De La Hoya obviously was a great fighter in several divisions, growing up I always assumed he was at his best at Welterweight. I was watching his fight with Quartey last night and it got me thinking, how would he do vs the current crop of fighters from 135-154. A lot of these guys are unproven, and DLH did not spend a ton of time at the lower divisions(2 title fights) 135 (7 fights) and 140 (3 fights), so that is not where most of his big wins and most famous fights took place at, that would be 147 and 154. How do you think he would do against the following; At 135: Loma Teofimo Gervonta At 140: Ramirez Mikey Garcia At 147: Crawford Spence At 154: Charlo Also, just now realized how weak the "money" division is at the moment. Or what has been the money division for some time.
He absolutely annihilates Tank and Loma. Lopez may prove to be good enough to test him, but as of now, I think De La Hoya stops him too. What are these names at 140? Where's Taylor, Postol and Prograis? Anyway, De La Hoya from the Chavez and Gonzalez fights was clearly a level above them IMO. Taylor would be a really fun fight though. Garcia would give the best account of himself IMO. I've basically given up hope on Crawford and Spence ever being accomplished enough to rival guys like Mosley, Tito and De La Hoya. They're not gonna fight eachother and it looks like Crawford's happy making millions for fighting no-hopers. Fair dos, I guess. De La Hoya probably wins close decisions over both, he starts very strong but fades late and is taken down to the wire. If De La Hoya's smart, he'd box Charlo like he did Gonzalez. I think he'd likely get into a war with him though, and I think he'd still win that way.
Oscar, Duran and Mosley would all run over Loma. I don't see how you can believe that he is that tough.
I think it's cool to slate Loma, but none of those guys saw anything like him. Moseley is a beast at 130, but a weight bully who never fought anyone of much note there.
Meh, if Pacquiao did it I wouldn't be that surprised. But De La Hoya wasn't ever a super featherweight. He was a welterweight who was young enough to drain down to super featherweight, and he'd smash Lomachenko there. Also, this would be at 135, not 130.
If Teofimo Lopez can win 7 rounds against him, what do you think Julio Cesar Chavez or Roberto Duran would do to him?
I actually think I Crawford, being so adept as a southpaw might shade it over Oscar but he takes the rest.
I always thought Oscar was at his best at 135 and 140. He would have been hard to beat by current fighters. Oscar probably would not have done as well against Crawford and Spence at 147. Oscar mostly had very close fights at 147: Quartey, Whitaker, Trinidad, Mosley. I'd pick Crawford and Spence both by decision over Oscar in close fights.
Nah, he relied way too much on his left hand at that stage of his career, I don't think he fully developed as a fighter until he started training with Floyd Sr.