De La Hoya's performance against Forbes, my verdict.

Pretty much, Forbes was there to be a heavybag on legs.

The cut wasn't bad and the swelling was even less.

 

Agreed. He worked his jab effectively tonight, had a little more bounce in his step, and looked pretty good down the stretch.

Mayweather in September, Cotto in December...how do you see these fights going?

 

For different reasons all together, I was impressed with certain aspects of each fighters performance tonight.

ODH, stayed loose and relaxed and was firing with authority behind a good jab and didn't fade down the stretch like he's becoming known for.

Forbes, came NOT to lose, which honestly before the fight I thought he may take a dive. He showed a sick ass chin, and answered back with the best he could. At one point he even had the bigger ODH pinned in the corner unleashing for all he was worth.

Although officially one sided, I enjoyed that fight much more than I thought I would have.

 

It was good to see Oscar using the jab all throughout the fight and not fading late, I hope he can do this against Mayweather and if he does this will probably be the deciding factor in the judges' decisions, Oscar could've won the first time around with a slight tweaking in the scores.
Against Cotto, Oscar can stop him, it'll be a good fight with Oscar stopping Cotto in the middle rounds. Oscar can take Cotto's shots, I don't think Cotto can take his.

 

DLH should retire & let PBF forced to fight Cotto. Let Hatton forced to fight Pac. Those are the fights Public wants!!

Look here at the HBO Polls:

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If you were a matchmaker, what would be the most exciting fight you could make:

Floyd Mayweather-Miguel Cotto 68%

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Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton 24%

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Wladimir Klitschko-Samuel Peter 3%

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Kelly Pavlik-Arthur Abraham 2%

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Juan Manuel Marquez-Edwin Valero 4%

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DLH needed someone to take him 12 rounds and make him work/think and he got it. Fighting someone like Gomez like Cotto did recently would've been bull**** and worthless, no doubt.

 

De La Hoya looked good tonight, he needs to throw the straight right hand more. Forbes didnt have a chance with all of those looping punches, DLH was compact and would tag him every tried to go for a haymaker.

I think Mayweather DLH II will be interesting, although id rather see mayweather cotto which would be even more interesting.

Cheers to Oscar for a good night of work.

 

Cotto would take out Forbes in much the same manner in which he destroyed Gomez. I cant understand how anyone could be impressed with Oscar's performance tonight. Of course he was able to stay relaxed in the ring tonight, he was fighting a natural lightweight who he knew could not hurt him.

I was cracking up when Larry Merchant brought up the fact that both fighters walk around at about 165. That may be true, but Forbes is fat at 165 and Oscar is not starving himself. Look at their physiques. Oscar of 10 years ago stops Forbes within 5 rounds. Today, his face gets busted up and he wins a UD in a fight that Forbes had no chance of winning.

 

De La Hoya knows that his jab must be spot on and used often against floyd. In their fight when he jabbed, things went well, when he stopped floyd got his way.

If the fight again, and oscar jabs all night, he wins. A ref that will let them mix it up would help his cause.

 

I think Steve Forbes got paid to lose lol. IMO he was never hurt he was still energetic he didnt fight like he normally fights. As far as being the slick type of fighter he is. I mean delahoya looked better in this fight than in many of his previous. But I think something else is going on.

 

DLH does have a chance against Mayweather if he strictly uses the jab as an offensive weapon to punish, and throws combinations only sporadically in opportune times.

Forbes was able to hit DLH solid in spots when DLH opened up with combinations.


However, I did'nt know this, but I just saw the spanish broadcast of telemundo sports, and it was mentioned that DLH did'nt look as authoritive with his shots fighting at 150 lbs.....
What they also mentioned and I did'nt know, is that one of the stipulations for a september rematch with Mayweather to take place, is for DLH to come down to 147 lbs.

If that is true, I just dont see where DLH has a real chance to beat Mayweather, when he could'nt do it when he had a significant weight advantage against him.

At 147 lbs, DLH will be over a year older, come in weight drained, and will have less of a strenghth advantage of Mayweather.

Looking at the late rounds of the first fight, and seeing how Mayweather just took over, I thought Mayweather had a shot at the late KO.....
......at 147 lbs, I think that scenario comes to fruition.
At 147 lbs, Floyd Mayweather imo will knockout DLH!


DLH better think twice, about having a Mayweather rematch take place at 147 lbs, knowing DLH's tendencies throughout the years, he'll examine his performance against Forbes, and come to the realization he has little chance against Mayweather unless its again at 154 lbs.

I'm thinking maybe the Mayweather fight will not fall through, and DLH will opt to end his career against either Cotto or Hatton, who would be better styles matchups for him.

 

pretty much agree with evrything written....dlh had really good stamina i thought...better then I have seen.

Apprently he has been working on calming down before a fight he had recognozed that he comes into fights way too tense thus using lots of nervous energy....makes sense...

He didnt look faded at all