Oscar De La Hoya Vs Manny Pacquaio: Fight Predictions and Analysis
It has been billed as David Vs. Goliath.
If you own a bible, a look at first Samuel, Chapter 17 will give you the background.
Goliath was a fierce warrior and champion of the Philistines. David accepts the challenge of Goliath, and armed with his sling and five stones he manages to defeat Goliath and cut off his head with his own sword.
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Oscar De La Hoya is the undisputed champion and Goliath of PPV buys. His fight against Mayweather Jr. set the record, generating a reported 134.4 million dollars.
Manny is the David of this battle, champion of his country, and a virtual one man sports franchise in the Philippines. Although considered to be number one pound for pound on many lists, Manny has yet to become a ppv star-YET.
On December 6th, the two will meet at a catchweight, with no official titles on the line, in what will no doubt be the biggest boxing attraction in recent memory.
I asked the top boxing writers on Bleacher Report their thoughts on this matchup, and here is what they had to say:
Nicholas Sowemimo wrote:
Although Iโll be pulling for Pacquiao, because this is clearly a business venture to maximize profits for De La Hoyaโs own benefit, the objectivity (and common sense) tells me to go with De La Hoya.
De La Hoya is disguising his reasoning for choosing Pacquiao as an opponent as his desire to โwanting to fight the best,โ his claim is garbage and unacceptable, because he fought the bestโฆand lost. So really, heโs fighting the interim bestโand thatโs no disrespect to Pacquiao, but it is what it is. Heโs choosing Pacquiao because of the unprecedented size advantage and frankly, he knows he can beat him.
But before I go on ranting further, De La Hoya wins by knockout if they brawl, decision if he boxes smart.
Weโve seen 5โ6โ Pacquiao lose, and lose convincingly and heโs been a victim of a knockout lost to opponents his size. Itโs clichรฉ, but true: Pacquiao has never fought someone the size of De La Hoya, with only one fight at 135, the jump to 147 when his opponent will come into the ring at 160 maybe, is unprecedented and almost absurd.
Itโs not even wholly about whether or not DLH can โstill pull the trigger or not,โ because stylistically and strategically both, Pacquiao is going to brawl because heโs going to need to get inside to hit โThe Golden Boy.โ Pacquiaoโs reach is 67โ, De La Hoya, 73โ and while thatโs not the biggest difference, it definitely gives DLH some room to operate, and although Pacquiao will press the action, even if he doesnโt want toโhe has to, how much of a true Middleweightโs punch can Pacquiao take?
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