BLTV highlights the big showdown between the boxing villain & former gang leader, Ricardo Mayorga, and the legendary multi-weight champion & first-ballot hall of famer, Oscar De La Hoya
I was not a DeLa Hoya fan. But when I worked at a local radio station in Los Angeles and my station worked with De LaHoya’s company on several occasions. I saw what he was doing for the community and I saw that many times, the press was not alerted to his generosity. I had a chance to meet him and worked events with him. I started watching his fights and started to root for him instead of his opponents. I realized he was the real deal. For that, he deserved my respect.
@@gener8423 you named fights he lost at the end of his career. The Mosley fight, particularly the second one was close. He arguably would have won if Mosley wasn’t on steroids. He was clearly robbed in the Trinidad fight. Should have never been in the ring with a prime pac man.
i was at a local bar last year ENJOYING a local band . Some guy hit on a guys girl right next to him. WASTED . grabbed the womens tush 3 times. Was told to leave politely GUY took sa knife out gabbed the guy 3 times and missed . TOLD to leave again . went to stab the guy in the heart. WELL he lost his right hand, wrist and elbow . 1 take down. GUY is back in prison .
Oscar is such a genuinely amazing person. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I was a cook and he was visiting with his wife and daughter, and he made it a point to stop and talk to everyone at the restaurant and even came back into the kitchen and said some very kind words to the staff and tipped us all out and took pictures. He and his family are very solid people.
that's the way to judge any 'champion'... or just a pro athlete in general... how he or she is away from the game, with fans and everyday people, etc... no wife-beating, no gun charges, no drugs or whatever... generous with his or her people, kids' organizations, etc...
Of course it means something. Life is a game. The pro boxing represents money & status. Money represents power. A man’s word has to be backed up by his actions, inside or out of the ring, to gain respect.
Usyk, Fury, Lomachenko, Gervonta, Inoue, Stevenson, Wilder, Canelo, Beterbiev... It's actually a pretty good time to be a boxing fan. Nostalgia distorts the past and makes it seem better than it was.
@@sadassadas8946its not that the fighters aint good its how little they fight smh i miss the days when fighters would have at least 5 fights a year smh i remember mike tyson having 3 fights in 1 month ffs those were the good days now we lucky if we even get 2 fights a year out of 1 boxer -_-
@@donclark8851what the actual fuck are you saying😂 Usyk especially would have been undisputed in that era, so would Beterbiev and Bivol, Fury sucks and you don’t know shit about boxing
@@donclark8851 So the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lewis, the guy who just beat Fury, the first heavyweight in history to hold the world titles of all four major sanctioning bodies, the first boxer to become the undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion since Evander Holyfield in 1990, he wouldn't be in the top ten in the De La Hoya era? Nor would Inoue, who is the first and only boxer to win the undisputed championship at super bantamweight, the first undisputed bantamweight champion since Enrique Pinder in 1972, currently ranked as the world's second best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring? OK. Sure bud. Things were so much better before...
How was that looking gay? He smiled and threw the peace sign and stopped smiling and began to clap. It's like when Kanye smiles when he sees the camera and then goes back to being serious.
Yes , he admitted it. For both fights. IMO, still Oscar should have won the 2nd. Fernando Vargas was also on PEDs when he fought Oscar and Oscar knocked him out. I think there were one or two other fighters that were on PEDs when they fought Oscar later in his career.
Just so you know, tons of pro are on it. They don’t really test for it. They test for street drugs which make no sense. They are mostly using for recovery. In your late 20s to 30s you can’t train everyday like you can in your late teens and early 20s.
I remember watching a show on him and he was talking about how he was a natural southpaw but his first coach made him fight orthodox, hence the tough jab and brutal hook
@@theejayzeeableMiguel Cotto and Nonito Donaire were also notable lefties who fought orthodox. The biggest potential drawback to this approach is that when one encounters a southpaw, the lead hand is generally left to stagnate as the opposing stances tend to block each other's lead hand by way of positioning.
Mayorga with discipline and focus and love for boxing not just brawling could have accomplished quite a bit more, he was a natural talent that was fun to watch.
i believe he didnt see boxing as a profession or a sport, being tough was his lifestyle, and he took great pride on the fact that he was a gangster from the slums. which must have made his defeat even worse, since , to him, de la hoya was just a pretty boy playing to be a fighter
@@andrams6010 You hit it on the nail. That must've been a hard one to swallow after so much bravado and mockery towards De La Hoya. It was great to see this scumbag loose.
@@andrams6010 yeah for sure mayorga was that macho guy but that doesn’t save him from a pretty boy that trains much harder than him lol but theres a saying that boxers aren’t gangsters and gangsters arent boxers
I was never a big Da La Hoya fan, but always had respect for his boxing skills. I didn’t like Mayorga because his disrespect crossed the line at times, yet he was entertaining, had a good chin and lots of heart. This is the only fight where I actually rooted for Da La Hoya. RESPECT! ✊🏾
One of my favorite ass-whoopins of all time. Oscar wasn't one to lose his cool most of the time, but Mayorga really pissed him off. I'm actually surprised you didn't add the clip of him addressing Ricardo Mayorga before the fight. There was no doubt he wanted to punish him. Another great beat down of Mayorga was Miguel Cotto who he also heavily disrespected. Cotto remained cool however and took it to him in the ring. As far as his toughness and antics got him, he never had the discipline to become great, just memorable.
It was cool to see De La Hoya fighting this fight and a Golden Boy banner already hanging in the rafters. Fighters like Floyd and today's generation owe alot of respect to this man for the barriers he brought down. I get really annoyed about all the hate I hear today on De La Hoya.
Mayorga's entire career philosophy was to make himself the ultimate opponent for an established star to deliver karma upon, and God bless him for doing such a great job implementing that philosophy.🤌o7
You have to throw away the street fighting to learn how to really fight. Mayorga was tough as nails, if he acted like a professional, he might've done a lot better.
At the end there, De La Hoya got two or three close uppercuts in and he knew Mayorga was gonna have nothing behind his shots and he went tornado mode with a crazy look in his eye. 😀 That was pretty awesome.
Oscar's a class act. Flyod was wise to wait until the end of his career to fight him. ( Same when Leonard finally fought Hagler. -Hagler won by the way!)
@@KempoGuy-sq4ce lmfao ok bud...... Usually people that say stuff like that on the Internet is lying ..... But I already know you're lying with those twigs for legs
Tex Cobb comes to mind.Jerry Quarry was tough, but served as a stepping stone for the top tier boxers. His face looked like he blocked a kick after some of his toughest fights.
He looked like he could throw forever in that moment, yeah. That’s a boxer staring at a win though. How could you not get a charge in a moment like that 😅
Oscar needs a fight camp where they take him to a moon base to train and tell him that he only gets his powder back if he wins the fight. New level of mythical fighter would be unlocked.
Mayorga might be the best fighter to ever box LOL. He wasn't a technical marvel AT ALL but somehow was enough of a street brawler to beat top prize fighters.
Dude destroyed Vernon Forrest from out of nowhere and was on his way. Smoking cigarettes in the ring, showing up to weigh in with beer and kfc. Dude was my favorite for a long time.
Oscar was the only American boxer to win gold during the games he was first to be paid a million to a pro contract he fought fighters that on record were better than his record he has great success as a fight promoter all this from a kid from East Los Angeles yes sir Oscar is a self made successful man.
Mayorga is by far the best trash talker in the history of boxing . He’s probably the only boxer who’s press conference I would enjoy even more than the actual fight itself lol. What a legend .
@@2msvalkyrie529 AB is a good trash talker don’t get me wrong and would even make me laugh sometimes, but Mayorga made me laugh with everything that came out his mouth .
Nowadays, it's usually just a "show" when fighters act hard, and play the bad guy role. Mayorga is one of those OG's from the 90's that wasn't acting. He was legit crazy 😂
Mayorga had enough testosterone and chin to knockout Rolly Romero and Devin Haney look up when mayorga beat Vernon Forrest my boy could whoop anyone in his prime and take a smoke break mid championship title fight 😮💨
