Felix Trinidad a great fighter

Tito and Oscar both looked like good but not great fighters in that bout.

massively hyped fight by a boxing media cheesily trying to tell us these two were on the level of any of the great Welters, and ultimately a huge let down.

Tito was at his best early at Welter imo, when he had a more rounded Arguello'esque approach rather than plodding forward in straight lines and loading up on hooks and straight rights, which is basically what his style fell into by the time he moved up.Still a dangerous pure puncher that threw really nice punches, but with no depth anymore to his style.

The Tito that calmly broke down Carr after getting dropped earlywas a sharper, more dangerous fighter than the one that failed to take out a badly hurt Vargas early and actually let him back into the fight(which could have cost him had Vargas been a more talented fighter than he was) for a while and needed some low blows to take the heat off.Or the one that lost the first half of the fight against the decent but flawed Reid.

I don't hold the Wright fight against him TOO much, as though it was a pathetic, clueless performance, he had come out of a long retirement and only fought once against the tailor made, overrated Mayorga.

 

Great fighter. As many have pointed out though 160 was too much for him.

 

I do not know if Wright is a great fighter though

 

A couple of the early rounds were feeling out rounds that could have gone either way. Couple of years since I last scored it but it was something like the last 4 and an early 2.

I just don't see it as a huge robbery and I don't think Tito looks to be the lesser man.

 

Heizenberg, nice post. Do you think the DLH fight hurts Tito's legacy at all? Despite enormous hype, that was such a disappointing fight. Tito seemed to get thoroughly outboxed for the early-middle parts of the fight, never really hurting DLH with his patented power shots.