Oscar De La Hoya Media Legend Or Boxing Legend?

Question

I know that Oscar De La Hoya is a good fighter but I always wondered if he will good down as one of the greats. Is he a media Legend or a Boxing Great. As many World Champions as Oscar has fought and beat on paper he has some inpressive names on his resume. However when the time came to have his "Crowning Moment" he lost. Has their ever been an althete let alone boxer that has blown more superstar moments than Oscar. Maybe the Bufflo Bills(LOL)

I personally think thats why he contunes to fight becasue with all his belts and achevements he has never shined when it counts. I really think that this will be the reason overrated will always be in the back of boxing fans minds when considering Oscar and his place in boxing history.

If someone asked me was Oscar a great fighter I would Yes But if i was asked if he was one of the all time greats I would say No. Simply becasue he has blow so many crowing moments.

Answer 1

Oscar is a great fighter and 5 weight champion.

some say he sits in his office this and that but he is a fighter 1st and always will be till he dies.

yes he never won the big big one but it was so close with Floyd lets not forget that...

Tito fight well what do you think?? Tito is a class A fighter better than Cotto but i still stand by it that Oscar won that fight Tito won the last 3 rounds that's all he won and he still won the fight so yeah he was a bit unlucky there...

Mosley won the 1st but he lost the second fight or you could say it was a flip of a coin as it was tight. oscar had a bit of luck when he lost the fight with okily  but they gave it to oscar he looked fat that nite out of shape run out of gas.

Hopkins beat him.the only one to stop him but he was winning till he took that shot that could easy of been any on the floor that nite and just look at the size of hopkins so he did better than i ever thought  he would do.

he could not get up he did his best to but if you had one like that yourslef  you will also know its over not like a head shot you can still get your breth after a head shot.

you saw how upset he was he almost pulled an upset off but what a shot it was buy the way.

with today boxing fans and im sorry it is true they have short memory's.

if you get knocked out today they say thats you done and say he was never that good anway..... blh blh blh...

that what they are like just look at some of the things said on yahoo answers in the past.. almost all legend and great fights in the past have been knocked out of beaten and how can they call any fight a bum??

if it was just only top class boxer and with out these so called bums you would have no boxing at all.

i respect a man that fight for free who loves the sport and gives it there all and the kids try so even if a man had 30 fights and lost 20 is he a bum or do you respect him as he does his best he may not be good but he trys his best so how you going to become a top boxer with out the core of the boxing world the ones that keep the game alive.

the bums are the ones who call a fighter a bum ..

he also won

olympic gold

beat chavez twice stopped him twice

as he was not at his best but still challenge the legend and still

could fight.

9 times world champion  is not bad.



he is a media legend but you have to be good to be a media

legend are the media wrong??

oscar has got a big fan base the best in the US by far. are the fans wrong??

no he is a great boxer and he lost to great boxers some he should not of lost thats boxing he is good for the game in and out of the ring.

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IM TELLING YOU WHAT I THINK.

THERE ARE A LOT OF LESS SKILLFULL BOXERS IN THE HALL OF FAME BUT HE BE LONGS IN THERE.

YOU MUST NOT THINK SO AS WHAT YOU SAY IS RITE AND IS NOT A GOOD POINT AS WE ALL NO THAT ITS ALSO FACT .ITS IN EVERY BOXING MAG EVERY WEEK BUT YOUR RITE.

I SAY HE IS YOU MUST SAY HE IS NOT.

Answer 2

oscar did beat mosley 2nd fight and tito fight in most peoples eyes except the judges

Answer 3

Media legend.  He is the same a Sugar Ray Leonard, had Leonard lost to Duran, Hearns, Hagler, Benitez.

ODLH never beat a primed, top fighter.  Wanted nothing to do with Vargas until he saw Ferndando get brutalized by Trinidad.  Both Bert Sugar (not that his opinion matters in my world) and Teddy Atlas have said the same thing.  As it stands, ODLH never scratched out a desperate win the way Ray did against Hearns and Hagler.

I think you're onto something about his staying around for a legit "shining/crowning moment".  In my mind, I think he views Cotto as vulnerable, and hopes to KO him to try to have his shining moment and put to rest all the smart boxing analysts' view of his being "a fighter that never truly shined".  Cotto does have a suspect chin, and I do think he can stun and KO Migel.

Answer 4

cause u probably would say all tiem greats only black dudes huh??are u racist asking that???cause someone who win 6 or 7 different divisions belts and a gold olympic medal is an all time great !u racist m**o

Answer 5

Hes just a media legand, yes he always brings people to fill seats and yes he is a ELITE BOXER well at least in the 90's

but thats it everytime he tried to move up to the best of the best he alwyas lost

its fighters like him that make this sport more of a dying joke to the average joes.

dont get me wrong i LOVE BOXING ive been a fan since the early90's also a boxer my self

but when people pay good money to see him fight and all they see is  a sparring match its get boring.....

all hes good for is bringing in numbers

yes he WAS a great champion, but he should have retired a

LOOOONGGGG TIME ago

Answer 6

Boxing legand, He was what like a 10 time champ, and beat guys like Pernell Whitaker,Ike Quartey,Arturo Gatti,Fernando Vargas, Ricardo Mayora, Felix Sturm, Hector Camacho and Julio Cesar Chavez twice. And only loss to Hall of Fame fighters like Hopkins, Mayweather, Trinidad and Mosley(2).

And 2 of those losses were very contreversial (Trinidad and the 2nd Mosley fight) and then he only lost to Mayweather by a point.

Bernard Hopkins also lost 5 times in his biggest fights its just DLH being the cash cow that he is make's the moment like a super bowl atmosphere so it seems like a bigger disappiontment.

Yet you are RIGHT about him not being the greatest but it does show that even if your not the most skilled boxer you can make mega fights and put boxing in the spotlight. If your willing to put your record  aside and just fight other top fighters of your time.

Answer 7

So, you are saying that Oscar De La Hoya lost to Trinidad and Mosley. I gave those two fights to Oscar, He lost because why??  THE JUDGES SAID SO. In both fights, Oscar had overwhelming statistical advantages in both fights. In my opinion, YES, he is one of the all time greats.

Answer 8

You definetely have a point here....i respect oscar a lot, let us not forget that he is one of the few boxers who have won major titles in five different weight classes, and he does have some good fights on his resume, he also got robbed against trinidad and that was probably one of his bggest fights (if not the biggest), from a technical stand point he is a very good boxer with good skills and decent power, he sometimes made foolish mistakes that cost him victories but he was definetely a good fighter....however he has failed to win a lot of the "big fights" he has been in and that relfects very poorly on his record, he lost against hopkins,mosleymayweather and some others and these guys beat him convincingly enough, hopkins out muscled him, mosley outsped him and mayweather outsmarted him each of his biggest opponents exposed a flaw that was in his game.....i think that this is the reason he still fights today...i mean, the guy is worth several hundreds of millions of dollars, golden boy promotion is already on its way to becoming the biggest promoting company in the boxing world, he has various other companies and endorsements....this guy is set for life, he does not need to get into the ring to make money anymore i think he still wants that great victory that has eluded him all this time he wants that great moment where he will receive universal respect and recognition and who can blame him? the heart of a fighter beats for the great fight and their hunger for success is only surpassed  by their pride

Answer 9

look up jc chavez(just for example) in the boxrec ,look at his first fifty some fights and records of his opponents,then look up oscar de la hoyas. oscar ,if you seen him early in his career as a jr lightweight and lightweight you wouldnt be asking this question ,he was awesome. he was still at the top going to welterweight,really if you think about his biggest fights ,how many could have gone his way without any controversy , the judges could have easily gave him a win over trinidad and over mosely twice and a well past his prime oscar fought todays supposely best (mayweather)nearly even.he was doing very good against a much bigger stronger 10 year undefeated middleweight champion in hopkins before he was stopped by a liver punch. oscar was definitely the cream of the crop of his era. i think too much money may have curved his hunger some ,allowing the fights which he lost by close decisions to even be close fights in the first place. he is a boxing legend...........he is as much or more of all-time great than roy jones jr.  floyd mayweather or pernell whitaker