Clinical domination of Oscar De La Hoya

Sucky fight, sucky performance from BOTH boxers.

 

FAIL! :verysad

 

The clip showed just how much better boxer Mayweather Jr. is, controlling distance and having DLH fighting amatuerishly all the way through.

.....but it also showed that in the big picture, size does matter.

Because of DLH's bigger frame and larger mass, Mayweather was put on the defensive in too many situations and rounds where he was'nt able counter DLH because doing so would have put himself in too dangerous a spot against so big a mass.

I thought Mayweather just outclassed and got in the much cleaner and more telling shots when you look at the big picture.......
.....but when I looked at my round by round card, I was somewhat suprised it read 6 rounds Mayweather, 6 rounds DLH.

Size matters, and this fight was a perfect example of an inferior fighter being able to make it close because he was much bigger.

 

How many pounds would you "guestimate" that Oscar outweighed Floyd on fight night?

I guess around 10 to 12. Say 160-161 for Oscar, and 149-150 for Floyd.

You're right as that size does matter, as why there are weight classes.

 

NO, its just SLOWWWWING IT DOWN for the slow folk who say ODH was picking off all those shots with gloves. And come to find out....Floyd was the one picking off damn near everything and landing his shots though most was not flush.

 

I'm still amazed that some idiots still say Floyd ran in that fight.

 

I was impressed with both guys' defenses. Unfortunately, their offenses sucked. With the world "awaiting" and watching it, I wished it'd had been the opposite.

But Floyd landed the cleaner shots, although DLH did do a good job of parrying a lot of Mayweather's blows.

 

DLH I would estimate gained about 10 pounds from weighin to fighttime.
....and I'm being conservative in my estimate.....most juniormiddleweights, gain more than that by fight time.

Mayweather has been known to drop weight from the time he's officially weighed.

....so my guess is that DLH held roughly a 15 pound advantage on Mayweather by fight time.

 

I had it 10-2 PBF. And I'm a GENEROUS Mofo. :good

 

floyd won, he's a great fighter, but it was no domination of dlh. how is it the old guy wants a rematch and floyd doesn't? dlh is the biggest cash cow in boxing and fighting him twice is like winning the lottery twice. that don't make sense

 

I'm guessing that Floyd is delusional in his box office worth and wanted more money than DLH was offering.

 

ofcourse the first video showed only PBF connecting...

 

It was an 8-4 fight. There's almost no other legitimate way to score the fight. Very few of the rounds were close. Mayweather lost the rounds he took off. He won all the other ones. Unless you score a round for a fighter because he hit the other guy in the gloves 50 times in a round, or you score a round for a fighter because he looks brilliant defensively even though he throws no punches, there's no way to score it except 8-4, and when he actually applied himself, Floyd dominated DLH. To me, it looked like he intentionally took rounds off so he didn't close the door to a possible future rematch.