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

[Mark Scott]

I always thought he was over-rated. He made a big splash by beating a very over the hill J.C. Chavez. His record is not that of an all time great.

[Spicoli]

Never a fan but you can not deny a storybook career.Extremely well marketed,almost over marketed and early on a bit of a spoiled,arrogant sort.Every single fight has been televised and he has never faced a fighter with a losing record .Honestly,when he was just beginning I wanted and waited for someone to wipe that Sparkly Colgate smile off his face....Valenzuela & Campanella dropped him but he got up and brutalized both for their troubles.I remember his fight with Bredahl ,he came into the ring with a star struck distracted look....Bredahl ran circles around him until being tracked down late.He really has shown tenacity to go with the good looks,The Quartey fight late,The Chavez x 2,Campas fight and he nearly decapitated Ruelas....and I won 30 bucks.I thought he lost to Trinidad legit,You do not close the show & take things for granted like that....Gifted in a huge way vs. Sturm.All in all it's not DelaHypa the fighter that gets me irked.....it's the continual over saturation and 'hey look its me' factor.Just step aside already,its been a long ride,go onto promoting fulltime.....and I hope he stays true to The Ring publication,please do not turn it into a glam rag.

[TitoFan]

He had his good fights. Quartey and Ruelas were among them. Other fights he gets credited for were less impressive, IMO. There's been articles written about his wins over fighters like Vargas and Mayorga coincidentially came after both had been brutally KO'ed by Tito. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. Then there's his victories over over-the-hill legends, such as JCC. That didn't get him much in terms of popularity among Mexicans.

But that is probably the ONLY public relations mistake Oscar and his marketing team have ever made. Aside from that, Oscar and his team have been very careful to construct a sparkling white image... and HBO has been only too happy to embrace and build him up. Someone else said Oscar was a B+ fighter with A+ marketability. I think you're selling short his marketing team. It's higher than that. Can "Oscar, the movie" be far behind?