De La Hoya vs Ike Quartey 1999

HIGHWAY ROBBERY. I had Quartey ahead by 2 rounds.

 

I remember the 16 month or say lay-off, but I don't remember Oscar's opponent pulling out and Quartey being on short notice.

From what I've heard, Quartey and Trinidad were supposed to fight in late 1998. HBO was growing frustrated with DLH's opposition post-Whitaker, especially with the ridiculous Chavez rematch. Arum decided Oscar should step it up, and offered Quartey a fight with DLH. Quartey pulled out of the Trinidad fight and signed to fight DLH instead.

 

I had Ike winning by two points, I thought he won the fight he was for the most part the aggressor he made the fight DLH would stand there infront of Ike in some rounds and do nothing at all, but when your in vegas in DLHs backyard basicly and you get knocked down in the last round it doesnt help your case.
However true fight fans know this is a fight Oscar did lose, and it sucks that DLH did not honor a rematch I am sure the fans would have paid big to see it.

 

Quartey did not pull out of the Trinidad fight, it was Trinidad who did, he had trouble with Don King wasnt exactly happy with his contract or what ever the issue was but it was clearly discussed on the undercard for Quartey DLH

 

Can't figure out these 115-114 "easy fights to score." That means that you think that no round could possibly have been scored differently than the way you scored it.

 

The Goldenboy ****s another fighter who has beaten him and wont get the decision. You can add Molina and Sweetpea to this list, there will be a few more before this train is done! The Golden one takes an enormous and unfair cut of all purses and too bad if you wont sign he will take his buisness elsewhere. One of the Greediest and shallowest fakes ever to be on fortunes side and the saps just buy it and lap it up again and again.

 

The fact that the majority of people who've seen the fight scored it 115-114 Quartey suggests that it was a relatively easy fight to score. Just because it's close doesn't mean it wasn't easy to score. Of course you had the 6th round which was an obvious 10-9 round in favor of Quartey and then the 12th round which was an obvious 10-8 in favor of De La Hoya. And the 10 other rounds were pretty clear-cut in favor of one fighter or another in my opinion...

 

Don't you mean 114-113?

If a lof people had it 115-114, that means they had 2 even rounds, which suggests the fight wasn't all that easy to score.

But it was rather easy.

 

This is another one where I am comfortable with a draw but there would be pissed Oscar fans instead of Ike fans at that result. Its not just that he got knocked in last round but he got knocked down and then pummeled in the corner for the rest of the round. It was such a blowout round for DLH that he got the fight. Now, I understand how people can claim victory for Ike on a very objective basis based on scorecards but there is another old school way, by asking yourself who would you rather be in that fight? Based on this criteria I sure wouldn't have wanted to be on the recieving end of Oscar's punches in that final round.

 

I'm pretty sure my scorecard was 115-114 for Quartey because it was the exact same score as the one judge who scored it for Quartey (the onewho didn't need to subscribe to Lenscrafters).

 

Yeah, that was Larry O'Connell, he had it 115-114.

A month later he had Holyfield-Lewis I even at 115 apiece.

I just found it strange that so many people would have two even rounds in this fight, when the rounds were pretty clear.

 

Score it how you like, Quartey got his ass kicked.

 

Blah.

A great finish doesn't mean you deserve to win if you lose more rounds, and a weak finish doesn't mean you deserve to lose if you won more rounds.

DLH ran the last 3 rounds against Trinidad, but he deserved a close win or at least a draw.

DLH got lucky from the judges. They were a joke. DLH could've lost the 12th and still not lost the fight.

 

Quartey got lucky that no other ref was officiating that night. Anyone else would've called it a TKO.

 

Halpern did a good job. Even though Quartey was hurt, he was firing back, and De La Hoya was missing the great majority of his shots.

It would've been a bad stoppage.

As DLH said, when he finished Vargas he was much more in control of his shots and being accurate, while he was wild and missing most of his shots versus Ike.