De La Hoya-Mayweather: The History That Matters

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By Cliff Rold - We’re days away from the biggest fight in boxing in almost five years: Oscar de la Hoya (38-4, 30 KO) versus Floyd Mayweather (37-0, 23 KO). How big is this fight? Oscar finally made the cover of SI. ESPN the Magazine went with a Floyd cover. Even Time Magazine did a feature on it. It didn’t make the cover, leaving the two combatants still a hair behind Gerry Cooney in cultural relevance…but given the general interest in boxing in 2007 it’s still pretty damn good. [details]

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Positive publicity? For Boxing? Good times.

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That was a great read...

[Crazy Dude]

Great article.

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Thanks...this was a fun write.

[crold1]

What's nuts is how big this one fight is for Floyd. One win and all that failings in comp at certain weights won't matter to 98% of humanity ever.