Mayweather is the one who sold the fight on HBO's 24-7....... ....that fight did a million more buys than any other DLH fight, which includes the Trinidad fight. ....thats not DLH selling it, its Mayweather selling it. DLH comes out and says that he's giving back to the boxing fan by showing his fight against Steve Forbes on free HBO....:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl thats insanely hillarious.....are you kidding me? If that Forbes fight went on PPV, DLH would undoubtedly be embarrassed by the numbers! ......DLH is giving jack **** to the boxing fan as he's been spinning it with the media....that Forbes fight has nowhere else to go but free HBO. If DLH did'nt have such a relationship with HBO, were talking an ESPN fight against Forbes!
And as even HBO pointed out during one of the countdowns (Mayorga, I think?), Oscar draws a large female demographic as well.
The answer is easy as to how he became such a huge phenomenon. He came onto the scene at the same time the mexican american population became a huge force on the US economic scene. There were mexican stars before but not mexican american ones. They clung to their guy ever since. Oh yeah, being a six division champ doesn't hurt either.
Jack Prescott, you are a ****witt. Did Oscar **** your pathetic arse ? Is that why you now wear dresses ? Apart from the Sturm fight, what does he have going against him in your eyes ? His resume is amongst the best. He hasn't ducked anyone, even went up a few divisions to fight a legend. Fought many greats won or held his own well. Fought the current best, and did better than most thought he would. Will rematch Floyd late this year. What the **** does he have to do to please a ****witt like you ?
I dont think De La Hoya has a bigger name than tyson..He supassed his numbers but i still think more people know mike t
Most of his losses were very close fights and split decision losses. Its not like he got KTFO 5 times in a row. He was also never beaten by a major underdog. All of those fights he lost were atleast 50-50 fights. People like him, they like his image. Hes a good bullshitter. He got busted with that prostitute and he completely downplayed the whole thing and got many people to think it was fake.
Remember his following started when he came back from Barcelona with a gold medal, the only to do this for the USA boxing team. So the hype started from there.
I didn't agree, just pointed out an economic fact. I find most ESB'ers attitude toward a winner of ten titles in six divisions childish at best.
C'mon Jack, seriously, answer my points. Not dumb **** like "wheres your avatar". You keep slagging the guy off yet won't answer serious questions.
See Jack, your a ****ing dumb arse. For some reason a minority on here somehow respect your word, ppffff, piece of ****. And the dog avatar has been circulating on the net for a decade. I thought to myself, maybe i'm over the top continually calling you a ****witt,nope, i was right, you are a ****witt. How about occasionally answering posts seriously instead of being the ongoing child when it comes to De La Hoya.
as long as he brings in the money he can pick&choose who he fights,nobody will turn down fighting him bcoz of the payday.