De La Hoya was hell of a fighter!

Yeah, I've gone over this with so many people it's crazy. And I don't even particularly like the guy. I just can't see how people can be so blinded about his very high place in boxing history.

 

I actually think De La Hoya is slightly under regarded. What a record! What a list of names on his resume. And supreme speed and skills in his prime. A complete fighter. Something special for sure. Top 100 of all time easily.

 

Oscar was awesome. Nothing but respect for his boxing.

 

oscar was decent but nothin special. people just liked his pretty face and had school girl crushes on him. Overrated and lost all of his big fights are two very accurate things to say about him. Don't let the love blind you mu****as.

 

In retrospect, I he was a very good fighter, a near great but with the new trend of weight hoping its hard to say where he was at his best. He was more dominant in the lower weights and at welterweight he had mixed results.....I dont hold the loses to Mayweather and especially Pacquaio over his head. IMO he beat Trinidad he won at least 6-7 rounds clearly and at least deserved a a draw...damn you Don King....fought a closet classic with Ike Quartey another near great, Shane Mosley had his number in his prime but he went his entire prime with one clear loss in the first Mosley fight. He fought 20 world champions defeated 13-15 and only lost. He always fought the best and deserves credit for it. Had he beaten Trinidad or Mosley he'd probably get his due as an outstanding fighter. What hurt him IMO is the inconsistency of his team...

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Someone once called him the modern day Roberto Duran, in terms of legacy. He didn't win all of them but gave us great accounts of himself each time.

 

I like how people always leave out that asswhippin that sturm put on him

 

He lost all of his big fights? So, you don't consider his two fights with JC Chavez and his fight with Pernell Whitaker to be big? Two future HOFers who were current champs? Two gigantic names? Not big fights? Yeah, we're all blind. Sho'nuff.

 

I dont even know what to think of Phony Boy,yes he fought everybody and i respect that, but he also lost most of his big fights and even the ones he won were either controversial or against past his best fighters,did he ever beat a great fighter that was in his prime?

 

No one on ESB who thinks Duran is the best ever can belittle DLH.

 

Did a fighter ever decisively beat him in his own prime age and weight? Another way to look at it. So, that Chavez and Whitaker were past their prime is an issue, but it's not an issue that Mayweather and Pacquiao beat him past his own prime? Double standard, sounds like.

 

He fought the following...

Jorge Paez
Pernell Whitaker
Julio Cesar Chavez
Hector Camacho
Ike Quartey
Felix Trinidad
Shane Mosley
Arturo Gatti
Fernando Vargas
Bernard Hopkins
Floyd Mayweather Jr
Manny Pacquiao

...and people have the nerve to call him a ***** and a homo

 

never seen the fight, but for what I heard he lost clearly....IMO he had no business at middleweight anyway.