I was thinking about this last night. This is how I'd like to see it, but I doubt it goes down like this. You have three matchups; Cotto/Mosley, Mayweather/Hatton, and Cintron/Williams. The winner of Cotto/Mosley fights the winner of Hatton/Mayweather. Oscar comes down in weight and fights the winner of Cintron/Williams on Cinco De Mayo. When we get to the last fight, it's a huge unification match with all four of the belts.
I don't care too much if he makes it or not. He can fight guys at 154 and 147. I don't think he'd beat Cotto, or Williams at 147.
What big name would he fight? Hatton will lose in December. Margarito? Clottey?
I don't see why not.
He's not a big boned or muscular guy so he wouldn't have to atrophy anything. I could understand saying someone like Lacy making 154 would be literally impossible because that's the truth. Each of his arms weighs 154 lbs.
Oscar has a sunday driver's build like Tito. They aren't physical specimens by any means and the weight they have around their torsos when they walk around is all flab. That shit comes off easily with starvation.
Of course you put it all back on put I don't think he's going to make many more future stints at 147 considering he has at most 2 or 3 fights left in his career.
He'll cut calories and make 147 for sure.
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Depends on what his walk around weight is now. He was always a strong Welterweight, this was probably the weight he should have tried to stay at. I don't think he can, he's not as athletic as some like Shane Mosley and has ballooned out between fights in recent years.
I have always thought and still think that the talk of De La Hoya going back to 147 is just that, talk.
DLH will fight at jr. middle or maybe even a catchweight between WW and JMW, but not at 147 anymore.