Oscar De La Hoya was overrated

I agree, he was great to watch and I’d rather watch a fighter who fought everyone and took some losses rather than a fighter who only fought those who he knew he could beat to keep his zero.

 

OP is a casual weirdo

Juggling Floyd's balls everywhere he goes making even his misses jealous..

I'll tell ya who's really the most overrated in this being Tim Tszyu who he reckons is going to go & beat both canelo and bud...........

 

No that's Sugar Ray Robinson.

 

He's clearly great. He would also demolish Tim Tszyu

 

Stopped reading after you said floyd is the greatest boxer of all time. The irony of a diehard floyd fan calling another boxer overrated

 

He’d kill all those young hype jobs though

 

Hmmm

He fought most of the fighter of his era. PTS losses to Mosley and Tito were debatable. Was never a middleweight and lost to the MW Champ Hopkins who had the most defences in history(regardless of how you rated /ranked him).
Lost to 2 fighters who are in the discussion for being the best ever of the modern era or maybe ever Mayweather(was a close fight) and to Pac when he was at the end of his career and at a weight that made him look like death warmed up and he came in under that weight!
beat top level fighters too and won a gold medal

Verdict- Not over rated at all!

 

Ion even like Oscar but I wouldn't call him overrated. Oscar was a pretty (no homo) killer. That's really the best way to describe him. All smiles like Sugar Ray Leonard but would definitely go for the kill, again like Leonard.

I can not like someone but still respect their gangsta..................

 

Did i forget to mention the 'greatest shape of my life' guy gassed out against Whitaker as well?

 

Learn to do proper reseach FFS. Or just stick to looking at boxrec and makling decisions from there....

 

He was the biggest star in boxing for a good amount of years.

 

He had to have been overrated simply because of how popular he was. Biggest non HW star in the history of the sport. If he wasn't overrated he'd be the GOAT or close to it. And he was not that. In the 90s what he did was special but after getting to Trinidad he lost most of his big fights.

Not that buying someones PPV cleanly correlates to thinking someones the best fighter but you know what I'm trying to say.

 

Biggest star doesn`t mean he was the best, he lost to Mosley and Trinidad but was still a bigger name than both of those fighters because he knew how to market himself, he was charismatic and women found him attractive like a teen pop star.

 

He was a huge star right out of the Olympics. And that was still when boxing was a respected and popular sport. Plus Oscar fought top guys from an early age and barely let his foot off the gas. Who is doing that today? No one. Look at what Oscar accomplished by age 23. And now a days....guy are fighting terrible comp up to age 27-30.