Oscar De La Hoya: best 1st 5 years of any career ever??

He won the 2nd Mosley fight but not the 1st.

ANYWAY, back to the actual point of the thread: who has the best 1st 5 years of their career.

I'm hearing a lot of Oscar-hating, but not that many alternatives to him or genuine reasons why he doesn't have the best.

Looking at the records I think showed his was better than Holyfield, Jones Jr or Mayweather for definite. Tyson is a tough call, but I give it to DLH just coz Tyson ended it with a KO loss to a mediocre fighter, and slid from 1st to 7th p4p. DLH ended as p4p#1 and was still undefeated.

 

The rematch was clearly De La Hoya!! You have them mixed up I think.

 

He did make the weight for each and every fight.
Therefore, he won each and every title fairly by playing by the rules of the game.
You didn't back up the guys you said had a better record. I wrote out a list for you, and I don't understand how you think Holyfield or Mayweather or Jones Jr had a better record. Maybe Tyson has a case, but none of the rest, certainly not RJJ or PBF.

 

What a load of old tampax. Even Tito's own mum knows he lost that fight. You should be grateful for the luck, not gloating over a robbery.

 

He made the weight. Play by the rules or don't play at all.

 

No, Oscar may have been a more natural welterweight, but he was more effective at light and light-welter because of his greater size and strength advantages. Oscar technically won world titles at 6 weights (super-feather, light, light-welter, welter, light-middle, middle), even though the Sturm decision was a gift and he only fought at middleweight twice.