Why There Needs To Be a De La Hoya-Pacquiao2 Bout
December 18th, 2008
By Manuel Perez: Forget about the results of the first fight, there needs to be rematch between Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) and Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs), because the result – an 8th round stoppage – is tainted from the fact that De La Hoya wasn’t at his best from having been weight drained leading up to the fight. Pacquiao can’t claim any victory from that, just as he can’t claim victory from his controversial 12-round split decision win over Juan Manuel Marquez in March.
De La Hoya needs a second chance to avenge his defeat, come in at a more nourished weight for his body and to be able to fight under his old trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. I frankly don’t care what people say about De La Hoya being shot and that he needs to retire, because they’re dead wrong, all of them. De La Hoya isn’t shot, and he definitely doesn’t need to retire.
Because all I know is that the fighter that Pacquiao beat on December 6th wasn’t De La Hoya, it was a fighter that was badly starved and in need of a good meal. Believe me, if you let Oscar into the rematch at more or less his natural weight and let him have his trainer Mayweather Sr. back alongside him, there’s no way that Pacquiao could beat him for a second time.
The fighter that Pacquiao beat was a sick man, someone that should have been in one of those Jenny Craig hospitals for fat people and not in the boxing ring trying to beat a top athlete. De La Hoya really screwed up when he got talked into fighting the bout at 147 – that was insane for him to do. Instead of trying to take off a ton of lard like he was doing, De La Hoya needed to keep his fat on his body, because he needed the fat reserves for later on in the fight to keep him strong as the fight wore on.
You can’t give away your fat like that. What De La Hoya needed to do is strip of a tiny bit of weight, somewhere along the lines of five pounds and then focus on dehydrating himself a day before the weight like all fighters do to make the 147 pound weight limit.
From a nutritional standpoint, De La Hoya was badly misguided to have taken off all the 20 or so pounds that he took off to make the fight, and he should have questioned the wisdom of his health gurus who assisted him in taking off the weight.
In a way, he seemed to be stressing out, over-thinking the bout, and looking for too much outside assistance to help him. If you don’t know what do after having spent over 25 years in the sport, I don’t what to think. De La Hoya didn’t need the health people, didn’t need the new trainer and certainly didn’t need to starve himself down to make the weight.
If you add all those things together, they come up to the real reason why De La Hoya lost to Pacquiao, and not because he was beaten in the ring. That’s further proof that there needs to be rematch as soon as humanely possible. Pacquiao should forget about fighting Ricky Hatton or Floyd Mayweather and turn his attention to finishing his business with De La Hoya, because he can ill afford to have another fight that leaves a lingering smell of controversy surrounding it.
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Of course, a lot of looser will have all the excuses. I agree with arturo, the writer might have protested for the fight not to push through in the first place.
I don’t know if you made any comments similar to this BEFORE the fight cause if you have then you’re my man! I’m sure you also voted and spoked favorably for Barrack Obama and said McCain didn’t have a chance. Or how about “I am not the same man you married 30 years ago…”
I don’t know if you made any comments similar to this BEFORE the fight cause if have then you’re my man! I’m sure you also voted and spoked favorably for Barrack Obama and said McCain didn’t have a chance. Or how about “I am not the same man you married 30 years ago…”
IT WAS A MISSMATCH. DE LA HOYA IS TOO BIG, TALLER, REACH ADVANTAGE AND A GREAT BOXING RECORD IN THE WORLD. PAQUIAO IS SHORT ON EVERYTHING PLUS HE HAS TO RAISE WEIGHT TWICE TO REACH THE TWO WEIGHT DEVISION AND HE IS NOT WORRIED TO LOOSE HIS SPEED BECAUSE HE HAS FAITH AND FIGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY AND NOT FOR HIMSELF. DE LA HOYA EVEN PROMISED THAT HE WILL KO PACMAN. NOW THAT IT WENT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, THEY ARE MAKING EXCUSES THAT DE LA HOYA IS DRAINED. THEY ARE ON DENIAL. THEY SHOULD SHUT THERE MOUTH UP.
oscar got beat down by a superfeatherweight/lightweight period………..weight drain my ass he’s a pro he knows his body/he knows whats good or not he thought pacman was an easy money i’m glad he got beat up because he rip off alot money from boxing fans for years oscar is a nice guy but he’s overrated he’s not mexican warrior
Are you really a professional writer or a flame war writer?
Pacquiao wins, DLH lost..rematch!?
Yeah right I wanna see another embarrassing fight on DLH again against Pacquiao just to make me laugh.
What exciting is Hatton/Pacquiao or Mayweather/Pacquiao.
As for Delahoya him being retired means he will make fights happen that we the fans want to see not the ones he fights and manipulates for his own benefit.Face it he thought he would dominate but instead it was he who got dominated.Get over it we the fans will benefit now from his retirement!
Manny/Hatton thats what i want to see
I can understand that for DLH, it’s hard to go out like that. One day, everyone’s criticizing you for taking an easy fight, the next day everyone’s lost respect for you for losing what they thought was an easy fight. Maybe DLH’s last fight should be against RJJ. Then we’ll truly find out which legend ruined their career the most by self managing and not sticking to a good trainer.
This writer’s point was simple: ODLH got his pretty azz whupped at 147, so let’s try getting him in at 150. If that doesn’t work either, how about at 160? Still no? 165? No?!?!? Wtf? Okay, let’s hand Oscar a baseball bat and get it over with. Anything and everything in as many rematch as we effing want just so Oscar wins in the end. LMAO.
I have just read this article and quite frankly cant stop laughing. Its the most one sided biased piece i have ever read. It would be intersting to see if the author has any journalist skills at all, but judging by what he has written it would strongly suggest not.
What was Manny meant to do, should he have fought him at middleweight just to accomodate De La Hoya.
Have you seen how much critiscm Dawson is getting (rightfully so) for taking on a Tarver, a guy he previously battered. It would be the same if Manny gave Oscar a rematch
the fight was won by pac, get over it and stop making excuses for OLDH, he had no plan and got showed up, end of.
Whatta piece of whatchamacallit! Had ODLH came in at 160 Pac would have beaten him just the same, and this same writer would say ODLH should have came in at 147 where he would be slick, he looked heavy-footed and short in stamina carrying baggage at 160. True, Oscar is past his prime, but didn’t Pac come in 2-1 underdog?
Any donkey can make excuses after the fact, even those disguised as a sports writer.
i totally agree with this article, just wot i thought!. Ppl have opinions and i think any1 at welterweight division would beat De la hoya that night, he wasn’t de la hoya at all, we never saw him like this , his body was saggy and without much muscles. Coming down from weight was a big problem, plus de la hoya’s staff weren’t for top job and top occasion. But ofcourse i need to give credit to Manny Pacman as he is in my eyes for the past years ” BEST FIGHTER ON THE PLANET ” , he never duck any opponent thats why i think there should be a rematch, ppl may not see no need for this for pacman but i am sure pacman would like to confirm his legacy and will give Hoya a chance, which may lead to De la hoya’s redemtion… but god knows if De la hoya will fight again and god knows wot he’s doin now!! in 2009 i think it’ll turn out like this Manny vs. Hatton first, the winner fight Floyd Jr., so i dont see where De la hoya can fit in the schedule, BUT anything is possible in boxing and De la hoya is still the biggest name in boxing and you guys would agree with me.
What bollox. You have on the one hand, a guy who has fought as high as 160 and on the other you have a guy who has fought as low as 106. Their last fights respectively were at 150 and 135. 147 was a legitimate catch weight for the two fighters. If De la Hoya, after 16 years as a pro couldnt shift 3 pounds for a ‘Dream Match’, he should retire. He got shown up, as every old man does, and not taint his legacy further. It is ridiculous to suggest Manny should fight Oscar again at a higher weight. If Oscar wants to fight again he should take on bigger welterweights who can fight around the 150 mark, like Paul Williams or Tony Margarito.
Manny vs Ricky Hatton at 140 looks tantalising, an evenly matched super fight.
LMFAO!!!That article was the biggest piece of trash i have ever read.The fighter that Pacquiao beat was De La Hoya 100%.He was not weight drained or any of that other BS.He looked like a fighter that was out boxed with speed,skill,and power.Oscar wouldn’t have been a match for Manny at any weight class.And Oscar wouldn’t have been a match for Manny at any age either.It was a total 100% beat down.And oscar embaressed himself and looked like the money hungry no hearted fighter he has become.From Oscar gettin his face smashed in by Felix Strum,to Oscar rolling around doing mattress comercials in the Hopkins fight,to Oscar gettin worked by Mosley 2 or 3 times.He is done,through,over.Stick a fork in his sorry as*.