Ok guys, I have a theory. You might disagree, who knows.:hey But I think Hoya fought the eleventh round against Trinidad the way he did on purpose. I think he was trying to make Trinidad look bad because in his mind and in the corner's mind he won the fight. The reason I think this is because Alcazar and Hoya had turned themselves onto Willie Pep in order to make Hoya a more rounded fighter. In Hoya's youth, the way we TOTALLY hero worship at a young age, of course the thing he focused on most clearly was the legendary "winning a round without throwing a punch." Before he entered the welterweight division he flew Willie Pep in to see him fight against the last opponent at 140 pds Miguel Angel Gonzalez. Then he goes on to Whitaker. It is my opinion that the eleventh round was a hat's off to Pep, though it actually backfired. --The 73-year-old Pep, in fact, was flown in on De La Hoya's credit card, and De La Hoya desperately wanted to impress him. Pep, as a featherweight champion in the 1940's, once won a round against Jackie Graves without ever throwing a punch, and De La Hoya tried the same tactic in Saturday's eccentric third round. ''How'd I do it?'' Pep said Saturday, recalling the Graves fight. ''I held him, went around him, went around the referee, but I never threw a punch. They gave me the round -- in the guy's hometown no less! My motto was, 'Jab, stab, move, and keep your fanny off the floor.' That's what I did for 29 years.''-- NYT article on Gonzalez fight, Jan. 20, 1997
That is the dumbest **** I've ever read in my life. Oscar ran away like a scared ***** because he didnt want to get his Golden Ass knocked through the ropes the way Crazy Horse did last night against Brock.
actually i believe he ran cause he was fading,gas out like he does on regular basis and he tried using that he believe he was ahead on the cards thats why he moved from ninth on
I think if anyone asked Oscar in private he would agree. The thing is you would look so dumb if you are trying this and it falls through. You wouldn't be able to say I tried to fight like Pep and win a round without throwing a punch but it didn't work.
De La Hoya admitted to being fatigued. The corner told him to make sure he still won the round. The Pep/Graves thing is apparently just a myth anyway. Someone from the IBRO digged up the research and the articles said there was actually a lot of leather thrown on both sides during that round.
