DelaHoya-Pacquiao - Free for all talk!!! Tour, Traning etc. etc.

[brucelee]

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Four-time world champion Manny Pacquiao hits the mitts with chief trainer Freddie Roach during training at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Pacquiao started training today for his upcoming world welterweight rumble 'Dream Match' against the 'Golden Boy' Oscar De La Hoya on December 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Golden Boy and Top Rank present De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao which will available on HBO Pay Per View.


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Two months of training for Pacquaio means something..... he's serious with this fight.

[XaduBoxer]

After 2 months in training camp...

[C-Lo]

I don't know if the pics are just close up, but he looks pretty big.

[XaduBoxer]

I don't know if the pics are just close up, but he looks pretty big.

PACMAN is a natural welter...

Look how small Roach is (with all the body paddings) compared to PACMAN...



Watch out Oskeeeee ....

[XaduBoxer]

From PAC's land...

[Magoo]

Maybe they could stretch him a few inches taller too....

[XaduBoxer]

Maybe they could stretch him a few inches taller too....

Hope they could stretch Peter few inches taller too... He also needed it very badly against Vitali this weekend...

[XaduBoxer]

PAC finding a way to land a punch on Hoya's face...
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[KKisser]

pac is beginning to look like manos de piedra.

[XaduBoxer]

pac is beginning to look like manos de piedra.

Yup, hands of stone... MOD Mick just confirmed it when he felt PAC's grip...
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[XaduBoxer]

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Los Angeles, CA: As per schedule, Filipino spitfire Manny Pacquiao started his sparring sessions this afternoon at the Wildcard Gym.


Pacquiao, wearing his favorite white with red trim Nike shoes and shorts, and his custom made green colored gloves, matching groin and head protector, and a handsome brownish red T-shirt, climbed the ring at the Wildcard Gym on schedule, just before 1:30PM.

Waiting for him on the ring is super welterweight Rashad Holloway (9-1-0, 5KOs), the 5’10 fighter hired by Freddie Roach to mimic the Golden Boy and give Pacquiao a hard work out.

The sparring session was slow in the beginning with Pacquiao seemingly trying to adjust to the height and the longer reach of Holloway. Pacquiao seemed content in measuring the distance before he threw his jabs.

In a short while, Pacquiao adjusted nicely and the spirited exchange of punches begun. Pacquiao would move in, tag his opponent on the head and face and move out to avoid the counter shots coming his way. The punches that he can not avoid were blocked by his gloves. Some however, got through and Pacquiao took them in stride.

Some of those that got through appeared to be power shots and they did not seem to bother the Pacman. Although, they may not be as strong as those expected to be delivered by de la Hoya, it seem that Pacquiao has the capacity to take and absorb blows from super welterweight.

After the sparring, Halloway was quoted as saying that the Pacman “is too fast and very strong. I felt those body shots.”

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As usual, only a select few people were allowed in the gym. The only noteworthy media people there were the crew from ESPN and Philboxing.

It is perhaps the presence of ESPN that kind of limited what Pacquiao showed in terms of technique and it does not take an Einstein to figure out why.

At the end of the session, members of Team Pacquiao appeared elated, particularly Buboy Fernandez. “Happy ako sa pinakita ni Boss, kahit first day pa lang (I am happy with what the boss showed today, even if it's only the first day)," he said.

Pacquiao indeed had a good first sparring day. But, that in a way was expected.

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Oskee in great danger ...
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[gyrokai]

If Oscar loses, that means El Terrible is the only Mexican to definitively defeat Pacquiao.

"El Terrible!!!!"


Hope it's a great fight guys.

[XaduBoxer]

Rashad Holloway has sparred with Shane Mosley before... I'm wondering if Rashad will tell who hits harder in sparring, Shane or PAC...

[Mad_Dog]

my gut tells me De la Hoya will dominate

my mind tells me that DLH is too old

decisions decisions.....

[Taeth]

I am having a hard time with this one
on one hand
Pacquaio is p4p #1, and he did weigh in at 148 for a lightweight fight which tells me, he is probably in the Mayweather size category
But on the other hand
He isn't a defensive genius like Mayweather, and the size factor plays a bigger role because of that fact.

Like I said at the begining for Pacquaio to put on 13 pounds for his lightweight fight, he must walk around at about 160, which means he should be fine to fight at 148. I mean Henry Armstrong beat an old legend at 147 when he was still fighting at featherweight. I am not trying to compare Pacquaio to the second best fighter in the history of the sport, but there are a lot of similarities between the two, scintillating work rates, and speed, fearless, Pacquaio has more power, but Henry threw more punches.