One year ago saturday I was having the same conundrum about Rockets-Mavs game 7 and Castillo-Corrales I. Luckily, the Rox helped make my decision easy.... ....but there was a silver lining, it being the greatest fight I've ever seen.
its fight night boys! post your predictions for Mayorga vs. De La Hoya now.... what round what kind of decision (ko, tko, decision) and who will win ! for me, this is a hard one De La Hoya hasnt been in the ring for a long time but i believe is motivated enough by Mayorga to win in the case for Mayorga...dude is just wild. It will be a great fight but in the end i believe De La Hoya wins by KO in the 9th. (it could easily go the other way as well)
i'll go out a limb and say mayorga in 8 looks like this suns/lakers game is gonna be a blowout. my undivided attention will be on this fight.
As in with the Vargas fight, the lesson here is Don't Talk Junk to De La Hoya! This being boxing Mayorga probably was instructed to put on a show to generate some hype. However impressive Oscar looked tonight, does anyone really think he could beat Mayweather? I don't see that happening at this point in their careers.
Unofficial word is spreading that Oscar De La Hoya is penciled in to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. on September 16. WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito caught wind of this and apparently confronted Mayweather, saying "What about me?" and the fighters had to be separated. Meanwhile, Ricardo Mayora and promoter Don King declined to come to the post-fight press conference. DKP executive Alan Hopper delivered the following statement: "Ricardo Mayorga will not attend the post-fight press conference as he has decided to go up to his room. Don King just asked me to come and deliver the message that he will not be attending as well because he doesn't want to do anything to detract from Oscar's fine performance tonight. He thought Oscar was just tremendous and wanted him to have this fine hour all to himself. All of us at Don King Productions enjoyed working with Oscar De La Hoya and everyone from Golden Boy Promotions on this event." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oscar De La Hoya: I Am Satisfied! May 7, 2006 By Mike Sloan It seems as though a year-and-a-half off from participating in a real boxing match means nothing to Oscar De La Hoya; just ask Ricardo Mayorga. De La Hoya silenced most critics by severely brutalizing and eventually stopping Mayorga in their hotly-anticipated showdown tonight inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena. De La Hoya scored an emphatic sixth round stoppage of “El Matador,” a beating so intense that Mayorga decided to skip the post-fight press conference altogether. After a rather lengthy delay until De La Hoya finally arrived at the dais to address the hundreds of media personnel, a victorious and gleeful Golden Boy candidly spoke about his triumph over his fierce nemesis and hinted at his future inside the ring. “I felt great tonight,” De La Hoya said. “I felt as though I was in the best shape of my life. We put in a lot of work in the gym for this fight and it paid off. I was so motivated for this fight and I wanted to prove to him and to everybody else that I was not going to back down from Ricardo Mayorga.” When asked if he thought Mayorga was going to be taken out in the first round, Oscar was realistic. “I knew I hit him with a perfect left hook,” he said. “But Mayorga has a lot of heart and I know he wasn’t about to quit. I knew I was going to knock him out, though. I just had to bide my time and pick him apart. He is so wild, so awkward, but my defense paid off and I was able to capitalize.” There was a ton of pre-fight hoopla surrounding this fight and Mayorga was able to get under De La Hoya’s skin on numerous occasions. Mayorga had taunted De La Hoya’s manhood by calling him all sorts of profane names, ridiculed his family and his Mexican heritage. Mayorga also spoke badly about De La Hoya’s wife, a move that sent Oscar over the edge. “I am very satisfied with this win,” he said. “I told him that I was going to make him pay for what he said and I did. He’s a tough guy and we were able to talk after the fight. He apologized for what he said about me, my heritage and my family and I forgave him.” “This was one of the best of my career,” Oscar said about how high the win ranks for him personally. “I haven’t been this satisfied with a win in a long time. I never wanted to knock someone out so bad like this. It is so satisfying.” Many members of the boxing media and most of the fans are clamoring for a De La Hoya showdown with the likes of either Floyd Mayweather, Jr. or Antonio Margarito. De La Hoya didn’t exactly say who he’d like to face, although rumors have been flying around the press conference that a date with Mayweather is tentatively set for September 16. “I don’t know where we’ll go next,” he admitted. “I don’t plan on fighting much longer, maybe one more major fight. Who knows? Mayweather is probably the best fighter in the world, but we’ll see what happens. Margarito is great, too, but we aren’t making any decisions until we can all sit down and see what to do next. I only want the best fight available.”
That was a serious ass kicking last night ~ De La wanted some trash talk motivation, I guess he got it.
I don't think De la Hoya v Mayweather would be a pretty boring fight. Mayweather is that good. He is like roy jones in his prime he can't be beat. He is excellent defensivly and he has incredible hand speed. I think it would go 12 rounds but still I don't know if it would be entertaining.
i would have to agree. dlh did lay down an ass whooping last night but lets keep it in perspective, it was against mayorga. i think mayweahter would handle him pretty easy, if not by KO,then by decision. that being said, id still pay to see it...
