De La Hoya on Pacquiao defeat: 'I was embarassed'

[Master]

Good honest interview, ODH should have taken a bigger beating for the fans.

[BoomBoom]

Good honest interview, ODH should have taken a bigger beating for the fans.

You must mean for Pac fans. I dont think any Oscar fan, myself included, wanted to see him take a bigger beating.

[KananKrus]

Pacquiao was hitting line drives and the like, for six or seven rounds, he was not hitting him with haymakers, that is the reason why Hoya did not get KO'ed.

Much like the Diaz fight, a good portion of the early rounds were spent softening the target, that being Hoya. When the time came when the target no longer functioned aggressively to launch an offensive, relegated to a shred of a fighter, one dimensionally defensive, then the second phase kicked in.

The second phase was to batter into submission the soft target with haymakers, whilst it cowers in fear. Submissive to the fullest, the target is like livestock queued and ready for slaughter!

Turns out the Hoya camp need not see the second phase to be convinced of the futility of their endeavor. They've seen it before, they've seen the pattern, and the outcome from their conqueror's previous fight.

Credit to them that they are knowledgable enough to take their lumps, pack up, and fight another day!

Is it not, that that was what happened?

To say that the guy punches without power is to equally suggest, not to give due credit to the man for the win.

It was more his undoing than Pacquiao's doing.

Isn't it hypocritical, for right after the fight in the Merchant interview, he heaved all the praises at Pac, said all the right things, overdone to the point where it became uncomfortable to the later, only to come out two months after, stating that Pac couldn't punch.

Totally discrediting Pacquiao, and likewise, totally discrediting the victor.

In this scenario alone, all the others not in question, is Hoya a hypocrite? Guilty! Death by a thousand left straights!

[ross]

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