Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Preview and Predictions
May 22, 2008
May 5th 2007 is one of the biggest days in sports this year with the 2007 Kentucky Derby and the De La Hoya Mayweather bout. Dave Price has your predictions for both right here.
You don’t want to even think about touching one of the most anticipated fights in boxing history without first reading Dave Price’s De La Hoya Mayweather predictions.
Mayweather is a perfect 37-0 with 24 KO’s and owns nearly all of the physical advantages. He’s younger, faster, more athletic, more instinctive and will be in better shape. This causes us to ask the question: can De La Hoya really beat a guy who has been boxing’s best fighter for more than five years? Surprisingly, the Pretty Boy is just a -170 favorite against the Golden Boy who has been more interested in his bankroll than winning fights of late. De La Hoya hasn’t fought in a year and his knockout of Ricardo Mayorga doesn’t exactly rank as a good win. De La Hoya’s last real fight was in 2004 when he was knocked out by Bernard Hopkins. The scary thing here is that this wasn’t a case of Hopkins just catching De La Hoya, he was actually outboxing him. In De La Hoya’s preceding fight he was granted a gift decision against Felix Sturm and he lost to Shane Mosley in the fight before that. We would have to venture back over four years to find a bout that De Lay Hoya won when facing a top notch boxer.
It was a no-brainer for De La Hoya to take this fight with an estimated $40 million coming his way, but the evidence points to him being pummeled. One huge factor that likely goes De La Hoya’s way is his falling out with corner man Mayweather Sr. and his new relationship with Freddie Roach. Floyd Mayweather Sr. may be a bigger player in this fight than his son. He is famous for being De La Hoya’s corner man, but the Golden Boy’s refusal to pay him a flat $2 million for this bout has spurred on an unlikely occasion. Mayweather Sr. did not willingly accept De La Hoya’s $500,000 guaranteed and $500,000 bonus for a win offer so now he will be in his son’s corner. Don’t take this as De La Hoya being a money hungry tyrant. Of course he would question how hard Mayweather Sr. would really train him against his son. This may give De La Hoya some extra incentive to train harder to win the fight because beating Mayweather Jr. would be like beating Mayweather Sr. as well. Freddie Roach is the best in the business and comes from the Eddie Futch school of getting more out of less talented fighters. If anyone can have Oscar ready to pull off the unthinkable, it’s Roach.
As much as I want to believe in this upset against the cocky Mayweather, I just can’t pull the trigger. The best kind of experience is ring experience as no amount of training can simulate the same high intensity conditions. De La Hoya has been out of commission for too long. He won’t get knocked out, but I think we’ll be safe taking Mayweather in a decision.
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