Mayweather is probably the best fighter in boxing right now. It will be great to see how Oscar shows up for this; it may determine the rest of his career.
Right now tradebetx has it to win:
Mayweather -199
Hoya +170
Posted on 05/05/2007 11:53:47 AM PDT by Vision
Pay per view starts at 9pm. This is the fight of the year.
Mayweather is probably the best fighter in boxing right now. It will be great to see how Oscar shows up for this; it may determine the rest of his career.
Right now tradebetx has it to win:
Mayweather -199
Hoya +170
Give us the blow by blow coverage
All Oscar has to do is show up, The women will fix his battered body!
Comacho is older and had issues that ended his career. If you google him you’ll get the answers.
33 aint a problem!
I always admired De la Hoyas upbeat out look but it could be a detriment.
I grew up with Mancini and when the Duk Koo Kim thing happened he was heartbroken, lost his spirit, he just died inside
Mayweather's a runner. He runs from fighters in the ring and out of the ring, and I don't think he's ever faced someone who can punch like de la Hoya. And having moved up in weight class again, it's going to be tougher for him than everyone thinks. PBFloyd's counting on getting in the ring with an old guy past his prime, but he may be in for quite a surprise. I'm guessing De La Hoya in 7.
Arghhh! Just checked that link and it's bogged down. Keep trying.
I was too young to see that but it sounds horrible.
Fight of the year!
Mayweather, not known as a knockout puncher, is stepping up in weight and wont have the power to hurt DeLaHoya. The Golden Boy, will hit Floyd like he’s never been hit before. DeLayHoya to win by early knockout.
Oscar... 7th round TKO. or Mayweather decision if it goes past seven.
Shoot it’s worth it just to see if Oscar can pull one more out of the hat before he calls it a career. He’s been a great champion and the money you spend will probably land up doing good in the world.
Oscar has numerous charitable organizations he supports.
I’m shelling the money out and going to watch it in HD!
Bogus comment. Oscar has been a great champion and proved it many times.
Win or lose tonight, he’ll always be a champion.
Heck, when I was young, I scrounged up enough money to go see Hagler-Leonard in a movie theater in my neighborhood.
It certainly was worth it and I hope Oscar can take a little bit of rust off the old polish for one more ripping victory. Floyd is one helleva fighter though.
It’s on the West Coast here in the states, so best guess will be somewhere between 11 and 12 EST.
Enjoy!
That would be bloody amazing.
The advantage Oscar has is size and power since Mayweather has not been at this weight. Oscar should also add another 7-10 pounds by fight time.
So in terms of physical strength, Oscar has the edge. But in pure speed and class, Floyd is in a class by himself.
Oscar is 34 and has been contemplating his retirement for a while. He took on this challenge because he is a great champion.
Hector Camacho was a punk who smoke angel dust all the time. He had skills and watched it go up in smoke with a blunt of his dust.
Try to keep up.
It was sad that a puncher with heart like Mancini had to see a horrible outcome with his opponent dying. No fighter wants to be part of that.
Hopkins defended his middleweight title successfully many times, and re-unifed the division for the first time since Marvin Hagler. He then, recently, moved up a weight class to take on the talented light heavyweight champion Tarver, and won.
His first championship fight was against Roy Jones Jr., often considered one of the top fighters of his generation, and fought him to a 12th round decision, which he lost.
He fought through the "middle weight unification tournament" and then beat Trinidad in a knockout. He knocked out Oscar de la Hoya in their big matchup. The first loss for both of these fighters.
He defended his title 20 times. He went undefeated from 1993 to 2005.
What was your boy doing in that time frame? According to the article sighted below
"From 1996 to early 1998, Mayweather fought against relatively easy opponents and won most of the fights by knockout or TKO. The most notable of these fights was a unanimous decision victory over former IBO lightweight champion Tony Pep on June 14, 1998."
Maybe Hopkins is past his prime, the retirement question was not rhetorical. But I'm not convinced that Mayweather is yet his equal.
RING agrees with you, by the way: they rank Mayweather #1 pound-for-pound, and Hopkins #7.
I just tend to favor boxers in the heavier classes, and the middleweight class has had a lot of great champions. Here's a fun site that matches up Hagler with all of them, including Bob Fitzsimmons, Jake LaMotta, and Sugar Ray Robinson.
In a similar article below one commentater suggests that Hopkins would have beat all of them except perhaps Sugar Ray Robinson, who he would be evenly matched with.
Bernard Hopkins, greatest middleweight ever?
BernardHopkins story on wikipedia
This article makes the case for Carlos Morzon as the greatest middleweight of all time, but has a lot to say about Hopkins.
Will people really put Mayweather in the all-time-greats in his weight class?
We'll know more after tonight, that's for sure.
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