Who gave Mayweather a TOUGHER fight, Oscar De La Hoya or Manny Pacquiao?

ODLH he was arguably ahead on points after 6 rounds and was making it a tough fight for Mayweather with his jab plus he was the bigger man with Mayweather fighting at Jr Middleweight for the 1st time.

 

Both easy.

 

I will be in the minority and say Pacquiao. The reason being is that Floyd in his fight with Oscar was overly reliant on Oscar gassing. They kept saying in the corner he was going to get tired and when Oscar did, Floyd took over. With Pacquiao, he hurt Floyd twice and he made Floyd have to be on the alert for every minute of every round. Floyd fought ultra conservative because Manny is very awkward and explosive. If he tried to be overly aggressive, Manny would have did more damage. With the Oscar fight I felt like Floyd just kept it close until Oscar got tired and swept the rest of the fight.

 

Yes.

Of course you have to factor in peak PAC’s more energised, greater wear/tear style and his selecting of opponents without fear or favour. And, as I said, Manny had to be flattened before Floyd would even seriously consider getting into the ring with him.

For some sort of analogy, imagine Ali side stepping Frazier until 74 - meaning, no FOTC as and when it should’ve and did in fact happen?

Imo, PAC had clearly degraded a lot more than PBF had during the intervening years (2010 - 2015?).

Suffice to say, PBF’s evasive skills weren’t just confined to his moves in the ring.

 

Two very, very Boring fights. You'd have to pay me to watch those fights again.

Definitely De La Hoya, I had De La Hoya winning too, but no way am I ever gonna watch it back to check lol.

 

DLH was tougher. That fight was arguably a draw while floyd beat pacquiao clearly.

 

Yeah. Floyd Pac was no schooling. Garbage fight and that wasn't a virtuoso performance like Floyd fans want to paint it. Floyd ran for his life.

 

ODLH, by a comfortable margin. In turn Cotto gave a tougher fight than DLH by a comfortable margin. In turn JLC...

Pac did better than many (tougher fight than, say, Canelo, by a comfortable margin) but arguably wasn't top 5 most difficult for Mayweather.

 

Yup. I talked about this in another thread recently, Pacs degradation was clear from the Mosley fight on, and it was more clear following the JMM KO when he no longer had any killer instinct on top of having slowed down a bit.

On top of general wear and tear, both of these performance dips were after pretty brutal affairs (fighting Margarito at 154, getting iced by JMM)….

Also, the comment you’re responding to is ******ed anyway. What’s the point if you’re going to remove all nuance from the conversation, and act as if we’ve never seen a fight and base all of our opinions on boxrec.

 

Both sucked !!!!

 

Top post. Totally agree.

 

He outclassed both guys easily enough. The best you can give both guys is a 116-112 loss.

 

De La Hoya fight was a split decision for a reason. It was close.

Pacqauio fight he won clearly but it was one of the most boring fights in history, where the whole world was watching - it was a disgrace and embarassment to boxing, and no doubt put millions of potential boxing fans off watching boxing again.

 

De La Hoya.

I scored the Mayweather-DLH fight a draw, Floyd was lucky to get the win.

Mayweather clearly defeated Pacquiao.