in my opinion he is..he fought GREAT opposition..he would beat chavez in any part of chavez career being that hes too short and slow...he looks for challenges and moves around in different weight classes unlike morales and barrera..who agrees hes the greatest mexican fighter ever!
duran is overrated just like chavez...duran always lost to top quality competetion..and no ken buchanon is not top quality..when i see de la hoya i see a gifted fighter..speed power reflexes threw nice combos...when i see chavez and duran..i see slow caucaulated fighters
Bomber, did you see Chavez at the Morales Pacquiao fight at all? He was all over the MGM grand for those few days.
NO MAN BUT I HEARD HE WAS. I WAS STAYING AT THE MANDALAY. FUCKING MISSED IT!
ok now losers are talking about a 15 year old de la hoya vs a season 25 year old pro in chavez..get real....de la hoya is better then chavez hands down..chavez didnt rely on speed and reflexes so when de la hoya beat the hell out of him when he was 33 i wouldnt called him washed up he was always slow and tried to get in close..thats why de la hoya threw him around in the fight letting him know "im a man now not the teenager u sparred"
Salvador Sanchez could have probably been the best Mexican fighter of all time but he didnt get a chance to gain more ground or lose more ground in his career, but we will never know due to his death. Chavez is a great Mexican fighter and fighter period, but better than DLH? I dont think so, alot of people say Chavez was out of his prime....oh well what you gonna do they fought twice and DLH won, twice, that settles that. DLH beat Whitaker and Quartey....yeah the decision could have went to Pernell or Ike but it didnt....DLH won, that settles that. Yeah, DLH lost to Mosley but then he beat him(I dont care what the score cards read DLH won the 2nd fight) that settles that. DLH beat Tito and Vargas. Now we have the middleweight stint, he lost...twice but the point is he tried and had a good chance. But thats what makes Oscar the greatest Mexican or American of Mexican decsent in boxing history, hes been champ at 5 weight divisions and had the courage, passion, and skill to do so, he could have stayed at one division and dominated but he didnt, he set out to do more. Not to mention hes still fighting, I personally think he can beat Winky...so hes not even done. Also, there are alot of Mexican fighters still fighting and have a chance to be the best.
I had that sparring session when Chavez and Delahoya sparred.It was funny cause Dela was going off on Chavez like it was a real fight and the audience was like hit him Chavez and he was like no.Then i guess Dela landed something that pissed Chavez off and he dropped him on his ass,then Chavez said to the "I TOLD YOU"
Then he sparred with Mosley.
by any chance could I get the sparring session?
yes sir it is, it was in Sinaloa not sure when.Both Mosley and Dela spared with cavez that day.Mosley did a better job than Dela,Chavez even had a live banda there a couple of Mexican celebs showed up.It loked like it was like at his house.
Bomber, did you see Chavez at the Morales Pacquiao fight at all? He was all over the MGM grand for those few days.
is that true? i never knew that they sparred
yes sir it is, it was in Sinaloa not sure when.Both Mosley and Dela spared with cavez that day.Mosley did a better job than Dela,Chavez even had a live banda there a couple of Mexican celebs showed up.It loked like it was like at his house.
I had that sparring session when Chavez and Delahoya sparred.It was funny cause Dela was going off on Chavez like it was a real fight and the audience was like hit him Chavez and he was like no.Then i guess Dela landed something that pissed Chavez off and he dropped him on his ass,then Chavez said to the "I TOLD YOU"
Then he sparred with Mosley.
is that true? i never knew that they sparred
"ur trying to hard..chavez cant beat de la hoya so shut up about him...number 2 how the hell did whitaker win and he didnt even hit de la hoya or even tried to hit him? quartey did beat de la hoya..and strum should have beat de la hoya..hes a dam middleweight..thats like chavez fighting ray leonard in the 80s or chavez vs julian jackson in the 90s"
YOUR COMAPARING IKE QUARTEY AND FELIX STURM TO JULIAN JACKSON AND RAY LEONARD......WTF???I HAVE VIDEO OF CHAVEZ SPARRING A YOUNG DE LAY HOYA ...HE FUKING DROPPED DE LA HOYA...DE LA HOYA WAS FAST BUT CHAVEZ WALKED RIGHT THROUGH THEM AND BOOM DROPPED HIM EVEN WITH HEAD GEAR. WTF IS I WATCH BOXING TALKING ABOUT HE NEVER LOST TO PUERTO RICAN U MEAN LAPORTE...watch the fuking fight first, u dumb fuk..u probabaly saying that cuz someone said it.
I had that sparring session when Chavez and Delahoya sparred.It was funny cause Dela was going off on Chavez like it was a real fight and the audience was like hit him Chavez and he was like no.Then i guess Dela landed something that pissed Chavez off and he dropped him on his ass,then Chavez said to the "I TOLD YOU"
Then he sparred with Mosley.
"ur trying to hard..chavez cant beat de la hoya so shut up about him...number 2 how the hell did whitaker win and he didnt even hit de la hoya or even tried to hit him? quartey did beat de la hoya..and strum should have beat de la hoya..hes a dam middleweight..thats like chavez fighting ray leonard in the 80s or chavez vs julian jackson in the 90s"
YOUR COMAPARING IKE QUARTEY AND FELIX STURM TO JULIAN JACKSON AND RAY LEONARD......WTF???I HAVE VIDEO OF CHAVEZ SPARRING A YOUNG DE LAY HOYA ...HE FUKING DROPPED DE LA HOYA...DE LA HOYA WAS FAST BUT CHAVEZ WALKED RIGHT THROUGH THEM AND BOOM DROPPED HIM EVEN WITH HEAD GEAR. WTF IS I WATCH BOXING TALKING ABOUT HE NEVER LOST TO PUERTO RICAN U MEAN LAPORTE...watch the fuking fight first, u dumb fuk..u probabaly saying that cuz someone said it.
DLH was a good fighter not great second he was born in the us not mexican hes a chicano. Also DLH was blown up by the media. He never beat anyone in there prime convincingly he should of lost to whitaker, quartay,and strum. Got his ass handed to him against mosley in the first fight barley beat a shot mosley in a rematch you could say he beat chavez though he waited four years to give him a rematch and chavez stood his own in the rematch. Hardly sounds like the pedigree of a great champion
ur trying to hard..chavez cant beat de la hoya so shut up about him...number 2 how the hell did whitaker win and he didnt even hit de la hoya or even tried to hit him? quartey did beat de la hoya..and strum should have beat de la hoya..hes a dam middleweight..thats like chavez fighting ray leonard in the 80s or chavez vs julian jackson in the 90s
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