Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather – Round by Round

Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather in “The World awaits” Round by Round recap coverage.

115-113 for De La Hoya, 116-112 for Mayweather, 115-113 for the winner and new superweight champ Floyd Mayweather.

Mayweather retiring after this Fight? Ugh seems like someone is afraid to lose. Notice the cheers after the fight? Those weren’t for Mayweather. Go figure. Oscar De La Hoya said it better ” If i didnt push him to a fight, there wouldnt be a fight”. Yeah, just some dancing around the ring with pretty boy Mayweather.

Here’s the round by round recap of the fight between 34 year old Oscar De la Hoya, arguably the sports biggest and most recognizable star in the past decade, and the 30 year old unbeaten Floyd Mayweather, who is recognized by The Ring Magazine as the best pound for pound boxer in the world.

Update: Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista and AJ Banal both win their respective fights via unanimous decision. Rocky Juarez wins a unanimous decision over Jose Hernandez on the cards. Spectators say the Juarez-Hernandez fight was so boring that an interview with Floyd Mayweather Sr. was being shown instead of the announcer’s play by play of the fight.

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 1: Prefight ceremonies are on. Anthems are sung. Floyd Mayweather enters the ring to a beat sung by someone walking beside him. He’s also wearing a sombrero to boos by the pro De La Hoya crowd. Oscar De La Hoya enters the ring. If cheers were boxing points, Floyd Mayweather would have no chance against the Golden Boy. Round 1 is on!

Both jabbing. Right by Floyd and another. Mayweather blocks all of De La Hoya’s body shots and head shots as he rushes in. Huge Oscar chant. Floyd jabbing and lands a right. Floyd jabbing, Oscar’s body shots blocked again. More jabs by Floyd.

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 2: Floyd does his usual jabbing style. Some hits by Dela Hoya.

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 3: Things getting hot as DLH getting some shots in and FM dancing around.

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 4: DLh getting more aggressive with some good body shots to FM. some good exchanges. FM trying to ward off DLH usig a stiff left arm. good finish by DLH

Oscar keeps trying to rush Mayweather. De La Hoya going nuts with the body attack when he pins Mayweather against the ropes. Floyd back with the jab and now begins to land his left. Combo by Oscar at the bell

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 5: Brutal exchange with DLH getting left to the face. Seems like the getting to know you stage is over with both roughing it up inside

Mayweather jabbing circles around De La Hoya. Mayweather beginning to get off with some power shots. Right hand by Floyd. Left hook by Floyd. Straight right for Floyd. Floyd jabbing. Floyd with a right hand and they trade punches at the bell.

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 6: DLh trying his jab. FM getting aggressive. Good flurry by DLH. FM using his hand speed . Good right to the face by DLH. Flurry by both at the end.

Mayweather jabbing circles around De La Hoya. Mayweather beginning to get off with some power shots. Right hand by Floyd. Left hook by Floyd. Straight right for Floyd. Floyd jabbing. Floyd with a right hand and they trade punches at the bell.

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 7:

Oscar jabbing to the body and pushing Mayweather back. Floyd landing punches to the head and body. Floyd to the body. Floyd with two rights. Floyd to the head and body. Floyd with a left and a body shot

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 8

Floyd jabbing. Floyd with a right. Oscar with a jab and a combo, Floyd comes back with a combo of his own. Floyd jabbing and lands a combo. Hard right by Floyd. Big combo by Floyd. Oscar chant begins. Left by Floyd. They trade some shots at the end

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 9

Floyd jabbing. Big right by Floyd. Floyd beginning to tee off with punches. Oscar tries to throw all of his punches as he traps Floyd, but he cant land any of the punches clean. Floyd landing two rights. Combo by Floyd. Floyd with a left

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 10

De La Hoya stalking and Floyd countering. Floyd jabbing. Combo by Floyd. Right hand by Floyd., left and a right by Floyd. Floyd landing on the inside. Floyd countering and making Oscar miss

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 11

Floyd now targeting the body. Floyd to the head and body. Floyd jabbing. Floyd again to the head and body. Floyd just blasting Oscar now to the head and body. Oscar appears to be tired and Mayweather is now punishing him. Oscar misses a flurry. Floyd seriously outboxing De La Hoya right now. Oscar with a hard right hand, but Floyd never lets him follow up

De La Hoya-Mayweather Round 12

Combo by Floyd as Oscar rushes in. Floyd combos and lands a hard right. Oscar goes to the body. Floyd to the head and body. The two begin to trade in the final minute but Mayweather is landing the crisper and cleaner shots. They begin to trade plenty of power shots for the final ten seconds and Oscar now getting the better of the exchange

After watching, can anybody say smiling Mayweather is the better fighter than De La Hoya? Boxer? maybe. But definitely not the better fighter. Id pay to see Oscar fight like that again. Mayweather? Boring…. but congratulations anyway.

More insights, analysis on De La Hoya and Mayweather’s fight after the jump.

If you’re a betting man, id say Mayweather would be the most “safe” choice. But personally, id like to see De La Hoya win. Floyd may be faster than De La Hoya but he also is more arrogant to the point of being disrespectful of his more storied opponent. Oh dont forget that the last 2 opponents who tried to trashtalk the Golden boy: Ricardo Mayorga and Fernando Vargas, both got decked via TKO.

Other results:

By Marc Abrams and Gary Herman, Ringside via 15rounds.com

Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista scored a unanimous decision victory over Sergio Medina of Argentina in a twelve round super bantamweight bout.

Judges scored the contest 116-108, 115-109 and 115-109 in favor of Bautista, who improves his record to 23-0. Medina, who put up a game effort, managed to score a knock-down in the fight, but nonetheless falls to 28-1.

AJ Banal beat Juan Rosas by unanimous decision. Judges scores were 78-73 twice and 76-75. Banal improves to 13-0-1 (10 Kos), and Rosas lowers to 25-3 (22 Kos).

In a close decision, undefeated prospect Bill Dib won a unanimous decision over Jose Gonzalez. Dib raises his record to 16-0 (10 Kos) while Gonzalez falls to 14-4 (6 Kos). The judges scored the fight 78-74 and 77-75 two times. Dib suffered a bloody nose during the fight.

John Murray beat Lorenzo Bethea by TKO when Bethea’s trainer through in the towel at the 28-second mark of the seventh round. Murray lifts his record to 21-0 (11 Kos), and Bethea’s drops to 6-5 (1 Ko).

Also on the card, Carlos Duarte defeated Calvin Rooks at 1:54 of round two by TKO. Duarte overwhelmed the debuting Rooks en route to the stoppage. Duarte remains undefeated at 6-0 (5 Kos) while Rooks is now 0-1 (0 Kos).

Christian Solano defeated John O’Donnell by Ko with a vicious left hook in the second round. Solano improves to 20-11-4 (15 Kos) while O’Donnell suffered his first defeat and falls to 15-1 (5 Kos).

And in the opening bout, Ernest Johnson fought to an eight round draw with Hector Beltran. Johnson’s record is now 16-2-1 (7 Kos), and Beltran’s record is at 10-1-1 (9 Kos).