Dela hoya won this fight, younger, bigger, faster, hungry fighter. Whitakers advantage was his experience coupled with his slick defensive style, but he got outworked by the golden boy. Great classic boxing by these legends 🔥 rip sweet pea 🙏💯🥊
😂 LMAO.. the object of boxing is to hit your opponent and not get hit.. you wanna post that punch count by rounds? 😂.. "out worked"?? So blocked and missed punches count now.. LMAO
Idk about u, sweet pea made dela hoya miss some shots but he still had some significant shots while sweet pea doesnt have 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️ didnt even hurt the golden boy by his punches 🤕😔 sweet pea not winning in exchanges ✌😪 Maybe todays boxing he might get the decision just like floyd did against manny 💀💀 only in america they favor defensive playsafe fighter especially if its an american fighter 😭😭 I bet floyd would lose to manny if the fight happened in saudi, canada, just not in america 👊😁
Respect to sweet pea tho, hes brave didnt duck no one, not a cherry picker. Its just that his punches couldnt hurt a bigger young pre-prime dela hoya, thats why delahoya keeps tanking him, being active in the ring, his workrate outworked sweetpeas both defensive and offensive skillset 🥊🥊💯
So when I saw this fight in 97, I thought sweet pea was robbed, and that he won the fight. Today, I realized he actually lost the fight, but it was way closer than those judges had it. RIP Sweet pea, he was my favorite fighter for a long time, and the first fight I saw live when my father drove me and my brother from DC to Hampton Va. To the Hampton Coliseum when I was 10. That day turned me into a boxing fan for life.
Maestro Pernell!! There are some legendary fighters that are a pleasure to watch because of the display of beautiful technique they do. Thats the case with Sweet Pea. ❤🔥
DLH won this fight, not just peer defense wins you fights. Whittaker’s face at the end says it all. DLH face all cleaned . Casuals say otherwise 🇲🇽🔥🥊🥊🥊
One of the single greatest fights of all time and another reason why the 1990's saw perhaps the greatest boxing of all time ..... De La Hoya, Chavez, Trinidad, Tyson, Tsyzu, Roy Jones Jr, , Juarez etc.....A true decade of boxing icons.
I had this as a draw. To have a winner you’ll have to be bias towards ONE fighter over the other. Here are quick takeaways. Whitaker wins round 1 while De La Hoya takes 2-4. What I didn’t not know was that Mills lane took a point from Whitaker in round 3 therefore you MUST scored that round 10 for De La Hoya and 8 for Whitaker. I had Whitaker winning round 5, then De La Hoya wins round 6. Now the reason why I said you had to be biased to pick a winner round 7 and 8 fighter didn’t really impose there will and both rounds I saw a draw because I felt they both didn’t enough a lot to win those rounds decisively. Round 9 De La Hoya is clearly gassed out. I had Whitaker winnin prior the knocked down. I scored 10 points for him 8 points for De La Hoya. I also had Whitaker winning rounds 10 and 11 but admittedly those rounds could have been for De La Hoya or for both fighters. I felt that De La Hoya did enough to take round 12 but in the end I had it 114 to 114
Boxing world= Oscar won Whitaker fans= whitaker won. I still remember seeing this fight in 1997. And I saw Oscar won and to this day. Still the same results, Oscar won. It is a shame how Whitaker fans think that Whitaker won. You can't win a fight by simply running around the ring and getting out box. Whitaker fans are just mad because their black boxer got beat by a Mexican boxer. Like always
Whitaker landed 232 of 582 punches to 191 of 556 for De La Hoya. Of Whitaker's punches that connected, 160 were jabs to 45 for De La Hoya. The whole "sweetpea" ran all night shit is stupid because he literally out threw & outlanded oscar, lol. Why would anyone be mad at a Mexican winning when blacks beat them all the time? Manny destroyed barrera & morales, beat Marquez twice & made de la Hoya quit on the stool 😂 Floyd beat Canelo & Corrales bad, u don't wanna make this about race considering blacks are the best to do it. While I do believe Oscar won u better watch it with those comments
Hes literally a top 3 southpaw of all-time, a former undisputed lightweight champ, 4x division champ, 7x world champ, former Pound-4-Pound king & only lost to HOFS in tito & Oscar 😂 u dotn know shi about boxing couch potato, Isn't oscar a cokehead who left his woman?
Cheated ? Uh go watch Delahoya vs Mayweather Oscar was cheated or go watch pacquiao vs Floyd Pacquiao was cheated this fight was NO Cheating Oscar was the agressor and was landing more shots
31:25 shows a crossover between the two legs after the uppercut Whittaker landed on DeLahoya. Ref called it correctly but unfortunate for Oscar. Great fight
De La hoya was the biggest round thief in the history of boxing. But he was the younger and prettier and had the higher earning potential going forward. It was better for the business to score it the way they did.
Pernell gave us rounds by dodging with all he had instead of countering, de la hoya was the better fighter this night, yall say all sweetpea Ls are robberies, lol
Dela hoya won this fight, younger, bigger, faster, hungry fighter. Whitakers advantage was his experience coupled with his slick defensive style, but he got outworked by the golden boy. Great classic boxing by these legends 🔥
rip sweet pea 🙏💯🥊
😂 LMAO.. the object of boxing is to hit your opponent and not get hit.. you wanna post that punch count by rounds? 😂.. "out worked"?? So blocked and missed punches count now.. LMAO
Idk about u, sweet pea made dela hoya miss some shots but he still had some significant shots while sweet pea doesnt have 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️ didnt even hurt the golden boy by his punches 🤕😔 sweet pea not winning in exchanges ✌😪
Maybe todays boxing he might get the decision just like floyd did against manny 💀💀 only in america they favor defensive playsafe fighter especially if its an american fighter 😭😭 I bet floyd would lose to manny if the fight happened in saudi, canada, just not in america 👊😁
Respect to sweet pea tho, hes brave didnt duck no one, not a cherry picker. Its just that his punches couldnt hurt a bigger young pre-prime dela hoya, thats why delahoya keeps tanking him, being active in the ring, his workrate outworked sweetpeas both defensive and offensive skillset 🥊🥊💯
I had Oscar winning by 1 point. In a close fight like this, the aggressor usually win the decision. Right guy won.
I had Oscar winning by 1 point. In a close fight like this, the aggressor usually win the decision. Right guy won.
What a defensive genius that Whitaker was 😮
So when I saw this fight in 97, I thought sweet pea was robbed, and that he won the fight. Today, I realized he actually lost the fight, but it was way closer than those judges had it. RIP Sweet pea, he was my favorite fighter for a long time, and the first fight I saw live when my father drove me and my brother from DC to Hampton Va. To the Hampton Coliseum when I was 10. That day turned me into a boxing fan for life.
Great fight
Maestro Pernell!! There are some legendary fighters that are a pleasure to watch because of the display of beautiful technique they do. Thats the case with Sweet Pea. ❤🔥
Absolutely incredible!
Propd to you moderator for uploading these classic gems
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@@toprank keep it up, its sick
@@toprank🥊🥊 keep up the good work
That:s why I love boxing no matter who wins you know who wins from what you just saw...
DLH won this fight, not just peer defense wins you fights. Whittaker’s face at the end says it all. DLH face all cleaned . Casuals say otherwise 🇲🇽🔥🥊🥊🥊
Floyd Mayweather beat your boy Oscar and Canelo
I’m so happy Oscar beat Chavez the best Mexican boxer ever 2 times. It was hilarious 💀
One of the single greatest fights of all time and another reason why the 1990's saw perhaps the greatest boxing of all time ..... De La Hoya, Chavez, Trinidad, Tyson, Tsyzu, Roy Jones Jr, , Juarez etc.....A true decade of boxing icons.
Oscar won this fight
Well done lad great boxing
Punch and hold... He knew he couldn't "fight" golden boy..ODH ALL DAY
Could someone please tell me why it's not k to say tank davis versus bud crawford
🤔 This was a straight robbery
lol keep dreaming 😂😂😂
I had this as a draw. To have a winner you’ll have to be bias towards ONE fighter over the other. Here are quick takeaways.
Whitaker wins round 1 while De La Hoya takes 2-4. What I didn’t not know was that Mills lane took a point from Whitaker in round 3 therefore you MUST scored that round 10 for De La Hoya and 8 for Whitaker. I had Whitaker winning round 5, then De La Hoya wins round 6. Now the reason why I said you had to be biased to pick a winner round 7 and 8 fighter didn’t really impose there will and both rounds I saw a draw because I felt they both didn’t enough a lot to win those rounds decisively. Round 9 De La Hoya is clearly gassed out. I had Whitaker winnin prior the knocked down. I scored 10 points for him 8 points for De La Hoya. I also had Whitaker winning rounds 10 and 11 but admittedly those rounds could have been for De La Hoya or for both fighters. I felt that De La Hoya did enough to take round 12 but in the end I had it 114 to 114
Boxing world= Oscar won
Whitaker fans= whitaker won.
I still remember seeing this fight in 1997. And I saw Oscar won and to this day. Still the same results, Oscar won. It is a shame how Whitaker fans think that Whitaker won. You can't win a fight by simply running around the ring and getting out box. Whitaker fans are just mad because their black boxer got beat by a Mexican boxer. Like always
Not always, but alright.
Whitaker landed 232 of 582 punches to 191 of 556 for De La Hoya. Of Whitaker's punches that connected, 160 were jabs to 45 for De La Hoya. The whole "sweetpea" ran all night shit is stupid because he literally out threw & outlanded oscar, lol. Why would anyone be mad at a Mexican winning when blacks beat them all the time? Manny destroyed barrera & morales, beat Marquez twice & made de la Hoya quit on the stool 😂 Floyd beat Canelo & Corrales bad, u don't wanna make this about race considering blacks are the best to do it. While I do believe Oscar won u better watch it with those comments
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I Hate listening to commentators 🙄
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I didn’t know Whitaker was as dirty and a general punk. Guess I just used to listen to the hype. He just thinks he’s something 🙄
Hes literally a top 3 southpaw of all-time, a former undisputed lightweight champ, 4x division champ, 7x world champ, former Pound-4-Pound king & only lost to HOFS in tito & Oscar 😂 u dotn know shi about boxing couch potato, Isn't oscar a cokehead who left his woman?
Whitaker was cheated and really won this fight.
Hell nah, close though
Golden boy won was more aggressive
Whittaker’s jab only worked when circling oscar He got gassed quickly and just ended up squaring with oscar and getting countered
U must be blind asf, de la hoya clearly won
Cheated ? Uh go watch Delahoya vs Mayweather Oscar was cheated or go watch pacquiao vs Floyd Pacquiao was cheated this fight was NO Cheating Oscar was the agressor and was landing more shots
31:25 shows a crossover between the two legs after the uppercut Whittaker landed on DeLahoya. Ref called it correctly but unfortunate for Oscar. Great fight
Robbery
No robbery
Focyo 👎👎👎👎👎🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪👊
De La hoya was the biggest round thief in the history of boxing. But he was the younger and prettier and had the higher earning potential going forward. It was better for the business to score it the way they did.
Pernell gave us rounds by dodging with all he had instead of countering, de la hoya was the better fighter this night, yall say all sweetpea Ls are robberies, lol
Whittaker won 1 point
Whitaker lost by 2 points
@@IssacLemus-mk8bkmore like 12/12 rounds
Whitaker won 7-5.