Yeh ive only seen a few fights of his.Seemed like he just liked to brawl.Get hit once while dishing two out,like a younger Manny.Seems also like he slowed a hell of a lot when moving up to welter.Completely different fighter.
Yeh its fun i guess,but also an exercise in futility. I mean if these guys had never fought then history would have said that De La Hoya would have won anyway. The same way that the consensus is that Mayweather wouldn't beat Duran at 130,or Tyson wouldn't have a hope in hell at a prime Ali. I mean in boxing,opinion seems to be regarded as fact.
I remember when Lacy and Calzaghe fought..Lacy was a strong favourite. Lol what a bleeding joke. If that fight had been cancelled,then history would have noted that Calzaghe was an inferior fighter to him.
I'm just miffed at how fans can get it so very very wrong on so many many occasions.
A phrase I constantly hear is how "styles make fights".Well going by the amount of innacurate selections pre fight,I wonder if a fighters style gives any clue at all to the boxing fan on the potential outcome,or is it an irrelevance.