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Oscar's Playboy Article

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  • #2
    menoscemo
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    Emmo-m- wrote: »
    http://www.playboy.com/articles/oscar-de-la-hoya-writes-an-honest-farewell-letter-to-floyd-mayweather

    Telling the truth or still bitter and childish?

    Fairly bitter but like everything it has some truth in ot at the same time....


  • #3
    Emmo-m-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭Emmo-m-


    Convenient from Oscar to bring up Floyd's name right before their biggest promotion of the year. I just don't understand why Oscar constantly has to talk about Mayweather. None of his other opponents seem to go to the lengths he does in the media. It really makes him look foolish IMO.

    The other contradiction I feel is Oscar saying Floyd never took any risks in his career. But fighting Oscar himself at 154 after only 3 fights at 147 was not a big risk? Floyd gave into everything Oscar demanded and it was an exciting fight. But Oscar was still beaten and I think he just cannot let that go.

    If Canelo gets beaten the weekend we may well just see a relapse from Oscar and a return to the fishnets ha.


  • #4
    Henno30
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    Fighting an old Oscar for 40 million dollars wasn't a major risk.

    Floyd took one significant risk in his career - fighting Castillo in his first fight at 135. And most think he lost that one.


  • #5
    walshb
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    Henno30 wrote: »
    Fighting an old Oscar for 40 million dollars wasn't a major risk.
    .

    Agreed. All fights have some risk, well, nearly all. That fight was not all that risky. Oscar was past his peak. Still dangerous and tough. Bigger and heavier handed. On a risk scale it was a 7/10.

    Oscar talking about running: He does seem to forget that in the biggest fight of the 90s he ran for the final 3 rds and lost a very winnable fight to Tito.

    As for his description of Kovalev...WTF. "slugger Sergey Kovalev."


  • #6
    Emmo-m-
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    When was he supposed to fight him though? The years before that floyd was still down at 135. It's like a lot of people think Floyd was always a welterweight and should have fought everyone. Timing and boxing politics play a big part in matchmaking.

    But as I said , why is it just Oscar who is so bitter?


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  • #7
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57,375 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Emmo-m- wrote: »
    When was he supposed to fight him though? The years before that floyd was still down at 135. It's like a lot of people think Floyd was always a welterweight and should have fought everyone. Timing and boxing politics play a big part in matchmaking.

    But as I said , why is it just Oscar who is so bitter?

    That is very true. It's similar to Calzaghe getting slated for not meeting Toney and Jones and Hopkins. When you read into it the fights were never runners.


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