First and foremost I would like to thank all of the lectors for the emails. I have spent the last six weeks in Puerto Rico where I had time to visit the Oscar de la Hoya training camp, speak to the natives, and just get a general feeling of the intensity leading up to this fight. I will be visiting Floyd Mayweather Jr?s training camp in Las Vegas within the next two weeks and the readers of this website will be treated to an inside look at the training camp of the pound for pound boy wonder. De La Hoya vs Trinidad All Over Again
As every boxing fan knows by now, on May 5, 2007 the biggest hyped fight in history will take place. The hype for this fight is so excessive that there is no way the actual fight will meet up to the expectations. This fight is similar to the last greatly hyped match up that turned out to be a dud, Oscar ?Golden Boy? De La Hoya versus Felix ?Tito? Trinidad, back in 1999. That fight was hyped as the fight of the millennium and didn?t even turn out to be fight of the year. The potential for a great fight was there as we expected one of two scenarios. One, the powerful yet vulnerable Trinidad would just overpower the less powerful Golden Boy or the Golden Boy would use his boxing skills to decision Trinidad or somehow surprise and hurt him. What we got was a close fight with toss up rounds in the first four rounds, Oscar de la Hoya outboxing Trinidad from rounds five through eight and then Oscar De La Hoya literally running away from Trinidad from rounds nine through twelve. Trinidad did not seem at his best either but did seem to be trying to make a fight happen while De La Hoya seemed to be doing the opposite. A draw, as Harold Lederman had it, would have been the fairest decision. Like the De La Hoya-Trinidad fight, for the Mayweather vs De La Hoya fight, it is expected that the fight will end in one of two scenarios, a De La Hoya knockout or Mayweather taking a boring decision. I think this fight does not live up to the hype and that Mayweather wins a
