ESPN's Teddy Atlas: "ODH legacy tainted"

**ACHlLLES** · 12-07-2008, 01:10 AM

Bye Bye, Oscar De La ****

What the **** was your biggest win anyways Oscar, you lost like all your big fights.

**Brz_Pugilist** · 12-07-2008, 01:14 AM

Its one thing to lose to someone in ur division but to have someone put extra pounds and smaller then u and then pummel u?I thought this fight was gonna be a mismatch and i was wrong.Very strange night.

**lparm** · 12-07-2008, 01:17 AM

Originally posted by Wiley Hyena

After the fight, Teddy Atlas stated that Oscar should retire and that his legacy has been damaged. He questioned whether Oscar could be an ATG.

I've been questioning Oscar's proposed ATG status ever since he was knocked out with a body shot against Hopkins. I was roundly lampooned by the Oscar nuthuggers, in spite of the fact that very few, if any, top ATGs were ever KTFO by a bodyshot.

Pacquiao's dominant victory over Oscar tonight as the much smaller man exposed Oscar in much sharper relief than Hopkin's little bodyshot.

As Atlas stated tonight, Oscar has been both good and bad for boxing. From the money standpoint he was good. For the sport, he was bad. Pacquiao just put his sword through the highly commercialized and fake heart of boxing that Oscar ruled for many years. Maybe now with Oscar out of the picture we will start seeing more fights of significance.

Oh really? questioning DLH huh?

Buddy I've been almost a one man band pointing out de la hypejob was a product of marketing and nothing else. Where were you then???

Don't show up after he gets his ass kicked and make claims, back them up.

**Heylerds** · 12-07-2008, 01:17 AM

Pummeled is such a perfect word!

**Benny Leonard** · 12-07-2008, 01:17 AM

For Oscar: let's look at it and let's look at your comments. Hopkins: WTF are you talking about. Hopkins was a big Middleweight who knocked-out a man who started his career as a lightweight with body/liver shot. How does that taint his ATG status?

Pac: End of his career and given all the circumstances that even Freddie Roach mentioned in the build-up...it means Oscar just did what other great fighters have done: Fight past their prime and made ****** mistakes.

You have to look at everything and not look at what you want to look at: Look below the surface not just above.

Ali is not an ATG because he lost to Frazier, who was blown out by Foreman; Norton; Leon Spinks; Holmes; and Berbick.

SRR: not an ATG because he ****** towards the end of his career.

Roy Jones Jr: not an ATG because he ****** at the end of his career.

Holyfield: Take him off the list

Tszyu: take him off the list. KO'd by Phillips and Hatton.

Lewis: Lost to Rahman and McCall...take him off the list.

I can go on all day.

If we want to see if Oscar is an ATG based on what he was doing and failed to do in his prime....sure...fair enough.

**Pico Hollywood** · 12-07-2008, 01:18 AM

Originally posted by CastorTroy

Bye Bye, Oscar De La ****

What the **** was your biggest win anyways Oscar, you lost like all your big fights.

haha vargas

**el boxeo** · 12-07-2008, 01:19 AM

funny part is that golden boy promotions as a promotional outfit is borderline garbage.... they heavly depend on dlh fighting and being able to manipulate dates with hbo...like the bait and switches they were pulling with barreara and marquez fights on days oscar was supposed to fight....

while they do have some young up and commers they really havent navigated too many prospects from the ground up .. theyve just cherry picked because of oscars clout AS A FIGHTER NOT PROMOTER....

even a fighter like ortiz tonight...was a operation from the bottom with gbp but with top rank...

**Brz_Pugilist** · 12-07-2008, 01:21 AM

Longetivity makes a great fighter and thats what Oscar is not.I think he is overrated, i am sorry.He is good but not great.Thats why i still prefer Hopkins's career even over RJJ

**ACHlLLES** · 12-07-2008, 01:21 AM

Originally posted by Pico Hollywood

haha vargas

That is sad, he got titos left-overs?

ESPN's Teddy Atlas: "ODH legacy tainted"