I remember watching this fight live years ago and i thought De La Hoya won,reading Ring Magazine articles and internet posting's,etc over the years i always believed Oscar won by around 8 rounds to 4 or 7 rounds to 5,I watched the fight again for the first time since 99 tonight on youtube and I watched it with the sound off,suprisingly with the sound off i started noticing that rounds I had Oscar winning he wasnt actually landing anything,I scored the fight a draw and if i could have given it to anyone it would have been Tito..
Not at all.have always been an Oscar fan,for over a decade i have sworn by Oscar winning until i watched it again with the sound off..
Been saying this for years. Oscar was not landing real shots but a lot of on the glove pitty pat ****. Tito kept it gangsta for 12 rounds and won the fight. One of them wanted to fight...the other one decided he was a 5 round fighter.
I've always said that the fight was 6 rounds a piece but people were influenced by the crowd. Oscar would throw a combo and not land **** and the crowd and commentators would go nutz
i could see a draw, and it would have forced a rematch, which could have ben awesome for boxing. a delahoya vs trinidad trilogy could have been epic.
Not so sure. We gotta admit the first fight wasn't all that exciting. It was more Bradley vs. Alexander, then Leonard vs. Hearns, as it was expected to be. And of course, you can't blame DLH for not wanting to mix it up. He did what he had to do, just that it was lackluster.
I actually had it a tie so when Tito got the nod I wasnt suprised, whoever says oscar deserved the win after the way he faught those last three rounds amazes me
i thought it was exciting while oscar was giving tito a boxing clinic but oscar riding out the last few rounds killed it.