Comments Thread For: Oscar De La Hoya: It's the fighters who are killing the sport

[garfios]

I like canelo I think he’s great but this era of boxers is weak af. I like Oscar all the way to 160 vs canelo tbh. His jab alone would win the fight.

I know you like canelo, but you're right. Boxers doesn't want to face any threats at all, that's why I applaud Morrell Jr and benavidez.

[LAchargers373]

I know you like canelo, but you're right. Boxers doesn't want to face any threats at all, that's why I applaud Morrell Jr and benavidez.

I love morrel watched him all through amateurs he’s Like RJJ with a chin lol

[garfios]

I love morrel watched him all through amateurs he’s Like RJJ with a chin lol

Next year we going to see. I like Iglesias a lot, hopefully is a coming out party for Morrell Jr.

[BlackRobb]

Very odd. Maybe because he doesn't have the same confidence in his fighters, that he used to have on himself.

Then he needs to stop signing fighters just because they're Mexican or Mexican-American.

[garfios]

Then he needs to stop signing fighters just because they're Mexican or Mexican-American.

It's about money too, he stole canelo from Tutico Zabala who was the promoter that brought him to the USA, look how carefully he matched him, munguia's career is a carbon copy of canelo, of course he is not as talented and not a ginger.

[BlackRobb]

It's about money too, he stole canelo from Tutico Zabala who was the promoter that brought him to the USA, look how carefully he matched him, munguia's career is a carbon copy of canelo, of course he is not as talented and not a ginger.

Canelo has fought way better opposition than Munguia. Munguia has never faced anyone in the level of Erislandy Lara, and never will.

[Sheikh]

The reason why the top fights aren't happening is because promoters are over paying them to fight low level opposition. Promoters are so dumb now a days.

[Toffee]

Boxers are the ones making the decisions but they're just operating within a commercial environment that justifies those kind of decisions.

We see belts go undefended and retained and the orgs and fans accept it. And then people complain when a fighter gets stripped for not facing a mandatory.

We get low level fights and crossover crap and people actually buy them.

Enforce mandatories. Do it right to the letter of your rules. Encourage fighters to try to get to a mandatory position because it will be worth a title fight. Exceptions should be rare and only in exceptional cases. Not for someone to fight a crossover fight.

If people don't fight then drop them down or out of the rankings. Rank fighters highly when they combine activity with quality of opponent.

It's either got to be run as a sport or as a business. If it's a business then don't complain that you're getting exactly what you should expect.

[BodyBagz]

In what other "sport" do the athletes dictate what, when and where, something takes place ?!?

A person can only do what they're allowed to do.

[BodyBagz]

I agree Felix Sturm beat Oscar and in my opinion Oscar beat Felix Trinidad but that's just my opinion. What is not opinion is that every Canelo fight has a 100% guaranteed outcome.

DLH gave Tito an absolute boxing lessons

The last part can be said of a bunch of fighters
One example -
When was the last time Inoue was the under dog ?
His upcoming "fight" is not expected to go 5 rds.