I had it as a draw but i gave oscar the 4th which may have mayweathers because of the accurite punches landed. Oscar thought a great fight and a younger Oscar would have won a close decision
Floyd won it 7 rounds to 5 on my card seemed easy to score. Can accept 8 to 4 if you're really trying to give rounds to Floyd but 6-6 is really a stretch. It was definately a close fight but a clear Floyd win.
Hoya blocked a lot more punches than I ever see him getting credit for. Really is a shame about his stamina.
when you watch it with the sound on floyd wins a close but not that close decision turn the sound off (fans screaming everytime oscar gets even i the same timezone as floyd ) it gets wider (and dont say the crownd dosent effect the scoring , you try but you cant just block there shouting out when you think about the round at the end)
His defense in this fight is incredible, he's like wonder woman with her magic bracelets. But seriously his speed is all but gone in this fight. I even watched the Forbes fight and its evident there too. I don't think it was his stamina so much but he was a fighter who shot lightning quick combos and after his retirement he just couldn't do it anymore. Oscar falls back at this point almost exclusively on power.
I had it a draw when I scored the fight properly, Floyd was hitting gloves until the later rounds when he tagged Oscar a few times.
His speed had definitely really decreased, yeah. I was watching the match with Quartey, and even in the 12th round, after a long, exhausting fight, he still has some speed and zip, and those combos against the ropes were nuts. I also remember the speed of his combos against Pernell...even though he was mostly hitting air, I wonder how Floyd would have dealt with that version of Hoya.
If you watch Hopkins/Hoya and Hoya/Mayorga back to back its amazing to think what a few years of inactivity will do. The Hopkins version of Hoya is insanely fast too. Oscar also has a very soft look to the body on return which he did not have vs Hopkins.