Talk:Oscar De La Hoya

description of fight vs May is quite far from reality
I find the description of the fight vs. Mayweather quite far from reality. Please listen to the post fight comments by HBO's Max Kellerman, whom I find to be the most intelligent and objective boxing analyst. He's absolutely right on. The fight was only close and the decision controversial in the eyes of casual observers who don't know much about boxing. I really like Oscar, but the only thing that shocked me about the decision was that it was split. For the life of me I can't understand how a professional boxing judge could give a fight to Oscar. This is exactly what Kellerman said. If you have any doubts please have a look at the punch stats. While it looked like the fight was close because of Oscar's more aggressive style Mayweather dominated the punch stats. To say that 2 of the judges were impressed by some random shots that he got in is absolutely ridiculous and nonobjective. Watch the fight again if you have to. But this time try to actually pay attention to the effectiveness of the punches, not just to who charges forward.

Pernell Whitaker (W 12)|(A fight which many onlookers thought he had lost)

What kind of comment is this? Why don't you just say that it was a controversial decision. Not that it was... most observers were comfortable with that decision, even if Whitaker complained about it.

Why not make a similar comment about the Ike Quartey fight, which was also very close, with several knockdowns by each fighter, and the outcome not decided until the 12th round.

Your comments about the "controversial majority-decision loss to Félix Trinidad" was much more reasonable, but your comments on the "two decision losses to Shane Mosley" lacked the same punch, since these were controversial as well.

I'm not sure how you consider Bernard Hopkins to be "more technical." Many people think Oscar was winning the fight until he took a rib-breaking shot to the body. Simply listing this as a "KO" makes it sound like he was knocked into unconsciousness, when he was not.

Mayweather WON Get Over IT
I'm not sure how you conclude that Vargas was Oscar's "nemesis." The same was said for Genaro Hernandez, who's career also went nowhere after he lost.

It might be interesting to mention that when Oscar fought Felix Sturm, he won virtually every round, which shows just how great a boxer Oscar really is.

Also, rather than saying that Oscar fought "much better than expected" against Ricardo Mayorga, why not just say that he dominated this champion and destroyed him in 6. The expectation that Oscar might not have been as good as before is an opinion... perhaps your opinion, and not something that should appear on Wikipedia.

Also, how is offering a fighter $250,000 to sign a contract a "controversy?"

Nationality
Atiana Cecilia de la Hoya who is his daughter from a past relationship

Oscar De La Hoya's COVID-19 status announced
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/us/oscar-de-la-hoya-covid-spt-intl/index.html

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/32141180/oscar-de-la-hoya-hospitalized-covid-19-vitor-belfort-now-face-evander-holyfield

As of September 2021 his COVID-19 status was announced as positive and was sent to the hospital according to news outlets as of this time2601:640:C681:C260:C1DB:E18B:B9BD:1016 (talk) 00:09, 5 September 2021 (UTC)