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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (2113)	3/14/2001 4:43:48 PM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 10489

ROFL! First Holycow, then Mills Lane. A schmorgasboard, in the ring. LPS5

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (2113)	3/16/2001 10:28:30 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10489

De La Hoya isn't warrior he once was by Robert Morales, columnist Oscar De La Hoya doesn't seem to understand that to be considered best in the world, pound-for-pound, you must be a warrior. "Sugar" Shane Mosley and Felix Trinidad Jr. are warriors, and that is why they are the top two fighters in virtually every poll. De La Hoya talked Tuesday about his upcoming 12-round welterweight bout with Arturo Gatti (33-4, 27 KOs) on March 24 in Las Vegas. De La Hoya proved once and for all that he is not the warrior he once was with one single, yet telling, comment. He was asked what he thought about Fernando Vargas calling him a coward after he ran from Felix Trinidad Jr. in September 1999. De La Hoya was undefeated, and ahead in the fight until he literally ran away the final three rounds. He suffered his first loss and lost his WBC welterweight title. "If I am a coward, I do not know what he is," De La Hoya said of Vargas. "It is better being a coward than getting knocked down five times." (Trinidad knocked out Vargas in the 12th round last December.) Now we have it. De La Hoya finally admitted, even if he didn't realize it, that he didn't have the heart to go to war with Trinidad. In the same conversation, De La Hoya talked about gaining revenge on both Trinidad and Mosley, who gave De La Hoya his second loss last June at Staples Center. Said De La Hoya of Mosley: "Now that I am training with (Floyd) Mayweather (Sr.), the picture is much bigger and I can see a lot of defects with Mosley. I cannot wait to fight him. "He did great (last Saturday) against a fighter (Shannan Taylor) who just stood there. "I cannot wait to put a stop to him being called the best fighter in the world." Mosley was spectacular in stopping Taylor on a fifth-round technical knockout. Assuming De La Hoya (32-2, 26 KOs) defeats Gatti, De La Hoya said he would move up to junior middleweight, where Trinidad has won two world titles since moving up after beating De La Hoya. But Trinidad is signed to participate in the World Middleweight Championship Series. The tournament will feature Trinidad, WBA champion William Joppy, IBF champion Bernard Hopkins and WBC champion Keith Holmes. De La Hoya, however, believes Trinidad would come back down to 154 because he would be able to make more money fighting De La Hoya than anyone else. "The Trinidad-Vargas fight was a much more exciting fight than my fight against Trinidad," De La Hoya conceded. "But Trinidad won it easy against Vargas. That shows me you have to be a very smart fighter against Trinidad. "Yes, Trinidad is a power puncher, but he can be beat easily. I assure you, next time I will beat him easy. The second time around, I have no doubt I will knock him out." The guess here is that De La Hoya still wouldn't have the stomach to go toe-to-toe with Trinidad often. He would stick and move and hope to frustrate Trinidad into a mistake. But whereas he didn't try to capitalize in their first fight, I do believe De La Hoya would try to stop Trinidad at the height of Trinidad's frustration. De La Hoya does have a lot of pride, enough that he would get in there and slug it out at the perfect moment. A De La Hoya-Mosley rematch could be at either 147 or 154. Mosley, of course, has been waiting for a rematch with De La Hoya. There is no question he would fight De La Hoya at either weight. The De La Hoya-Gatti fight will be shown delayed on HBO. De La Hoya still refuses to accept any blame for his two defeats. "Don't blame me; blame all the trainers that I had," De La Hoya said. "I can run as far as I can by myself. If someone is not teaching me, then I am not progressing. "If I had Mayweather earlier in my career, I would be undefeated and still champion. It is a shame that I had the trainers I had before." Before Mayweather, who will be working his first fight with De La Hoya, Robert Alcazar, Gil Clancy, Emanuel Steward and Jesus Rivero trained De La Hoya. Steward and Clancy are Hall of Famers.