Buy the hype: ODLH vs PBF on May 5, 2007 will be a CLASSIC!!!

[albsur2006]

I've heard a lot of people say they love this event but believe the fight itself will be boring. I think that this will be fight of the year and much like the USC-Texas BCS Title game in 2006, it will exceed the hype. There are six reasons why I believe this fight will be great:

- Floyd's finally got his BIG paycheck. He got a double digit paycheck and PPV upside to fight ODLH. Floyd's always been chasing ODLH and now that he has cashed in, he doesn't have to worry about it.

- Floyd's "retirement." While it sucks, I truly believe the reason why Floyd said he was gonna retire was because he wanted to give himself an out of some sort with the ODLH fight. If Floyd loses a close but exciting fight, people will pay to see it again and he can make another huge paycheck for a rematch or he can just choose to quit. If Floyd wins then he won't retire and his marketability will improve. This allows for Floyd to fight a more competitive fight because Floyd has no intention of retiring unless he loses so with basically the whole world watching the fight, he wants it to be a great one. He's not chasing another big paycheck after this one. He's gonna wanna press the envelope, he believes in his skills, and really has nothing to lose but his 0.

- Floyd's ego. Floyd is the most egostical boxer on the planet. There's no way Floyd is gonna let ODLH bully him around. Floyd wants to believe that he can back ODLH up just like the rest of the people that always hope someone can beat him. Floyd always gets up for the big stages. The three biggest fights of his career have all been good and entertaining: Corrales was great fight for Floyd, Gatti was a great fight for Floyd, and Judah was a great fight for Floyd until the melee (which actually was pretty entertaining). In fact, every single Floyd fight outside of Baldy has been something great and fun to watch. Go down the list and every fight has been a good one. The only reason he didn't please the crowd against Baldy was because he wanted to make sure that he preserved the biggest paycheck of his life and he was extremely careful about that fight. Which in my mind is understandable.

- Oscar's ego. There's no way Oscar will allow himself to get embarrassed on probably the biggest stage of his career. If he feels that Floyd is doing damage that the crowd notices, expect Oscar to try and do something about it. Haha, try. Oscar truly believes that can knock Floyd out, he's got the Reyes gloves and he's got the small ring that he wanted, now he will try to knock Floyd out. This means for every combos that Floyd unleashes Oscar will try and match. When Floyd moves around Oscar will try and cut the ring off. It's gonna be awesome to watch.

- Oscar's stamina problems. Everyone knows that Oscar has late round stamina problems. Couple this with the fact that Oscar believes that he can knock Floyd out and you have an exciting fight. Oscar can't really ration his stamina off because then Floyd would have the advantage every round, I think that this will mean Oscar will be very active early, then taper off in the middle, and then save something for the championship rounds. Which means that Floyd will be active but cautious the first couple rounds, then Floyd will sit in the pocket in the middle of the fight, and then all bets are off for the end of the fight.

-The Ike Quartey-ODLH fight in 1999. Everytime I watch this fight, I think that this should be the type of fight that Floyd fights against ODLH. Ike used his jab and right hand leads and Oscar used his jab and left hook. Ike and Floyd are about the same height and both use jabs and right hand leads exclusively. Floyd possesses much better skills than Ike but you get my drift. This fight was IMO the most exciting of Oscar's career, Ike hits the canvas, Oscar hits the canvas, Ike technically won the fight IMO, but Oscar won the crowd. Before that fight neither fighter was really known as exciting but they're amazing boxing ability made that fight awesome. Granted Oscar's older and Floyd is P4P #1, the fact that Oscar is naturally the bigger man and Floyd's boxing ability is better than Oscar's will make this a great fight. I really think that Floyd-ODLH will be Ike-ODLH II with a different ending. Floyd UD 12.

The promotion of the fight will be bananas. Two former Olympians (Oscar Gold, Floyd Bronze). Possibly father training Oscar to beat his son. P4P #1 against PPV #1. Great of today versus great of yesterday. "Fan favorite" vs "villian". Everything you could ask but IMO I really think that the fight itself will surpass the hype and promotion and as boxing fans, we freaking need it to.

[Hughesd]

Totally agree with all of that. This will be the fight of 2007. Couldent pick a winner but it will be interesting to see what the winner does next. Would they move up and fight Taylor ?

[shza]

Totally agree with all of that. This will be the fight of 2007. Couldent pick a winner but it will be interesting to see what the winner does next. Would they move up and fight Taylor ?

The winner should fight Winky Wright. Oscar's dodged him his whole career. And Winky-Floyd has been talked about for a while.

Taylor is huge for 160, and is WAY too big for either of these guys, who both started their careers 30 pounds or so down from that. Taylor could easily fight as a light heavyweight. Floyd wasn't even particularly big at 140. And we saw how bad Oscar looked in his two fights at 160.

[killersheep]

It should be an entertaining fight. As far as a fight of the year prospect, I'm going with Adamek - Dawson

[brocktonblockbust]

This fight will end quickly, dont look for a 12 round decision, Oscar will try to end it early for 3 good reasons:

1. he has, as the roiginal poster mentioned, stamina problems, and dont expect chasing mayweather around will be any less exhausting than when he pooped out against tito and some others, so Oscar will try to land that classic left hook, which lil floyd could NEVER withstand, what with his lil glass chin and all;

2. the longer the fight goes, mayweather is in a win-win situation: opeople will say "well its the 6th and he's still in there, hanging tough with a bigger man", "well its the 9th, etcc...", so for Oscar the longer the fight goes the worse it reflects on him:

3. a points victory will always be disputed, esp by lil big mouth floyd, so Oscar has to end it decisively and leave no doubt in the minds of anybody, that he KO'd lilfloyd.


Oscar always wins (unless the judges get to pick!!! e.g. mosely and tito, because he truly is the golden boy. I say Oscar by 8th round KNOCKOUT, and I mean counted out knockout.

[Bookkeeper]

UD. 8 -4 for Floyd Mayweather.

[brocktonblockbust]

i cant see the pesky lil floydboy losing a 12 rounder, he would just pick and peck and pest his way with the shoulder rolling bullshit to a split decision.

Oscar MUST KO that lil brat.

[shza]

This fight will end quickly, dont look for a 12 round decision, Oscar will try to end it early for 3 good reasons:

1. he has, as the roiginal poster mentioned, stamina problems, and dont expect chasing mayweather around will be any less exhausting than when he pooped out against tito and some others, so Oscar will try to land that classic left hook, which lil floyd could NEVER withstand, what with his lil glass chin and all;

Very curious what makes you think Floyd has a "glass chin," given that he's never been down his whole career (save for the off-balance glove-touch that didn't get called vs. Judah).

[TheBESTP4P]

i said it before and ill say it again......... OSCARS biggest fights are always either: 1) a big let down, 2) a shady contraversal outcome 3) both 1&2

this being oscars supposedly biggest fight means that it will be his biggest let down shady contraversal outcome.

again if theres no clear KO or stoppages get ready my friends for some shady assssss results!

and yes believe me i hope I am wrong on this one.

[the phenom]

i said it before and ill say it again......... OSCARS biggest fights are always either: 1) a big let down, 2) a shady contraversal outcome 3) both 1&2

this being oscars supposedly biggest fight means that it will be his biggest let down shady contraversal outcome.

again if theres no clear KO or stoppages get ready my friends for some shady assssss results!

and yes believe me i hope I am wrong on this one.

well true but i got a difrent feeling bout this fight i think floyd takes it in a good fight

[Wacko3205]

Trust me...Wacko's definently buying the hype...all the way to Las Vegas baby!!!!

Got my room on reserve & me plane ticks bwought!

[TheBESTP4P]

Trust me...Wacko's definently buying the hype...all the way to Las Vegas baby!!!!

Got my room on reserve & me plane ticks bwought!

NICE finally u make your way to the 702 bro! u gonna be delegating your powers of thet DRBR to a less powerful saddonean or u gonna bring ya lap top with ya hahaa. what casino u staying at bro? what level of tickets will u be buying? hollaaaaaaar

[Wacko3205]

Trust me...Wacko's definently buying the hype...all the way to Las Vegas baby!!!!

Got my room on reserve & me plane ticks bwought!

NICE finally u make your way to the 702 bro! u gonna be delegating your powers of thet DRBR to a less powerful saddonean or u gonna bring ya lap top with ya hahaa. what casino u staying at bro? what level of tickets will u be buying? hollaaaaaaar

MGM Grand.

Floor or ringside. Probably going to be taking in the laptop & doing the DRBR & then shooting it in all at once if at all possible. Also bringing the camera if they'll let me...that all just depends.

Gonna try to either shoot or type...or bofemz!

[TheBESTP4P]

Trust me...Wacko's definently buying the hype...all the way to Las Vegas baby!!!!

Got my room on reserve & me plane ticks bwought!

NICE finally u make your way to the 702 bro! u gonna be delegating your powers of thet DRBR to a less powerful saddonean or u gonna bring ya lap top with ya hahaa. what casino u staying at bro? what level of tickets will u be buying? hollaaaaaaar

MGM Grand.

Floor or ringside. Probably going to be taking in the laptop & doing the DRBR & then shooting it in all at once if at all possible. Also bringing the camera if they'll let me...that all just depends.

Gonna try to either shoot or type...or bofemz!

NICE! hmmmmmmmm after flying back from the whorendous 6hour flight from ORLANDO makes me lean towards not going to miami anymore for cinco de mayo?? hmmmmm im torn now should i get a girl to buy me ringside for this one? hmmmmmmmm decisions decisions, but then again Miami cinco de mayo weekend DAMN! picture that son! hmmmmmmmmmmmmm what does a man do in this situation??

[zhubin]

The only way this fight lives up to the hype is if Floyd backs up his big talk of standing toe to toe with Oscar. If Floyd does the smart thing, which there is 99.9% chance of him doing, he will use his speed and dance his way to victory. If there is that ever so slight chance of him actually trying to war it out with Oscar...he will taste the canvas. Floyd has been caught and stunned by lesser fighters than Oscar...so if he plays around and catches one from the bigger and stronger man...he will be out. Oscar is also excellent at finishing off a fighter when he has them in trouble. Oscar of course would relish exchanging with Floyd...Oscar has a great chin and even though he is not a young buck...he is still an accurate and strong puncher with good technique and still quite good speed. BUT, most likely...Floyd will use his speed and stay on the outside and away from that left hook...he will just peek away and stay safe. Not sure if they have decided on a smaller ring....because a smaller ring will definitely make things a bit more interesting. Either way...Floyd is in a lose, lose situation. if he wins by dancing and not really exchanging...people will get on him. If he is stupid enough to try and war it out...he will stand a good chance of being hurt. I'm rooting for Oscar, but i think Floyd will win by decision.