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On May 6, 2006, Oscar De La Hoya will enter the “Danger Zone” to challenge Ricardo Mayorga for his WBC Jr. Middleweight title at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. This is a fight that has ignited the fire within the fight fan, a fight that pits the normally good-natured Oscar De La Hoya against an offensive, beer drinking, cigarette smoking, professional amateur.
Mayorga is a very hard puncher, I will give him that, but his cover was blown when he nailed Vernon Forrest with one of his haymakers from left field in their first fight. In the rematch, Vernon was ready for the Mayorga ambush, although after twelve rounds, Ricardo was on the receiving end of a majority decision (112-114, 115-114, 114-114). I had Vernon winning the fight; Vernon would have won the fight going away if he hadn’t fought so cautiously through the first four rounds.
In his last fight on August 13, 2005, Mayorga had to go the twelve round distance in winning the vacant WBC Jr.Middleweight crown against household name Michele Piccirillo. In three of his last five bouts, El Matador was stopped by Tito Trinidad in eight, won a ten round decision over Eric Mitchell and was beaten over twelve rounds by Cory Spinks.
Now I ask you, if Mayorga in his last five fights was beaten twice and forced to go the distance with the aforementioned other three, in reality, what are his chances of beating a disciplined, high-quality fighter such as Oscar De La Hoya? Something else to add to the mix is the fact that Oscar is, and has always been, an excellent defensive fighter, he is a converted southpaw making his left hook even more of a lethal weapon. [details]
Mayorga is a very hard puncher, I will give him that, but his cover was blown when he nailed Vernon Forrest with one of his haymakers from left field in their first fight. In the rematch, Vernon was ready for the Mayorga ambush, although after twelve rounds, Ricardo was on the receiving end of a majority decision (112-114, 115-114, 114-114). I had Vernon winning the fight; Vernon would have won the fight going away if he hadn’t fought so cautiously through the first four rounds.
In his last fight on August 13, 2005, Mayorga had to go the twelve round distance in winning the vacant WBC Jr.Middleweight crown against household name Michele Piccirillo. In three of his last five bouts, El Matador was stopped by Tito Trinidad in eight, won a ten round decision over Eric Mitchell and was beaten over twelve rounds by Cory Spinks.
Now I ask you, if Mayorga in his last five fights was beaten twice and forced to go the distance with the aforementioned other three, in reality, what are his chances of beating a disciplined, high-quality fighter such as Oscar De La Hoya? Something else to add to the mix is the fact that Oscar is, and has always been, an excellent defensive fighter, he is a converted southpaw making his left hook even more of a lethal weapon. [details]
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