How do you rate Oscar De La Hoya

Yep, true.

 

Oscar was a great fight. Lost some big fights because IMO he had stamina issues, but he was one of the best fighters of his era and has a brillient record in terms of who he's faced. People forget he took on all comers, only really not fighting Winky and Vernon which i don't blame him for. He was the moneymaker and could've taken easy fights, but fought a who's who of boxing in his time. People forget he broke the stalemate in the welterweight division when he fought Ike Quartey. Before that none of the big names were fighting eachother. But onces the moneymaker broke the deadlock they had no choice. I thought he beat Trinidad and the Quartey and Whitaker fights could've gone either way. The only gift he got was against Sturm, which wasn't as much as you'd think, the way people go on.

Oscar could've held his own in any era. I think he moved up a little too early though, he was sensational at light welter.

 

So did I, although given that there had to be a point taken from the uncut fighter, maybe it should of been a draw, as that is clearly a BS rule, and if not for that extra point, it wouldn't of tipped the fight ODLH way on my card.

I can stand those who say Pea won, but the people who claim robbery dont know what there talking about, cause anyone who scores that fight objectively can only come to one conclusion, that it was extremely hard to score round by round.

 

He was really great, fights against chavez, camacho, quartey, mosley, mayorga
and trinidad were all stunning and extremely exciting, except for whitaker.
even mayweather had a hardtime on him, besting him on late rounds:bbb

 

Even that whitaker fight was pretty exciting. I used to think it was a boring fight for a long time but revisiting it proves different.

 

What a bunch of bull**** ^^ !! No the judges were the thiefs in the fight with Tito... And robbbery against Sweet pea wtf? I never understoood why some say that fight was controversial. When ODLH won that fight convincingly. Did he make Oscar look bad? Yey he did at times but no shame in that when your fighting Sweet Pea arguably the slickest fighter of all time, almost anyone else (even elite guys) would have gotten outclassed that night, whittaker turned back that clock and still couldnt beat Delahoya..... As for Mosley well Oscar was blatantly robbed in the 2nd fight and even the first fight was a very close win for mosley....

If i used the same criteria that all the Oscar haters on here use, i can pick apart any fighters resume in the history of the sport.:bart

 

He was a great fighter. Had one or two issues as he got on as fighter but every fighter does. I rate him somewhere above Mayweather and have him hovering around Chavez. I also consider him the fighter of the decade for the 1990's.

Had a very dissappointing 2000's for me personally. Too inactive, yet made too many returns to the ring. I'd have rather him called it a day after Mosley 2 looking back. Agree with slip&counter too, should maybe have stayed at 140 for a bit longer, what a force.

 

Also Jimmy Bredahl, John John Molina, Jorge Paez, and Jesse James Leija. Can anyone name a boxer with a better resume in the last 20 years? Definitely wouldn't be easy.

 

I'll go as far as saying Oscar has the best resume since Ali. Now that's saying something.

 

He's #50 or #49

 

Oscar is the American version of Ricky Hatton: beaten only by the best.

That is, ofcourse, if Hatton came back from his loss and began to own in multiple weight divisions. If Ricky Fatton retires as he is now DLH is eons above him.

 

Id say ODLH is top 30 or no lower than 35 atg. I know many here will disagree but just look at his record unbiased and watch him in his prime,taking into consideration how effective he was at jumping weights and still being an elite fighter.

 

10 titles in six divisions. And let's strike out a division and make it five, still....

Not quite like Ricky Hatton.

 

Exactly!!!