Why Isn’t Hopkins As Popular As De La Hoya?

hop45235634By Matt Stein: For as long as I follow boxing, there’s something’s I’ll just never understand. Case in point, all the love an adoration given to a fighter like Oscar De La Hoya, who is good fighter, but also one that has failed over and over again in the biggest fights of his career. In the biggest PPV fights of his career, against Shane Mosley, Bernard Hopkins, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., De La Hoya has lost every time, yet he still remains a much more popular fighter than someone like Hopkins.

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De La Hoya – Don’t Expect The PPV King To Retire

dela564343435By Matt Stein: Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) would probably be the first to admit that he got destroyed in his last fight, an 8th round stoppage loss to Pound-for-pound boxing star Manny Pacquiao on December 6th, but that probably won’t have any bearing on whether Oscar, 35, will consider retirement. In fact, retirement probably isn’t even something that De La Hoya is considering. After all, his fight with Pacquiao generated 1.25 million buys, making $70 million.

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Who’s More Shot? De La Hoya or Vargas

vargas46465By Chris Williams: If you had asked me this question a day before Oscar De La Hoya’s (39-6, 30 KOs)8th round beating at the hands of Manny Pacquiao on December 6th, I would have said that it was Fernando Vargas (26-5, 22 KOs), who has lost his last three fights. However, in comparing how truly terrible Oscar looked in his losing effort against Pacquiao compared to Vargas’ 12-round majority decision loss to Ricardo Mayorga in November 2007, I’d have to say that De La Hoya is by far the more shot fighter. Vargas, still a fresh 31, judging from his bout against Mayorga, still has a lot of power and reasonable speed left of his once impressive offensive skills.

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Chavez Jr-De La Hoya: Can Oscar Win?

dela67326766By Matte Stein: Undefeated light middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (38-0-1, 29 KOs) is apparently interested in a fight with Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs), though there still isn’t any word from Oscar whether or not he’s serious about a fight with the 22-year-old Chavez Jr. De La Hoya, 35, Was thought to be leaning towards retirement after experiencing a humbling defeat by Manny Pacquiao on December 6th.

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Could Pacquiao Beat A Good Welterweight?

pac345635By Manuel Perez: Okay, I’ve seen what Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) can do against a 35-year-old, obviously shot, Oscar De La Hoya, but what can Manny do against a quality welterweight that isn’t shot, someone like Antonio Margarito, Paul Williams or Miguel Cotto? To me, that’s the real question. It’s hard to claim much of a victory when you’ve got a fighter that’s been past his prime for at least five years like Oscar, who to make things worse, had to diet drastically to get down to the 147 pound weight limit of the welterweight division, leaving De La Hoya badly weakened.

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De La Hoya To Fight Chavez Jr?

chavez46460By Eric Thomas: In a bit of odd news around the boxing world, Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) is reportedly not going to be retiring after his embarrassing 8th round stoppage loss to Manny Pacquiao on December 6th, and will possibly be fighting undefeated Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (38-0-1, 29 KOs) in May, a bout that could take place in Mexico. Chavez Jr., 22, the son of former boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez, who twice was stopped by De La Hoya – once in a 4th round stoppage in 1996 and final time in a 8th round TKO in 1998.

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Does De La Hoya Risk Permanent Injury If He Continues To Fight?

dela6233435By Jim Dower: It was a sad, pitiful sight to see former boxing great Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) getting pummeled by the small Manny Pacquiao on December 6th, and what was even worse than that, was watching De La Hoya pull a “no mas” by quitting on his stool after the 8th round rather than coming out for the 9th and fighting to his last breath. The beating was bad, but the quitting seemed to compound the ordeal, making a bad situation even worse. His face badly beaten, his left eye swollen almost shut, De La Hoya looked as if he had been in a terrible car accident, leaving looking ragged.

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Is De La Hoya’s Diet The Cause Of His Loss To Pacquiao?

dela534446By Manuel Perez: Just what I thought, Oscar De La Hoya’s drastic diet for his December 6th fight with Manny Pacquiao, which included a lot of Kangaroo and Buffalo meat (both low in fat), may have ultimately played a major role in Oscar’s defeat to Pacquiao. De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) quit on his stool after the 8th round against Pacquiao after taking a one-sided pounding in the bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. De La Hoya, 35, looked nothing like his former self, appearing weak, without energy and badly over-trained for the fight.

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Who’s Next For De La Hoya?

dela454545By Chris Williams: Just because he got the living daylights whooped out of him doesn’t mean that Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) needs to retire from boxing. Heck, De La Hoya’s probably been shot for at six years, yet he’s continued to fight and get wins over a number of small-time fighters and the public hasn’t minded. From what I can see, there’s a lot of good fighters that he can still fight, and more than enough boxing fans still interested in seeing him fight just as long as he has an even small chance of winning.

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