Young De La Hoya vs. Experienced Barrera at 130

[Tony Trick-Pony]

While these two barely touched on the same divisions, I think it would be interesting if they had fought with De La Hoya as a young up and comer and Barrera as the experienced super featherweight. I think it would have been a close match-up.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

De la hoya was a monster.. He would land the left hook on barrera and crush him, just like he did genaro and leija


Combination of size, handspeed, power and skill would be too much for the great barrera

[aldo5408]

Barrera easy KO by punch to the body or Oscar win by robbery

[imperial1]

Barrera was just a monster too much for a young dlh

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Barrera was just a monster too much for a young dlh

Barrera was no monster at 130..

[imperial1]

Barrera was no monster at 130..

skill wise he was

[Real King Kong]

Dlh too big

[Sugar Adam Ali]

skill wise he was

Won't matter vs young Oscar... Just too much firepower and no way barrera's chin holds up

[Bram]

I don't think that fight is competitive. I think Oscar would stop him 3-4 rounds. Not anywhere near as skilled, but decent skills, a huge left hand and just too damn big.

[-Kev-]

De La Hoya was too big, 5'10", very powerful, and there are Super Middleweights and Light Heavyweights that don't have DLH's reach. DLH has longer arms than Ward, Kovalev, same reach as Beterbiev, etc. DLH can almost match long armed guys like DeGale and Andre Dirrell. When you have the power, chin and height of DLH, having such long reach does matter. It would have been a complete slaughter and people would have complained like they did with the JCC fight.

He was a wrecking ball for those SFW's and LW's. It would have been a brutal beating. MAB as skilled as he was, you can't overcome such a height and size disadvantage unless he was fighting a C fighter.