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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 3525524, member: 34"] It was the first fight. Real good fight to highlight differences in styles. As I said, Whitaker's defense was surreal. De La Hoya would throw combos of 5-6 punches and not land any. Whitaker used the dodge ball strategy of ducking, dipping, hedging and all Oscar hit was air. Truth be told it was a boring fight other than from a technical viewpoint. No real good exchanges and I don't think either fighter hurt the other one at all. Probably should have been 115-113 or 114 apiece. Traditional thinking is you have to do something to beat the champ and De La Hoya didn't do anything to beat Whitaker. [/QUOTE]