Mayorga: I’ll KO Oscar in 6!
"I have been sparring with live chickens as they emulate ‘chicken’ De La Hoya best. They run just like he does. Most people don’t understand that of all the fighters in boxing, Oscar is the one I like least. He’s a pretty boy and it makes me want to defeat him.
"He shouldn’t have gone down from that body shot that Bernard Hopkins threw. Everyone knows he took a dive in that fight.
"If he’s a man like he says he is, he should show his Mexican pride and fight with me. I know he is not the fighter he once was but he can still stand and fight me like a man.
“My strategy is to have a larger punch output and knock Oscar out. I don’t want to hear him back out of the fight because his butt hurts or he hurt his pinky finger. I want him to come to fight.”
I would also say the same goes for Mayorga. I know some boxers have plans to get inside their oppenents head’s, but I really think antagonizing Oscar is a bad idea for Mayorga.
CC for the article,yeah I recall Trinidad either hurting Mayroga seriously OR knocking him down with a body shot. Mayorga is funny but why is he feeding more fuel to the raging inferno that will be De La Hoya? Why would you give someone ammo to whoop your ass? Did he disrespect Tito like this too? I’m still not sure,Oscar has been out from so long,and I DON’T want to see PBF-Oscar so I think I am rooting for Mayorga! :-\
I totally agree with Mayorga - I’ve always maintained that DLH took a dive against Hopkins. If he had enough strength to thump the canvas while he was down, he had enough strength to get up. Something about that fight stinks…
And yes Mayorga did get put down hard by Tito’s body shots - but Tito’s left hook his harder than Hopkins’ - and Mayorga got up each and every time. He is (or was??) tougher than DLH by a street.
I like Mayorga in this fight big time - provided Tito didn’t take all the fight out of him with that beatdown.
i wouldnt go calling de la hoya a chump though just because he got beat by the then best boxer in the world. i dunno if the KO was genuine, but i’d like to see some of you take a body shot from b hop and get up and ‘fight like a man’ .
yeah buts thats his game, he’s there to say outragous stuff and draw attention to the fight(which he does very well) it also helps that he’s tough as nails and exciting to watch!
That’s the thing with trash talkers like Mayorga. You get so caught up in it you forget that they was saying the same shit in the last fight before they got knocked out and beaten to a pulp!.
im a huge dlh fan and i do think he will easily whip mayorga–its the perfect stylistic matchup from him—i think it will be similar to the yori boy campas fight but more exciting because mayorga will throw more punches and stand there and fight instead of spitting the bit after every combo like campas did----however the kayo v hop did leave a whiff of a bad smell for me too…i agree with your point about him punching the mat…usually a body shot that devastating will almost paralyze you completely for a bit-----recent examples being RJJ v virgil hill and gatti v dorin
Totally LawHoops - I honest to God believe that he took a dive.
Now I’m not saying for sure that it was a premeditated thing, but I feel for sure that he was looking for a place to lay down that night. He hadn’t taken many shots to the body that night, so it wasn’t like the cumulative effect of them wore him down - he got tagged once by a shot that didn’t even look that hard and stayed down yet had enough strength to hit the mat in frustration.
Even the post fight interview when he felt he had to explain that ‘a good body shot completely paralyses you’. Something about that fight is rotten.