Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Oscar De La Hoya will go ahead next may apparently...

[ct2k]

At light middleweight. can't see the Hatton/PBF thing happening now, Ricky dodged a bullet. Still, should be good shit, gotta favour Floyd (Harvey will have words), if he fights like he did against Baldomir I reckon he'll win on points. Can't imagine he's gonna risk the undefeated record by getting up close and personal with DLH.

Thoughts?

ps - only Rob will even care about this:o

[Joey Slugs]

Might be one of the biggest/most hyped fights of all time if it actually happens.

[Jim Sorgi]

It's happening in May . It'll definetly set a ppv record in sales. Mayweather will actually have to fight in this one . If you've noticed in his last few fights, its been a whole lot of weaving in and out and basically playing tag. Oscar is probably not as fast as he once was, but he's still quick and he will tag Mayweather good when he decides to come in and box him. Mayweather is just way to quick though. Oscar can beat Mayweather, but he has to be perfect and he has to score punches. If he lets Mayweather circle the ring, without bothering to try to cut him off and sqaure up on him, Mayweather will do just that and basically pile up points every single round. If Oscar does decide to cut Mayweather off , then he has to stand in front of him and fight. Thats where Oscar needs to be perfect. Mayweather can stand and fight if he has too, because he's so quick that even if he's backed into a corner, he'll dodge and stick. Oscar has to cut him off and land punches. He wont knock Floyd out. He has to outscore him. Thats a tough task.

I'll say Mayweather in 12.

[ct2k]

DLH has the power edge but as you said, PBF can pretty much dance around the ring and pick away for 12 rounds and win comfortably as has in recent fights. But then again if it does get more physical his speed could still be too much, remember that rib-shot knockout on Sharmba Mitchell?

[Stickman]

Boxing sucks.

[ct2k]

You've clearly never watched Floyd Mayweather fight

[Joey Slugs]

You've clearly never watched Floyd Mayweather fight

Exactly.

MMA > Heavyweight Boxing

Light/Middle/Welterweight Boxing > MMA

[Jim Sorgi]

flowers

[ct2k]

Yeah tbh its really only HW and to some extent cruiserweight which sucks right now. And the CW division is really only a shambles because of O'Neil Bell who's not defended his titles in the 10+ months since he won them and he's not going to for a while, he's competing in some shithouse of a heavyweight super tournament with wasters like McCall and John Ruiz and being allowed to keep them:n:

[Jim Sorgi]

HW has atleast one legitimate title holder in Klitschko, hopefully he unifies the title. He can beat Briggs, Valuev and Maskaev, but he need to be completely focused. If he isnt focused, he'll get knocked out and all this will be for nothing.

[ct2k]

Indeed Klitschko has the talent but his chin is suspect. As far as desire goes he's gone on record as saying he wants to unify titles so thats a positive. I think the only one of the above who could put up a decent fight is probably Maskaev, Briggs is all talk and Valuev is far too slow. There's nothing pretty about the way Maskaev fights but he's a pretty good technical boxer and he'll frustrate you for 12 rounds for sure.

[ct2k]

My main gripes with boxing at the moment are:

Joe Calzaghe chasing a nothing money fight with Bernard Hopkins instead of SMW unification with Kessler

O'Neil Bell being allowed to keep his CW belts, without defending AND being allowed to compete at HW

The prospect of FMJ and Ricky Hatton never fighting

Shocking rumours of Lennox Lewis being tempted to return to fight Klitschko

Evander Holyfield having a legitimate chance of winning a HW title again

Roy Jones still fighting

[Jim Sorgi]

" The prospect of FMJ and Ricky Hatton never fighting "

That one makes me really sick and i'm sure Rob will have words about that also..lol. I've heard things about FMJ retiring after the Oscar fight. Its sad cause i think Hatton could beat FMJ, but even if he cant, he deserves a chance.

[ct2k]

I think its clear that since Tszyu has gone FMJ and Hatton are/were the two top light welterweights even if both have been dabbling in higher divisions.

Floyd said after the Baldomir fight that he'd only fight one more probably. If he loses to DLH I think he'd be tempted to go after Hatton but I dunno, just can't see it happening. I think FMJ would win but it'd be a great fight.

I think in the absence of the FMJ fight it'd be cool if Hatton finally fought Junior Witter, it'd be the biggest all British fight in a long while, I doubt anyone in the US would care much about it but I doubt that bothers Witter or Hatton. Witter has said numerous times that he wants the fight and now he's WBC champ you've gotta figure Hatton will be tempted.

[Stickman]

There's too many weight divisions.

[Jim Sorgi]

There's too many weight divisions.


Go suck a dick somewhere. Why are you even reading the thread ?

[Stickman]

Go suck a dick somewhere. Why are you even reading the thread ?

What else am I going to do at work?

[owenbrown]

HW has atleast one legitimate title holder in Klitschko, hopefully he unifies the title. He can beat Briggs, Valuev and Maskaev, but he need to be completely focused. If he isnt focused, he'll get knocked out and all this will be for nothing.


I agree. If anyone is gonna unify all the Heavyweight belts it WILL be Klitschko.

[Jim Sorgi]

I actually bought into the Calvin Brock hype machine until Klitschko handed him his ass.