Quote Originally Posted by Ice Cold Boxing
Quote Originally Posted by Rican
Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
It's very hard to think of someone with more quality opponents.

Whether you like Oscar or not, he deserves everyone's respect for his quality of opposition. He could've used his popularity two ways, he could've used it to avoid all the tough guys (because he could still make big $$$ even against bad opponents) or he could've used it to lure all the biggest and best names to fight him. He chose the latter.

I've never been an Oscar fan, the running in the Tito fight was horrible, and I think he got some gift decisions (especially early in his career), but I'll always respect him.
I respect Oscar's boxing skills. I mean, he has enough skill not to get KO'd brutally. But I always feel cheated when Oscar fights. I mean, despite the impressive resume, he probably holds the distinction of having the most lackluster performances despite the quality of opposition.
I disagree what was wrong with his performances against.

Julio Cesar Chavez x2,
Ike Quartey
Fernando Vargas
Jeff Mayweather
Rafael Ruelas
Jorge Paez
Jesse James Leija
Oba Carr
Hector Camacho
Shane Mosley x2
Arturo Gatti
Ricardo Mayorga
Genaro Hernandez

Oscar did have a few off performances, but so does every boxer. But the boxers i just mentioned were all good quality opponents and Oscar performed well in pretty much all of those fights.
I would still include the Trinidad fight because he put on a clinic against Tito for the first 9 rounds.