Quote Originally Posted by Swashbuckling Gordy


In the year 2000 a prime motivated Oscar De la Hoya took on and lost too ShaneMosely in what at the time was regarded as fight of the year !!

It was a Classic Oscar took early charge before Sugar Shane changed tactics ,rallied and put in a massive 4 last rounds to get a very much deserved decision !

It was a great performance by both men in their prime !!! Sugar Shane showed Guts ,power ,variety and ability to adapt when faced with his greatest foe to date !

This was only his 3rd fight at Welter after Dominating the Lightweight scene for many years !!!

At the time SSM was vaunted as the world most exciting Pound for pound fighter a fighter of substance and gravitas!!!

7 Years later Floyd The Fraud Mayweather took on a well past it Golden Boy and was on the rack early but unlike SSM didn't try to initiate any attacks or use his supposedly greater skills and hand and foot speed ........no he waited for Oscar to tire which he did in round 5 and 6 after chasing Mayweather , the same Mayweather whose degenerate behaviour has sullied boxing ,whose trash talk and crassness repelled many a hardcore and Casual fan !

This Mayweather promised '' confrontation '' and a 'massacre' had on numerous occasions called Oscar a 'bitch'. Instead he employed his usual Shoot and Scoot tactics . All this from a man who has compared himself with Sugar Ray Lenard .

Was his performance reminiscent of Sugar Ray chasing down Benitez and or coming from behind to stop a prime Thomas Hearns .....?


WAS IT BOLLOCKS

He also announced his retirement and proclaimed he had nothing left too prove .

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Nothing left to prove ? Nothing left to prove against somebody not in their prime unbeaten who can fight for 12 rounds consistently put you under pressure, who can cut of the ring more successfully than Oscar who was doing just that before his old legs caught up with him .


Mayweather has made a career out of defining himself in bullshit non events against Oscar he did nothing new except get a decision against a well past it hall of famer .



What if SSM had called it a day after his Oscar win ?

The Welters have the strongest division in Boxing, nothing left too prove ?

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I agree the first SSM-ODLH fight was awesome but was not as close as the judgest made it out to be. I had Mosley pullin out a unanimous decision as I did Mayweather on Saturday.

You are right that it is kind of gay for Floyd to be retiring at such a young age but who knows what the state of his hands are? They may be really busted up a la Calzaghe and at that point, I mean both guys have made a lot of money and maybe should walk away from the game...unless they can deal with something that it seems only a certain breed can do and that is deal with the pain and put their pride first and fight on.

But just because he may retire, dont take away his win on Saturday night. i thought it was an exciting fight and that Mayweather outboxed him to a clear decision. A lot of people say he wasnt hitting Oscar that hard. Well Delahoya barely hit him at all. A lot of people are saying he should have went for the KO. Why? Oscar was much bigger, we all agreed that going toe to toe with him would be a Billy Conn=esque mistake. Mayweather should have got a UD. Give credit where credit is due. He beat probably the greatest fighter of our time albeit when that man was a year or two past HIS prime.

Now as far as legacy is concerned...Floyd aint touchin Oscar. His Hall of Fame status is safe and when u look at it, Oscar's resume will always be better than Mayweather's, unless Floyd decides to do something about this and stay in the game longer to carve a few more quality boxer (Mosley, Margarito, Hatton...we all know the names) notches on his belt. At the time it seems unlikely as he feels he has no more to prove (depends on what he wants to prove) and that he has been having severe hand problems. But remember...unretirement is always a possibility...how long have we seen most superstar boxers retire for?