Was Oscar De La Hoya merely a well marketed fighter??

[Taeth]

That's bullshit

He was the first person to clearly IMO beat Pernell Whitaker(in a close fight albeit)
He beat JCC twice
He owned Camacho
He fought a close fight with Quartey(I thought he lost, but still a close fight)
I feel he made Trinidad look like a retard for 9 rounds, and that Trinidad only won the last three because Oscar stopped punching(because he knew he had won).
He lost a great competitive fight with Mosley in the first one, then once again he outboxed Mosley in the second fight, and IMO got the wrong end of a decision again.
Against STurm I don't think he deserved the decision, but once again it was a good middleweight, and Oscar was moving up A lot, and his style isn't the best for fighting bigger guys.
He was also fighting a competitive fight with Bernard Hopkins, and holding his ground until he was stopped. Even though Bernard was taking control of the fight, this is IMO one of the two best current fighters at LHW we are talking about, and a guy who was extremely big for the MW division. Since then Hopkins has beaten Wright, Tarver, fought a close fight with Calzaghe, fought two close fights with Jermain Taylor, and owned Pavlik.

He stopped Carr, Vargas, Mayorga(in a way I haven't seen anyone else do, I mean he dominated every minute of that fight, Mosley definitely didn't, and Trinidad was KD by Mayorga and couldn't stop him with head shots), Chavezx2(First man to stop Chavez), Gatti, G. Hernandez, Ruelas, Paez, Leija, even Rivera wasn't a bad fighter he was the first to stop.

He gave Mayweather the second most competitive fight of his career, even if he lost most of the rounds, he deserved credit for not getting dominated by a man as good as Floyd.

He then beat Forbes nearly every round: who also had a good showing with the most highly tauted up and comer in Andre Berto.

Basically he has had one bad fight, and this is what he gets(maybe two including the Sturm fiasco). That is why this fight was a no win situation. What fighter who has foughten into their thirties against consistently the best competition IN THE SPORT has remained undefeated or always looked good? Ali didn't, Robinson didn't, Leonard didn't...

Who else can say their last three loses were against the top p4p fighter in the sport? And he has also foughten in his career what 7 guys who have held the title of best fighter in the world at some point in their career, 5 of them got that title right before or because of their fights with him.