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

[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...

[GAME]

Manny always looks in fantastic condition but its his mental state that may be more revealing . . . . . Freddie Roach has stated that there was a time in the Marquez fight where he thought Pac would quit . I remember watching it live. I think it was teh 9th round. Pac was visbilby hurt from a body shot and was squinting . I think he was there for the taking but his mental strength got him through it. I reckon he thought to himself theres no way he can let Marquez get the better of him . However vs OPscar Im wondering whtrher he will be willing to go through the pain or except defeat at teh 1st opportunitu .

Im not saying Pac may mentally throw in the towel but I think it will be easier for him to back down vs Oscar cuz he is such a big underdog and people really dont expect that much of him . Vs Marquez he had to really bite down and battle back hard. Just a though .

[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.