Is Pacman More Popular than de la Hoya Was?

[jdonaher1]

Maybe not so much as a PPV attraction (but he is getting closer) but I mean more mainstream? I live in Western Canada, not a real hot bed for boxing (other than eastern Quebec) and I see links to Pacman articles on non mainstream news websites (msn, yahoo etc) and other sites that never give two spits about boxing. My youngest daughter, who does goes to school with a small minority of Filipinos classmates knows who he is and I've never said anything to her about boxing.

What do you think?

[Violent Demise]

The thought is hilarious. Oscar would have all kinds of females literally throwing there panties at him. From all ages.

[milmascaras1]

popularity wise, pacquiao wouldn't be able to sniff oscar's jockstrap and that's a fact. oh sure, pacquiao has oscar beat in the philippines because there aren't many sports stars there, but worldwide, oscar was ten times more popular than pacquiao.

[generalbulldog]

Probably Oscar but I don't think it's that far a gulf in popularity if it's measured worldwide.
In the west Oscar of course is more popular because he's a western fighter, in the East Pac takes it and I don't think that's up for debate and no that's not just the Phillipines where he's popular. I vacationed in China and Japan last year around this time, after the Cotto fight and he was quite known there when I chatted up some locals and it went into the topic of sports. I seriously doubt Oscar would be more popular than Pacquiao in the East.

[milmascaras1]

really, the only places it matters where a fighter is popular is in the western world. i'd say the united states, the UK, germany, france, italy etc...

[generalbulldog]

really, the only places it matters where a fighter is popular is in the western world. i'd say the united states, the UK, germany, france, italy etc...

Well you did say Pacquiao couldn't sniff Oscar's jock worldwide and that was a supposed "fact" and so I added the East, and it is considered to be worldwide.

[Julius Rain]

really, the only places it matters where a fighter is popular is in the western world. i'd say the united states, the UK, germany, france, italy etc...

Well you did say Pacquiao couldn't sniff Oscar's jock worldwide and that was a supposed "fact" and so I added the East, and it is considered to be worldwide.

that idiot does two things, backpeddle or contradicts himself.