De La Hoya draws comparison between Khan vs. Alvarez with Pacquiao defeat

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Lagoon, May 3, 2016.


  1. cslb

    cslb Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The "bs" is Caneloweight and that Golovkin must fight better competition if he wants to fight Alvarez. If Alvarez is the lineal champ at 160, he should defend his title at 160. Supposedly he would fight Golovkin at 155 but no higher because Alvarez is "so small". lol Alvarez would outweigh Golovkin on fight night. Personally, I don't care if they ever fight but it's obvious what is going on here. If Mayweather was behaving like Alvarez, you would be on here screaming bloody murder.
     
  2. divac

    divac Loyal Member Full Member

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    DLH himself admits now he underestimated Pacquiao and thought it would be an easy fight against the smaller Pacquiao.

    You're forgetting to factor in that at the time, Pacquiao hadn't fought at any weight past 135 lbs and he had only done so once against the weakest of the lightweight champs at the time, molasses slow David Diaz.
    Pacquiao was really a junior lightweight jumping up to fight at Welterweight against Oscar Delahoya who most rationalized would enter the ring against Pacquiao at close to the middleweight limit.

    Turns out that Delahoya was so ****ed up physically drained, that he actually weighed less than Pacquiao fight time.

    What actually transpired is irrelevant, its the mindset of DLH chosing to fight Pacquiao over Margarito that is relevant, and the mindest according to DLH is that he underestimated Manny Pacquiao.

    Looking back on it now, of course DLH underestimated Pacquiao. We had no way of knowing how Pacquiao would acclamate himself to fighting at 147 lbs against full fledged Welters.
    Most fighters moving up from the smaller weights Pacquiao came from don't stand a chance against Welterweights, turned out that Manny "Pacroid" Pacquiao could! :deal