De La Hoya's resume

Yeah, the whole "he lost all his big fights" is bull****, up there with "Tyson lost to anyone who stood up to him."

 

I don't get how he didn't lose his big fights when he did lose them? I don't understand that.
Hopkins, Mosley, Tito and Strum. I believe he won in the Quartey fight, but you can also give it to Quartey too. That was a super close fight.

 

Guy has the best resume of recent times.

And yes alot of the fights he lost could have gone his way.

I would love to see someone have the resume he had.

 

Whitaker, Gonzalez, Chavez 1, Quartey in hindsight where all big fights.

And I thought he got robbed against Mosley in the second fight and Tito.

40-5-0 I have him (considering I thought he lost against Sturm.)

 

I thought Oscar lost to quartey,mosley1,hopkins,sturm,mayweather,pacquiao

In my eyes he edged the whitaker fight, beat trinidad and beat mosley 2

If we look at his resume like that he has a very solid resume with a lot of great guys on it.
If he just had beaten either b-hop or mayweather and got the wins and losses he deserved people would have rated him much higher.
His best win on his official record is Vargas or whitaker, eventhough pea was past it he was still very dangerous.

 

A boxer who fought the best - A dying breed

 

De La Hoya has always been willing to fight some of the Marquee names...It really erks me on how some dumbass people (Lance) claims he ducked Margorito!

Given his resume, I dont see how anybody could remotely come close to saying he feared the Great Margorito.:rofl

Love him or hate him...De La Hoya would give any fighter a run for their money..Win or lose!

 

that guy in your avatar, carl froch and in my eyes pacquiao also fall in that category.

 

I think Oscar has a great resume, going by his era's standards.

Although I think both Quartey and Whitaker beat him by a point, I had him a clear winner in the Trinidad fight (by 4 points) and in the second Mosley fight (by 5 points).

So he got beaten by Hopkins and didn't deserve the decision vs Sturm - big ****ing deal. The guy should never have been at middleweight anyway, he was a smaller man reaching for the stars and competed well against both.

Against both Pacquiao and Mayweather, Oscar was years and years past his best, neither defeat hurts his ATG standing much. In fact, I give Oscar a lot of credit for his performance against Mayweather. He was in there with a younger, fresher, faster guy with better stamina, yet still took it to an SD despite being a pale imitation of the fighter he was in the late 90s.

The biggest fight of his life was Trinidad, and he outboxed a prime HOF-class opponent pretty clearly.

To my mind, the only fight he clearly lost (ie by more than a single point) in his prime was Mosley 1, and Shane was a physical phenomenon back then - and Oscar won the second fight more clearly than Shane did the 1st bout, by my card.

If you consistently fight the very, very toughest comp available, you will incur losses, that's just a fact of boxing, and that's what Oscar did. Great fighter, great resume.

 

Put it this way...

Reverse your 12.
Who is the better Oscar -

Pac, PBF, Mosley x2, Hopkins and Trinidad.

or

old Pea, JCC, Mayorga, Sturm, Vargas and Quartey


I am not saying he is not good. I think he is excellent. But if he wins just some of those big defeats, he could have placed MUCH higher ATG wise.

 

Saying he avoided winky,forrest and margarito isnt that crazy, allthough I give him a pass based on resume.