Rewatched Hopkins vs De La Hoya other day

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  1. bluebird

    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Kinda takes some shine off Floyd's win over Oscar.

    A 40 yo Hopkins outboxed Oscar before beating him up, looked just as sharp and just as defensively responsible as Floyd did. Just makes me think Floyd has never met a real true great technician.
     
  2. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Yep I've always thought that, especially when you add in the fact that Floyd barely beat Oscar.
     
  3. DonnyMo

    DonnyMo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You're crazy. Anybody could see oscar was winning that fight, or at the very least dead even until that liver shot got it.

    Oscar had no business at 160lbs, but he feared no man. Remarkable what he did. His was already in his cokehead, alcoholic phase by then...still held his own.

    Floyd fighting to a draw against 35yr old strung out Oscar is pretty sad. Prime Oscar at 140,147, 154 dominates him.
     
  4. bluebird

    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No he wasn't :lol::lol::patsch:patsch
     
  5. Cap10Kirk

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  6. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I remember two scores for Bhop and one for Oscar.

    I always thought Bernard had it but it was close.

    Also remember that it was a catchweight and Bernard looked dead on the scales.
     
  7. IsaL

    IsaL VIP Member Full Member

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    I had the Hopkins-DLH fight 4-4 before the KO.
     
  8. masterold

    masterold Active Member Full Member

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    Would you not expect a career middleweight to look more impressive/ have an easier time beating a junior middleweight at 160 than a welterweight in his first fight at 154?
     
  9. elmaldito

    elmaldito Skillz Full Member

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    Hopkins vs de la Hoya was a fixed fight. Hopkins carried him the whole fight. He wasn't even trying.
     
  10. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Hopkins just started slowly as was his tendency later in his career. He gave up the early rounds to Taylor as well in their fights. Hopkins age and the difficulty he had in making weight at that point meant Hopkins then just took time to get going. Once he did he got De La Hoya out of there without any difficulty.
     
  11. Daft P

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    Not to mention that Sturm beat Oscar more comfortably than Floyd too. Still, Oscar did not belong to MW at all. He had the
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    to try though (unlike Floyd who would reject even a catchweight around 157 for the current king Golovkin).
     
  12. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The dive of the century.
     
  13. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Love him or hate him Oscar will have something Floyd never will - respect
     
  14. expljose

    expljose Active Member Full Member

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    are we gonna have this for the next 20 years? ohhh boo hoo hoo robinson beat Armstrong. ... Floyd's boring boo hoo hoo

    let the man retire in peace
     
  15. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    With all due respect it you really think Oscar was winning the fight against Hopkins you really don't know boxing. Plus that shot to the liver was devastating. Have you ever took a shot to the liver?? It paralyses you pain is intense:good