At this point in his career, DLH's power is overrated

I dont think it has anything to do with Oscar losing his power, it has more to do with Forbes being hard to hit flush. Personally, I wasnt too bothered that he didnt KO forbes, I saw this fight for what it was, a tune-up opportunity to get Oscar as sharp as possible for the Flooyd rematch.

 

Vargas was not 10x the fighter Forbes is.

Forbes is a tough nut to crack.

 

well the commentators on tv said that this was a way of DLH saying thanks to his fans so the ticket prices were low. I believe they interviewed hoya about this event and it was just like a give away to the fans..

 

Exactly! :good

 

When did he ever??

 

We are just looking at an aging fighter who is now pacing himself a lot more to make sure he does not fell into the same traps that the past has held.

Last night, De La Hoya, for such an inactive fighter, fought a very smart fight, mixing pressure with technically excellent boxing.

 

Was Jim Lampley in orgasmic pleasure as he said it?

Lets get real here, except for the high priced Ringside seats in which alot were given away complimentary to celebrities.....(DLH wants to give back to the fans, yet its the celebrities who can afford any seat, that get to sit ringside.:nut )

Listen up and use your common sense here..... the cheapest seats which were $25 sold out rather quickly....
You would thinkg that if the intentions of GBP's was to actually give away complimentary seating, the cheapest seats would have been the ones to give out.....
......as it was, it was the $75 to $300 seating that were going to have pockets of emptiness......and so in order to make DLH look like he could fill a soccer stadium and make him look good on HBO, GBP had no choice but to make deals with companies like At&t so that they could distribute these tickets on a complimentary basis to customers that were buying cell phones!

GBP's was actually in a pickle. There is a tennis stadium that adjoins the Home Depot Soccer stadium. The tennis stadium sits less than 10,000 which would probably have been too little seating for a DLH fight.
The Tennis stadium is where the Raphael Marquez-Israel Vazquez fight took place......its a wonderful place to watch a boxing match from, the seating is angled beautifully for such an event.

......but lets be real, DLH is a greedy individual, and with a chance that they could sell well above 10,000 seats, he could'nt resist the urge but to do it in the Soccer Stadium that sits above 30,000.
.....thats fine, more power to him, but the picture that Jim Lampley and HBO painted that DLH could sell out a 30,000 seat stadium, is just not true.
As I said, thousands of complimentary tickets were given away when the realization set in that the stadium was going to fall well short from a sellout!
The cheap seat sold out, but they just could'nt sell out the middle priced seating, which btw were lousy to view a boxing match in comparison to the tennis stadium seating where every seat in that place is a good seat to watch boxing!

You take anything complimentary that HBO has to say about DLH toward the fans, with a grain of salt, as naturally with the relationship that DLH has with HBO, they naturally will do and say anything to make DLH look good.
....and I think most people in boxing forums like this, know very well of HBO's lust for DLH!

 

How's he overrated? He's not in anyone's top ten rankings? He has no current championships to speak of. The guys running on his legacy at this point. Though he is not anyone's favorite coming into a fight against top opponents he is still a very dangerous fighter that could upset the apple cart against anyone.

 

Have to call you on this one: Give me the names of fighters with a better resume than DLH:deal

 

Exactly, DLH has fought some great fighters, but he just has'nt been able to beat any of them.

 

:hi: Stop hatin'.Oscar is the #1 guy in the sport of Boxing, live with it and you're going to hear about it until he retires. That is just reality.

 

Just because Forbes showed balls of steel in that fight doesn't mean Oscar lost power. There was one left hook at the end of a round (have to watch it second time to remember which one) which buckled Forbes legs wildly but he didn't go down. That was pure will that kept him up. A couple of times Oscar let the fish go after catching it against the ropes.

 

Oscar's carreer actually does begin before Tito. And you're forgetting Castillejo, Sturm, Vargas, Mayorga which he won. If you're not gonna count Sturm than you have to give him Mosley second time and Tito.

 

I dont see why so many people are making such a big deal of Forbes lasting the whole fight. If you looked at the betting odds, the money was on Forbes not getting stopped. The way people are talking now about Forbes, he should be able to clean up the whole 140 pound division for lasting the distance with Oscar.

 

Hes in everyones top 3 as far as Junior Middles but im assuming u mean p4p right ?