Is it advisable for Hoya to take this PAC fight personally?

[XaduBoxer]

Any make him pay talk is just phoney baloney coming from DLH noawadays. He's a businessman and tells the press what they want to hear .

That's really the point... Hoya is a shrewd businessman... Money is more important for him...

All that PAC did to him eventually boils down to money:
- PAC destroyed his potential cash cow Barrera
- PAC didn't choose GBP as his promoter
- PAC didn't endorsed events promoted by GBP
- PAC asking bigger share than what Hoya is willing to give (at first)

If you screw Hoya about money, he will take it personally...
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[Master]

It is all hype. ODH says the same stuff every fight.

[zhubin]

Of course it's all hype. But to be honest...if anything...it has been a bad idea for Freddie Roach to be talking so much smack. Sure, Oscar is a businessman...but love him or hate him...he is still a very good fighter. No reason to put a fire under a champion. Roach is trying to hype it up as well, and take pressure of Manny...but it could backfire.

[XaduBoxer]

It is all hype. ODH says the same stuff every fight.

I don't remember he said "It's personal" in his every fight...
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[Kel]

It is all hype. ODH says the same stuff every fight.

I don't remember he said "It's personal" in his every fight...
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Well the Mayorga fight he said "he has insulted me" and "I'm gonna knock you out". With Floyd it was the "he needs to be humbled" and all that. He does say all the right things in a build up and I fall for it every time, it just might be very special, and if it is, I want to watch it as it happens...because if it is a special night Manny has his hands high come the final bell

[Taeth]

Oscar is too experienced in these type of fights, only once IMO did he go away from the strategy in a fight, and that was Chavez II. Either than that I feel that he has stayed with the game plan, and he will this Saturday.

[XaduBoxer]

5 days into the fight, Hoya is still the same businessman that he is...





Boxer Oscar De La Hoya lifts his arms in front of a newly unveiled seven-foot-tall bronze statue of himself at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. De La Hoya will fight Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas on Dec. 6

[XaduBoxer]

Latest PACMAN pics...

[Master]

It is all hype. ODH says the same stuff every fight.

I don't remember he said "It's personal" in his every fight...
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Its the same type of rhetoric, he said he would shut Mayweather up because he was a brat.

[XaduBoxer]

Maybe DelaHoya was taking the fight too personal...
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[Chino]

Oscar lost and we are looking for ways to put lemon in the wound, huh?
He expressed quite well after the fight as he usually does showing class. I don't see the big deal really. He lost, he accepted it, time to hang 'em and move on with his Hall of Fame status, an admirable list of achievements in and out of the ring, a great resume, good memories of exciting fights, etc.