The Golden Boy Robbed? Oscar De La Hoya feels gypped. What else is new?

easily kick the guy's butt in a fight), I typically don't care much about these competitions either. I haven't given a damn who was crowned Miss America since the all too brief reign of Vanessa Williams. However, I often do vest myself emotionally in the outcome of a boxing match. So when the announcer states that we are going to the scorecards to find out what has been decided, this is my least favorite moment of any fight. Regardless of what I have seen up to that point and what opinion I have formed about it, I know that the judges saw matters in their own manner for their own reasons, and their group opinion is the only one that matters. Boxing is notorious for inexplicably reasoned judgments being made. Every time this occurs, I swear along with countless other fight fans that I have had enough of this crooked racket. Too many times, such idiotically rendered conclusions lead me to declare that boxing is not an honorable sport, and therefore not worthy of my attention to it. Yet I am always lured back, for at its best, a boxing contest is an event without peer, a fascinating spectacle to those of us with a little blood lust within our hearts. Anyone who watched the Gatti-Ward trilogy understands what I am talking about. Sylvester Stallone did a wonderful job of fictionalizing the appeal of boxing with his Rocky films, and their immense popularity speaks for itself. But there's nothing quite like the real thing.

Due to its ability to occasionally thrill me, time and time again I disregard the tendency of boxing to disappoint or flat out infuriate me. The most recent example of the latter was the title fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley. As I watched it on pay per view, I felt that the Golden Boy had earned himself a rather routine victory. Sugar Shane had simply done too little, and gone about it too late. I was not especially impressed by Oscar's performance. I did not believe he had ever really hurt Mosley. It was my opinion that Oscar fought in a very cautious manner in order to best keep himself out of harm's way while dictating the pace of the fight. Mosley seemed to be landing harder and more effective punches whenever he did get around to throwing them. But he too was overly

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