Oscar De La Hoya

[The Surgeon]

Folks

I sit in pubs lots and discuss boxing. Whenever anyone asks me who the greatest boxer ever is, I'm always inclined to answer "Oscar De La Hoya". Am I miles out, or just deluded.

Don't send me any smart answers or bitchy messages, this is an intelligent forum, remember. I only put this message up for discussion...

Hit it...

Ian

Id say u were really wrong but Oscar is the ****! And uve done urself a big favour not saying Oscar IS the greatest!

[boxingfanMD]

De La Hoya is truly an excellent fighter, although I have to admit that he got robbed aganst "Sugar" Shane Mosley. I saw this fight to pay-per-view at my sister's place a number of years back and I even had the presence of mind to score this particular fight. I saw the final outcome 118-116 in favor De La Hoya, but the judges scoring this fight sure as hell didn't. Here was my scorecard:

DE LA HOYA 10-10-10-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10-10-10 - 118
MOSLEY 9-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10-10 - 116

One judge scored the final seven rounds in favor of Mosley while another scored the final six in Mosley's favor. The end result was De La Hoya was screwed and he wound up losing the junior middleweight title on part of some rather biased scoring.

[Del Coqui]

Folks

I sit in pubs lots and discuss boxing. Whenever anyone asks me who the greatest boxer ever is, I'm always inclined to answer "Oscar De La Hoya". Am I miles out, or just deluded.

Don't send me any smart answers or bitchy messages, this is an intelligent forum, remember. I only put this message up for discussion...

Hit it...

Ian

Everybody has their own opinions, even publishers who make up p4p lists have controversial opinions, you need to mention right away why you think he's the all time greatest.

[The Surgeon]

De La Hoya is truly an excellent fighter, although I have to admit that he got robbed aganst "Sugar" Shane Mosley. I saw this fight to pay-per-view at my sister's place a number of years back and I even had the presence of mind to score this particular fight. I saw the final outcome 118-116 in favor De La Hoya, but the judges scoring this fight sure as hell didn't. Here was my scorecard:

DE LA HOYA 10-10-10-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10-10-10 - 118
MOSLEY 9-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10-10 - 116

One judge scored the final seven rounds in favor of Mosley while another scored the final six in Mosley's favor. The end result was De La Hoya was screwed and he wound up losing the junior middleweight title on part of some rather biased scoring.

Thats a fight i missed due to being totally pissed! Saw the 1st 6rounds and crashed out! My Drunk eyes had Oscar Dominating but then i missed the Mosley cum back!

[ianwigley]

Folks

Further to the original thread I posted a couple of days ago - I'd never seen De La Hoya - Gatti until this morning. Holy ****, De La Hoya was so **** hot that day. It reinforces what I said about the man's greatness. Not the greatest ever, granted (and thank you all for your input)...but not far off...

Ian

[Tuggers1986]

Folks

Further to the original thread I posted a couple of days ago - I'd never seen De La Hoya - Gatti until this morning. Holy ****, De La Hoya was so **** hot that day. It reinforces what I said about the man's greatness. Not the greatest ever, granted (and thank you all for your input)...but not far off...

Ian

I agree with you. DLH is my favourite fighter. If not the greatest fighter of all time i'd have to say he's atleast the greatest fighter of my time.

and also its good to see a good discussion on here without somebody making a point then other people coming on an ripping it to shreds for no reason other than they've got a different opinion.

Hopefully we will see DLH at his best on may 5th and get to see how Mayweather Jr deals with his biggest test to date.