{"id":308620,"date":"2025-11-26T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308620\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:19:07","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-concedes-that-there-is-one-fighter-who-would-have-beaten-him-even-in-his-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308620\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya concedes that there is one fighter who would have beaten him even in his prime"},"content":{"rendered":"

While backing himself in a hypothetical battle with Thomas Hearns, Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> equally admits that another legend would have likely had his number.<\/p>\n

Given their respective careers, a fantasy matchup between De La Hoya and Hearns would have perhaps taken place at welter or super-welterweight.<\/p>\n

The 154lbs division was arguably a more fruitful hunting ground for the \u2018Hitman\u2019, especially when considering his victories over the likes of Roberto Duran and Wilfred Benitez.<\/p>\n

De La Hoya, however, did become a two-time world super-welterweight champion after dethroning Javier Castillejo and Ricardo Mayorga in 2001 and 2006, respectively.<\/p>\n

Those victories, along with his 11th-round stoppage win over Fernando Vargas in 2002, certainly allowed the Californian to make his mark at 154lbs.<\/p>\n

But while remaining confident that, against Hearns, he might have had his hand raised, De La Hoya is not so sure that he would have enjoyed the same success in a showdown with Sugar Ray Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Across his astonishing 201-fight career, which has inspired many to regard him as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time, Robinson claimed world titles at both welter and middleweight.<\/p>\n

It was at 160lbs, though, where he arguably amassed his most impressive run of victories over the likes of Jake LaMotta, Carmen Basilio, Gene Fullmer and Randolph Turpin.<\/p>\n

And yet, even at 147lbs, De La Hoya may not have fared any better, particularly given Robinson\u2019s wins over Jimmy Doyle, Tommy Bell, Kid Gavilan and Chuck Taylor.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Daily Mail Boxing<\/a>, De La Hoya was modest enough to admit that Robinson, at any weight, would have more than likely gotten the better of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While backing himself in a hypothetical battle with Thomas Hearns, Oscar De La Hoya equally admits that another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-308620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}