Who had the greatest win over Oscar?

I guess it’s showing my heavyweight centric mindset by when I saw this thread immediately assuming Bonavena and being about ready to say Floyd Patterson.

 

Hopkins showed how a middleweight deals with a top lower weight fighter

 

Going in I clearly felt Mayweather would outbox an old lacking motivation Oscar who was just trying to stay in the limelight and continue to launch his promotional company. I thought it would be a clinic and the talks of size would be overblown. The quality of Oscar's tune up told me everything, a blown-up lightweight in Steve Forbes who people only knew off of The Contender. that showed me Oscar just wanted to catch headlines to promote a superfight, not prepare seriously to fight the best boxer in the world. Mayweather opened up at -250 as well.

Oscar's performance used to be considered pretty middling, but opinion has improved over the years. I find it overrated--a lot of show flurries that didn't accomplish much and a lot of attempted physicality which didn't pay dividends. I had it 8-4 Mayweather and I felt if FMJ stepped up the activity he could have won wider. 7-5 Mayweather was always very charitable to meaningless body flurries that drew a crowd reaction, but really, those entire sequences would be negated by Mayweather's crisp work every time.

 

Mosley can be the only answer.

 

Ike Quartey.....

 

Technically Trinidad, if you want to call that a win. Officially he did, but very few think he actually won.

Mosley was the best fight, and well deserved at the time, but in hindsight, I have some reservations about calling that a true win, or impressive, given that it was revealed that Mosley was a Balco client, and was cheating. Without that help, not sure he wins either fight. Many question the second bout.

Hopkins I discount because Oscar, a blown up lightweight to begin with, never was a good middleweight.

Mayweather barely eeked or drew with an over the hill past-it Oscar.

PAC beat up an utterly shot Oscar. Who knows if Pac had extra help.

 

Mosley probably clearly beat the best version, so he seems like a good call

 

Maybe should have voted for him, I think that performance gets underrated. Voted Mosley, though

 

He was the same weight in the ring as for the weigh-in, so that shouldn't have been the problem.

 

Lasted longer than Hatton, though, and didn't do much worse than Cotto did.

Not prime Oscar, of course, but the main factor was just how good Pac was at this time imo.

 

ODLH hadn't fought at Welterweight for a decade though can you remember any example of a fighter moving back down a weightclass 10 years later and being successful ?

 

I can't remember any other tries after that long, so by default, no.

Edit: SRL against Norris would be the one after closer thought, but I don't think even Leonard himself claimed that weight was the problem.

The LHW champions of the 50''s regularly moved back down, though.