De La Hoya's resume

If ODLH won ALL his fights, holy ****, he'd be sitting next to SRR as best welter of all time and possibly above him.

Let's be thankful for the losses.

Oscar's streak wasn't the stuff of p4p legends, it was the stuff of heroes. :good

 

He fought just about everybody other than forrest and winky. But he can get a pass on that because his resume is so stacked. He lost some fights, most of those losses were close other than Hopkins and Pac. But when you fight everyone you loose some. SRL fought everyone and lost some too.


I mean DLH fought Chavez who was a super star in the late 80s, everyone inbetween who was big in the 90s and 2000s all the way up to Pac who is the superstar this decade.

 

Again, let's put this in proper perspective.

Pac and FLoyd's biggest win came against the guy you're trying to slam here.(nothing against Pac and PBF):deal

 

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DLH always fought the best. At their prime. If somebody like Mayweather can be called a great, then DLH is a legend.

 

People need to retire the "he didn't fight Forrest" thing too.
Just use boxrec, follow their timeframes, they weren't in the same place at the same time. Forrest arrives as a name as Oscar moves out of the division. Forrest lands during Mosley's time in that division. Forrest and Mosley are more contemporary with each other than Forrest is with DLH.

 

If just Oscar would retired before Mayweather fight.. Not many fighters get so bad labeling after their last loses. It's a shame.

 

DLH had a great career and he should be proud of it. The problem is DlH was bigger than the sport before he even stepped into the ring. There was a lot of hype behind his career and that in itself makes a lot of people over rate his record. His career was mapped from the beggining and the promotion behind his success was real big. Unlike other fighters that need to start from the bottom and really fight the champions to make it. DLh hand picked his opponents all the way from 130 to 147. He refused to rematch Tito and erased that blemish and show that he could fight and not run like a girl. At the end of the day he made more money than any other fighter in history and ir laughing all the way to the bank. Cant argue with that and any fighter will be happy to have his career and money.

:hat