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Manny Pacquiao breaks Oscar De La Hoya’s fighting spirit and will
By Zach Arnold | December 6, 2008
Freddie Roach won’t have to give up his cut of his share of the money from Manny Pacquiao, as Mr. Roach correctly predicted that Oscar De La Hoya would fight old against Manny Pacquiao. He did. Pacquiao won tonight’s fight after the 8th round by TKO. It was total domination.
Bob Arum is one happy man right now. Hatton vs. Pacquiao will either happen next year in the UK or in Dubai, depending on which boxing promoter you want to listen to at the moment.
Meanwhile, tonight’s undercard on the De La Hoya/Pacquiao show is getting ripped to shreds.
“He’s not The Golden Boy. He’s the black-and-blue boy right now.” — Teddy Atlas on Oscar De La Hoya, ESPN. “He did not use his height advantage. He didn’t even use his strength advantage. It didn’t look like De La Hoya was ready for his fight mentally, physically.”
“This fight chases him out the sport. He’s hurt the sport. Everybody looks for the De La Hoya fight. It’s like when you go to the movie theater and they show the same movie. It’s good that you get rid of him a little bit and you allow the public to see all this great talent. I think it’s now time for him to move.” — Not 100% word-for-word, but about as close as I could get while typing in real time.
(Using Teddy’s logic, if he was in pro-wrestling the 1980s he would have been complaining about Hulk Hogan being bad for business. After all, he wrestled generally the same formulaic match while drawing tons of cash at the box office.)
Atlas predicts that Mayweather will fight Pacquiao in ’09.
The Sweet Science has a full recap. Here are comments from Pacquiao’s mother about her son’s win.
‘Do you really think Americans will pay $55 to watch a 135lb Filipino destroy other 135lb fighters?‘
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Mosely will get beat badly in this fight. He was awful in his last fight although what a dramatic finish. He needs to retire though. Also glad to hear Roach say Manny v PBF at 147 aint gonna happen and Manny V Margarito is never gonna happem. Margartio would be way to strong for Manny.
Freddie said that PBF was a possibility though. So does that mean he’s ok with that fight at 140 but not 147? At 147, Mayweather would be too much for Pacman. At 140, that fight would be more competitive.
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BTW the Affliction main card really isn’t that bad. UFC 93 certaintly isn’t any stronger. UFC 93 features Henderson vs. Franklin, which is a weaker main event than Fedor vs. Arlovski. They also have the return of Shogun vs. a washed up can and the debut of Denis Kang vs. Belcher. Lindland vs. Belfort > Shogun vs. Coleman or Kang vs. Belcher.
Fedor-Arlovski and Lindland-Belfort are two great fights right there. And Babalu’s opponent has yet to be announced. Maybe they’ll bring in someone good. Also I doubt Barnett-Yvel is going to happen. The CSAC is reviewing Yvel’s case and I bet they won’t give him a license. So Barnett will most likely fight someone else. Affliction should have put Lil Nog-Matyushenko on the PPV main card instead of Horodecki-Lauzon.
Oh and UFC, PLEASE stop putting Marcus Davis on your UK shows. Having Davis try to pass as Irish at your UK shows is even more pathetic than De La Hoya trying to play up his Mexican heritage to win favor with Mexican national fans. Vera and Kang might be able to get away with that sort of thing but at least the Filipino and Korean fans see them as genuine from what I’ve heard.