odlh:"pacquiao couldnt have hurt me"

[Gandalf]

Delahoya was a punching bag, and Pac was seemingly cutting him down step by step, but there was no sign of huge one punch knock out power in that fight. It was more an accumulation of buzzsaw combinations.

I'm not convinced that Pac is a big puncher at the higher weights, despite what happened to Hatton. Hatton has been getting hurt a lot in recent fights. Collazo is no puncher and he rocked Hatton. Lazcano wobbled him twice and Mayweather got him out of there. It seems Hattons conditioning and ability to eat punches with his face has led to him becoming progressively less resilient and it culminated in the Pac fiasco.

I don't think Pac is going to be able to stop Cotto. Certainly nothing like the Hatton fight.

I just saw the hbo replay bact to back of pac-dlh & cotto-clottey, the speed difference is too much for cottoto overcome. Pac by domination stoppage again.

Perhaps.Perhaps not. Cotto did look somewhat sluggish against Clottey and Pac is extremely quick, but I think Cotto can make this a very good fight if he can keep it technical. Marquez is significantly slower than Pac, but he was able to time him well. Cotto will be looking to do the same thing. Barrera/Pac 2 is another template of how it should be done. Barrera didn't have enough output or power to trouble Pac, but with Cotto being much bigger and stronger I can see Cotto taking more risks and hurting Pac when he does so.

A lot of variables concerning this bout, a fascinating match up. I can't wait.

[rjj tszyu]

To be fair to Oscar he never seemed hrut off one single shot but he must have taken about 500 "good" shots in that fight and they took their toll on the golden boy.

To me though this sounds like he might be trying to steel Cotto away soon, I may be wrong but I wouldn't be at all surprised!

[Kev]

I think Cotto knocks Manny out. I don't even see Manny being that competitive to be honest.

[ElTerribleMorales]

DLH was never really rocked badly in the fight, and like many have said it came from an accumulation of punches, and it was against an old, shot, weight drained DLH, i have no doubt in my mind that Pacquiao's punches against a prime Oscar would have been nothing more than mosquito bites, and that Pacquiao wouldn't have lasted 5 rounds

Cotto isn't shot, he's not gonna kill himself like DLH to make weight, and he's a natural welterweight

IMO DLH picking Cotto over Pacquiao has nothing to do with not being included in the promotion, he already made a killing in Mayweather/Marquez, he's just giving his opinion, Hopkins keeps jumping back and forth, he's been recorded picking both fighters , dunno why so much flack

[Youngblood]

Oscar is still having trouble accepting the beating he took. Trying to rationalize it...

"Yea, well he didn't hit me that hard...bla bla bla...it's just my butt got stuck to the seat between rounds and the words no mas accidentally slipped out..."



Whatever happens with Cotto/Pac happens. But it sure makes no difference on the embarassin' beatdown Oscar took.

[Master]

ODH had got a good chin and knows a big puncher, you should respect what he says. He has no motivation to lie as he has no vested interest with any fighter. Above all he is right. Cotto is the bigger puncher, Pac has the better speed.

[Manuel "Chubby" Medina]

Dlh not on;y has a good chin he has a great chin. and Pac wasnt loadin up on one punch so i can see why he said he couldn't hurt him.

[Beanflicker]

I can't believe people are jumping on DLH, he's 100% right. Pac landed about 500 clean punches on DLH and never once rocked him or came close to knocking him out.