De La Hoya Forbes Odds & Predictions
Written April 30, 2008 by Jack Jones
On Saturday May 3rd one of boxing biggest attractions will be making his first appearance of the year. Oscar De La Hoya is set to square of with Steve Forbes in Los Angeles. This will mark the first time De La Hoya will fight in Los Angeles since 2000. While many people are speculating that De La Hoya is just using this fight to prepare for a rematch against Floyd Mayweather Jr., who he lost to back in May of last year. Forbes also adds to the publicity of the fight; as he was a finalist on the Season 2 of the hit ESPN TV show the Contender. Since Forbes bring a much similar style to the ring as Mayweather Jr., it seems to be that De La Hoya is seeking revenge. Though that will all go for nothing if he is unable to beat Forbes who is no slouch himself. So lets take a little closer look at each fighter, and then we will give you our prediction on the outcome of the fight.
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Oscar De La Hoya (38-5, 30KOs) -2000 at Bodoglife.com
Everyone loves it when De La Hoya gets in the ring, as he is arguable the sports biggest non-heavyweight star. Nicknamed “The Golden Boy” from his big win for the U.S. in the Barcelona Olympic Games. De La Hoya has that great ability to send his opponent to the floor with devastating knockout punches. De La Hoya is a Super Welterweight boxer from East Los Angeles and has just recently turned 35. De La Hoya started off his professional boxing career going 31-0 and his first loss came by the hands of the very good Felix Trinidad, in a fight many people believed De La Hoya had won. Then a little over a year later he lost for the second time to Shane Mosley. Some big fights that De La Hoya has won over the past 5 years is a TKO against Fernando Vargas, a unanimous decision against Felix Sturm, and a TKO against Ricardo Mayorga. It is also a good side note that Floyd Mayweather Sr. will be back with De La Hoya as his trainer for this fight; also there is speculation that this will be the final year of boxing for De La Hoya.
Steve Forbes (33-5, 9KOs) +1000 at Bodoglife.com
While Forbes gained almost all of his popularity thanks to the “Contender”, he isn’t completely out of this fight. His record can be a little misleading, as it seems very similar to that of De La Hoya, but the level of competition heavily favors De La Hoya. One thing that Forbes has on his side is that people are saying that he has a very similar style to that of Mayweather Jr. With that style working pretty impressively in the first fight between De La Hoya and Mayweather Jr., it’s not to far stretched to say it wont play a role in this fight. While there is no question that Forbes is no where near the fighter of Mayweather Jr., his trainer is part of the Mayweather family and could really help Forbes chances of pulling off the huge upset.
Winner: Oscar De La Hoya -2000 at Bodoglife.com
We aren’t going to give you a big shocker on this fight, as we just don’t see Forbes being able to beat De La Hoya. What will be interesting if Forbes is able to use his Mayweather like style and compete in this fight, if he can’t it just might end up being a TKO victory for De La Hoya. If you like underdogs then maybe you risk a little on Forbes, but we believe you are just throwing money away.
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