De La Hoya - Trinidad Revisited - Not Such A Robbery?

i'll need to actually sit down and score it to say for sure but i can't help but lean towards a crocked decision. not the worst ever but don king may have bought his fair share of wins, nothing to say this wasn't one of them

 

De La Hoya started to coast after 8 rounds right? You might be thinking that he won all 8 and with 4 rounds left he had the fight in the bag. The thing is that judging in pro boxing is subjective. It really comes down to who dose the judge like better who in their opinions had the better round. You should assume that you have won two less rounds than you belive you have. If you think you won 8/8 you should assume the judges have you wining no more than 6/8. Meaning that the best you can do is a draw.
Basicaly coasting starting in the ninth round, giving away rounds 9,10,11&12 is what cost De La Hoya the fight.

 

For some reason, The recent fight between Marquez and Pacquiao reminds me a lot of this fight.

 

? you are aware the mosley mematch happened 2 or 3 years after the first mosley fight with both still being in good shape?


say oscar did make room for whitiker in 99/2000 even 98 would it have made a difference?

 

Are you trying to justify his bum of the month tour in 97-98?

 

After Mosley lost 2 fights in a row and was clearly not the same fighter he once was - yes i'm aware of it.

No, i don't think so.

Whitaker was on his last legs, Oscar was in his prime.

 

One of the worst robberies of the last era.

Oscar thumped him. Gave him a boxing lesson.

It shocks me that people find reason to score a round for Tito like three.

"Ooh, he landed a hook! I don't care that Oscar landed three, Tito ACTUALLY HIT HIM!'

Ridiculous.

 

Tito could have lost every round as long as it appeared to be competitive he was going to win. Oscar was the clear winner.

 

Its not robbery in my opinion Oscar done very little in a lot in the whole fight, its was extremely tedious with both guy doing very little. last time I scored I had De La Hoya winning after 8 rounds, after 12 1 had it for Trinidad if I remember correctly by 1 point, Oscar was disgracefull in the closing rounds of that fight.

Never understood how anybody could consider it a robbery.

 

I can't believe people trying to defend Tito here.

It's a clear robbery. ODLH was landing almost at will. That left jab did all the controlling. His defense was superb. Generalship was all too evident.

Really, what can you give Tito here? Landing less than half of his power shots than how much he normally would?

 

Tito wanted to move up in weight, as I recall. I believe he said even before the fight that this would be his last fight at the weight.

Years later, there was talk here and there of a rematch happening. At one point, I remember Oscar trying to lure Tito out of one of his retirements with talk of a rematch.

Besides, their actual fight was a colossal bust. There was no great clamor among fans to see, let alone pay to see, a rematch of their stinkfest.

 

Round 3:
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DeLaHoya did next to NOTHING for nearly the first two minutes of the round, while Tito just kept pecking away at him (albeit inaccurately) with his jab. Only in the last minute did Hoya actually open up and try to steal the round with some flashy flurries, but many of his punches were not clean either.

I don't believe Tito did enough to actually win the fight either, but this round encapsulates some of the difficulties in scoring the early round action. Both fighters were super tentative and neither was particularly accurate or effective with his punches. Hoya was the more effective when he actually opened up, but he often fought only in intermittent spurts.

 

I'd hardly say he was landing "at will."

He fought in flashy spurts, and many of the punches in his flurries didn't really land cleanly.

 

This is exactly how I saw it.