de la hoya vs. mayweather jr.

[GonzoStyle]

or ridiculous cause it makes zero sense... maybe?


Mayweather is by far the best fighter in the sport today and possibly the best fighter in the last 20 years, better than even prime Jones, because unlike jones he has actually faced top tier opposition and has yet to even be slightly stunned let alone tested by anyone.

But for all of that, he just doesnt have the appeal of the great fighters, he's not verbally exciting like a hopkins, jones or ali. He's not flashy or exciting to watch like leonard was or jones. Also says a lot of stupid shit, like calling his HBO contract "slave wages", yea pal, 6 million a fight has my soul crying for you. Mainly he is a victim of his own greatness, he hasnt been in THE fight yet, the fight we'll all remember him for, the fight where the drama was set and he went above and beyond and battled to win the fight of his life, or the fight we wasnt supposed to win, like Hopkins beating Trinidad. Ali had it more than once, he had it in his very first title fight with Sonny Liston and then he had it several more times. Mayweather has beaten some great fighters and has looked masterful doing so but he was supposed to win all those fights, the closest fight he had to being tested was the two fights with Jose Luis Castillo but that's about it.

This fight with delahoya was ok but I had it a draw, I also gave floyd round 12 and apparently 2 of the 3 judges gave Oscar round 12, so if the 3rd judge gave oscar the 12th round as well, it woulda been a draw.

The fight was close only because yet again, Oscar faded in the last 3 rounds. Floyd did a good job technically and threw more punches than oscar, oscar picked his spots and threw the harder punches. Overall I wouldnt wanna see the fight again, if it happens fine, if it doesnt I couldnt care less.

I will say this, you can hate on Oscar for a lot of things but you cant say the guy hasnt been consistently the most exciting fighter of the last 10 years. He has never ducked a single fighter and has always taken on big fight after big fight. Seriously look at his record, he's had a bit over 40 fights and more than 70% of those fighters have been current or former champions, thats is beyond a ridiculous ratio even in this congested title era. The 5 losses he does have, you can only really call the Hopkins fight his only real loss, but he was never gonna beat arguably the best middleweight since Marvin Hagler, that was the equivalent of expecting Jones to Beat Lennox Lewis. The trinidad fight, the mayweather fight and both Mosley fights were decision losses based on the fact that Oscar faded in the late rounds, it was more Oscar beating himself than being beaten by the man across the ring.