Oscar regardless if he was drained or not, would have been beat by Pac that night regardless. Give Pac his props, it was an amazing performance ... sometimes us fans get spoiled a bit too much.
"I saw the IV in his arm, I saw the IV marks, it was fresh tape, they hydrated him too late, they waited too long to hydrate him. It was nothing illegal... The thing was, they couldn't get anything into his system... Nobody let him build his body back up. They did it to themselves." Roach
Right. This is guy who flipped out over a cup of coffee, but, he's totally cool with them juicing up Oscar with whatever they want intravenously.
DLH chose to weigh that much for some reasons. He probably thought he need speed to catchup with Pac. What exactly are you insinuating here? Stop beating around the bush and tell us.
I say PBF beats Pac at WW and especially at 130-135. I also think Martinez, Hearns and SRL beat Pac. Prime ODLH? No. His track records says no.
The only thing Beristain said that I support was that De La Hoya couldn't deal with the versatility of Pacquiao. Roach is right: Taking nothing away from Pacquiao, the weight killed De La Hoya that night. What's more, Roach said, upon seeing De La Hoya run at the same track Pacquiao ran at, that De La Hoya's face was drawn and he had trouble getting around the track because of weight. He also said De La Hoya's nutritionist failed him; that he thought De La Hoya was trying to prove a point by coming in at a lower number than Pacquiao; and that following the fight, he got reports from doctors that De La Hoya was dehydrated both before and after.