Whitaker vs. De La Hoya - Who Won and Scores

Yup. It was close but Pernell did fuk all but showboat> oscar pushed the pace

 

Nope. Maybe on a couple occasions, but for the most part that is a myth based on 1 or 2 youtube clips where Oscar missed a combination.

 

I can't remember my scorecard, but Whitaker clearly won this fight. Usually in most cases throughout the history of Boxing you actually had to land punches to win a fight. De La Hoya only landed a few more punches than I did that night. I guess the people who thought De La Hoya won also think he beat Quartey and Sturm as well.

 

lol, Pernell didn't land any punches. And if Oscar didn't land anything, Pernells swollen almost shut eye says different. lol Oscar was unscathed.

Quartey was knocked down twice and was out hit by Oscar plus got absolutely crushed in the most important round of the fight. That fight was close but Oscar won everywhere he had too.

Sturm was a loss for Oscar. I have no quarrel with that and it was a bad decision. Oscar was actually fat looking in that fight.

 

For the record, I have every single Oscar fight, from his important amateur and Olympic fights, to all but Oscar vs. Mayorga, Pac and Forbes. I've watched those Pernell, Quartey, Tito fights like a dozen times.

 

What did De La Hoya do to win this fight? Of course Oscar had no blemishes Sweet Pea doesn't punch hard, we all know that. Being knocked down twice doesn't mean you lost a twelve round fight. Didn't De La Hoya also get knocked down himself in that fight? Outside of the knock down De La Hoya did very little in the last round. Did you ignore the rest of the round? I wouldn't say De La Hoya crushed anything in that round.

 

Oscar landed more power shots on pea. Pea did **** but dance and goof around.

Are you kidding about the quartey fight? After Oscar knocks down Quartey, he had him on the ropes landing power shot after power shot for about a minute. The ropes saved Quartey from getting dropped again. Oscar absolutely murdered him on the ropes. That was almost a 10-7 round. Oscar didn't need to do anything else the last half of the round. lol

 

Once again, we know Whitaker doesn't punch hard. Pernell landed cleaner punches throughout the fight and De La Hoya barely landed anything. Slight eye swelling is not an indication of a win or a loss.

Winning the first thirty or so seconds of the last round doesn't mean you crushed someone in the round. Quartey had the better round after the knock down and early Hoya flurry in the 12th.

 

Anyone that says either of these guys clearly won this fight is talking out of their biased asses.... very close & hard to score fight, no robbery either way.

Ps. DLH is lucky he never fought the WW Sweet Pea that beat Chavez & McGirt (rematch), he would have been made to pay as well as miss like he was in their actual fight... that version of Whitaker was a brilliant fighter.

 

First of all pernell only landed jabs, Oscar landed more power shots -- the significant punches. Secondly, that eye was half shut, not sightly swollen.

The ref was almost jumping in to stop the fight during Oscar's destruction of Quartey. His head was snapped back repeatedly and he was lying almost horizontal on the ropes lol. The rest of the round was even at best for Quartey and that = 10-8 round for Oscar in which every Judge scored it that. That round clearly sealed the deal for Oscar. Had he have not knocked down and came as close as you can without knocking someone out, Quartey would have won, but that didn't happen. Even if Oscar had only knocked him down and not bounced Quartey's head back while the ropes were saving him, he still would have won a 10-8 round even if Quartey did edge out Oscar in the remainder of the round -- but that didn't happen either. Face it, Quartey was just about finished off and lost the most important round of the fight in brutal fashion.

 

Are you seriously saying what I think you're saying, that the 12th goes to Quartey? :huh

Please tell me I misread that.
Please, for the sake of all humanity.

:blood

 

Not to mention that the round starts off with Quartey stretched on his back from one of the biggest hooks I've ever seen. The kd, the beating, how can it not have been a big round for DLH?

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Yes.

Oscar was not landing clean punches on Purnell. He was swinging @ air all night.

De la Hoya won that fight based on his agression and not his effective agression.

May I suggest you go re-watch the fight.

 

Oscar did land. The myth comes from Merchant, who's an idiot a lot of the times (doesn't matter who you're a fan of, Merchant says some crazy ****). Merchant continually says DLH isn't landing, WHILE DLH is landing. This happens repeatedly throughout the fight. It's hard watching an idol lose, and this was happening with the ring announcers that night.

 

So why was Pernell's eye so busted up?