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generalbulldog
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marbleheadmaui
Originally Posted by
generalbulldog
As Teddy Atlas once said about Oscar De La Hoya, "He finds a way to screw up his big fights and lose." I have Pac beating him just on that. Against All Time Great fighters that were in their prime or still had something he finds a way to mess it up even with everything in his favor.
That's what history said. So a prime Oscar loses to prime Manny based on that.
This really is food for thought. Oscar just couldn't seem to drop the hammer in his biggest fights could he? I mean I though he deserved no better than a draw with Sweet Pea and for whatever reason he didn't fight twelve rounds with Tito. Then again he finished strong with Ike.
At a minimum this makes me think Oscar has to just blow him away. If Manny can stay in the fight...
I was thinking the same also. Can Oscar blow out Manny in a few rounds? History says no with Manny's heart and resiliency, unless someone wants to argue that Manny was prime when he got ko by bums in the late 90s as prime. History on the other hand has said that Oscar does not do well with ATG figthers in their prime or had something left. Tito, Hopkins, Floyd, Manny, Mosley, etc. Even the Sweetpea victory is highly disputed and Sweetpea was 33 and slipping. And while Ike was a very good fighter, I would be very hesitant to call him an all time great, at most an hall of famer. Even that fight was close as hell.
And as someone once said, "Which all time great fighter did Oscar beat in their prime or had something left?"
The fact that Oscar was robbed against Trinidad and Mosley shouldn't be held against him. Yes he made a mistake by giving up the last rounds against Trinidad. Who cares? A fight is judge on rounds won. Not a fighters bad game plan. Oscar deserved the win. And really why people even think the whitaker fight is disputed is beyond me. Despite the bullshit kd Oscar still won by 3 or 4 points. Whitaker defense for that fight was amazing. He had Oscar looking foolish at times. At the same time is offense was horrendus. Jab and a pitter pat punch was all it was. How did anybody think he was winning rounds like that? Or that, that deserve to win them.
If one is gonna asked who Oscar beat that was in his prime than one should ask who Pacquiao beat in his prime?
As you know the name of the game is hit and not get hit. Whitaker made Oscar miss a lot, and that's an understatement. Whitaker did enough to win with his offense imo. Whitaker's jab and pitter pat punch as you put up still racked up points in my book. As said, isn't that the name of the game? Hit and not get hit. He was always a master of that. Oscar on the other hand was flurrying to win the round when he heard the 10 second warning while looking horrendous the rest of many rounds. Now how is that winning?
And that's pretty much what a lot of the rounds look like against Whitaker, now how is that beating Whitaker by 3 or 4 points? Whitaker landed more and at a higher connect percentage, plus Oscar missing alot. That's pretty much a Whitaker victory in my book.
As for the Trinidad fight, it can be disputed no doubt. The Shane Mosley fight, the one in 2000 he clearly lost, even Oscar said so himself that he lost in some interview years ago. You can argue he deserves the 2nd against Mosley that fight is disputed by many fans and I gave the fight to him. But all I know on his official record is this. 0-1 Trinidad, 0-2 Mosley, 0-1 Hopkins, 0-1 Mayweather, 0-1 Pacquiao. He is 0-6 against all time great fighters at their peak or near their peak. Even if I give Oscar the Trinidad and 2nd Mosley fight he's still 2-4 against them. And he had almost every considerable advantage against guys like Hopkins, Mayweather, Pacquiao and the 1st Mosley fight but still lost, that's the reality. Those 4 fights outcome can't be disputed. The Trinidad and 2nd Mosley fight yes it can be argued, not the others.
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