The same Oscar who needed help from the judges to get past Quartey and Sturm? Jab Kostya's head off? I need a complete diagnosis and 150 page dossier by the end of business hours thanks Turkish.
Kosta has no attributes to even trouble a prime Oscar DLH especially the one at 140 who destroyed Chavez. Oscar is the better boxer with more speed, power, height, reach and combination punching with a granite chin. Kosta gets ko’d or suffers a wide UD loss.
Up at 160 it's no surprise he needed some help against Strum. Silly fight to take and way out of his depth weight-wise. Have people forgotten that Oscar had a great chin? Probably has better feet and more volume than Kosta. Edge in hand speed as well Kosta was a great fighter but Oscar would take it. He didn't spend long at 140 really but although he might have started lower down the weights I reckon he would be the bigger guy in the ring.
Oscar by UD. Oscar's left (his lead) hand was better than Kostya's right (backhand) hand as well as Kostya's left hand. Oscar was better parrying away shots defensively. Reach advantage, footspeed advantage, Oscar had a chin that's held up at every weight class. Oscar get's a lot of **** (mainly because of his hubris and now out of ring antics) but he was really was one of those total package guys.
I was a bigger fan of Tszyu, he’s one of my favorite fighters from his era. That said, Oscar was next level and would have easily schooled him. Oscar is a nutcase today but I encourage people who were too young to see prime Oscar fight to watch a few of his fights. He was a special fighter who made some unwise weight decisions because he was overconfident or greedy. Prime Oscar was an elite fighter, and I hate to admit it because I’m not a fan of the bloated coked up nutcase he has become. As a fighter, he was exceptional.