By Mark Vester
Oscar De La Hoya is going all-out to prepare for his December 6th bout with WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao. According to Mexico insider Ernesto Castellanos, De La Hoya will use Mexican legend Daniel Zaragoza to put together a strategy for Pacquiao.
Zaragoza, a southpaw like Pacquiao, was a former WBC bantamweight champion and a three-time WBC super bantamweight champion. He retired in 1997 after being stopped by an up and coming fighter who ultimately become a Mexican legend himself, Erik Morales.
Zaragoza will join De La Hoya in at his training camp in Big Bear, California, along with De La Hoya's new trainer, Ignacio Beristáin, nutritionist Roberto Garcia, brother Joel De La Hoya Jr. and assistant trainer Joe Chavez. De La Hoya has not trained in Big Bear since his 2001 bout with Arturo Gatti. Over the last few years, De La Hoya has trained in Puerto Rico. Gatti was De La Hoya's last bout at 147-pounds, and the fight with Pacquiao is also scheduled to take place at the welterweight limit.
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