No ... He'd give him a lot of trouble especially early but I think he gradually gets punished and stopped
Taylor would take a bad, bad beating in this. He would have some mild success with his speed and workrate, but he was not defensive whiz, and he loved to brawl. In fact, much of his success against Chavez came not from clever movement and angles (like Whitaker used), but by standing at range and outworking Chavez. Even when he took a big lead, he was still eating heavy shots. It's just that he was throwing an insane number of punches and outworking Chavez. The hardest shots were being landed by Chavez throughout. It was a terrific right counter over Taylor's left, and a short left inside, in round 2, that I believe opened the cuts in Mel's mouth. Duran was a better fighter than Chavez, quicker, slicker, harder punching. Taylor gets stopped in the mid to late rounds.
seems like duran would've knocked taylor out much earlier than chavez did (would've been tough to do it any later), probably sparing him the kind of prolonged punishment he sustained against chavez.
Not sure. In the end it was Chavez' guts that won him the fight, he refused to give up despite being outworked. Duran had no trouble giving up
What happens when that machine-gun combination attack starts peppering little Duran´s face and he realizes its going to be a long night? Of course, he sucks it up and pulls out the win for the Fightbeat Fanboys. ::
If Duran could handle the machine gun combos of frickin Leonard in their first fight, then what the fuck is Taylor gonna do? Duran was more equipped to deal with Taylor than Chavez was, period. This fight plays out very similarly to Duran-Dejesus III, IMO.
