surprisingly for some experts, the American boxer dominates with a unique technique and intelligent game. And it doesn't just happen in the first few rounds. After 8 rounds, the score between the two shows that Chavez has landed 269 punches and landed just 137. However, the Mexican is staying true to himself and looking for hard shots to knock down Taylor, who while landing fewer punches, looks a little slower than at the start of the match. However, before the start of the 12th round, the cards of two of the judges still gave a convincing victory to Taylor.

It was in the last round, however, that the situation changed completely for Chavez and the turnaround began. Every single punch from the Mexican inflicted serious damage on the increasingly exhausted and bloated looking American. Dotted 30 seconds before the final gong, a powerful right lands right on the chin of Taylor, who is knocked down. Chavez is ready to celebrate, but Taylor gets to his feet just as the ref counts to six. However, there is no adequate response to the events from the American, who continues to hold on to the ropes to keep his balance. This forced referee Richard Steele to stop the match with just 2 seconds remaining.

Many journalists and experts are of the opinion that the referee unfairly stopped a fight that was going the other way with only two seconds remaining. Either way, in his defense, Steele can rely on the rulebook that says the health of the boxers is paramount. In the mandatory 8 seconds in which the downed boxer has to respond to the referee, there is not a single word from Taylor to the referee, so he appears to be making the right decision. After the end of the fight, the referee states that if he allows such a match to continue even for so few seconds, the injured boxer will receive at least a few more very heavy blows and may suffer physically.

The match was declared the best match of the year 1990, and the victory brought Chavez another world title, as well as the first position among all boxers according to the magazine "Ring". A position he would defend for another three years.

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