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How was PAC vs oscar fight able to happen? What happen to the TR GB beef? And explain the negotiation I keep hearing that oscar cherry pick PAC but that went 100% wrong
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I suspect that was part of the deal when they began quibbling over rights to Manny. -
The beef between TR and GBP had not reached its peak yet. That started around the time they began trying to put together Mayweather-Pacquaio in 2010.
Oscar publicly promised that he would fight the winner of Cotto-Margarito, fully expecting Cotto to win. When Margarito destroyed Cotto, Oscar suddenly got cold feet.
He was initially supposed to fight Mayweather in a rematch but Floyd backed out over money.
So he cherry picked Pacquaio who'd had one fight at lightweight and the rest is history...Comment
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dlh ducked margarito and fought pacquiao instead cause he thought it would be easy. got what he deserved.Comment
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It's not just people who had never heard of Pac, the vast majority of boxing pundits thought DLH would win, they said Pac was too small, DLH too big. They said it was a mismatch, they said Pac was a greedy lil ****er for even takin this fight and that DLH was a scrupulous prick. Heck, in the build up, Oscar was talkin about a fight with Hatton in Wembley LOOOL
I saw boxing "experts", Americans, British, Latinos, all of em say on tv that DLH wins, it's all a question of when. Then Pac beats him up and all of a sudden everyone claims they knew Pac would win and that Oscar was finished.
I was one of the few who thought that Pac had a chance...I even posted on another forum with a diff username, I'll try finding that post.Comment
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dumb azz people actually thought pac was one dimensional hes is a all around beast and boxed him intill he folded in his cornerComment
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They made alot of great fights together between 07-09
hatton-manny
manny-mab 2
manny-jmm 3
cotto-shane
margs-shane
manny-oscar
And during this time, when everyone was getting along and making big fights, floyd mayweather was in a fake retirement, and only came back when TR and GBP were beefingComment
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In regards to the fight itself,,
1. oscar had a retirement plan,,, tuneup on HBO vs forbes, rematch with floyd at 147 in sept, then a december farewell fight
2. Oscar thought he could reclaim past glory by going back down to welter, his forbes fight was at 150
3. floyd wanted 50/50 and oscar didnt, so the rematch never happened..
4. Oscar was going to call out a smaller fighter with a big name ie hatton, manny, MAB, etc in hopes of reclaiming some glory like in the mid 90s vs genaro, leija, chavez
5. manny accepted cause it was a huge payday, oscar thought he could make 147 much like how chad dawson thought he could make 168
6. manny accepted oscar's conditions, and manny smoked him,,, end of story,,, oscar miscalculated his ability to make 147,, had he stayed at 154 he probably would have had much better successComment
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dela hoya doesn't really have problems doing business with arum. he even calls out arum every now and then to do gbp-top rank fights.
it's really schaefer who is beefing with arum and unfortunately it looks like it's no longer oscar calling the shots at gbp but schaeferComment
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