How would a prime Oscar De La Hoya fair against current fighters?

[pbftxrs316]

he doesn't beat floyd at any weight....mark my words....floyd beat oscar much more convincingly than the scorecards showed....eveyone knows this....floyd has the most difficult style to beat, period....oscar loses to floyd everytime....tell oscar to stop giving himself all of the advantages...it doesn't work with floyd....and for all the posters claiming he would knock floyd out, i laugh at all of you....floyd stunned oscar in their fight, not the other way around, and floyd just crusied in that fight, making it look easy, like he was just sparring and fighting bored...at any weight, it would be the same result, possibly worse for oscar....he don't want to fight the floyd that beeat gatti, corley, bruseles, that mother****er was deadly.....he would totally embarrass oscar.....

[BennyST]

The Pac fight would have been a much easier win that a Clottey one, imo.

People forget just how huge an effective Oscar was, at WW. He would dwarf Pacquiao at WW, and at any lower weight too.

It's very true. Although some nutjobs will say that a prime Oscar would still get beaten by Pac, they are just tools. He would wipe the floor with Pac in about five rounds. He really would.

As for the others, well, he beat a much better bunch of fighters than what are there now, so he would honestly beat them all pretty easily. I think everyone forgets just how good Oscar was. He gets so much flack on this board and I can't figure out where it comes from? Is it only because he lost to Pac? Well, that's what old, shot fighters do. They lose to much younger, prime fighters.

Anyway, Quartey would have beaten everyone today as would have Whitaker. Oscar would have done a job on most of them.

[pbftxrs316]

like i posted earlier, oscar loses to floyd at any weight....point/blank/period....quartey would be a harder fight for floyd and pernell would be the hardest fight----he still beats them all......

[BennyST]

really? imo pacs handspeed and southpaw stance would be too much for DLH

how do you think hed do against mayweather

This is not a 36 year old, shot weight drained hack we're talking about now. Prime Oscar was as fast as Pac. Maybe you need to go watch him some more. Oscar wins pretty easy.

Oh, and comparing Pac to Whitaker is the most absurd thing I've seen in a while. Sure, they're both southpaws but they also fight about as different as two fighters possibly can. Whitaker is everything that Pac isn't.

[bojangles1987]

Prime Oscar beats pretty much every welterweight or junior welterweight right now, with the toughest fights being Floyd, Mosley, and Clottey. He was a great fighter at those weights.

[robjr]

@140...hatton,pacquiao
previous fights.....julio cesar chavez

@147...cotto,clottey,mosley,berto
previous fights....whitaker,gatti,trinidad,quartey

@154....p.williams,angulo
previous fights.....vargas,mosley,mayorga,mayweather

i think prime oscar beats them all except pacman, mosley, and williams.

but on a side note, I think he lost to whitaker and feel quartay just beat him. and obviously sturm was a disgusting robbery so the hopkins fight could happen..

[BennyST]

the fact that a prime odlh would and could beat all of the fighters mentioned, is true... but i don't think dlh would fight any of these fighters while THEY were in there prime, or didn't have some kind of advantage over them!!!!

What? That is such a moronic statement man. Trinidad was in his prime, Quartey was in his prime, Mayweather was in his prime, Hopkins was in his prime, Mosley was in his prime etc etc etc.

People need to think about the actual careers and not look at one or two fights ie. Chavez and Whitaker, though Whitaker fought about as inspired a fight as could have been.

To The Drogba, you moron, we're talking about prime Oscar. Why can't people understand that there is a big difference between a guy that fought at 26, and a guy that fights at 36? It's either that you have never watched any of his proper fights and are simply a bit of a daft ****, or you're just trolling as usual. Anyway, Oscar fought the prime Mosley and hardly lost, many thought he won the second with the first being a very close fight, so that same Oscar would beat the bejesus out of this Mosley who gets tagged a lot more, is slower and doesn't have the same combination punching.

It was also a 35 year old Oscar that fought Mayweather to a reasonably close, though not SD close, but again, a prime Oscar is much faster, much quicker of both hand and foot, has better combinations, more stamina etc etc. It's a pick 'em fight that one.

[boojee]

prime Oscar would beat all of them except for Williams at 154 and Pacman at 140.