Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: I Had Two Torn Rotator Cuffs, A Little Over The Hill In Mayweather Fight

[LetOutTheCage]

Why is he still going on about this, the guy clearly holds grudges. You lost move on...

[NORMNEALON]

Well **** BOTH rotator cuffs torn !? Atleast his oysters weren't bad this time . I don't know what is harder, fighting with a vibrio infection or no arms?! Lol

Both scenarios are pretty much , well.........impossible!!! What a godly man Oscar is !!! Only he could pull off either !!

[Gideon lock]

Probably had a rolling pin up his sphincter during the fight too.

[-Kev-]

Most of the best boxers are in their prime at 30.

My post was not speaking on who’s green, prime, peak, or past prime. The post was about injuries. Fighters, and athletes, no matter their age, fight/play without being 100% all the time, regardless of age. You can be 22, 28, 30, 34. Age doesn’t matter, injuries don’t discriminate age. Mayweather at 30 years old, was already battling hand injuries since his days at 130lbs when he first broke it vs Carlos Hernandez (he almost quit due to breaking them). The injury prone hands were actually very noticeable in the Baldomir fight, where he broke both hands mid fight. He also aggravated the injury in the Judah fight before the Baldo fight.

I broke my right hand at 19 years old in a sparring match where I hit my opponent at the top of his head. By that age, i’ve been hit by a car, whooped by my mother a bunch of times, fallen and hit my head on the pavement, along with various other painful things. Nothing matches the pain of breaking your hand from a punch you landed. Maybe getting stabbed or shot, which I have no experience with. And after recovering from the broken hand and getting back into sparring, every. single. time. after. I reinjured it. It was tough. I stopped boxing at 22 for various reasons, that being one.

I have a ton of respect for fighters who adjust to broken hands like Mayweather, Calzaghe and Malignaggi and have a good career post-injury. A ton. It’s super tough no matter if you’re prime or not.

[-Kev-]

And the pain from reinjuring your hand is not AS BAD as the first time, but the first time is a 57/10, the next times you injure it will still hurt bad, I would say a 7/10. Unless you’re a pro boxer who knows about your hand injury and have a plan B on how to fight on with a broken main hand, you’ll likely consider not boxing anymore. It’s a really tough injury, obviously you literally need your hands to box, I imagine many aspiring boxers stop boxing due to it. It takes a ton of skill to win pro fights with a weak right hand and a jab (or weak left hand and a jab if you’re southpaw).

[QballLobo]

You mean....2007, right?

Yes. March of 2007.

[SplitSecond]

My post was not speaking on who’s green, prime, peak, or past prime. The post was about injuries. Fighters, and athletes, no matter their age, fight/play without being 100% all the time, regardless of age. You can be 22, 28, 30, 34. Age doesn’t matter, injuries don’t discriminate age. Mayweather at 30 years old, was already battling hand injuries since his days at 130lbs when he first broke it vs Carlos Hernandez (he almost quit due to breaking them). The injury prone hands were actually very noticeable in the Baldomir fight, where he broke both hands mid fight. He also aggravated the injury in the Judah fight before the Baldo fight.

I broke my right hand at 19 years old in a sparring match where I hit my opponent at the top of his head. By that age, i’ve been hit by a car, whooped by my mother a bunch of times, fallen and hit my head on the pavement, along with various other painful things. Nothing matches the pain of breaking your hand from a punch you landed. Maybe getting stabbed or shot, which I have no experience with. And after recovering from the broken hand and getting back into sparring, every. single. time. after. I reinjured it. It was tough. I stopped boxing at 22 for various reasons, that being one.

I have a ton of respect for fighters who adjust to broken hands like Mayweather, Calzaghe and Malignaggi and have a good career post-injury. A ton. It’s super tough no matter if you’re prime or not.

Mayweather, Calzaghe, Malignaggi have hand problems because they have poor punching form. They bring it on themselves.

Mayweather was going into the Hernandez fight with messed up hands. He was already shooting up xylocaine.

[Derranged]

Bullcrap about his rotator cuffs.

[-Kev-]

Mayweather, Calzaghe, Malignaggi have hand problems because they have poor punching form. They bring it on themselves.

Mayweather was going into the Hernandez fight with messed up hands. He was already shooting up xylocaine.

I don’t think Mayweather, Calzaghe or Malignaggi broke their due to poor punching form. Broken hands in boxing can happen to any boxer by accident. This accident can happen by throwing a punch and your target moves, and the punch lands on your target but not its intended location. It’s very difficult to hurt your hand on a heavy bag. Because it’s just a stationary object where your punch will always land on the intended location. Versus an opponent, if they happen to duck their chin down and you instead hit them in the head, that’s an injury waiting to happen. If you aim for the body but the opponent sticks his elbows out, and you hit your wrist with the bended elbow, that’s a painful wrist injury waiting to happen.

These are all very common injuries in boxing. You’d hear all about them, see them happening, and maybe even have them happen to you if you join a boxing gym for long enough. They are accidents. Like in WWF with a wrestling move gone wrong, despite the “show” being scripted, and the winner being pre-determinded, happens all the time and therefore causes real life injuries. Accidents happen all the time in professional sports and it can happen to athletes doing everything perfectly. You don’t go 51-0 and 46-0 in pro boxing if you have bad punching form.

As far as Mayweather already having injured hands before the Hernandez fight and using “xylocaine” for that fight, I have no answer for completely made-up comments. I rather not entertaining trolling comments bud.

[-Kev-]

Why is he still going on about this, the guy clearly holds grudges. You lost move on...

To be fair it he likely didn’t randomly bring it up. This instead sounds like a reporter asking him about his fight with Mayweather. Probably asked him a specific question about how he felt physically due to his age.

I highly doubt De La Hoya randomly called boxingscene.com in 2020 to tell them he had two injured rotator cuffs in his 2007 fight with Mayweather.