Quote Originally Posted by Preme
Quote Originally Posted by caleoh12
The biggest let downs for me were Pacquiao vs Solis and De La Hoya vs Mayweather.

Pacquiao vs Solis was me and my best friend's first chance to expose our girlfriends to the typhoon that is Manny Pacquiao. We kept building it up on how exciting his fights are and the fight itself was very akward and atypical on what you usually see. The crowd we had in the house didn't get into the fight until the last two rounds.

The worst of all was De La Hoya vs Mayweather. The fight was billed "The fight to save boxing." Instead, we got Mayweather running and De La Hoya coming after him, not punching, just walking towards him. We probably had the biggest turn out for a fight at my friend's house that night and no one left satisfied (aside from the booze).

It's topics like this that should make us glad we are about to see Barrera/Pacquiao II, Taylor/Pavlik, Juarez/Marquez, Kessler/Calzaghe, Cotto/Mosley, Hatton/Mayweather (Hatton will make this a better fight than De La Hoya did), Vargas/Mayorga, Jones Jr./Trinidad.

These are fights that will save boxing from "the fight to (supposedly) save boxing." THANK GOD! NOW WE ALL HAVE SOMETHING TO BE EXCITED FOR!!!
de la hoya v mayweather? what exactly where you expecting from that? mayweather to go toe-to-toe with him? S*** that would be career suicide... that fight turned out pretty much exactly the way sane people thought it would, both doing what they done best to try and win... mayweather was spot on and thought it was a very good fight...
I definitely did not expect Mayweather to go toe-to-toe with De La Hoya, not in the least. But I did expect De La Hoya to be aggressive and bring the fight to Mayweather, which did not happen after the middle rounds. He was aggressive enough for the first 6 rounds to get me excited at times, but after that he stopped throwing punches.

I was let down because I thought Oscar wanted to hurt him, but instead he didn't fight with a killer instinct.