Weight Gain: De Le Hoya vs Pac

[Kirkland Laing]

That can be explained by their styles - Pac is a non-stop attack merchant, Floyd is defensive minded.

As a general rule fighters don't keep their power as they move up in weight. Manny is beating the shit out of elite welterweights. Almost every time he hit Cotto he was hurting him, he almost stopped him in the second round. That's just not normal.

Cotto never had a great chin. It would have been more surprising if Pac didn't hurt him, considering what we saw against Hatton and Oscar.

As a general rule fighters punches don't have the same effect against naturally bigger men, but there have been plenty of fighters moving through the weights stopping bigger guys - Hearns, Duran, Oscar, etc...

Maybe Pac is a drug cheat. But taking into account his style and the fact he's been sparking guys his entire career, he's the perfect candidate for a fighter retaining his power.

But when you saw Manny vs. Cotto it was the guy who started at 106 that had all the power and Cotto looked like he was the one who came up from 106. I just don't see how you can go from moving up to featherweight, losing to a shot Erik Morales and having a 39-3-2 record with 30 kos in 44 fights at weights from 106 to 130 and then going 11-0 with eight kos against higher weights. I think he moved up to 130, lost to Morales, realised he had nothing at the weight and started cheating.