The last big fight De La Hoya - Mayweather

[Jack of Arcades]

why don't you check espn.com?

[Mike E. Vegas]

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I would have liked to see him more offensive, but that's just not his style.

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Yeah, he only landed almost twice as many punches as Oscar did. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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My point was that he had another ho-hum semi dominating performance. Besides him trying to pull off the bad guy act, the public doesn't care about him and his technically precise, yet overly defensive style.

[MikeyPatriot]

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whoever asked if boxing could keep up with mma anymore--this was about a million times bigger than any mma. people watching through the windows of places all over town. entire casino (not vegas) packed to watch.

[valenzuela]

how do you score a point on boxing?

[MikeyPatriot]

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whoever asked if boxing could keep up with mma anymore--this was about a million times bigger than any mma. people watching through the windows of places all over town. entire casino (not vegas) packed to watch.

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OK, what future fight can match this? If de la Hoya AND Mayweather are done fighting, I have almost zero interest in boxing as a whole.

While on the topic, props to Max Kellerman for standing up for MMA against another pot shot from Jim Lampley.

[boc4life]

Shocked that people actually thought De la Hoya won this fight. I had PBF by at least 4 rounds. All the De la Hoya supporters in the room with me left in disgust after the final bell, assuming a big unanimous victory for PBF.

I think what people have to understand the most is that PBF was giving a lot of size and power away to De la Hoya in this fight. People want to see an all-out offensive battle, but that would have been playing to Oscar's strengths, and Mayweather's weaknesses. Oscar took a beating solely based on PBF's left jab landing consistently. Oscar couldn't match Mayweather's hand speed, and couldn't land any big shots.

That was a long, drawn-out battle. I can see why people could be bored watching a fight like this one, but to me, it was fascinating to watch it unfold. Lots of nuances to a fight like this, but you really have to be paying attention to understand them.

Rematch?

[ThaSaltCracka]

there si clearly going to be at least one rematch.

[Seadood228]

After watching this fight, I see now why I vowed never to watch another over-hyped boxing match.

It's the football equivalent of watching players kick field goals all night long.

MMA>>>>>>>>>>>&gt ;>>>>>>>>>>>>& gt;>>BOXING

[By-Tor]

so i don't watch boxing at all these days (zzzzz.z.z.z.z), but today i heard on the radio the Oscar was the promoter for this fight??

...and that he plans to sign PBF after the fight???

So Oscar, nearing over-the-hill makes $25mil + PPV from the fight, and then signs PBF??


Exactely what incentive did Oscar have to win and ruin his future meal-tickets undefeated record again for??


lol, boxing is such a sad sport.