Great Historic Boxing Match between Two World Class fighters. Meltrick Taylor was a Worldwind back in The Day.

It has always amazed me how these so called experts have never had a fight in their lives yet know what the boxers are thinking.

great fight,thank you for the upload!!!!in his prime time Meldrick Taylor was unbeatable!!!!!!

Mel is 21 years old. Let that sink in

バディマクガード、アーロンデービス、フリオセサールチャベス(事実上)を破ってるメルドリックテーラーはもっと評価されるべき

now that's boxing

I love how Taylor keeps things inside and goes for the leveraged killed.

Absolutely superb performance! Thanks for the video, WOLF WOLF

COMMENTATORS: DON CHEVRIER ALEX WALLAU TV NETWORK: ABC DATE: 3 SEPTEMBER 1988

Taylor just offset everything buddy did....and the speed that Taylor displayed made all the difference in this win for Taylor..

Meldrick Taylor was the fastest boxer in modern history. He was not only fast but he threw punches in bunches and was an outstanding body puncher. With all due respect to some of the fast fighters in the modern day era, most notably Roy Jones, Ray Leornard, and Hector Camacho, none were as fast or threw punches like Taylor, especially pre-Chavez Taylor.

hahaha - I have made many a wrong prediction but had Taylor winning this. May have been a tad biased because was a huge fan of all the '84 Olympians but thought Taylor was too fast; too good. If Taylor had any other defensive plan than just natual athleticism and evasivemess he could have been one of the GOATs...All that being said, McGirt was a great fighter and person in general. Good life philosophy

Meldrick Taylor really dominated Buddy Mcgirt not even Whitaker could do this

8:00 VINTAGE FOOTAGE they need more commentary like that. RIP to both guys.

Classic

Great pre fight insight.

He beat the shit out of McGirt, worse beating of his career

McGirt took a beating for a while so stopping it when it’s almost over makes no sense.

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Y was this stopped.Mel won , but man come on.

Meldrick hit 12 secs after the 2:05 mark at 13:50, I`m comparing how long the gaps are in between each punch he took here compared to Tyzu v R. Mayweather because I feel Taylor`s defense was too weak to beat Tyzu but there will be gaps and that could be significant.

I remember reading about this fight in a boxing mag. McGirt claimed he had pneumonia. Lol. I doubt they'd let him fight with pneumonia.

Watching this fight again with an older eye (and that 20/20 hindsight), even in this fight, where Taylor dominated, he stood in and took too many needless shots. McGirt was a great fighter, but he was off this day, and though it is easy to get lost in Taylor's lighting fisted performance, McGirt gets his licks in, but more because Taylor was there to get hit than anything else. Buddy looked wasted after the first round.

Did McGirt actually say he had nothing left after the second round?

I respectfully disagree with your assessment. Arm punching don't have any to do with speed. There are plenty of arm punchers who don't have exceptional speed. It's true Ray Leonard and Roy Jones had a lot more power than Taylor but they certainly wasn't faster. No way. Taylor's combination was a lot more fluid and the velocity of his punches was noticeably faster. Check out his debut fight when he threw four successive hard left hooks to the body with the blink of an eye or check out the wicked left hook he smacked Chavez with at the start of the 7th round or the three punch combination he countered Chavez with in the 10th round that stopped him in his tracks or the left hook he rocked Aaron Davis with in the 2nd round of their fight. Taylor wasn't all arm punching, he just didn't have knock-out power. As far as Camacho, he rarely sat down on his punches and had an almost identical fight to knock out ratio as Taylor.

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Buddy mcgirt blue and white trunks

It's clear Lou Duva had TNT ready for this fight!!!!!!

judging by Buddys lacklustre display ive been wondering if this Fight was the beginning of his Contract between Sammy Gravano & The Gambino Crime Family? I loved Buddy & was shocked to hear about this.

Meldrick "TNT" Taylor beat James "Buddy" Mcgirt. Wonder if it was the left arm ,but looked like stamina.

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McGirt lost all the big fights. Except for Simon Brown. Brown must have been sick to lose to him, I can't believe McGirt beat him.

Taylor is more faster than Whitaker but whitaker have better boxing skills than Taylor

Prime taylor would've beat whittaker. Watch whittaker vs jorge paez fighters with speed gave pernell trouble and paez was no meldrick tnt taylor