On March 17, 1990, he faced Meldrick Taylor, the undefeated IBF Light Welterweight Champion, in a title unification fight.

Chavez then faced Meldrick Taylor in a rematch, four years after their historic first fight.

World champions whom Chávez defeated include Jose Luis Ramírez, Rafael Limón, Rocky Lockridge, Meldrick Taylor, Roger Mayweather, Lonnie Smith, Sammy Fuentes, Héctor " Macho " Camacho, Juan Laporte, Edwin Rosario, Greg Haugen, Tony López, Giovanni Parisi, Joey Gamache and Frankie Randall, who had taken the WBC Light Welterweight belt from Chávez just four months earlier.

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* Thunder Meets Lightning, in which Julio César Chávez beat Meldrick Taylor with two seconds remaining in the twelfth round ;

The boxing world championship bout held on March 17, 1990 between WBC Jr. Welterweight world champion Julio César Chávez of Mexico and IBF world champion Meldrick Taylor of the United States was a historic boxing match.

Meldrick Taylor was nearly a polar opposite to the methodical Chávez.

It is popularly believed that Meldrick Taylor was never the same physically or psychologically after the Chavez bout.

Dr. Flip Homansky, who examined Taylor following the fight and immediately sent him to the hospital, summarized his injuries by saying " 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 ".

Meldrick Taylor still resides in his native Philadelphia.

He had Bumphus, Lockridge, Bramble and Mike McCallum crowned as world champions, and he signed future world champions Mark Breland, Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker and Meldrick Taylor right after their participation in the Olympics in Los Angeles.

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Other fights Steele refereed included Mike Tyson's defeat of Donovan Ruddock in 1991, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns, Julio César Chávez vs. Meldrick Taylor I, and the fight where Sugar Ray Leonard made his comeback after a three year lay-off in 1987 to beat Hagler.

Steele was sometimes involved in controversy, but none bigger than the one that happened after Julio Caesar Chavez vs Meldrick Taylor I.

* March 31 – Thunder Meets Lightning: Julio César Chávez defeated Meldrick Taylor to unify boxing's world junior welterweight title

Since March of 1988, as commentator he has called some of boxing's most famous moments, such as Thunder Meets Lightning, when Julio César Chávez saved himself from a decision defeat by knocking out Meldrick Taylor ( who was leading the fight on two of the three official scorecards ) with only two seconds to go in the last round ; James " Buster " Douglas's upset of Mike Tyson for the World Heavyweight championship.

* 1990-Julio César Chávez KO 12 Meldrick Taylor I — see Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor

Campas also beat former world champion Jorge Vaca by a knockout in round two at Tijuana, before receiving his first world title fight, September 17 of 1994 against Félix Trinidad for the IBF welterweight title, as part of a Pay Per View undercard that featured Julio César Chávez's rematch against Meldrick Taylor for the WBC light welterweight title.

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In response, the Machine quietly supported Jim Taylor, a former professional boxer, Streets and Sanitation worker, and barely literate Daley figurehead, over Washington.

Taylor commented about Raeder's claim to have been just an apolitical professional doing his job was meaningless because: " It is an innocent and respectable business to be a locksmith, but it is nonetheless a crime if the locksmith turns his talents into picking the locks of his neighbours and looting their homes.

Taylor talked so well that he raised the standard of debate in Australia — and perhaps of cricket itself — in a way which was an example to all professional cricketers ... Border stopped Australia losing.

Taylor retired from professional cricket in early 1999 after the Ashes series.

* Jason Taylor, professional football player

* Chuck Taylor, professional wrestler

* Ben Taylor: former Negro League professional baseball player from 1908 to 1929 and Manager / Coach from 1929 to 1940.

* Richard Taylor, professional American football player

" This defeat affected Taylor greatly, and it proved to be the beginning of the end as a professional boxer for him.

* Taylor Dennis, professional baseball player.

Taylor turned professional in 1896 at the age of 18 and soon emerged as the " most formidable racer in America.

At the Blue Ribbon Meet of the Bostonian Cycle Club hosted on May 19, 1897, Taylor won first place in the open professional on a Comet bicycle.

She dialed down her professional pursuits when her son, Charles Taylor Jackson, was adopted in 1995.

The Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture offers two professional programs: Architecture, and Construction Science and Management.

* Bob Taylor ( ice hockey ) ( 1904 – 1993 ), American professional ice hockey player

Frederick Antwon Taylor ( born January 27, 1976 ) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League ( NFL ) for thirteen seasons during the 1990s and 2000s.

Taylor was the first professional football receiver ever to make 100 catches in a single season, accomplishing the feat in only 14 games ( 1961 ).

* Kris Taylor ( born 1984 ), professional footballer

* Charley Taylor ( born 1941 ), American professional football player

* Charlie Taylor ( footballer born 1993 ), English professional football player

* Chuck Taylor ( wrestler ) ( born 1986 ), American independent professional wrestler based in the CHIKARA promotion in Pennsylvania

* Dave Taylor ( ice hockey ) ( born 1955 ), retired professional hockey player

* Sean Taylor, professional footballer

At the age of 16, Bergman received her first professional acting job in the TV movie Return Engagement, which starred Elizabeth Taylor.