The De la Hoya-Pacquiao Fight Is a Farce. It Is Only About Money and Gullible Fans Are Paying For It

 

Real fans know that tonight's bout between boxing legend Oscar de la Hoya and current best pound-for-pound boxer Manny Pacquiao is a mismatch. It pits a great big boxer against a great small fighter. Unless the fight is fixed or there is a lucky punch thrown by the smaller fighter, the big boxer wins 99.99% of the time. So, why watch it - even on Pay-TV? It may be the biggest farce in the history of boxing in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

 

Look at these numbers in the Tale of the Tape: Mr. De la Hoya has the following advantages: four inches (height), five inches (reach) 10 to 12 pounds (weight, after the weigh-in; and three lbs. at the weigh-in) and experience (10 world titles against five).

 

Many boxing pundits say that the De la Hoya-Pacquiao bout is all about money. It may actually be the ultimate payback for Manny Pacquia's reneging on his signed contract with Mr. De la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) a few years ago. Mr. Pacquiao chose to renege on his contract with the GBP and sign with Top Rank as his promoter. There was a civil suit filed by the GBP against Mr. Pacquiao and Top Rank. The case was amicably settled, with the terms not made public. Could the De la Hoya-Pacquiao bout tonight be one of the paybacks for the GBP? Your educated guess is as good as this columnist's. After all, Mr. Pacquiao is guaranteed a minimum of $11-million while Mr. De la Hoya gets at least $20-million plus their percentages of the Pay-TV revenues that can even double their purses (or triple that of Mr. De la Hoya's).

 

It is not a real boxing bout. It is a farce. It is all about money. And some Filipinos actually spell Manny as "Money," as I wrote in this article, Defending Filipino Congressmen and Politicians Who See Manny Pacquiao's Title Bouts in Vegas

 

Probably they will fight to a draw, so as to stage a return bout that will bring in more money than their respective promoters ever imagined . . . even in their wildest dreams. And Las Vegas needs more super fights to lift it out of its economic stupor.

 

Here are two other similar views about the bout tonight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas:

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 by Dido of the Philippines: De La Hoya Vs. Pacquiao

Although I am rooting for Pacquiao my boxing savvy tells me he is going to lose.  This is a classic good little man vs. good big man fight and the good little man always loses.  This has been proven over and over again throughout boxing history.  Clay vs. Paterson, Flash Elorde vs. Carlos Ortiz, and most recently De la Hoya vs. Hopkins.  When you consider that De la Hoya is a natural super welter weight and has in fact fought Bernard Hopkins who was a light heavyweight at various times in his career, it is hard to conceive that a natural junior lightweight like Pacquaio can beat him. (Snipped)

PREDICTION:  De la Hoya by KO/TKO, 8th round.

Our columnist Jesse Jose has his take on the bout: ON PACMAN VS. DE LA HOYA:

There's a lot of buzz going in the Fil-Am community all over America about the Pacquiao/De La Hoya fight tonight in Las Vegas.  Some say that Pacquiao will win the fight.  Others say that Pacquiao will lose. 

 

Here's my take on it: De la Hoya will make HOYA out of Pacquiao, that's for sure.  Ain't no way a little man, like "Pacman," as he's called by fans in the Philippines and by Filipinos world-wide, can defeat a much bigger man, like Hoya.  All the odds are against the Pacman: weight, height, experience and class. I think this is merely an EGO and MINDLESS thing for Pacquiao to be fighting this fight.  His many easy wins in the past against pipitsugin fighters have gone into his head, and he begun to believe he's now the INVINCIBLE Filipino version of Superman . . . (Snipped)

 

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The De la Hoya-Pacquiao Fight Is a Farce. It Is Only About Money and Gullible Fans Are Paying For It