How great of a win was Pac over Hoya?

[kill the body]

it was decent..im pretty sure casual fans would view it as a a way greater win than the floyd win over oscar becuase of the size disparity but in truth it aint not much lesser than the other.. imo

Both fought a shell of Oscar but Floyd beat him while he had a title and at a better weight.

[kiaba360]

It wasn't a great win, but I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Pac whup DLH's ass lol.

[kill the body]

The thing about bookies and betting odds is, they don't know how a boxer is going to handle the weight. Nobody does until after the fight. Now if the fighter loses, the haters can always say that it was because he was weight drained, BUT remember HE WAS ON IV before the fight. Now I am not an anthropologist but I am pretty sure he was desperate for fluids.


If the bookies knew this, then Pac would definitely have been the favorite.

Well that was Oscar's fault and he got exactly what he deserved.

[kill the body]

[Bermuda]

At the time Manny was a huge underdog so it was a great win. He had 1 fight at 135 and jumped to 147

yah barely anyone gave pac a chance in that fight....the win made pac into a huge boxing star.

[Chups]

Pac was the underdog and 90% of the Pacfans knew it was over for Manny (including myself). I believe the non-pacfans also thought it was a mismatch. It was a great win among pacfans and Hoya haters. Oscar was demolished and embarrassed for the first time in his life.

[Danny Gunz]

De la Hoya could have weighed 160 and he still woulve gotten blasted by Pac.

I think it was a good win just for the fact that Pac was seen as a sacrificial lamb to most people for Oscar to retire on a high note. I thought Pac was going to lose bad so did pretty much everyone else.

In short Pac took a big risk taking that fight and deserves the recognition for winning big.

[Bermuda]

Not a good win IMO.

De La Hoya was clearly drained and one of the worst cases of a fighter being weight drained that I've ever seen.

not rios? comparing rios weigh-in photos to his fight night photos is pretty damn crazy...

[CHOWWOKKA]

Well that was Oscar's fault and he got exactly what he deserved.

That is Oscar's fault!

But that doesn't mean I can credit Manny for beating Oscar if he were to fight comfortably.

That's like saying if Wlad wanted to fight Dawson at a catchweight of 215. And by some miracle Wlad makes the weight, and Dawson out boxes the **** out of zombie Wlad.

Can you really say Dawson's win over a zombie Wlad is a good win? It was Wlad's idea to make that weight and he made the cut, but still...

[Pacquiao'd]

Pacquiao weighed more than DLH.

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