Who has a more impressive boxing resume:Mosley or De La Hoya

[Lazy Liberal]

I believe that De la hoya's fight catalog is far more impressive than Mosleys' . ODLH fought everyone and ducked no one , even if you feel he lost or was awarded a gift. Of course ODLH was helped by his looks that could sell to mainstream america and a promotional team that capitalized on every possible angle to suck up dollars but the guy was a FIGHTER. In his 8th pro fight he took on a former IBf champ, In his 14th fight he took on a Paez who had more than 50wins and more experience.He beat former champ Molina,he destroyed Ruelas,made Chicanito quit 3 years before Mayweather fought him, bombed out Leija and beat Chavez and this is only 4 yrs into his career. I like Mosley but I don't know why so many people are on his jock. He won the 1st De la hoya fight and deserves props for that but he lost the second fight, was defeated twice by Forrest whose best win was against Raul Frank for a belt,lost twice to Winky Wright(no shame in that). To some it up Mosley's claim to fame is the De la hoya fight and beating Phillip Holiday.I'll leave it up to you to decide.

[Hydro]

Oscar.

Mosley has the edge head-to-head, but look at Mosley's resume after De La Hoya.

[Lazy Liberal]

I did and he lost twice to forrest and twice to wright.

[Hydro]

I did and he lost twice to forrest and twice to wright.

Exactly.

Well not just the losses, but Mosley's wins besides De La Hoya are considerably behind De La Hoya's wins outside of his best or 2 best.

De La Hoya gets the edge despite not being behind Mosley head-to-head.

[Gareth Ivanovic]

DLH's fight resume is better, but you gotta also take in consideration that he has probably fought the best because everybody wanted that big pay day. Mayweather wanted to fight DLH because of the money, but doesn't want to fight Mosely because he says Mosely won't bring him that huge payday again.

[niceguy45]

this has been posted b4...but is def. oscar by far

[Da Truth 35]

De La Hoya based on the opponets he has faced Whitaker, Chavez, Trinidad, Vargas, Hopkins, Mayweather, Gatti, Mosley, Camacho and Mayorga and whats hurts Mosley is his 2 losses to Forrest and Wright So I say De La Hoya has the better resume even though he lost to Moslwy twice but some people see that he shouldve won the rematch

[Lazy Liberal]

When I hear commentators or regular folks say that De la hoya has lost to every elite fighter and they include Mosley in the conversation , well that's laughable. Like I said Mosley is probably a cool guy but his claim to fame is beating De La hoya in a split decision. I thought that that he did win the first fight but not the second. So why is he an elite fighter? Does one victory over a top fighter make you elite?If that's so then I guess mayorga was an elite fighter.

[Hydro]

When I hear commentators or regular folks say that De la hoya has lost to every elite fighter and they include Mosley in the conversation , well that's laughable. Like I said Mosley is probably a cool guy but his claim to fame is beating De La hoya in a split decision. I thought that that he did win the first fight but not the second. So why is he an elite fighter? Does one victory over a top fighter make you elite?If that's so then I guess mayorga was an elite fighter.

Mosley had been the lightweight champion and was ranked in the top 5 p4p when he beat De La Hoya in 2000.

That's elite.

[Allucard]

Well, here is the facts. I think these two are similar and really have no sided oppinion as non of these are or were at any point and time my favorite fighters dispite both being great sluggish fighters. Put that and of a first view mosley > hoya if you just look at win and number of fights. Boxrec says:

Oscar De La Hoya: W 38 (30 ko's) | L 5 | D 0 | Total 43

Shane Mosley: W 44 (37 ko's) | L 4 | D 0 | Total 49

As for quality of opposition, a very important factor (and this is where people can desagree and it gets complicated):

Oscar De La Hoya:

Mayweather Jr.
Bernard Hopkins
Felix Sturm
Shane Mosley
Fernando Vargas
Arturo Gatti (just because he was a champion)
Felix Trinidad
Ike Quartey
Julio Cesar Chavez (chavez was 36 but take nothing away from DLH)


Shane Mosley:
Vernon Forrest
Fernando Vargas
Oscar De La Hoya
Ronald Wright
Jose Luis Cruz
Manuel Gomez

This a light comparison. Shane Mosley has a better record, but much worse quality of competition (this is my oppinion). I value more quality of opposition than the numbers in a record (those can be deceiving) and if this was the end of it Oscar would win this comparison. However he lost in the direct confrontation (twice) and thus i declare it a tie to be fair to both great (but not my favorites!) fighters.