Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Canelo is Future, Mayweather Era The Worst

[Showtime..]

I wonder if De La Hoya realises that Canelo is part of the generation he's criticising.

Mayweather, Pacquiao, Marquez, Cotto, Paul Williams, Morales, Barrera, Mosley, De La Hoya (funnily enough), Vargas, Felix Trinidad, Winky Wright, Corrales, Castillo, Martinez.

The list goes on.

I wonder of people's hatred for Mayweather will let them turn a blind eye to him ****ting on people who put so much of their blood, sweat and tears into the sport.

You mixed some eras. It goes from Tyson/Chavez to Jones/Pernell to ODLH to PAC/May.
Oscar had his own era. His & May's just crossed toward the end of his.
Floyd's era didn't start when he won a title. His started a little later on when he won his big fight vs. Corrales. Pacquiao's with Ledwaba. Oscar with Chavez/Whitaker. Tyson with Spinks. It starts with a huge win.

Gennady's could start with Lemy. Who knows.

[Showtime..]

You were 11 when the fight took place so I doubt you are know much of the build up to the fight.

At the time, it was considered a cherrypick. You had Margarito coming off an impressive win over Cotto, and Pacquiao who had just move up to 130lb. He had a knockout win over Diaz but before that he had a contest SD win over Marquez and a lacklustre win over Barrera (people were questioning his motivation).

De la Hoya deciding to fight Pacquiao looked like a bigger fighter cherrypicking a much smaller fighter for an easy payday, which is why the beat down he received is viewed as a cherrypick gone wrong.

I was 11, and that was the fight that got me into boxing. I thought Oscar would KO Pacquiao because Manny was a tiny Asian dude and Oscar was much bigger.

I'm not joking, I legit agree that it was a cherry pick.

[Ham Porter]

Mayweather & Pacquiao have headed the single worst era in boxing history. This is undeniable. Their horrible influence over the last five years has spilled over onto the rest of the sport, leaving it in the decrepit state it's in today.

Mayweather cultists reacting like De La Hoya tore apart his entire resume.

[Sledgeweather17]

He has a point that cant be denied.

Yeah I mean coz the Canelo era is so much better coz it has no robberies (Lara) and no smoke and mirrors (pretending to be a junior middleweight wile fighting at middleweight catchweights against jnr middleweights) and of course no ducking ( Golovkin and Demetrius Andrade).

I mean, Canelo totally didn't abuse his status to supercede a mandatory challenger (Golovkin) for the middleweight crown and he didn't ask for a higher catchweight when he found a guy who was actually comfortable at the Canelo division (Lmao at Canelo tryna get weight advantage again when cotto asked to fight at the Canelo division, all of a sudden Canelo wants 156/157, wonder why).

But other than all of that, yeah, Catchweighto era is so much better than Floyd era.

[FeFist]

You mixed some eras. It goes from Tyson/Chavez to Jones/Pernell to ODLH to PAC/May.
Oscar had his own era. His & May's just crossed toward the end of his.
Floyd's era didn't start when he won a title. His started a little later on when he won his big fight vs. Corrales. Pacquiao's with Ledwaba. Oscar with Chavez/Whitaker. Tyson with Spinks. It starts with a huge win.

Gennady's could start with Lemy. Who knows.

It is not that I mixed the eras up, it is that I appreciate the overlap. It is somewhat difficult to establish where one era begins and another ends.

[ramses07]

Meaningless fights?

Hatton
Oscar
Jmm
Mosley
Cotto
Pacquiao
Maidana
Canelo

out of 48 fight 26 title fight?


Damn he is bitter as hell

meh id rather have the tito, oscar, shane, mayorga era....even when he retired the big fights were much better.

[ramses07]

"Mayweather era was the worst because it's all about meaningless fights, it's al about business"

*Fights Pacquiao over Margarito in 2008*

yeah that wasnt in his prime...dude fought a lot of great fights and wanted to KO guys

good for mayweather in the sense of him making money and keeping his health

but I'm a fan, i don't care about his money or his health ...i want KO's.

[arraamis]

It was announced earlier today that Golden Boy Promotions had re-signed Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez to a multi-fight, multi-year extension . Alvarez, is scheduled to face Miguel Cotto for the WBC middleweight title on November 21st at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

To the head of Golden Boy, Oscar De La Hoya, this signals in a new era of boxing.

"This is what I can tell you,'Canelo' is the best and he's the future, the Mayweather era has been the worst era in the history of the sport because it's been all about business, it's been all about meaningless fights, it's all about boring fights," he opined, rather bluntly.
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ODLH slurping hard ....

If only ODLH knew that the only reason Canelo resigned with GBP is because there's really no where else to go.

[Death_Adder]

Oscar has a point.

Saline IV may have put on the most rich boxing fights out there but he put the most boring uneventful in history as well.

If he was the least bit exciting, people would be lining up to see him this weekend even with the ticket prices being as "cheap" as they are.

As it is, Saline soured people and nobody wants to see him.

Even when Oscar fought Campas it wasn't a disaster and nobody was talking about how bad it would do ppv wise or with ticket sales.

[SchoolTheseCats]

Sad that in the mayweather era you tried to crap on Oscar you forgot to mention your boxer getting embarrassed and you entering rehab days before fight forgetting to give him the blueprint to defeat pitty pat Floyd