De La Hoya vs Duran@135

Duran would destroy the robot late rounds KO after winning every round. Delahoya is too mechanical and predicatable, which will make him easy for Duran to time, slip, and catch flush. He doesnt have the defense to keep Duran off him. Especially at lightweight as Delahoyas skill set was very much pre-prime at this weight

 

Not really. Duran was just too good.

 

i fancy roberto at 135 and osacr a welterweight. oscar would of been a great fight for anyone from lightweight to super welterweight

 

Duran beat Leonard emphatically at Welter who is a top3 Welter of all time. Who did Delahoya beat emphatically that was elite? Delahoya lost to Mosley and had close fights with Whitaker, Trinidad, Quartey (I had him losing 2 of those)

 

duran UD

 

That performance by Duran is probably not something he could turn in on a regular basis though.

 

I pick Duran over Oscar at 135, 147, and maybe 154, probably 160 too.

DLH is bigger, but Duran in top form was clearly better overall.

 

Oscar would have been just another ko victim of a vicious, fired-up Duran. In his lightweight heyday, Duran was too much animal for ANY lightweight.

 

Oscar over the Montreal Duran? Or the Duran of the Palomino fight? Hell no.

And Oscar wasn't a better LW than Dejesus, even if he was bigger. He was quite robotic as has been said, too stiff for my liking. Good footwork, but little head movement or finesse to his offense.

 

He was anything but 'stiff' against Hernandez. His fluid upperbody and head movement was never done as much again during a fight in his career, and that includes the first Chavez fight. De La Hoya was a constant, bobber and weaver, against Hernandez. Lots of feints, jabs, twisting from the waist, quick burts, and making himself a very elusive target as he changed the height of himself. And I'd also say he was smooth and unrobotic against Ruelas as well. Molina, Paez, etc, he was straight up and down.

 

I thought he looked like he normally did to be honest. I just never saw a lot of finesse in his game, even though he did try out different gameplans.

 

Watch his fight against Paez which lasted lasted two rounds then the Ruelas fight which went the same. He's fluid against Ruelas, not flat-footed, and entirely different than he was against Paez when he was extremely rigid and stiff. Not how he normally looked, probably because Ruelas was the first fight in which Rivero had input in the corner even though Alcazar was still the main trainer at that point.

 

De La Hoya did show good footwork in the Ruelas fight, and in quite a few of his fights. He's showed a tight guard as well when it came to defense, but I've never really seen fluid head movement from him, not in that fight anyway.