How EXACTLY was David Diaz a tune-up for Pacman

[mikelovesfood]

People claim David "bum" Diaz was a tune up for Pacman at 135. If Diaz was a tune-up, that would suggest Pacman was planning to fight someone else at 135.

But Pacman never did. He had the chance to fight Guzman or Campbell. Pacman was dead scared of these guys.

Pacman ducked 140 and 135, to fight weight drained Oscar. Simply, there were 3 slick boxers who would have schooled him. Guzman,Campbell and Bradley.

Uh, no.

If you are lucky enough to get a fight w/ Oscar you take it. Simply because everyone knows he's the PPV king. No boxer in their right mind would turn him down. Pre-fight it was mostly seen as mismatch. So by that logic Pac moves up two weight divisions to duck fighters at 140 and 135?

I swear man this whole logic that Pac ducked fighters (your claim) at LW and JWW or ducked "slick" fighters is all just hate and non-sense.

[Eaner0919]

People claim David "bum" Diaz was a tune up for Pacman at 135. If Diaz was a tune-up, that would suggest Pacman was planning to fight someone else at 135.

But Pacman never did. He had the chance to fight Guzman or Campbell. Pacman was dead scared of these guys.

Pacman ducked 140 and 135, to fight weight drained Oscar. Simply, there were 3 slick boxers who would have schooled him. Guzman,Campbell and Bradley.

I was with you until you called Campbell and Bradley slick boxers

[Doctor_Tenma]

I was with you until you called Campbell and Bradley slick boxers

Agree, those 2 aren't slick.

[mikelovesfood]

king flawless and goblin are two of the dumbess haters i have ever seen in my life. I am a hater but im not as dumb as these two- its very upsetting because they will never get a credit for writing BS comments.If you want to convince at least try a bit harder cuz i dont think nobody is buying this crap.

-Believe me or not prior to De la hoya (weigh drained or not) it was actually more riskier going 2 more division after weighin in at 135 diaz and 130 with marquez w/in the same year. 140 wtf nate campbell? LOL that idiot who tried to showboat and got ktfo. What did he do really? He just lost to lorenzo, casamayor, peden at that time. O.o

....took the words out my mouth.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Nice way of rewriting history.

The plan was for Pacquiao to move up to 135 and take on the "easiest" champ in David Diaz. He was to stay in the division as there were a number of options there. But then came along oscar de la hoya and larry merchant, who had this crazy idea of fighting pacquiao. Enough money was on the table, pacquiao accepts, goes up in weight, beats oscar easily and the rest is history. No need to go from 147 back to 135. The logical thing to do was stay go to 140 and fight Ricky Hatton.

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poor Flawless...the albino australian fails again

[VipersThunder]

People claim David "bum" Diaz was a tune up for Pacman at 135. If Diaz was a tune-up, that would suggest Pacman was planning to fight someone else at 135.

But Pacman never did. He had the chance to fight Guzman or Campbell. Pacman was dead scared of these guys.

Pacman ducked 140 and 135, to fight weight drained Oscar. Simply, there were 3 slick boxers who would have schooled him. Guzman,Campbell and Bradley.

Whatever, Pacman is tiny and he still fighting a better welterweight then ***** the **** ever thought about fighting.

[Pullcounter]

diaz was a tune up for pac at 135 lbs in the same way that mitchell was a tune up for floyd at 147 lbs...

both were getting their feet wet...

[johncods]

Uh, no.

If you are lucky enough to get a fight w/ Oscar you take it. Simply because everyone knows he's the PPV king. No boxer in their right mind would turn him down. Pre-fight it was mostly seen as mismatch. So by that logic Pac moves up two weight divisions to duck fighters at 140 and 135?

I swear man this whole logic that Pac ducked fighters (your claim) at LW and JWW or ducked "slick" fighters is all just hate and non-sense.

+1 couldn't have said it better.. And pac is fighting an elite WW something floyd haven't while being that division for his last 6 fights.

[Al Haymon]

No offense but even at 147 everyone was claiming DLH/Pac was a complete mismatch and Pac had no chance. Hindsight is always 20/20

The flipside to "hindsight is 20/20" is "we reserve the right to get smarter".

Just like we did not know that RJJ coming down in weight was going to damage him, we didn't know that Oscar was going to ruin himself by becoming an anorexic to make 147.

The reality is that that Hatton @ 147 KO's Oscar @ 147*.


*Of course, the 2008 version of Oscar @ 147. Not prime.

[Al Haymon]

+1 couldn't have said it better.. And pac is fighting an elite WW something floyd haven't while being that division for his last 6 fights.

Pac is fighting an elite 145'er.