Could De La Hoya fight Pacquiao?

[Chino]

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/index

Many people think De la Hoya is all done and has nothing but lets be realistic. He's far from being shot and can still offer some competition out there.

What do you guys think about this match?

If De La Hoya uses his jab and distance, I think he gets the win just like Morales easily did on their first fight where he just kept him away with jabs and one-two. When Pac charged in, he just stepped aside and returned to jab, one-two.

[SweetPea]

I am a big fan of both Dan Rafael and Larry Merchant, and to be quite honest, I am shocked they would propose something this ridiculous.

There is absolutely ZERO chance that Pacquiao and De La Hoya ever fight each other. ZERO.

[Violent Demise]

De La Hoya destroys Pacquiao inside of 1 round. De La Hoya would brush off Pac's best shot's like nothing. Pac would hit the floor from Oscar's best shots

[donnydarkoIRL]

I'm disgusted at the suggestion of this

[Hairdoo]

hey while we are at it why don't we throw Hatton in against Lacy on the undercard

[Fenster]

No wonder there's so many idiots around. If a Pac fanboy come up with this fight they'd be ridiculed or ignored cause it's stupid...

Yet these guys like Dan Rafael and Larry Merchant get tagged with the label "expert" and clearly influence people

[donnydarkoIRL]

Well iv always doubted Dan Rafael, but LarryMercahnt is a pretty infleuential figure in boxing and deservedly so imo

[Kel]

Manny could maybe be effective at 140 and Oscar aint getting anywhere near Light Welter unless he has a horrible accident.

[LawHoops]

when was this proposed? these guys are serious? what website?

[SweetPea]

what website?

Dan Rafael is the lead boxing writer for ESPN.com, and he actually does a phenomenal job. I consider him the #1 source for US boxing news. Which is why I'm so surprised he would write something this dumb.

Supposedly he was having a 1-on-1 discussion with Merchant, and Merchant brought up the idea of Pacquiao-DLH. So Rafael wrote a column saying that it's a plausible idea. Which is ridiculous, because it's not plausible.

The one thing that I find dumbest of all, is the theory that "Pacquiao weighed 144 in the ring against Barrera, therefore he can fight welterweights." That is a completely pointless argument. Let's say Manny does enter the ring at that weight... well DLH is going to add on weight too. DLH may weigh-in the day before at 147, or 144, or whatever, but by fight time he'll have rehydrated up to 155, 160, or maybe more than that. And just about any other welterweight would do the same. Pacquiao would be weighing 15-20 pounds less than his opponent on fight night.

Mayweather is the only welter I know of who doesn't add on weight after the weigh-in. Against JUdah, Baldomor, and Oscar, Floyd walked into the ring at the same weight he weighed in at.
I don't see Floyd-Pac ever happening, but if Rafael had proposed that fight in an article (and not Pac-DLH), I'd actually think it was a semi-decent article.

[KKisser]

you can read the entire article here:

http://forum.philboxing.com/viewtopi...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

[The Rookie Fan]

Do you have a quote on what they actually sayed. I can't see much in the link cuz you have to register.

This sounds pretty ridiculous to me too. Although PBF-PAC is a possiblity IMO, though a very remote one at that.

It really bothers me when I see articles like this talking about how DLH calls all the shots and everyone is just waiting on him even though he has lossed 3 of his last 5 fights, does not have a title and only fights once a year. I hate it when money gets in the way of how it should be. And I don't even blame Oscar for that either. It's the entire boxing establishment that allow him to get away with it and all these fighters calling him out even though they know the fight won't mean nothing. Just put up a sign that sais, I don't care about pleasing the fans or establishing my legacy, all I care about is making money.

Oscar should wait in line like everybody else. If he wants a shot at another title, make him work for it by fighting a contender. You know who he should fight? He should fight Margarito for the right to get a shot at the title. If not than he should fight the loser of one of the fights coming up at welterweight not the winner.

If he gets by that, then he can challenge won of the winners for a title.

[The Rookie Fan]

you can read the entire article here:

http://forum.philboxing.com/viewtopi...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Thanks

[Julius Rain]

its all about the green....if it does happen i bet everyone will watch it though....but it won't

[LEGION]

How stupid; I would lose alot of respect for Oscar if he fought Pacman. Why don't they worry about getting Pac in with JMM 1st, then maybe moving up to Casamayor or Diaz, and Oscar can pick on someone his own size. I wouldn't watch it, unless Pavlik was on the under card fighting Arce and Butterbean was fighting Zab. Is boxing going to turn into a circus sideshow now