Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Pacquiao Has To Cut Off Ring and Connect

[mrpizza-nd_beer]

Those with slow feet and hand speed need good ring cutting skills. Pac obviously can hurt you on the chase thanks to those massive calves.

[MRCHOKEaMF]

pac cant hurt a fly anymore, remember he's fighting a WW thats never been down, let alone ko'd. And where has this supposed power been since his move to WW or started taking drug tests. For whatever reason he hasnt had any in 5yrs. So its a boxing match and Manny cant beat Floyd trying to outbox him, ask a bigger man (canelo). If he walked down a man out-weighing him by 15+lbs why dont you think he'd do it to pac (pac doesnt have the power anymore)? Pac is not better than floyd at long range, mid range, and definitely not close-range. So a ko is the only way he can win, and he doesnt ko WW's.

[Mr. Punch-Out!!]

He won't cut the ring off and will get picked apart, he makes too many mistakes to beat Floyd.

No, he doesn't.

[sterilizer]

I am not a fan of De la Hoya by any means, but I completely disagree with your quote "he spends his time looking for ways to hate on a guy who is doing 10 times better than him", regarding your notion that Mayweather is way more successful than De la Hoya ever was. If Mayweather is such a success compared to De la Hoya, when you compare their careers, then how can you explain this:

In this coming fight, Floyd is the #1 P4P boxer and Pac is not even in the top five, YET THE SPLIT FOR THE FIGHT is going to be 60-40, almost half and half, when Pac is clearly the underdog in the fight. Maybe two to one or worse. And he is not even an American and the fight will take place in Vegas, exactly the same as the fight between De la Hoya and Floyd, both Americans, one a Mexican-American and the other an African-American.

In the fight De la Hoya-Floyd, De La Hoya was a two to one underdog and Floyd was the #1 P4P fighter in the year just ended (2006).

Yet, even in spite of ALL that, De La Hoya was the one who was always mentioned first, he was by far the main draw in that fight, and if you or anyone wants to contest this statement, just look at the figures:

De La Hoya ended up earning $52 million for the bout.
Floyd Mayweather earned $25 million for the fight

That is, between the total of $77 milion split between the two,
67.5% went to de la Hoya
32.5% went to Floyd --LESS THAN HALF of De la Hoya's earnings!!!

I mean that's ridiculous, taking into account that the #1 P4P was Mayweather at the moment, and he was by far the favorite to win, two to one. Still, AS I HAVE JUST PROVED IT, De la Hoya was by far the main draw, the main attraction in that fight.

Yes, I admit that today's net worth of Floyd is larger than Oscar's in million US dollars, but it doesn't mean Floyd is "10 times better than Oscar ever was", it just means that, precisely because of people like De la Hoya himself, both as a boxer and then as a promoter, people like Floyd have now access to huge amounts of money for championship fights, just like the heavy weights did before De la Hoya came into the picture and attracted interest to the welterweight and super-welterweight divisions. The direct beneficiaries of this, were Floyd himself, of course Oscar now as a promoter, and, indirectly, Bob Arum and Manny.

So please be careful when you say that Floyd is doing "10 times better than Oscar", because if you still think so, would you care to demonstrate HOW he is doing better than Oscar ever did, in his time???

I mean, even in net worth TODAY, AFAIK Floyd's is around $300 million and Oscar's is about a bit more than $200 million US, that is not even twice as much for Floyd, whch is way off that "10 times better" statement of yours.

Oscar is pathetic, Floyd beat him fair and square at his weight, with the gloves he picked out, the ring size and everything else Oscar demanded. It's still eating at Oscar that with all the advantages he still got his zza whooped. Then he fights Pacroid, but he had to drain himself from 154lbs down to 147lbs &couldn't finish the fight because he was to ****** in agreeing to the terms of that fight.Now that he's nothing more than a coked up cross dressing clown he spends his time looking for ways to hate on a guy who is doing 10 times better than him . Oscar should just go get more ******* and snort himself into la la land and keep his mouth closed....