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I remember that something like 19/21 boxing experts polled by Ring magazine picked Oscar to beat Pacquaio.
No one anticipated De La Hoya to be the shell of a man that he was fighting at a weight he hadn't weighed in 10 years. The experts aren't always that smart.
Neither was Oscar.

Barrera fight Manny must have been the under dog.
I remember the build up. While people realized who he was when he beat Elicier Julio and did pound Ledwaba into submission, they were not sold on him and thought that he just would have been another "opponent" for Barrera. Boy, were they wrong!! lolol....

It was the Barrera fight was where he came to stardom, Manny did.