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My wallet is with DELAHOYA-Al Mendoza
No match.
That´s what they said before the ´Dream Match´ between Filipino Manny ´PacMan´ Pacquiao and Mexican-American Oscar ´Golden Boy´ De La Hoya on 6 December at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the land of Barack *****. Golden Boy was much taller and much bigger and much better; PacMan was going to lose in an ignominious, humiliating manner. Stop him!
Filipino sportswriter Al Mendoza himself said just before the fight (quoted by Sophia Dedace, 7 December, gmanews.tv) (my translation from the Manila lingua franca):
Ang pitaka ko, naka´y De La Hoya. Idol natin talaga, pero this time, ang pinipili kong manalo ay si De La Hoya. Hindi ka-liga ni Pacquiao si De La Hoya.´ ´My wallet is with De La Hoya. Pacquiao is really my idol, but this time, I´m picking on De La Hoya to win. Pacquiao is not in the same league as De La Hoya.´
Horrors! De La Hoya was annihilated instead. Then Al Mendoza said Golden Boy did that on purpose. ´If Pacquiao went into that fight prepared to win, De La Hoya went in prepared to lose´ (ANN, 8 December, abs-cbnnews.com). De La Hoya committed sports suicide, going into such length to disgrace himself for all the world to see on live TV? He´s not that crazy.
But I agree with Al Mendoza; PacMan is not in the same league as Golden Boy – the Golden Boy is gross, PacMan is great! I admire Al Mendoza as a sportswriter, but I didn´t know he had no respect for Manny Pacquiao. And sorry, his judgment didn´t jive with the facts.
No match
That´s what they said before the ´Dream Match´ between Filipino Manny ´PacMan´ Pacquiao and Mexican-American Oscar ´Golden Boy´ De La Hoya on 6 December at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the land of Barack *****. Golden Boy was much taller and much bigger and much better; PacMan was going to lose in an ignominious, humiliating manner. Stop him!
Filipino sportswriter Al Mendoza himself said just before the fight (quoted by Sophia Dedace, 7 December, gmanews.tv) (my translation from the Manila lingua franca):
Ang pitaka ko, naka´y De La Hoya. Idol natin talaga, pero this time, ang pinipili kong manalo ay si De La Hoya. Hindi ka-liga ni Pacquiao si De La Hoya.´ ´My wallet is with De La Hoya. Pacquiao is really my idol, but this time, I´m picking on De La Hoya to win. Pacquiao is not in the same league as De La Hoya.´
Horrors! De La Hoya was annihilated instead. Then Al Mendoza said Golden Boy did that on purpose. ´If Pacquiao went into that fight prepared to win, De La Hoya went in prepared to lose´ (ANN, 8 December, abs-cbnnews.com). De La Hoya committed sports suicide, going into such length to disgrace himself for all the world to see on live TV? He´s not that crazy.
But I agree with Al Mendoza; PacMan is not in the same league as Golden Boy – the Golden Boy is gross, PacMan is great! I admire Al Mendoza as a sportswriter, but I didn´t know he had no respect for Manny Pacquiao. And sorry, his judgment didn´t jive with the facts.
No match
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