Originally Posted by
JChavez
This was blasphemy! That was a way past his prime Chavez. Just to show you how far gone he was, he lost to some cat named Willy Wise a year after losing this fight. Willy Wise? Wasn’t he a character in them 1980’s Heathcliff cartoons?
The Cesar of Boxing was already being harassed by Father Time the first time these two hombres met in 1996. A prime Chavez vs a prime Oscar? Would have been the same outcome of a prime Tyson vs a prime Lenox Lewis - full-blown decimation. Julio makes pollo caldo de la hoya with The Golden Boy. There is no way the old man should have lasted this long with Oscar in this fight and no way he should have been able to land so many punches.
If you really analyze this version of Chavez you will be able to tell that he no longer had the legs, all his power punches were arm punches. And even when he was able to obtain the right range, he didn’t have the reflexes to let his combination go. When you’re a swarming, stalking type of fighter your squared-circle life span will not be the same of a finesse or defensive boxer or even a boxer that likes to fight from a distance. You will age a lot sooner.
Asses can look at all the listings of the greatest Latin fighters of all-time and they will see Chavez right behind Duran, and will also notice that De La Hoya wouldn’t even crack the top ten. But if they did find one where Oscar is in the top ten I can assure you you’ll have Chavez, Salvador Sanchez, Marquez and Morales in front of him. De La Hoya was a stud but Chavez was legendary.
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