Oscar De La Hoya vs. Roberto Duran who wins?

Duran, but De La Hoya would hold his own and be competitive.

 

Nice to see there is some sense of objectivity here. ^^^^^^^

 

Exactly, Duran was a beast but I just don't see anyone knocking out Hoya, and that bernard fight was a fix.

 

You appear to make a practice of singling out a single fight from a fighter's career and extrapolating that to all possible other fights.

A day or two ago it was hatton for Tszyu. Now it's Esteban for Roberto.

You realize there was a trilogy and Duran lost the first one (his only loss up to that point) by a close UD.

He avenged the loss by way of stoppage and won the rubber match the same way.


He lost ONE fight in 73 over 13 years and avenged it twice and you write:

"oscar kills duran at 135..." ???

Most folks won't read past a first sentence like that. It blows your credibility.


IMO, there is NO weight where Oscar wins this one. Few would dispute Duran's head-head status at lightwt. At welterwt, he defeated SRL, something Oscar wouldn't be capable of, IMO.

At 160, he gave Hagler a very close run, much better than Oscar did with the lesser Bernard.

I would pick Duran to mostly win by decisions.

Oscar is not easy to stop.

At 160, however, and over 15 rounds, Duran would probably wear Oscar down and get a late stoppage just on exhaustion.



BTW, I'm an Oscar fan.

 

Duran. Can you modify this to add a poll...???

 

DLH knocks Duran out round 6. Duran ate alot of left hooks when he fought Sugar. A prime DLH would beat him. I think DLH would be knocked out by Sugar though.

 

Some logic missing here.

Duran ate a lot of left hooks?

And went on to get the decision.

And SRL hit harder with the LH than Oscar.

But Oscar is going to stop Duran?

:huh


(To repeat: I'm an Oscar fan. )

 

He ate a lot of left hooks. Sugar closed the distance with the left hook at least three times. I'm not talking about the other punches in the fight. I don't think DLH would have stood and traded like Sugar did. In the rematch Sugar fought in his natural style. I think Oscar would have fought closer to this style of keeping Duran on the outside Sugar hits harder? It depends on your take on seeing who's opponent falls to the ground quicker. There's really no way of telling. We'd have to ask the people getting knocked out.

 

Duran was a very difficult guy to keep on the outside. He also rolled with shots well and had a very good chin. In his first 90+ fights, his only stoppage losses were from the monster right hands of Tommy Hearns, and a disgraceful quit job when Duran was mentally dominated.

Duran caught some left hooks, but took them well. Leonard had a vicious left hook just like DLH did.

Very difficult to picture De La Hoya stopping Duran.

 

It would have been a great fight for sure. A close fight. I see Duran as a regular ATG in the same league as Hearns and even DLH and Tito. The fights between them would be competitive through and through. Sugar Ray though would wipe the welterweght division of the nineties and today's division out clean. Imagine a fighter with Mayweather's athleticism, DLH's power, and Mosley's attack. Awesome!

 

I have an easier time picturing the pope tea-bagging Paris Hilton !

 

Why do you always have gay sex going on in all your threads regarding Oscar?
:huh

 

:blabla YAWN!

 

Given what Duran did in Montreal with SRL and how he fared against the Marvelous one, and comparing Oscar's first bout with Shane at 147 and his rumble with the executioner, Duran would have to be favourite, regardless of weight.

Oscar NEVER gets dominated (Hopkins exception mostly due to huge size disparity) so the fights would be exciting and competitive, but Duran would likely prevail.

If we're talking 15 rounds, Duran's superior conditioning might lead to a stoppage.