So Oscar De La Hoya stopped Yory Boy Campas in the seventh round. Whoop-dee-do. If you spent 50 bucks to watch it, shame on you. The fight would have been worth watching for free only because Oscar De La Hoya is still only 30 years old, and a legitimately great fighter, and anyone who fits that description is worth watching. But to match him up with the clearly-past-his-prime, one-dimensional Campas, really didn't pass muster, even as a tune-up for De La Hoya's rematch with Shane Mosley.

Speaking of Mosley, at least De La Hoya looked better against Campas than Sugar Shane looked against Raul Marquez. The thing about top fighters on the downside of their careers, is that when they are matched together, they often produce great fights. Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier III is one example of such a fight, Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns II is another, perhaps, looking back at it, De La Hoya-Vargas will eventually qualify along those lines as well.

The first De La Hoya-Mosley fight was, all things considered, the best fight I ever watched from ringside. It featured two great fighters, in their physical primes, competing in the weight division in which they fought best, going at it in a fast-paced, high-skill level contest with dramatic shifts in momentum. Mosley won decisively, but many feel Oscar's seek-and-destroy style was a strategic mistake. Should Oscar box more this time around, how will Mosley adjust?

Vernon Forrest boxed Sugar Shane from a distance and handed him back-to-back losses. Like Forrest, Oscar is a tall, boxer-puncher with good lateral movement and a heavy jab. And the junior middleweight champ is no longer a one-handed fighter. Whether you like trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. or not, he must be credited with finally getting De La Hoya to throw his right hand regularly.

And while on the subject of Mayweather Sr., whether his plan to turn Oscar into a James Toney/Floyd Mayweather Jr. kind of cutie-defensive fighter is ultimately successful remains to be seen. Certainly that defensive style, which relies on subtle upper-body movement to avoid punches and conserve energy, can be appealing to a fighter entering his 30's. And, truth be told, Oscar is already quite good at it. Still, the reduced distance between De La Hoya and his opponent as a result of the style change means that it is now easier to reach Oscar's body, and against as accomplished a body puncher as Mosley, such a style has its disadvantages.

Fernando Vargas, who had not dominated decent world class opposition since before his knockout loss to Felix Trinidad in 2000, might have benefited from Oscar's new style. Sure, it can be argued that against Vargas, Oscar scored the first knockout of his career against a super-fight level opponent. The truth however, is that it is unclear whether Vargas is still a super-fight level fighter. It was assumed by many after De La Hoya-Vargas, that Oscar's knockout win was perhaps the finest performance of his career, and evidence that he is still a top pound for pound fighter. Time will tell.

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We have Jammel McCline against Charles Shufford on Friday Night Fights this week. McCline is huge, shows up in shape, and owns wins over Lance Whitaker, Michael Grant and Shannon Briggs. But in the biggest fight of his career, against Wladimir Klitschko, McCline froze-up. He fought with zero confidence and was eventually stopped. Klitschko lost his next fight, against Corrie Sanders, and in retrospect, had McCline fought Wladimir with any confidence at all, he would have had a good chance at the upset.

Shufford, best known for playing George Foreman in last year's highly publicized film "Ali," is not a contender, but he is a big guy, and a live body. McCline should win the fight, and his confidence should improve as a result. The question this Friday is whether McCline can dominate Shufford, whether he can knock Shufford out.

McCline caught Grant early and cold and scored the stoppage, but against Whitaker and Briggs, he lacked killer instinct and settled for decision wins. Even a little bit of aggression would have served him well against Klitschko, and McCline will have to show some against Shufford if he is to rekindle interest in his career. Lennox Lewis will not go on forever, and in his absence, there will be opportunities for those heavyweights who have the courage to take chances, to do very well for themselves. McCline has the physical ability to dominate - can he find the psychological motivation to do it? Hope to see you on Friday.

Max Kellerman is a studio analyst for ESPN2's Friday Night Fights and the host of the show Around The Horn.