Please give me your score and thoughts on..

Haven't watched it in a couple of years, but I watched and scored it a couple of times back then. Whitaker by 2 points.

 

I gave it to DLH, don't remember my card though.

Bear in mind I really wanted Whitaker to win.

 

If you take into consideration how the fight was actually scored based on the ref's calls, I think Oscar won the fight.

 

It was a difficult fight to score, some very close rounds, neither man really did enough to say they `beat` the other guy.

I think a draw would have been the best result for this fight tbh, Oscar missed too much offensively & Whitaker, while excellent defensively, just did not do enough in attack.

I like Whitaker much better than DLH but this was no robbery whoever was to be given the verdict, the wide margins for Oscar were a ****in joke tho, as usual, I think `they` had already made up their minds before the fight that the new p4p star was going to take the place of the old (but still great) p4p king, its corrupt bull**** but not unexpected, at least not to me.

 

How does it depend on that? One point was deducted from Whitaker (because of a ludicrous rule), which was nullified by the fact that De La Hoya was knocked down. It's not like there was a lot blatant fouling and point deductions.

 

For the record - any version of Pernell pre Vasquez beats DLH at any weight from 147 downwards.

IMO.

 

Whitaker 7-5

 

Not enough variety from Whitaker, I thought. He basically poked out the jab all night. He certainly out-jabbed De La Hoya. However, I liked De La Hoya's variety and his own defense is so overrated in this fight. While De La Hoya was more aggressive, he was quite tame at times. As said previously, a hard fight to score. Lots of missed punches by both and the rounds were close. I had De La Hoya edging the fight. If Whitaker even did 50% of the attacking he did in the McGirt rematch, he'd have probably won. Many people picked De La Hoya by knockout before the fight. I personally think that Whitaker was very wary about De La Hoya's power in the build-up to this fight. Hence, the reason he very rarely mixed it up.

 

I responded to a thread with basically the same title and my opinion hasn't changed despite not seeing this fight in a long time.

Pernell out-boxed Delahoya more convincingly than Mayweather did, but of course the Golden Boy got the decision. I'm not a Delahoya hater either, but I just think his looks, popularity and crowd noise advantage at everything he does in the ring provides weight for the judges to score in his favour. The crowd cheered at everying he did against Mayweather, but this time the judges smartly paid attention to the action in the ring.

 

Mosley II and Trinidad sort of disprove this.

 

No, he did not.

mayweather won the fight vs DLH, Pernell & DLH had a 50/50 fight.

 

Some of Oscar's flurries in this fight were just embarassing.