Floyd Mayweather Sr. Insinuates that De La Hoya may have taken a dive against Hopkins

His views on the upcoming rematch between Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson:

“In my honest opinion, I’m going to say this right here. It all depends on what Chad Dawson comes in, because with Chad Dawson his lady is his controller. His lady is his controller. She calls the shots. So she’s the one that tells him when to come and go. So that means that she’s somewhere near. Hey! That’s why when I was training him then this was one time that we knew she wasn’t with him before. But then another time he came back with his lady. She was with him, and that Andre Dirrell boy was beating the sh*t out of Chad! Chad was getting ready for the second fight I had with him after he won the title. He had this lady speaking with him, maybe his girlfriend or whatever she is. Like I said, Andre Dirrell was beating the sh*t out of him! He’s out of Flint, Michigan. Andre Dirrell was beating the hell out of Chad Dawson. Like I said if this man gets caught up like that in some kind of way with that lady, that lady is going to be his downfall anyway! That’s going to be his downfall anyway. There is no question about that either. But I will say this here. If Chad Dawson gets in great, great shape and his mind is set right then I look for Chad to win the fight. Hopkins has been around awhile man, and a guy like that is going to be tough. But he has lost fights, and he came very close to losing to a little man like Oscar De La Hoya. When I was training De La Hoya we fought Bernard Hopkins, and Oscar was beating him real easily. But I don’t know what the deal was on that particular fight because all of a sudden he hits Oscar in the ribs, and Oscar goes down! I think it was in the ninth round. Oscar was far ahead on the cards beating him, and then the next thing I know Oscar was thriving. I asked Oscar De La Hoya, ‘What is this man? Explain this to me!’ What’s going on with him and Hopkins? I said, ‘I don’t know! Did you play that role? What happened?’ He said, ‘No man! He hit me, he hit me!’ I’ve been thinking about that for a long time man. I still got the same thoughts. But like I said before if Chad’s mind is set right, and he’s in shape and in condition, and his mind is on what he’s supposed to do other than the lady, then it will be Chad for sure.”

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I'd give him a good chance to beat both, but not sure it would be especially easy in either case, and I'm not even sure that he would have beaten either.

He would have done better than he did, though.

 

It was a good shot for sure.

I was watching the fight with a bunch of DLH fans who are casual boxing fans, but not really boxing fans per se.

The angle of the shot playing live (clip above) was poor, and it was tough to tell what happened from that angle. I remember the pro-DLH crowd I was watching the fight with were angrily screaming that it was a low blow and that it was bull****!

Floyd Senior is not alone though. I know several people who shared his sentiments regarding this.

:smoke

 

People sometimes act as if he's the only guest we've ever had on the show.

:smoke

 

He was ahead earlier, but the momentum was going strongly against him.

Hopkins knew DLH faded badly down the stretch at that stage of Oscar's career, and Hopkins always finished super strong. There was little chance Oscar was going to have any success past the halfway point in that fight.