De La Hoya - Trinidad Revisited - Not Such A Robbery?

Wouldn't go that far. ODLH was the architect for his own dimise. There is a diference between boxing and being flat out negative, as shown in the latter rounds

And the ineffective flurry ODLH would frequently put on at the closing seconds of the majority of rounds to steal it did not bare much weight with me. I had it ODLH by around 2 rounds I think

 

exactly

 

I thought De La Hoya clearly won that fight, but a question to everyone here.
Are you swayed by commentary because I remember round 9 as a Oscar round. I remember in the UK the commentary scorecard on the screen gave Tito round 9.
Look at round 9 again
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I felt Oscar although pressured landed more and better overall. A round shouldnt be scored on the last 30 seconds

 

being around boxing and knowing boxing are two different things

:hat

 

This right here is a great post, i dont mind people saying dlh won by one or two rounds. But to say it was a flat out robbery is crazy as hell because depending on your scoring style you easily couldve gave that fight to tito. People listen to much to the announcers and also see dlh throwing ineffective flurries at the end of rounds to try to impress judges and fans. But DLH has only himself to blame because he came to the fight that night with the mindset that he wasnt going to fight and trade tito but just run around and try to steal a decision.

:hat

 

Even though DLH won more rounds, fights like this should really be declared draws. Oscar avoided a fight and Felix was willing but incompetent to create one.

I don't think it's really fair to call such a fight a robbery, considering Oscar didn't do all that much to 'earn' the decision.

That said, it's unfair that Trinidad got the decision given that he displayed such a pathetic attempt to cut the ring off.

 

Even if you give Tito every remotely close round I can't see how you can have Tito winning. De La Hoya clearly outboxed Tito for the majority of the fight. So yes it's still a robbery.

But the biggest failure of this fight was not the scoring it was level of performances. This was hyped as the Leonard/Hearns of our generation, this was meant to spark off a new golden era for the welterweight division with several potentially great fights.

But instead we got a boring fight with a timid De La Hoya and a Trinidad who seemed incapable of cutting off the ring or adapting to adversity. This was no Leonard/Hearns.

 

A fight is judged over 12 rounds, not the last 3. De La Hoya did more than Trinidad to 'earn' the decision.......And thats what counts.

Oscar avoided a fight, but outboxed his opponent. Nothing wrong with avoiding a fight. Whitaker was a specialist at it, although he did it better than De La Hoya ever did.