Is De La Hoya overated?

100% agree with you mate. 100%.

 

It's not worth your life!

Oscar knew this game inside and out. Every decision he made was a smart one.

 

He's sane, he's got all his faculties, he's not bothered by lingering injuries, he's popular, and he's rich as hell. He gets to be involved at will, and works with all the top talent, getting even richer.

Hell, sign me up. I'll lose my next 10 embarrassingly. I'd fight Wlad for a half a percent of what that guy made!

 

As to this thread itself, no way known was Oscar overated. If a few more had his desire to test himself against the best then boxing would be in a much better state today.

He had some fine skills, a beautiful left hand, was quick, had a great chin and was entertaining to watch primarily because he was almost always matched with stiff competition.

Even though his time at 135 was brief I rank him extremely high there h2h. His combination of size,speed and concussive power would trouble and likely beat some more higher regarded lightweights in my opinion.

Perhaps one knock on him was he never seemed to completely settle on a style that suited him best. He sometimes looked stuck between a desire to be a stalk and destroy type sometimes and other times a more cautious boxer. That may be a result of him changing trainers so often but personally I always preferred when he had that Ruelas/Mayorga mindset. He was brutally effective in that style.

 

How much did each of those losses at the end of his career net him, like twenty million each? Still pretty smart. I'd rate him and Floyd as businessmen higher than as fighters.