This question always made me curious, what if Oscar De La Hoya went undefeated and won all of his fights, is he the best ever? The GOAT? Imagine his resume, have wins over: Pacquiao - prime Mayweather - prime Hopkins - prime Trinidad - prime Mosley (twice) - prime Chavez (twice) - past prime Whitaker - past prime Quartey - prime Sturm - prime Vargas - prime Camacho - prime Five of those fighters are like inside top 30 atg, and most of them in their best years. If Oscar would have done more during those clutch moments in his close loses, I think he goes undefeated.
The only two he wanted no part of was vernon forrest and winky wright. Rightfully so though, both bad style match ups and low reward.
If he had beaten them all then he would certainly be the greatest P4P over Robinson and other nostalgia picks.
Without a doubt and the only person that would me mentioned above him is SRR. Knowing Oscar had he beaten Hopkins he woulda been financially worth the risk for RJJ to meet him at 168 at least..
He lost almost all of most important fights of his career. GOAT might be too much but he could be all time top 10.
No, but he'd be right up there. And Camacho was about ten years past his best for De La Hoya. He wasn't in anyway prime.
Lost legit to every A fighter on the list with exception to trinidad. Even then he gassed the last 4 rounds.
Chavez, Whitaker, Quartey, Camacho, Vargas, Chicanito Hernandez, were all victories over A-type fighters. Most people believe DLH beat Trinidad, and Mosley (in at least one of their fights) that's 2 more A-type fighters. So yeah, the notion that DLH never beat an A-type fighter is Bull****.
If Kenny Norton won all his fights, he had probably been the greatest HW of all time. And there are journeymen out there with namelists you wouldn't believe. They just lost to all of them.
