Don't be distracted by Pacquiao's performance, just focus on Oscar. Look at a PRIME De La Hoya and then look at the version that fought Pacquiao. Completely different. You're assumption that Pacquiao would beat a prime 147 Hoya (even more easily) is frankly laughable.
Worst that ODLH ever looked. It was pathetic. Manny whipped his butt, no doubt, but ODLH looked like a WW version of Skeletor or something. His nutrition and hydration were all messed up.
I always gave PAC credit for DLH. Sure it wasn't the very best DLH but the same DLH that gave Floyd 12 hard rounds before.
pac is great and is going to destroy PBF in an embarassment but DLH did everything wrong for that fight - he was eating low carb for example and probably was low on stamina/energy as a result in addition to being dehydrated
Seeing all the shots he took from Forbes in the tune-up fight before Pac, and Oscar's face getting uncharacteristically busted up, then not even really fighting or having anything behind his punches vs. Forbes and especially Pac, I'd say he was shot. I won't say a prime Oscar beats pac, that's tough to say at this point, but he would have made a much better showing. Oscar was 10 YEARS past his prime. Think about it.
I think that the Forbes fight showed that DLH was partially shot. Not completely, but partialy. Pac vs. a version of DLH from 1998 or so is a fantastic fight. The DLH that Pac fought was a decent fighter that can't hang with the top five in any division from 140-160. Freddie Roach called it in the pre fight interview when he said DLH just couldn't pull the trigger anymore. That was completely correct, he couldn't pull the trigger against a top flight fighter anymore.
No, it wasn't even the Oscar that fought Floyd a year earlier. That Oscar wouldn't have got his face busted up against little Forbes.