The More Disappointing Fight

I told all my casual-boxing fan friends not to expect too much out of Mayweather-De La Hoya.

I swear..people here didnt even watch the dlh-floyd fight floyd pushed oscar back numerous times to the center of the ring and just picked him off the crowd seemed to like it aswell

I say the mayweather fight was worse cause it was ?so big and they was both in so many magazines and evrybody was asking was it the fight to save boxing all the casual fans that tuned saw a real borin fight. I liked it and I was glad mayweather won though!

^^^People talk about Floyd. But Oscar never tried to hit him in the middle of the ring. Just when he was in the ropes. Floyd made him look dumb and ppl cheered as oscar hit nothing

This thread title should be more specific. To actual boxing fans, or the casual sports center viewer that catches a highlight video once every 3 months. To any boxing fan, obviously it has to be Tito-DLH. I'd expect more even from a Cory Spinks fight. Well, maybe not a Spinks fight.. Anyway that matchup was meant to be huge. It wasn't all bad, but any fight where one guy spends the last 3-5 rounds running away can't be good, certainly not great. Oscar - Mayweather was just what it was supposed to be. Two elite fighters on the highest skill level stickin to their guns. Mayweather coming in light to have the edge in speed, Oscar, for some odd reason, trying to take Mayweather's head off. I enjoed that fight, I guess I'm the only one here that did. For the non boxing fans it was terrible. That's what you get when you have HBO interviewing celebrities that are saying "IT'S GONNA BE A SLUGFEST! ONE FIGHTER GETTING KNOCKED DOWN, GETTING UP AND KNOCKING DOWN THE OTHER! FIGHTING OFF THE ROPES, BLOOD AND GUTS!.." That's what happens when the top boxing network takes advantage of their power to promote..

Delahoya vs Tito and it's not even close.

Floyd vs. Oscar wasn't a bad fight.

Tito-DLH was more disappointing because it was supposed to be a balletic slugfest of a fight with lots of action, but it was a De La Hoya boxing clinic with four rounds of running away. DLH-PBF was gonna be disinteresting and somewhat dull, and we got what we expected.

I have to disagree with Tito v. Oscar and think De La Hoya vs. Mayweather was more of a dissapointment not because of the die hard fans expectations but because of the general public and hype expectations put out for the fight. The Tito fight didn't get as much hype as the Mayweather fight and wasn't as big of an event. Also the the amount of people who bought the fight and the amount of promotion spent on it. Because of this it was more disappointing. There where higher expectations for this fight.. It was supposed to "save" boxing.. as if for some reason boxing was dead. Anyway, this is why I think Mayweather De La Hoya was more disappointing.. more people tuned in, it was a huge event, so much money was spent on it and air time as well and the fight was mediocre.

Tito vs Oscar cuz the wrong guy won. And I'm no big Oscar fan, I was rooting for Tito that night, but I'm just being honest.

In my lifetime these were probably the 2 biggest non heavy fights. Imo 2 very very disappointing fights. People talk about how Oscar is saving boxing. But WHEN THEY TUNE IN HE DON'T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT.The tito fight was horrible and the Floyd fight was okay. Which fight in your eyes was worse? The Tito fight was horrible because DLH beat him but didnt win because he "Mayweathered" the last 2 or so rounds.

lol @ DLH hurting mayweather floyd outclassed him in any way possible

I think it was the DLH-Trinidad fight, they were supposed to be 2 knockout artists going toe to toe with the fight ending in a knockout.....that didn't happen.

Sadly, the Trinidad-De La Hoya fight was more disappointing because both were on their prime, exciting fighters. Also everyone expected to be a war because they were known as very aggressive fighters. I don't think Mayweather-Oscar fight was so bad.

I didnt think Floyd's fight was that bad.......And I don't know how Oscar got the nod on one of the judges scorecards.

And how could I forget the decision. Oscar clearly won 8 rounds and it went to Tito. That'd be like giving Oscar the decision over Mayweather.

Considering most of the members here have only watched boxing since about 2005, I'm not surprised it's close. Trinidad-DLH was the worst fight of all time given expectations. They were knocking everybody out and fighting top names on a regular basis and put on one of the biggest stinkers you'll ever see.

Mayweather - De La Hoya. Yeah I figured Mayweather would run his mouth more than the punches he threw. I did not believe him one second when he said he was going to Knock Out De La Hoya. I knew it would be the same fight as the Carlos Manuel Baldomir fight because I knew Mayweather would run around the ring. I had my money on Mayweather winning by decision; but I wanted De La Hoya to win because I can't stand the trash talking without backing it up. Plenty of more classy boxers just handle their business others talk trash and then go out and KO their opponent or at least make a good attempt. This fight was horrible, boxing made a mistake hyping it up as much as they did. While it made money today it will effect tomorrow's fights in a negative way as people will remember how terrible this fight was and not want to spend the money to watch again. Mayweather ran the whole time, sneaking in painless punches only to molest the punch count to gain points. De La Hoya wanted to fight but couldn't catch up to the fleeing Mayweather. He was initiating all of the contact, if he would of had the same strategy as Mayweather the fight would have sucked much more. Mayweather said he was not afraid of De La Hoya's left hook but he avoided confrontation the entire fight. When 12 rounds are up and no fighter has been hurt, there was not a boxing match worth watching, let alone pay for. "I could see I was hurting him," De La Hoya said. "I was pressing the fight, and if I hadn't pressed the fight there would be no fight. I'm a champion, and you have to do more than that to beat a champion."

I thought DLH won, but it wasn't as bad a decision as people have made it out to be. There were some close rounds. You still have to be generous to give it to Trinidad, but the same can be said for DLH against Quartey (a great finish doesn't make up for numerous rounds of doing nothing).

The fight itself stunk no matter who got the decision. For me the decision was the best part of the fight. Same here man. I think this is what brought up all the talk about Oscar not being a mexican fighter as well (the last 4 rounds)