Oscar De La Hoya was overrated

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  1. piprules

    piprules Well-Known Member Full Member

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    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.
     
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  2. Splash

    Splash New Member banned Full Member

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    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...........:jaja-no::jaja-no:

    :imwithstupid:
     
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  3. Mod-Mania

    Mod-Mania Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No that's Sugar Ray Robinson.
     
  4. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    He's clearly great. He would also demolish Tim Tszyu
     
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  5. boxingexpert733

    boxingexpert733 Member Full Member

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

    Themessiah El Jefe Full Member

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    He’d kill all those young hype jobs though
     
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  7. stanster

    stanster Member Full Member

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    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!
     
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  8. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    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..................
     
  9. Nigel_Benn

    Nigel_Benn Well-Known Member Full Member

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

    NoChin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Can someone please tell me which fighters he beat in their prime?

    Genuinely asking. And what were their records and who did they face?
     
  11. The Real Lance

    The Real Lance Boxing Junkie Full Member

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

    Carinito Member Full Member

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    He was the biggest star in boxing for a good amount of years.
     
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  13. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    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.
     
  14. Mark Anthony

    Mark Anthony Internet virgin Full Member

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    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.
     
  15. The Real Lance

    The Real Lance Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    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.
     
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