De Lay Hoya vs Forbes

Ok. So it went just as I expected. Forbes gave a great effort, but of course he came way too short of success. Two of the judges had it 119/109 for De La Hoya. De La Hoya looked pretty good and resembled his old self. Forbes acted more like a sparring partner for most of the night. He consistently initiated “handshakes” and nodded when De La Hoya had a good round. De La Hoya flurried when he got Forbes against the ropes, and did a lot of shoe shining to get the fans excited. Forbes was not busy enough during the fight, he threw and landed less punches throughout the fight, but landed the more effective punches until the second half of the fight. The bottom line is Forbes is a slick, technical fighter, but was just too nice to capitalize on his opportunity.

What’s next for De La Hoya? Hopefully after the Mayweather fight in September (which I don’t think is official yet, but it probably will happen) he will fight the winner of the Cotto/Margarito fight. A fight with Cotto would be a mega fight that certainly would rival his fight with Trinidad. It would also be a great way to make up for his performance in the championship rounds of that fight where he basically gave the fight away to Trinidad.