HBO's TALE of the TAPE: OSCAR vs. PAC

True, even sometimes when I watch boxing I rather have it mute than listen to Merchant and his co.

 

:-( Well... there goes being civil.

Oscar has NEVER weighed that much for a fight. The only fight in which he actually weighed over 160 was his fight against Sturm... and we saw how he looked in that one.

Oscar NEVER weighed in those ranges, even for his fights at 154. Oscar usually isn't bothered with pre fight weigh ins, however the last time that he actually did one before the Pac fight, was in his last fight against Mosley. Oscar weighed in at 154... and then on fight night Oscar weighed in on the unofficial scales at 158. That's only a gain of 4 pounds, and nowhere near the numbers that you just made up.

You guys act as if the media hasn't been following Oscar around for months, filming his weigh ins and weight outs from training... and documenting that he was already at the 147 pound weight limit. When a guy is on target weight for that long, he isn't going to rocket up after the weigh ins. The only people who rocket up in weight, are those who dehydrated themselves within the last day or two leading up to the weigh ins, who then rehydrate water weight back on directly afterwards. Oscar was at 147 a month before the fight. That isn't water weight... which is why he wouldn't be putting any water weight back on after the weigh in.

Rather than just making up a bunch of stats that don't even exist... why not just stop acting like there is this cosmic Oscar De La Hoya size conspiracy going on, in which the giant man's outrageous size is being shrunk by way of "tale of the tape" molestation right before our very eyes?

 

Relax Widdow. Oscar doesn't really need your 24/7 adoration you know. He's gonna be just fine without all that man love cluttering up his email and mailbox. How you didn't get served with a restraining order long ago is anyone's guess. :yep

 

How much did Golden Girl weigh for the STRUM fight? "158"? :blood

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There are different ways of 'making weight'.

Deydrating/rehydrating the day of the weigh in is how fighters end up as 160lb welterweights.

DLH could still be weight drained if he doesn't dehyrade, by virtue of his body just reacting badly to getting down to a weight it hadn't been to for years in his mid 30's.

 

Why not? :huh

 

rofl

 

Again, I think you're thinking of dehydration 'draining' -its not the only way a fighter can be drained.

I'll give you another example; Riddick Bowe for the Golota fights was 'drained' because he ballooned so much in weight between fights; he wasn't striving to 'make weight' by cutting water, he'd just lost a lot of weight.

 

I think this is getting pointless. Well... I guess it was pointless from the beginning.