De La Hoya Fight

#59
#59
Wow....Manny is a machine, i was really surprised, i guess age and the inability to lose weight without losing stamina and power just whooped oscar...i thought he would rehydrate more, but being at the weigh in at 145 should have told the tale.

As anti-Oscar as i have been for a long time, It's too bad it ended like this, without even a little bit of luster.

Oscar drew people to boxing, like Roy Jones, neither is a top 100 fighter all time, but they were marketable, and boxing needs those guys, too, as much as us purists despise them.
 
#60
#60
Oscar showing class, good for him, too bad he's in business with lowlifes like B-Hop who don't know the meaning of the word.
 
#62
#62
lol, i like Larry, he's always 7 martinis deep, but i'll miss him when he leaves for good. I can remember him talking after Leavander Johnson died after a fight, i get tears in my eyes thinking about it
 
#64
#64
Larry brings that surreal quality that boxing embraces so readily.:)
 
#66
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JTrainDavis said:
lol, i like Larry, he's always 7 martinis deep, but i'll miss him when he leaves for good. I can remember him talking after Leavander Johnson died after a fight, i get tears in my eyes thinking about it
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That was just 2 or 3 years ago wasn't it?
 
#68
#68
Oscar looked terrible. That was the poorest performance I've ever seen from the guy. I was really surprised by this, especially since he gave Mayweather one of his toughest fights not too long ago. On the other side Pacquiao looked fantastic, very very quick. Definitely a title holder in the future.
 
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#69
thehardknoxlife said:
Oscar looked terrible. That was the poorest performance I've ever seen from the guy. I was really surprised by this, especially since he gave Mayweather one of his toughest fights not too long ago.
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I wouldn't go as far as saying Oscar gave PBF a good fight, maybe for a spurt of rounds, but Zab Judah and JL Castillo did alot better...other than those 2 fights, i don't think PBF has had a tough fight.

That, and Manny is just a machine, Oscar got beaten by an all time top 100 fighter, and looked bad in doing it. Manny also destroyed several bona fide Mexican legends, he is on a roll.

But i think Marquez beat him their last time out, and i'd love to see a rematch maybe at 135
 
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JTrainDavis said:
I wouldn't go as far as saying Oscar gave PBF a good fight, maybe for a spurt of rounds, but Zab Judah and JL Castillo did alot better...other than those 2 fights, i don't think PBF has had a tough fight
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Well, the judges seemed to think so, it was a split decision IIRC(the only one of his career). I also said ONE of his toughest fights. I was just referring to that fight and this fight that Oscar didn't look like the same guy. He didn't have an answer to anything.
 
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#71
I'm no boxing officianado but I was really looking forward to this fight. My question is how can any sport take itself seriously when in a huge event like this one only one of the competitors shows up? It's not even like DLH tried and Pac was just the better man. DLH had zero head movement from the very beginning, he was flatfooted 99% of the time, and he never mounted any kind of relevant offense. Yet boxing promoters expect people to keep shelling out large sums of money to watch this BS. When you get paid as much as those guys get paid you owe it to the fans to at least answer the bell. What a disgrace.
 
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thehardknoxlife said:
Well, the judges seemed to think so, it was a split decision IIRC. I was just referring to that fight and this fight that Oscar didn't look like the same guy.
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Yeah, i don't get the scorecards in that fight to this day, but style wise, BF would give rounds with his movement.....

I think Oscar came in tonight expecting Manny to stay outside the jab, speed around, and dart in for power punches. Instead, Manny kept it in the center of the ring, and nullified Oscar's reach by keeping pressure on throughout. Oscar made a bad move by calling out Freddie Roach as his reason to losing to PBF
 
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#73
Titanic said:
I'm no boxing officianado but I was really looking forward to this fight. My question is how can any sport take itself seriously when in a huge event like this one only one of the competitors shows up? It's not even like DLH tried and Pac was just the better man. DLH had zero head movement from the very beginning, he was flatfooted 99% of the time, and he never mounted any kind of relevant offense. Yet boxing promoters expect people to keep shelling out large sums of money to watch this BS. When you get paid as much as those guys get paid you owe it to the fans to at least answer the bell. What a disgrace.
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I watched online, because i couldn't see it being worth paying for. Like Roy Jones, Oscar is a good fighter, but more of a hype machine. He was never a great fighter, but his charisma and personality sell people.

If you feel jipped, you should be grateful that Oscar didn't fight Antonio Magarito or Miguel Cotto, who would have dispatched him early, giving you 6 minutes of action for your money...

But don't blame the sport, its the sanctioning bodies that make it this way. PM some of the guys on here and see how to get the fights for free, to take money away from the crooks who are ruining the game.
 
#74
#74
De La Hopeless should have been mandated to go back out and take four more rounds of beating. Every single decent figher he's been in the ring with, except for a few guys almost a decade past their primes, have hammered him. He has robbed clueless boxing rubes of PPV cash for years. He should be forced to fight Bernard Hopking again. I would pay to see The Executioner finish destroying the Golden Girl's spleen.
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#75
#75
Like I said Oscar is overrated and has never beat a great fighter in their prime. I knew Manny would smoke him. Congrats Oscar you just got embarrassed by a fighter that began his career at 106 pounds.
 
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