I picked Ike Quartey. Total adversity faced and overcame with that 12th round. THat was a homerun with a 3-2 pitch and down by 1.
I voted for the Vargas fight. He was fighting a younger, stronger opponent in a higher weight class. He weathered early adversity, boxed beautifully, and pressured him perfectly to finish the fight by TKO.
He earned it. Quartey was winning until the 12th but it was close. Oscar put everything on the line in the 12th like I've never seen him do prior or after in his career and it paid off.
It was until the last few rounds. He really **** that one away, although he still did enough to win fairly comfortably.
This is the first fight I remember him struggling a bit and relying on pure power rather than outboxing his opponent. He got the job done but it brings to mind future aspects of his career where he could have won on points but chose to chase for knockouts. This was DLH's worse habit, chasing for the ko.