De La Hoya: I wanted him to 'knock me out'

Who the **** comes out of a fight saying 'I wish I was knocked out'?

 

Quiting is an obstacle to being knocked out.

 

Bull****. He quit

 

maybe he shouldn't have quit on the stool and his wish could have been a reality...

 

Oscar needs to retire or try and contend at 154...I think he's a much different fighter at 154!

 

horse ****.

oscar straight up QUIT.

nacho recommended the fight to be stopped and not only did he confirm & clarify oscar saying "yes" that's it, nacho even asked if he wanted 1 more round addressing him as "boss"...

now if oscar wanted to go out like he's saying, he would have fought that 1 more round & gotten KTFO as he wished.

 

:rofl

Oscar just has a way with words doesn't he?

I know what he meant though.

 

Well at least he didn't come out with excuses.

 

This is the strangest thing I've ever heard Hoya say. Very sad. It shows that he should not be in the rind anymore.

 

Oscar went on to say that Pac doesn't hit that hard which is what I find most interesting. Clearly Pac was very tentative with his punches and limited his vulnerability by not over extending too often but none the less his power at 147 should not be overstated. Many people on these boards wish to see Pac fight Cotto or Mosley after Hatton and I just think Pac should continue to be selective with his opponents and not get to overzealous with his success at these higher weights.

 

Yeah, that was the strangest thing said to me too. Which makes me rethink who I think will win in Pac/Hatton a bit. It means that PAc's power might not have transferred and it was only Oscar's inability to guard that gave him that ****ed up face. Enough shots by even Malignagghi when ungaurded will **** anyone up. I think Oscar's being honest in this interview, you can sense his confusion and self-struggle through the whole thing.

 

I found Oscar's comments about pac 'not hitting that hard,' pretty interesting. Oscar's face, his grabbing the rope in the 7th, and the near knockdown in the 8th, tell a different story.

Diaz said the same thing in his fight with pac; 'it's not his punches, it's the speed I can't deal with.' Obviously, when pac started sitting down on his punches in the 8th and 9th rounds, Diaz couldn't deal with the power, either.

Not saying that pac's as great a puncher at ww as he was at feather, but, I'm not sure I believe Oscar's assessment. Kinda sounds like sour grapes to me.

 

Seems like a case of chin being the last thing to go. Oscar took clean punches off of guys like Quartey, Shane, and a roided up Vargas. It's very possible that Manny wasn't hurting him in the same way, but since he was unable to respond, someone was going to have to stop it.

You could see that Tony Weeks wanted to step in, but he also knew that if he did too soon, there might be "controversy". Pride, honor, and all that garbage aside, I don't think anybody really wanted to see Oscar come out for the ninth. The fight was over.

 

No. Duran 'quit'. DLH got the **** beat out of him and knew he couldn't win the fight and stayed on his stool. There's a difference.