De La Hoya-Pacquiao: Are You Buying the Hard Sell?

[edgarg]

The article is flawed and holds no weight at all, it holds about as much weight as a turd.

Instead of just being offensive with no evidence to back your claim, why not point outwhat you percieve to be the errors, flaws and what-ever-the-hell- you-called-um.??

[Jose Rizal]

Your letter is far too long for me to pick it to pieces, which I could, believe me. I'll just point out that Leonard may have been 41, but he'd made that bucket of money which had eluded Camacho, and don't forget that Camacho was not in his prime, and fighting 4 or 5 weight classes above his own prime, and still only 5'6", much smaller than Leonard. He was just better than him on a lb4lb basis.

Your reply describes the Camacho-Leonard fight in an even worse light. You unwittingly explained why it's much more of a travesty compared to this Pac-DLH one which was my point at scoffing at the writer about it to begin with...hehe. Thanks.

[Cooly Gapo Boy]

With all the media hype and all, one thing is for sure. Win or lose, the great Pacman will give all of the filipinos around the world something to be proud of. Dela Hoya should be ashamed of himself for choosing a little guy and to brag how he's gonna beat him up and knock him out just to earn a load sum of cash. Never underestimate your opponent DLH. Pacman is the P4P king and no matter how big you are, he will fight you, even if u beat him up, one thing's for sure, manny will not come down without a fight. Fight first then talk. Make us proud bay!!

[notevenfunny]

+4 friends

If you've got at least 4 friends, assuming it's $50 PPV, shet, that's $10 each.
Worth seeing it for that much.

If you've got no friends, wait another week on HBO, hahahaha! that's notevenfunny.com !

[crold1]

If you've got at least 4 friends, assuming it's $50 PPV, shet, that's $10 each.
Worth seeing it for that much.

If you've got no friends, wait another week on HBO, hahahaha! that's notevenfunny.com !

This argument is applicable for every fight on PPV...but best saved for night which can create new fans like Marg-Cotto. The people I watched DLH-Mayweather with were watching UFC on YouTube by round six of that one.

[raabd]

Aint buying but will find a way to watch.

[-Hyperion-]

This argument is applicable for every fight on PPV...but best saved for night which can create new fans like Marg-Cotto. The people I watched DLH-Mayweather with were watching UFC on YouTube by round six of that one.

anyone who had expectatons of that fight deserves to be ripped off though.......

it was a decent fight...not close to good but it wasnt in the same universe as a mayweather-baldomir, spinks-anyone, raheem-anyone fight.....

[HappyBoxingFan]

By Cliff Rold - It’s almost here and the head scratching continues about exactly what is coming.

In little more than a week, 29-year old WBC Lightweight titlist Manny Pacquiao (47-3-2, 35 KO) will step up 12 pounds from his latest home on the scale to face 35-year old former lineal Jr. Welterweight, Welterweight and Jr. Middleweight champion Oscar De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KO) at Welterweight. They’re two of the biggest and most storied names in the modern fight game but skepticism about the matchmaking remains. Something about this fight still just doesn’t feel right, feels cynical. [details]

Do I have a choice? What am I going to do? Am I going to not watch the marquee fight of the year? You know... I gotta say this: People write these columns about not buying into this or that... but what does that mean?

[Tha Greatest]

People who are bashing Manny Pacquiao are just straight up haters in life that went or are going in life. They like to bash warriors, to make themself feel better, and I'm assuming 90% of these people haven't stepped foot in a boxing ring in their life.

[MaTTuP]

I don't care about this fight, it has De La Hoya in it.

I only watch hungry fighters that make for exciting matchups. Not guys past their prime that monopolize boxing & bleed it dry. And toss their godamn name in the hat everytime a popular fighter is available to keep up with their 1 fight a year for the past 5-6 years (mostly losses). Thus cheating us (real boxing fans out of better fights).

De La Hoya is a piece of **** that won't flush down the toilet. He makes 24/7 completely laughable. He's phony snake just trying to get another payday. But he won't be getting my $$$ for this weak fight.

He can siphon it from the boxer's who's souls he owns.