Got a gift against sturm. Was robbed against tito and ssm. Quartey and pea could have gone either way. It's one of the strongest resumes of the past quarter century.
What Oba Carr? Running from trinidad or losing to Mosley. I would've much rather seen a rematch than a Oba Carr, that's for sure. Merchant: Finally this, there's a rematch clause in your contract, in case he won. But this was such a great fight and so many people got pleasure out of it, do you want to give the public a rematch of this fight. ODH: This content is protected There's better and bigger better fights out there for me, I know that. More exciting fights that the people want to watch. Merchant: Basically your saying that you don't want to fight him again. ODH: Oh, I'll fight him anytime. I mean ahhh, as long as the contact is good and uhh, the date and the weight, everything, the people want to watch it again. I think people want to watch more exciting fights, uhhh, Ike Quartey, sometimes he did fight, sometimes he didn't, thats his style, that's my style, and uhh, we gave you the fight tonight. This has what to do with what happened on fight night or the fact that ODH didn't want to fight him again?
Nah. On paper: Wins over Vargas, Whitaker and Quartey, prime losses to Trinidad and Mosley (twice). In reality: Wins over Vargas, Trinidad and Mosley (once), prime losses to Whitaker, Quartey and Mosley (once). Whichever way you cut it, he beat some very good fighters and never lost to anyone but the best. Considering the era, his res is very solid indeed.
I agree entirely. Hoya's best win is vs Trinidad; and he shamefully ran for the last 4 rds as to win a decision. Boxers should never, ever , run in a ring as to avoid engaging. Who would have won in a 15 rd fight ? It speaks more about Felix troubles with technical fighters than Hoya's dominance. Oscar clearly lost to Quartey by being afraid to engage and refused a rematch. He lost a close decision to Pernell. He tried to get brave against Mosley who was coming up from lightweight, and clearly lost for his new found "bravery".. The rematch was closer but he didn't dominate either. He shamefully robbed Sturm. Hoya's career is best resumed by the fact each time he stepped up, he lost. It boggles my mind so many here try to claim his resume is better than Calzaeghe's. Joe went toe to toe with Eubank and twice floored him. In the later stages he never ran trying to win a decision.
If this were anywhere near true, then ODLH's resume sh!ts all over RJJ's, Mayweather's, Hopkins' and 98% of all the fighters in the last 20 years... Trash thread...
When you fight the best you are bound to lose eventually. It takes only very little away from his great career.
For a guy who was supposed to be the next coming of Ray Leonard, all DLH did in big fights was lose. I will give him credit for wanting to fight the best out there, but IMO you've got to win more of those big fights than you lose. Any fighter's resume can be picked apart, but when you think about it Oscar fought a good number of smaller guys and some guys past their best. He got wins he didn't deserve against Ike, Pete and Sturm, but then again the Trinidad fight was a robbery and maybe the 2nd Mosley fight should have gone his way, although I thought it was dead even. Oscar's resume is so-so if you ask me, highlighted by the fights he lost more so than his victories.
Oscar De La Hoya fought everyone. Now a days we have to deal with stupid **** like the top two fighters not being able to agree on a simple ****ing blood sample. Oscar De La Hoya was an old school fighter in the sense that he took on the best of the best. FFS when he moved up to WW he not only fought the true reigning champion there, but he was also the P4P#1 fighter. You don't see the **** amongst the top fighter nowadays. Oscar had some very close fights, but again, thats because he fought the best of that era. Love him or hate him, no one can deny the man had guts, skill, and heart. If only fighters today had half the desire to seek greatness the way Oscar did.