Would a younger DLH beat Mayweather (in his prime)?

[TeamDime10]

To me, Oscar was a completely different fighter when he was younger, around the time he beat Vargas. He would attack without retreat, it was ruthless but at the same time, technical. And now, we don't see that same fire or passion from De La Hoya, instead we see the cautious DLH who looks like he cares more about protecting his "pretty boy" (no Floyd) face rather than winning the fight. It used to be heart that drove him but now it's all about the $$$. So do you think a younger DLH would defeat Mayweather, who is seemingly at his best as we speak?

TD10

[xcaret]

Oscar was faster and hit harder when he was younger, oscar would've beat floyd in his prime

floyd nuthuggers like to come up with the "oscar lost to the best" **** but atleast he fought the best unlike floyd.

[Crazylegs77]

I think a young Oscar would be to fierce for Floyd.

[SkillspayBills]

Nope. Floyd never left second gear in his bout with Oscar. He would actually push Floyd to pull out more tricks and when he did, Floyd would come out victorious again. No version of Oscar beats Floyd, although a prime Oscar at 147 has the best chance.

[Ramamaiden]

i dont know, but i see oscar being the favorite on winning. 6-4 in favor to oscar.

[pbftxrs316]

Oscar was faster and hit harder when he was younger, oscar would've beat floyd in his prime

floyd nuthuggers like to come up with the "oscar lost to the best" **** but atleast he fought the best unlike floyd.

why do you even post only to follow with insults to mayweather fans. that seems to be a trend on this forum currently? poeple who hate floyd focus more on his fans than they do him now and most every poster who insults floyd or even give an honest opinion about him fighting whoever at whatever age or prime tend to follow their opinion with, "awaits floyd fanboys or nuthuggers" or whatever else, and steer away from their points. why worry about us when you can just give your opinion, as we can give ours. what you're seeming to do, and you may not realize is that you're in turn making yourself look like a biased and closeminded poster seeing how you don't even wait until a floyd fan gives their response, rather, you just come with the insults showing me that our opinions are wrong and illogical to you, becase we are not typing in what you want to read, seeinghow you don't feel the same way we do. grow up boy.

now, to answer the threadstarter, a younger de la hoya would not beat floyd and here's why, and i have claimed this on many prior posts. oscar has always had more power than floyd, but has never been faster than him at any weight. faster as him overall speed. he never punched faster than floyd did, but he hit harder and his punches were never as complex and thrown from different angles with precision as floyd was. oscar was an up and down fighter when he was younger. he could counterpunch very well, but against a mayweather at let's say 140 or lower, who threw stiff jabs from fainted angles and off of the back foot standing straight up very well, he would get tagged by the more accurate puncher. oscar's left hook had great power on it, but floyd's defense was 2nd to none, especially at the lower weights. floyd packed power at 130-140 also, not as much as oscar's and oscar's jab was stiff as **** with a great snap to it which he would have to land effectively al night on floyd, and i never seen him doing this. his stamina was better when he was younder was still suspect. floyd would have used oscar's power to slow him down, and floyd went to the body much better than oscar. oscar could hurt floyd badly if he had the right gameplan but he would have a very hard time catching floyd who was so fluent with his movement from any part of the ring. his flexibility was 2nd to none also. oscar wasn't that flexible at all, and tended to look stiff with his upperbody movement. floyd threw punches better and faster. he had tremendous head movement. oscar has decent footwork but opted a lot to hunt his opponents which worked good until he fougt sweet pea and was forced to change his style a little bit which is why his win was controverisal and still is today. floyd was so fast with his upperbody movement you had to slow the angle digest speed down to keep up with him. i gave oscar little to no chance at defeating floyd ever. he was always bigger than floyd, this was obvious, but floyd was more technically brilliant than oscar.

people got caught up in his left hook and combination punching but forget to realize that he was caught a lot when he was younger, floyd was a master blocker and dodger with his extraordinary defense. oscar would not beat floyd at any age, his style was not and is not good enough for floyd. floyd had a tremendous jab also at the lower weights. watch his fight with jukko which ironically on the undercard of one of oscar's fights. floyd's jab however came from more angles while still keeping the speedy snap, power, and accuracy on it, and let's not forget his jab and strait right hand to the body.

floyd's prime imo=140/130
oscar's prime imo=147/130

now, floyd called out oscar for many years and oscar opted not to pay it no mind, he know how great this kid was. even roy jones and lampley agreed that mosley or oscar fighting floyd was a ****** move. roy called floyd a complete fighter, which he really is and was.

[onetwopunch]

I think a younger DLH would of beat Floyd, say DLH in 99.

[Silencers]

I think he could considering he was pretty much even with Mayweather through the first 6 rounds. The DLH that beat Quartey would beat Mayweather IMO.

[xcaret]

Nope. Floyd never left second gear in his bout with Oscar. He would actually push Floyd to pull out more tricks and when he did, Floyd would come out victorious again. No version of Oscar beats Floyd, although a prime Oscar at 147 has the best chance.

he barely beat old Oscar who is slower and doesnt have the same power or stamina that he had in his prime, what makes you think he wouldn't of had a chance in his prime???

[Lazy Liberal]

Mayweather at any stage of Oscars career would be difficult. I believe that Oscar in his prime when he would pop that jab and bounce up and down would beat Mayweather. The only fight when I thought Oscar had no chance of winning was against Hopkins and that was based on size. I also had Oscar winning the Sweet Pea fight and Sweet Pea is another level above Mayweather in my opinion.