Oscar de la Hoya vs Felix Trinidad - 25 year Anniversary

It’s Oscar’s own fault he lost that fight. He’s almost always been poor in the championship rounds of close fights and it was no different on this night.

From the 8th round on, most of his offense consisted of inaccurate, pitty pat flurries and although Trinidad wasn’t getting a ton done on offense, he was clearly landing the heavier blows and it was enough to keep Oscar from trying to sit down on any real punches.

I can see an argument for a close De La Hoya win on the cards but I don’t see this “robbery” that Oscar and his groupies still cry about till this day. There were alot close rounds and hard to score rounds that could have easily gone either way.

Oscar could have easily accepted a rematch if he felt that strongly about how things went down that night but him choosing to fight Mosley in the summer of 2000 at 147 instead of going with his biggest career pay day at that time in a Trinidad rematch at 154 tells me that Oscar was not all that confident in holding Trinidad off for another 12 rounds.

 

I feel fairly comfortable in going with Tito in a rematch at 154. He was better at that weight than Oscar.

 

I thought DLH won that fight,..but was glad Tito won.

 

Certainly if Oscar went in trying to stand in front of him with that ropey phili shell

 

Definitely gets overrated because of the 6th and 12th rounds. Much of the fight was the two guys standing there and doing nothing. Not some great chess match, but just a whole lot of standing and posing.

 

Yeah, DLH-Quartey was hyped to be the next Leonard-Hearns 1.

Leonard-Hearns 1 it was NOT!

 

more like Leonard - Benitez?

 

No, it didn't live up to Leonard-Benitez either. Two legendary technicians in a chess match.

Oscar just posed for most the fight like the idiot he was, and Ike out-jabbed him but in his typical robotic fashion.

 

De La Hoya vs Quartey was a decent fight. Not a classic by any means. Oscar very fortunate here to get the decision.

 

He'd have killed Oscar at 154.