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

[Chino]

its funny everytime pac demolishes someone that someone gets rip. But before the fight pac was suppose to lose, idiots!

ODLH got a taste of his own medicine. Remember when he faced an old worned out J.C. Chavez? Sure, ODLH was good when he faced Chavez but we can't forget the fact that it was an old worned out passed-his-prime Chavez. Beating Chavez looked great in his resume of course. That's what happens when fighters stay in the ring longer than they should. It has happened to Mohammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, J.C. Chavez, Oscar de la Hoya, Pernell Whitaker, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson, etc. just to name a few. Lennox Lewis and Floyd Mayweather Jr. were smart to leave the ring during their primes. Pac beat an old worned out ODLH passed his prime but still, he beat OSCAR DE LA HOYA and that is all that matters. There are a lot of big names along the road that I am pretty sure Pac will be able to beat and those guys ARE IN THEIR PRIME AND YOUNG. Can't wait for those fights. He should do just fine.

[WelshDevilRob]

Firtsly I think the PacMan defeat is irrelevant to his career - he was old and rich and got beaten by a Prime P4P fighter.

Same against Hopkins - Bernard was just too big and certainly not faded.

But Oscars career which is impressive even to me and I don't like De La Hoya.

It did seem that he beat fighters smaller even when at the same weight.


Is he an all-time Great - No interms of ability but history and multi weight wins will say Yes. But it is easier to win a World title these days than even in the 80's.

[Boom Boom]

He has one fight in his career that he is not competitive and it was at the very end of his career and now people question him? Almost all great fighters have a fight like Oscar on the tail end of his career. If they didnt they would all be retire at the top of their game. Most fighters dont. I would never judge a fighters career, expecially one as sucessful and colorful as Oscars, by most likely what is his last 8 rounds in the ring.

[Bookkeeper]

I am a massive Oscar hater, with that being said I still think that he is by far a first ballot HOF'er. The only problem I have with most of these post is people going on about Oscar fighting the best and how he never ducked anybody. Let me tell you one thing gents if I was averaging 15 million dollors a fight I would fight every great fighter around also, it's high risk but the reward is huge........ The real guy's like Hopkins, Wright, Mosley, etc were not even rewarded for their resume's yet they still took on the toughest opposition around, all that people are saying is that there were guy's just as good as Oscar or better that did not have 20% of the popularity that he had which is bogus.

[C-Lo]

I think Oscar is a great fighter and has had a career to be proud of! I just think he couldn't win the "superfights," that's all.

[SweetPea]

I have always felt that Oscar was a B+ fighter with A+ marketability. If Oscar was an ugly guy from a country other than the US, would his skills have been enough to carry him to the abolsute peak of the sport? I say no.

And I'm not hating on Oscar by saying that, because I will ALWAYS have respect for him, because he was willing to fight anyone. He could have made a ton of money even if he had fought stiffs, but he chose to consistently fight the best guys out there. He was great for the sport, but I don't consider him a great fighter. He was a very very good fighter with a great list of opponents. I thought he lost virtually every big fight he was ever involved in.