Oscar De La Hoya is underrated

I too feel Oscar is underated as a fighter and gets downplayed too much. He gets negative comments by people who forgot what he has acomplished.

 

We could reasonably argue that Oscar fought P4P the toughest competition you could ask from a fighter, throughout his career !

 

I feel he's one of the most underrated fighters on here

 

I think he is an underated boxer who under achieved. he won the tito fight hands down. would of beat mosley in their first fight if he had of boxed more behind his jab instead of trying to blast him out.

he beat mosley 2nd time around. oscar doesnt get the credit he desrves for beating a much bigger and stronger excellent boxer in vargas. dont forget that oscar hadnt fought for over a year going into that

But i still feel that he could of been a lot better if he had of applied himself better. having too much money in the back had a great effect on many of his performances (tito, quartey).

i think that if oscar was not the draw that he was, he would of been considered more talented AND better than Jones jNR. if he was forced to want it more, we would of seen much better performances

 

And was EXTREMELY competitive in every single one, win or lose.

 

hes a great theres no doubt the guy just gets disrespected for his personal life. As a boxer and regarding his career he took on the best and always gave a good fight.Very impressive resume. Oscar beat tito no doubt!

 

Just goes to show you that sometimes a great boxer with excellent skills, prestigious amateur pedigree, and the desire to fight the very best does not always garner everybody's respect like he should. The hatred for De La Hoya on this site amazes me. What else did people want him to do, honestly?

 

Yeah, DLH hate really runs deep. He's one of my favorite fighters, though, and I hope he closes out his career with a win against someone not Pac.

 

What a well-thought out and solid argument.:-(

 

Good post. Oscar De La Hoya doesn't get a fraction of the recognition he deserves from boxing fans. He has consistently fought the toughest competition throughout his career. He has used his popularity to bring boxing back into the public's eye with his mega-fight with Floyd mayweather - resulting in a ressurgence of the sport itself.

 

All depends what do you mean by underated. People might say whatever they want to say. But he has made a lot of millions. In this country(USA) looks count more than talents. I am not saying DLH have not talents. The guy is great. So is PBF. But true is they have made more money due to their looks and personalities than their talents. People just love to see them. At the end of the day is all about the money. DLH is the guy who made women go to watch fights. Thats a fact.

 

I think he is unnderrated but I think the Trinidad "loss" affected him psychologically. Hoya made the mistake of leaving many fights up to the judges who gave or take in what seemed arbitrary manners. If we look at Hoya's controversial fights in the right manner we can see he still is all class. These are just the controversial ones.

Draw
Whitaker (not bad as he was ranked P4P#1 at the time and Hoya was entering a new division)

Losses

Mosley 1
Felix Sturm
Bernard Hopkins
Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Wins

Felix Trinidad
Mosley 2

 

Beat me to it:twisted:

I agree with just about all your picks; the only dissenting one is the Whitaker fight, which I had Sweet Pea edging.

Nevertheless, ODLH's resume is stacked with high quality names and there are still more to come (we have all heard the talk about Cotto and Pac).

He fought the best of his era in and around his weight. Fair play to him.:good