ODLH : The Successful Failure?

Just had a little look on Oscar de la Hoys's twitter and he came up with a line saying "It is hard to fail,but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.", followed by "I failed my way to success.".

The last part about failing his way to succeed is an interesting one. Having lost 6 out of his 6 biggest fights in his career, you do have to contemplate his boxing legacy a bit. Yes very good reasons can be made for these losses, the outragous tactics in the last 3 rounds against trinidad handing tito victory on a plate, going against BHop in a weight class way too out of his range, broken hand early against mayweather and age againt pacquaio, but it changes not the fact that he lost his biggest fights.

Is Oscar being too hard on himself? Is he not the fighter that the hype implies? did he get through the boxing divisions on purely good promotions and hand picked champions?

So many questions and doubts hang around the Golden Boy's career, it really makes you wonder what his legacy really is; an extremly good journey man who is canon fodder for the truley great to test themselves against perhaps?...

Perhaps the journey man tag is a bit ridiculous but with the biggest wins of his career being against an old chavez and vargaz, who frankly is no sugar ray, does oscar de la hoya deserve his place in ring magazines top 80 boxers in the last 80 years? or does he deserve the credit and money he has due to being a great boxer who defied boxing laws by winning in 6 weight classes and always stood up to any challenge, unlike a certain mayweather i can think of?