I personally think he was robbed. Oscar pressed the fight, Mayweather however was only punching and running throuhgout the whole fight. I was slowly losing interest in the sport of boxing, now I have no desire to watch another fight. I'm sticking solely with UFC.
2007-05-09 06:44:11 · 18 answers · asked by jcee 2 in Sports ➔ Boxing
I've said from the beginning, if you are wanting to take the title from a fighter, you gotta go out and do it. Floyd certainly didnt do that. I am a huge Oscar fan and believed that Oscar was going to head on to an easy victory when he started popping Floyds head back with the jab but he just stopped! This is why I started giving rounds to Mayweather, none the less, he didnt press and to take the belt from a Champion, you gotta show you want it. Running and pot shotting shows you are just trying not to lose instead of trying to win. There is a big difference, especially when you pay $54.95. I would have rather put that kind of money on Chico (RIP) against JC Castillo again. People that dont know boxing are going to point at "punchstat" only. Punchstat unfortunately counts shots that land on gloves, which were mostly all of Mayweather's shots. Mayweather did land clean shots, Im not taking that from him, however, the replay saturday night, as well as commentary from Emmanual Steward and Co, will all say that Floyd's shots were hitting just the gloves. Oscar won on points by simply pressing the fight and landing the more effective blows. Just mad at Oscar for not using the damn jab that may have even stopped Mayweather, because Floyd was starting to squint in his corner after the round where Oscar just used his jab.
2007-05-09 10:34:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jose L 2 · 7⤊ 5⤋
You are one of many that is switching to UFC. Boxing is losing the factor of entertainment, even the president of the UFC who went to the DelaHoya Mayweather fight said he was bored and he is a former boxer out of Boston. As for the fight Dela Hoya has lost 3 of his last fight, if Mayweather was not punching in running he would of had a knockout.
2007-05-09 09:16:52 · answer #2 · answered by free2ski365 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glad you finally come around and have given up on boxing, heck everyone else has too. The sport has become stagnate, there aren't really any great personalities at the top of the heavy weight division. Mike Tyson, Evander, Ali, George, they had personality that made you want to see what they could do. Mayweather is a good, maybe even great boxer, but BORING, Oscar he's about 1/2 and 1/2.
2007-05-09 06:53:54 · answer #3 · answered by ablair67 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I say Mayweather. Oscar throws more punches than anybody that Mayweather has been in with, but Mayweather is faster than anybody that Oscar's been in with. Oscar may think twice about throwing alot because everytime you throw theres a counter punch and Floyd sure knows how to counter. I think Floyd overall is too quick on his feet and fast with his hands for Oscar. Oscars is capable of KO'ing Floyd but i don't see it happeneing because i don't see Oscar connecting too cleanly too often. And if Floyd gets in any trouble we know for a fact he can box circles around Oscar, and he will. As far as the Castilio fight goes i don't see why anybody still brings that up, i mean yes Floyd was tagged and it was as close to losing as he's ever been but He's evolved so much more as a fighter since that fight. His fundamentals have improved so much and i don't see anything like that happening again.
2016-04-01 04:00:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mayweather won hands down. I almost fell off my chair when the one judge had Dela Hoya winning by like 5 points. The fight however was an awful display of boxing. Noone even got hurt. No black eyes or nothing. The best fight of the night is the one nobody watched. That is what boxing WAS like. The MMA leagues will soon take over if they haven't already. Way more excitment and much more legit than boxing probably ever was.
2007-05-09 06:56:09 · answer #5 · answered by nate p 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You don't land twice as many punches and lose the fight. Unless there is a knock-out of course. Just because D.L.H. looked like he tried harder doesn't give him the edge. Mayweather might be boring as hell to watch, but he is the best pure boxer in the sport. And De La Hoya made like 25mil for the fight, Mayweather I think 12mil, We were the one's who got robbed. I want my $55 back!
2007-05-09 11:03:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Manny Pacquiao won the fight. Why? After watching this over hyped DelaHoya-Mayweather fight, im not wasting any more money on them and will just wait for another exciting Pacquiao fight.
2007-05-09 07:50:31 · answer #7 · answered by Curious mind 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
did you happen to see the stats at the end of each round??? there were round when de la hoya only landed 7 punches, yeah he pressed the fight. but that was mayweathers plan, to let him wear himself out then attack. and he did that every round, oscar was throwing wild and uncontrolled punches, and those take a lot of energy out of you. he landed 1 good shot the whole fight, and that was in the last 10 seconds when they started swinging hard at each other, and that one punch didnt even move mayweathers head. de la hoya is no match for mayweather, and mayweather even came up for this fight, so he was slower. imagine if de la hoya went down to fight...
2007-05-09 07:20:34 · answer #8 · answered by johnblaze143 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I wanted Oscar to win in order to shut Floyd up. After watching the fight, I didn't feel like Oscar won.
You're not much of a fan if 1 fight makes you lose interest in the sport. Good riddance.
2007-05-09 12:01:19 · answer #9 · answered by Lost Poet 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oscar got beat easily. Yes he pressed the fight. However, he missed most of his shots. Mayweather landed almost 100 more shots and double the amount of power shots. He picked him apart. Even though Oscar would try to steal rounds at the 10 second mark with flurry's, Mayweather was still more effective throughout. I know many say that Mayweather just hit and ran, but that's boxing. He put on a clinic.
2007-05-09 06:53:21 · answer #10 · answered by wenbren2001 2 · 5⤊ 4⤋