Quote Originally Posted by CFH
Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
It was a great, exciting, tactical fight with both fighters rising to the occasion.

Floyd stepped up another weight division to fight an outstanding Hall of Fame fighter who was by far the bigger man. Despite being overpowered early he kept his composure, didn't crack and fought back strong in the late rounds to win a close, hard fought decision.

He's not Ivan Drago, you can't expect him to just walk through any fighter because he's the best p4p.

Oscar is one of the top 5 or 6 fighters of the last 15 years and he was in the shape of his life. I doubt there has ever lived a welterweight fighter who would just walk through Oscar De La Hoya, beat him sure but nobody in history would have just walked through him and massacred him like you seem to expect.

Go watch Spiderman 3 if you want to see a superhero.

very well put Bilbo
Word. The only thing I disagree with is that it was a great fight. I'd call it a good fight, but it was no Hagler - Hearns or Corrales - Castillo, or Leonard - Hearns etc. fights like like are what I consider great.

Edit : I should add that I agree with No Contest, a fight doesn't have to be a complete blood bath to be a great fight; I hate it when people disregard fights just because someone wasn't carted off to the glue factory afterwards.
Depends on your definition of great fight. It certainly didnt have the level of excitement that the fights you mentioned had but it was most certainly entertaining and showed some great boxing by two masters of the game. I thought the size difference lent some drama to the match up too, at times Oscar looked a lot bigger. But this was a fun and interesting fight to watch. I had a lot of friends over and it was good times. No one booed (except when they announced Marc Anthony would be singing the National Anthem) and even the casual boxing fans and some of the females present were completely glued to the set for the duration of this match. I dont think it warrants a rematch but I do think it warrants some credit for Floyd! He beat one of if not THE greatest fighter of our generation with relative ease. Like it or not, that is no easy task, even at this point in Golden Boy's career. Give the p4p champ a lil more respect people, he's a smaller pound for pounder than you maybe used to...as was said before he's not gonna walk through people and have them collapse when he touches him just because he is the p4p champ. What that means is boxing skill wise if everyone was the same weight, Floyd would whip they're asses. And he would. Just not all of em by knockout.