Quote Originally Posted by amat
Oscar protected himself from the counters with the jab imo. I don't think that was the reason at all.

And it was no typical Floyd fight. He lost 4 or 5 rounds imo, and there are arguments out there that he lost. There haven't been any such arguments since he fought Castillo.

I agree that his defense was superb and among the best in boxing history imo, the closest thing to Whitaker without actually being Whitaker you can get. But it was no typical fight, he didn't really struggle but he lost some rounds.

It was very similar to the De La Hoya - Whitaker fight really except Floyd did not move backwards quite as much.
I was more or less making a comparison to how he made his opponent fight his fight.