Floyd Mayweather: "Oscar De La Hoya Will Never Be A Legend Like Me"

[AintGottaClue]

oscar can sell more PPV screwing his wife then floyd can in 10 fights, floyd wants soem attention really really badly lmao

[TomRiddle]

I'm not sure what it is but it's one of 2 things....

1.) Either this board has the highest percentage of Floyd Mayweather nut-huggers ever

2.) Or it has the highest percentage of Oscar haters ever

It's one or the other. I can't see how a rational, intelligent boxing fan could believe that Mayweather is "more of a legend" that De La Hoya. Just look at the people De La Hoya fought and then look at the people Mayweather fought.

Look at the amount of PPV buys for Oscar's fights, then look at the amount for Floyd's fights.....there's a dropoff here folks.....

I'm pretty sure both of these are here.

[TomRiddle]

Top Fighters Each Man Fought - Oscar By A Wide Margin

De La Hoya

Molina
Chavez twice
Ruelas
Mosley twice
Gatti
Quartey
Trinidad
Mayorga
Vargas
Whitaker
Hernandez
Paez
Sturm
Hopkins
Castillejo
Gonzalez

Mayweather
Hernandez
Corrales
Castillo twice
Judah
Gatti

and then Mayweather plans to retire after that?
what's so legendary in there?

[bigtime9]

floyd is by far the greater fighter..oscar has lost all of his big fights how many has floyd lost.

[CaLLaHaN]

floyd is by far the greater fighter..oscar has lost all of his big fights how many has floyd lost.

how many BIG fights has floyd been in? 1? (judah)

[xcaret]

how many BIG fights has floyd been in? 1? (judah)

nuff said, Quartey alone is far more better opponent then any of the opponents Mayweather has faced..

[wmute]

I said Sturm was the only guy that is for sure not making it. Quartey is one best fighters to ever come out of Ghana. He beat a lot of good fighters in his day and fought all comers. Paez is a Mexican icon, the only reason his son is getting any press is because of him. Castillejo i'll give to you.

Oscar was much bigger than these guys below, but he also fought Hernandez in his prime. When Oscar beat him it was a huge deal when it happened. Oscar was also dropped in two different fights below 140, so while he was much stronger, it was not until he got older that his body really grew in. And like you said, he was the smaller man at 154-160.

I love Quartey, I just dont think he will be HOF (but I wish he did... why didnt he fight for 1 year after the oscar fight? I am really pissed at that decision: I dont consider it a robbery, but it put quartey out of the map, that pissed me off)

Paez I am neutral about I also dont think he will be HOF

Hernandez was younger than when he fought floyd, but was also his first and only title fight at 135. (after losing to Oscar he found the time to beat Nelson if i am not mistaken)

and I think Oscar was ridiculously big at 130-135 (wasnt there a fight where he was allowed to weigh in more than 24 hours before the fight?) (I know he got knocked down, but that's what happen when you immediately start fighting good opposition, and you fight at a "tight" weight)

but we are arguing over nothing here, since we both believe that oscar's opposition is great however you watch it...

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nuff said, Quartey alone is far more better opponent then any of the opponents Mayweather has faced..

bs...

there is this guy called Jose Luis Castillo who is pretty bad ass, and was the terror of a division for years... I rate him above Quartey, as most ppl do

[bdevils]

I never liked Hopkins and I never liked Mayweather, but I can't justify diminishing either man's greatness or abilities.

you always speak the truth, you don't have to like them to appreciate them.

[cupcrazy01]

This is simply hilarious. Resume-for-resume, Mike Tyson has difficulty matching up with alot of great heavyweights, but who is a bigger legend? Think about the definition:

leg - end (n) [lej-uhnd]
6. a collection of stories about an admirable person
7. a person who is the center of such stories

Tell me if Floyd is a better fit here than Oscar. Oscar has been a part of countless more stories in boxing, win or lose (hence the bigger fights/bigger events argument). And Oscar is of course at the center of ALL these stories, who else could sell Yory Boy Campas, Javier Castillejo and Felix Sturm on PPV?

The biggest stories to come from any Floyd fight are the Judah brawl and the controversial win over Castillo in their first fight. Yeah, he's had some masterful performances, but how many people saw them?