Records of fighters in their "main" fights

I guess it goes without saying that a fighters career is based on his big fights. Lately I've been wondering about the record of my favorite fighters in their "main" fights. By that I mean fights that attract the majority of boxing fans, and have meaningful implications. These criteria are of course going to be inturpreted by people differently, but that's of course part of the fun. Lately I've been thinking about the record of Oscar De La Hoya in his big fights. I am neither a hater or a huge fan of DLH, but I have just been taking a look at his record lately as he gets ready to retire. I was thinking I could start with a record of a popular fighter and their "main" record, and maybe be followed by someone else picking another fighter, and of course debate on the others. I'll start with DLH.

His is a very hard record to decipher, because early on he had meaningful fights, but I'm going to try to figure out the people who were in or close to their prime (Whitaker) as opposed to those who weren't (Chavez) of course, this is just my opinion.

I think DLH's record in big fights is something around 11-5 5KO. Some could argue that every one of his title fights, starting with the WBO championship is a big fight, and I tend to agree, but I'm trying to go for the more starstudded events. I also left out the Chavez fights, although you could make an exception for perhaps the first fight being a big fight.

I'm not sure I'm exactly explaining this they way I want to, so maybe as we go we can add some clarity to my exercise, and give it proper rules to go by. This is just an attempt at a post that I hope can generate some interest.

Thanks for looking.

 

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