Chavez vs. DLH

yes, an early good start. But then was retreating in the second half of the 12th. The crowd was only booing him because he was retreating at the end & refusing to fight. But he clearly won the decision.

 

Yes he opened strong, but in the second half of the round he was avoiding Gonzalez, mainly because he had the fight in the bag. But Latin fans don't like it when fighters retreat, especcially in the last round & they got on him a little bit. & that's why they were not happy when the decision was announced. De La Hoya clearly won the fight.

 

Julio Cesar Chavez was scheduled to fight Meldrick Taylor in Las Vegas, he was in L.A at the time training for the fight and was looking for some sparring partners when he first met a young amateur Oscar De La Hoya. His manager came to Oscar De La Hoya's Boxing club were he also trained with Shane Mosley and a fighter named Pepe Reilly. Chavez's Manager gave them the opportunity to spar with Chavez and gave them the address to come to, Oscar, Shane and Pepe couldn't believe it. Later Oscar arrived with his trainer Robert Alcazar along with Pepe and Shane. Pepe and Shane sparred with Chavez first, they both wore 12-ounce gloves. It was De La Hoya's turn next, on his way to the sparring session with his trainer, one of Chavez's people stopped De La Hoya and said "no you may not use these gloves", he handed Oscar a pair of 18-ounce gloves and said to Oscar " We have heard stuff about you". When Oscar stepped in the ring with Chavez he held nothing back wanting to make an impression on Chavez, he done well until he got Chavez's full attention and was caught with a right hand that put De La Hoya down to one knee, he bounced up and finished the rest of the round, after the 2 rounds of sparring Oscar was preparing to leave with Robert and Chavez's manager said to Oscar "Julio wants to speak with you come to this address later, forget the other two sparring partners only you". Oscar and his trainer Robert went to meet with Chavez, they shook hands and Chavez said to Oscar " You hit me with some good punches, your a great fighter". Six years later when Oscar fought Chavez he new Chavez wasn't a man that would spend a lot of time studying opponents and discussing strategy, He would simply come forward at the opening bell, absorb the best shots his opponent could deliver, and then proceed to dismantle his opponents body and will. Oscar used this to his advantage.

 

Plus it was helpful that Chavez was well past his prime & his reflexes were slow.

 

Camacho-Hoya was a shutout, just about the most lopsided fight ive seen

 

Hey, he's just seeing things we don't see. Maybe he has a dodgy television.

 

I honestly believe that JCC would have come back in their first fight and beaten Hoya. Had it not been for the cut that stopped the fight Chavez would have taken Oscar into deeper and deeper waters. And I believe would have stopped him. Their second fight was much closer and Chavez was more past it then. Chavez and taylor comes to mind. Oscar would have slowed and JCC'd body shots would take the legs from Oscar late