It wasn’t a great fight, but four years ago today Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya met in what is now the highest grossing fight in boxing history (over 2 million pay-per-view buys). Mayweather put on his best villain persona which pulled in the casual fans,who of course expected an explosive barroom brawl. The hardcore boxing followers knew better, and weren’t surprised that we got a tactical chess match considering Mayweather was competing at junior middleweight, a size he had no business at. Mayweather had trouble with De La Hoya’s jab early on, but adjusted and took away that punch down the stretch. De La Hoya, notorious for fading in the championship rounds, failed to make his own changes to pull out the fight. Mayweather won a split decision in name only, and used that momentum to TKO Ricky Hatton later in the year and become the new cash cow of boxing. De La Hoya would pass the torch one more time a year later when he was TKO’d by this generation’s other superstar, Manny Pacquiao.
Beats, Boxing and Mayhem 