Which fighters did odlh avoid

oscar fought ****in everyone. he can never be accused of ducking someone with the resume he has. Jesus. Look at how many big fights mosley trinidad etc missed out on. oscar never missed out. Oscar was not a natural 154lber, that weight class is irrelevant

 

Oscar is so overrated,

He ducked Forrest, Wright, Margocheato, Toney, RJJ, Kostya Zoo, Lewis and Tyson.

F'n coward.

 

At Super Feather there were a few he never fought such as Azumah Nelson, but you can't realistically expect that as he only had like 12 fights there before growing out of it (I presume).

 

He ducked a few rematches, but that's about it. Fights with Winky, Tszyu or Nelson probably could have been made, but you can't say he really ducked them. The fights simply weren't all that feasible for various reasons (not for the reason of ducking).

 

I wanted to see him in there w/ Nazarov at lw. And Tszyu at 140, of course. As mentioned, Winky Wright and Forrest were going to be tough matchups. A rematch w/ Sturm was a possibility. A Trinidad rematch, of course.

The one thing I didn't like is he fought guys when he held all the cards, kind of like Leonard did===Whitaker when he's older, slower with diminished reflexes/Quartey when he had that long long layoff/the Chavez sell by date had long since expired.

Most guys do fight the oldsters and make their name that way. I just like seeing them in there when they are the guy w/ slowed reflexes fighting a 23 year old pedigreed and groomed undefeated guy. Oscar stayed away from any of those fights, which would be like a Cotto.

 

Problem is though.... the promoters of the 23 year old unbeaten guy would have been reluctant to put their man in with peak DLH.

They may have talked a good game, of course.

You cannot criticise DLH for his level of opposition. In the fragmented titles era, it is probably unrivalled.

 

DLH didnt avoid anyone

 

Then again, you would hardly call him a road warrior either, would you? That's another part of a career I like to see anyway. The best lw at the time, he didn't fight. The best 140 pounder, he didn't fight. And when he did fight the elite guys, where were the A+ results?

 

He clearly ducked Margarito, he said he would fight the winner of Cotto vs Margarito, then afterwards it was "I don't fight Mexicans."

 

he was already shot by the time he ducked Margarito.

In his prime, he avoided Winky like the plague. What would have been better than to face the guy who twice beat the guy who beat him twice? (huh?)

 

Top fighters he didn't face

135 - Nazarov, Gonzalez (faced him at 140)
140 - Tyszu, Randall
147 - Forrest, Whitaker/Quartey rematches, James Page, Santos, Margarito, Cory Spinks
154 - Winky Wright, Santos, Cory Spinks

The top matches he didn't make were certainly Forrest (a mandatory), Winky Wright (best 154lber) and Tyszu (future undisputed)

 

Just because he never fought them, doesn't automatically mean he avoided them.

 

Wow Oscar has the best resume out of anyone in the past 15 years, and he is getting critisized for his opposition


btw, Kosta Tszyu is lucky he never got in the ring with Oscar De La Hoya, because it saved him an ass whupping...luckily he got it from Vince Phillips rather than Oscar.