Dela Hoya: "I'm a top ten fighter of this era."

This excerpt was taken from the conference call yesterday right after Dela Hoya's retirement announcement. The boxing media were given a chance to ask their questions to Oscar. I would advice to read the entire transcript, it's an interesting read. http://www.15rounds.com/oscar-de-la-hoya-conference-call-transcript-041509/ ---------------------- J. Michael Falgoust, USA Today: Hi there. Can you step back now that you’re when you look at your career and yourself, where do you put yourself if not in terms of history? I don’t know if you’re prepared to kind of compare yourself to guys, you know, like the Jimmy McLarnins and Jose Napoles but at least in terms of your era right now with the guys you came up with, Roy Jones was in this era, Evander Holyfield’s in this era, Mike Tyson is in your era: where would you put yourself? Can you give an honest assessment of where you think you would rank in terms of not only what you meant to the sport but where you would place yourself in terms of the big picture? Oscar De La Hoya: Well I’ve honestly never thought about it, but I would have to say top ten.You know I have accomplished a couple things in my career. I mean I’m probably most proud of jumping up in different weight classes and fighting in six different weight classes. It’s not every day that you can see a fighter try to compete in those various weight classes.But I would have to say top ten because, you have a great fighter like let’s say for instance Roy Jones, Jr. who is very talented and accomplished so much but there’s accomplishment that I - that he can say, “Well Oscar never accomplished it.” But there are accomplishments that I did that he can’t say, “Well, you know, I accomplished what Oscar accomplished.” So it’s - I ultimately have to say top ten, because we’ve had some great fighters in our era and I’ve just been very fortunate enough to be at least mentioned with these other top fighters.