Can Oscar be a 1 punch KO guy?

[FalconBaller23]

oscar's left hook is deadly... vargas and mayorga found that out the hard way... if oscar can catch floyd with one left hook the fight is over, because oscar is as good of a finisher as there is in the sport.

[Soldier01]

decent post, but if de la hoya looks for the ko, he'll be the one tasting the canvas imo. floyd will tag the **** out of him. floyd's timing and precision is impecable, and his patience keeps him calm in the ring, and that's how he executes a near perfect gameplan. this will win floyd the fight easily. i think floyd wants oscar to try to knock him out, that way, it'll be a field-day for floyd to counter oscar and toy with him all night.

man, you're talking as if Oscars an amateur. Oscar is a very smart fighter & I don't think he's coming in ther with the intentions off soley knocking him out.
DLH will win this on pressure & counter punching.

DLH by decision & I can even see a late KO. (It's not out of the question)

[cortdawg25]

Graet Post!!!!! I wish more Floyd fans had the ability to be objective and see things for what they are and realize that he like every fighter has weaknesses and can be defeated. We all realize that he has great talent and is very good but DAMNIT he's human and can be defeated just like everyone else. Props to you, I can respect a Floyd fan that is able to be objective and not dilusional and misguided. You are completely right about these clowns with Floyd in there sig and take what they say as unbiased or completely objective. GREAT POST!!!!!!!!!!

Us Floyd fans think he can be defeated but we don't think anyone currently at 154 and down can beat him. That is what you can't understand. Yeah he has weaknesses but no current fighters have the strength to overcome those weaknesses so therefore he has none. Oscar has the power but he doesn't have the speed or the lateral movement to apply it. Zab Judah had the speed and pop but he was unfocused. Baldomir had the toughness and that it. There are no other complete fighters right now that can compete with him, why can't u admit that?

[McAlister]

Us Floyd fans think he can be defeated but we don't think anyone currently at 154 and down can beat him. That is what you can't understand. Yeah he has weaknesses but no current fighters have the strength to overcome those weaknesses so therefore he has none. Oscar has the power but he doesn't have the speed or the lateral movement to apply it. Zab Judah had the speed and pop but he was unfocused. Baldomir had the toughness and that it. There are no other complete fighters right now that can compete with him, why can't u admit that?

I think zab can compete with floyd...

thats a good fight, iont care what nobody say

[cortdawg25]

I think zab can compete with floyd...

thats a good fight, iont care what nobody say

yeah it was a good fight, I watch that fight often. I think my favorite fights of his is Ndou fight and Corley though.

[kayjay]

But you Floyd fans need to understand that this is by far Floyd's toughest fight to date, and it's not even close to Oscar's toughest. Taking on Hopkins was a bigger challenge. Whitaker was as much of a challenge and Tito in his prime at 147 was just as tough. We know about Oscar, we don't yet know about Floyd because he's not fought any elite fighters (don't talk about Corrales, that's not elite).

[Super_Lightweight]

Floyd fought Castillo, and he was certainly elite. I'll give that to Floyd. Overall, Oscar's resume is still better. And I agree Hopkins is a bigger challenge than Floyd. Oscar is going to make Floyd look very small in this fight as well. It will be interesting to see the size difference.

[cortdawg25]

But you Floyd fans need to understand that this is by far Floyd's toughest fight to date, and it's not even close to Oscar's toughest. Taking on Hopkins was a bigger challenge. Whitaker was as much of a challenge and Tito in his prime at 147 was just as tough. We know about Oscar, we don't yet know about Floyd because he's not fought any elite fighters (don't talk about Corrales, that's not elite).

u know Kayjay I dont think it will be. Oscar aint the Oscar that fought Tito no more. He ain't the Oscar that fought Mosley right now. And Hopkins is not a bigger challenge either. Hopkins defeated Oscar because he was bigger and they are equal in skill. The good big man will always beat the good lil man right? In this case, Floyd's skill are far surpass oscar and Hopkins and that says a lot I know, but it's true. Corrales might not be elite now, he is on the downside of his career, but at the time he was elite. Floyd contributed to his undoing, but Corrales was Koing everyone before his 1st loss to Floyd, that's pretty elite. Hell if Corrales wasn't elite at the time, who was? Hell where were all these elite fighters when Floyd was making his claim for P4p crown?

[deliveryman]

But you Floyd fans need to understand that this is by far Floyd's toughest fight to date, and it's not even close to Oscar's toughest. Taking on Hopkins was a bigger challenge. Whitaker was as much of a challenge and Tito in his prime at 147 was just as tough. We know about Oscar, we don't yet know about Floyd because he's not fought any elite fighters (don't talk about Corrales, that's not elite).

At that time, yes Corrales was one of the elites. He was 33-0, 29 KOs, and actually going into the fight Floyd was the sleight underdog (the only time as well). The Corrales fight was a very dangerous fight for Floyd to take at the time, and he beat the living **** out of him.

Why are you judging the current, shot to pieces Corrales of today, to the Corrales of 1999-mid 2005. I still say to this date that the first Castillo fight ruined him as a fighter, and it was his last fight as a truly elite fighter. At least he went out with a win in my book. Because all of his fights now? Mean absolutely **** IMO. He's shot, he's done...

What about Hernandez? Yes the 130lb champ Hernandez, not the overblown up one that Oscar beat.

Castillo, yes a prime Castillo is an elite fighter. It was Floyd's first fight at 135, without any tuneups or anything, and he fought a prime Castillo who had just beat the snot out of Stevie Johnston. Castillo was tremendously strong, very crisp, fast, hard punches on the inside. Probably the best man in boxing at cutting off the ring, and a vicious body puncher. You do the math.

How can you say Castillo wasn't an elite fighter?

Or a prime Jesus Chavez? Come on.
Or the former 3 time world champion, and undisputed Welter Weight champion of the world in Zab Judah, at his very, very best?

Give me a break...

[ml2niceguy]

he's not gonna knockout floyd