How EXACTLY was David Diaz a tune-up for Pacman

[Bushidō]

Please don't mention Campbells name flawless, the man aint a fighter. Guzman vs pacquiao would have been interesting though.

Yeah too bad Guzman is too unfocused. He style would have been interesting vs pacquiao

[civicvx]

Yea yea....Pacquiao made more moneys fighting Dela Hoya than all those opponent you mention combine.

[Jiddu Dali]

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.

So it was Larry Merchant who negotiated DLH & Pac?

[Jiddu Dali]

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.

Hey man Diaz was a champ..he beat the great Eric Morales at the tail end of his career...give the guy some credit....and plus after Diaz, Pac moved up 12 lbs to fight the much bigger Oscar De la hoya @ 147lbs....(NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING......"DLH @147lbs?, he hasnt been that low since 1999" )...but its ok because Pac came up from 106lbs way back in 1995, so its ok to fight a bigger drained DLH that Pac even outweighed on fight night..........

[Bogler]

So it was Larry Merchant who negotiated DLH & Pac?

playing dumb fits you to a T you know.