Whitaker vs De La Hoya RBR! P4P saturdays!!!!

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You high?

 

This is one fight of odh that wasn't even close, on a per round basis. Sweet pea didn't even fight back, he fought back about as much as pac dude v fmj.

Both were terrible in there. There's what happens when you're fighting a far superior fighter

 

What was your verdict ?
Did you split the scoring shots only from odh?
Odh lands clean, good for him.
Odh glancing or missed shot, good for pea ?

 

Oscar was the clear winner in this close fight. Many of Whitakers punches were defensive to keep Oscar away rather than to hurt him. If it was the amateurs maybe Whitaker can make a case for outlanding pitty-pat punches, but Oscar was the one landing the better punches throughout the fight.

 

113-112 Whitaker. And i showed generousity to De La Hoya. I felt his offence, while not as accurate, was keeping Whitaker off his own game.

 

I rarely agree with you when it comes to DLH, but we're in agreement here, only I didn't think it was so close.
Never got why so much credit is given the defensive fighter when when he totally focused on just defense and not worrying at all about what he needs to do offensively.

I scored this fight twice back when it happened and had DLH winning 8 or 9 of the rounds.

A prime Pernell Whitaker will always make an offensive fighter look awkward. Certainly you're not going to establish a rhythm and consistently land clean punches on him as you would do a fighter focused to do more offensively.
.......but Whitaker still needs to be judged whether he's on a round by round basis being effective on the offensive end not just the defensive end.
Seems to me like a lot of Whitaker's fans decide, "what a number he did on him defensively. He shot the jab out consistendly even though there was little to nothing behind it. He's the winner."

Not how I score a fight.
DLH looked awkward, but he certainly threw and landed enough of his own shots to merit rounds over a fighter that didn't try offensively.

Sorry, but for me, Pernell Whitaker lacked in his fights with the upper tier, and I'm talking about Chavez, DLH, Trinidad.
His best performance out of the three being against Chavez.

 

Dodging punches without throwing and landing anything, even blocked ones, means nothing. Sorry Whitaker.

 

For a moment I assumed this was a live, contemporary match-up with Diego moving up 6 weight classes to face Charles the Killa. :!:

I'm seriously disappointed it wasn't. That would be capitol entertainment. I'd pick DDLH by UD (even though he's giving up 7" and lots of size; he's also 100x quicker, in his prime, a lot more skilled, and literally half Whittaker's age)

 

The main thing I remember about this fight is wanting to cave Merchant's face in with a sledgehammer.