Michael Katz: Oscar by TKO9
By TSS Predictions May 1st, 2006This is the walkout fight. My main interest on Saturday is in Louisville where I think I have a live longshot (no, I’m not telling you, dear readers, thank me later for protecting your pockets). Ricardo Mayorga is a chin, a punch and a big mouth. Who knows what Oscar De La Hoya is at this stage? Therefore, a reasoned, logical prediction seems impossible. Long odds are tempting to take on Mayorga – Oscar has not been a banger at 154 (Fernando Vargas aside, and who knows what effect the juice had on his stamina?). He has faded in many fights (Felix Trinidad, John-John Molina, Miguel Angel Gonzalez). If he doesn’t take out Mayorga early, or at least cut him up, he could be in trouble late. But this is a fight where I shall let my emotions take over and pick Oscar because I want to see him win (and set up a Mayweather biggie) and I want to see Mayorga’s mouth shut. So, it’s Oscar by TKO9.
Michael Katz writes for The Sweet Science
May 1st, 2006 at 4:18 pm
my prediction is that oscar is so mad whit mayorga that he will make the big error of trading shots whit him and mayorga will do to him the same he do whit forrest,because oscar fight like forrest.he use two jabs and then trow his right
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:17 am
Oscar De La Hoya has the edge that other boxers that have fought with Mayorga don’t - the experience. The level of competition that Oscar has faced has made him much more skilled than Mayorga is. Add to the mix a trainer like Mayweather Sr., and you have what it takes to beat Mayorga.
Mayorga has tried, successfully I might add, to get under Oscar’s skin. He knows he needs to get under Oscar’s skin because he can’t win the fight on might alone - he must make the fight a brawl because that is the fight that he is most comfortable in. The problem with getting under the skin is that it can backlash at you. Just ask another person who, with much better skills than Mayorga, did the same - Vargas.
I think the outcome will be the same as in the Vargas - DLH by late stoppage. Quitting cigarettes and training harder will certainly make Mayorga more of a threat, but it will not help him win the fight; bringing your A game and having a strategy will, which time and time again Mayorga has shown that his only game plan is to lure his opponent into a brawl to try and knock them out. This isn’t going to happen to DLH, who’s gotten off the canvas to knock out his opponents.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:55 am
oscar by in 12. descision.
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 am
u gotta keep the faith oscar shuts mayorga up tko rd 9
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Oscar is too good, and too experienced of a fighter to let his emotions get the best of him. The last time an big punching opponenet got under his skin to the same degree that Mayorga has, was Vargas, and we all saw how that ended. And if we want to take the comparison a bit further, Vargas too was coming off of a one-sided beating at the hands of Tito Trinidad. De la Hoya wins by TKO in the 8th, and sets up the megafight with PBF.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Mayorga, if he’s in the shape he’s claiming, will be dangerous to the reluctant De La Hoya. Mayorga is crude but he can be dangerous for an entire fight and if Mayorga provides consistent pressure Oscar may fade. That’s been his recent history save the Vargas fight. I don’t think Oscar will be able to hurt Mayorga, and while he is certainly capable of winning a decision, he will have a difficult fight on his hands. Oscar has looked physically soft in some of his recent photo’s. If he’s in Felix Sturm type shape he may be run out of the ring. Oscar will be backed up the whole fight and he won’t be comfortable with that. I’ll take the KO prop on Mayorga. Good value and quite possible.
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:16 am
Oscar is a totally different fighter to Forrest. Hes in a different class. Mayorga has no chance..
May 4th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Oscar is an old lion on his way out.
Inactive for almost two years, not a great puncher at 154 lbs, questionable stamina even in his prime, he’ll flurry for 5-6 rounds and then flame out.
I can see Mayorga stopping him late.
May 4th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Let me add that the only reason I agree with Stringer about it that Oscar is on his way out; not because he’s old but because he has nothing left to prove.
May 4th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Stringer, if you had done your homework you would know that Mayorga is 2-2-0 in the last few years as is Oscar and Mayorga has not been very active himself recently. Anyway we will see if Mayorga can pull off an upset, hey, stanger things have happened in this great sport…
May 4th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Oscar has something Forrest don’t have speed and that will be the difference. The punch that hurts the most is the one you don’t see Dela Hoya is a 8 round TKO.
May 4th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Stringer may be on to something!
May 5th, 2006 at 1:48 am
Mayorga is hungry: Oscar has nothing to prove. In addition, Mayorga is real powerful. Oscar does NOT like getting hit. If he moves the way he did against Hopkins and Sturm, Mayorga will catch him. Mayorga’s chin, against Trinidad, was pretty impressive.
De La Hoya hasn’t been the guy everyone is referring to for 5 years here. Fans are too caught in the past. This ain’t 1998.
I smell a Mayorga knockout in ROUNDS 5-8.
DK