De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight is set

He didn't said that when he fought an old and shot JCC he know's Margo will give him the first real beating of his life:deal

 

Oscar is 35 so prolly he will get out about 40 years old cuz it's about 5 years for raping a filipino star

 

i know i know "oscar is an ******* for doing this fight"....but honestly, I cant be the only one here that is sick of seeing people write this. MANNY HAS 2 ARMS...MANNY HAS A CHANCE TO KNOCK OUT OSCAR!...jesus, what on earth happened to all the pac fans on here from 3 weeks ago? its like they have given him no chance

 

Maybe scientists found a cure for pacterdedness and we just haven't heard of it yet!

 

OK zato, how do you think a fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Paul Williams?

Or better yet, Marquez vs. Margarito?

 

It use to be not fighting a Puerto Rican because of his wife before the Margarito/Cotto fight but now it's not fighting a Mexican after the result? ****in De La Hoya.

 

Oscar don't need to take a beating from Margo, he can fight Pac and make more $$$ doing it. I know it won't happen but I hope Pac take Oscar into deep water and give him a fight. If Pac is still standing after 8 rounds, it will sure be a fight.

 

Yes

 

5 ft 6 vs 5 ft 9....there have been bigger size differences in a fight, and alot less people complained:deal . Its only because the *******s only can see defeat that they are pissed.

Dont get me wrong, i would have loved to see odlh fight marg or even a cotto fight...but this is what we get....hell, itll be more of a fight than mayweather hoya 2

 

:?

 

Oh well this is one fight i will not be paying to see, thank god for other fights.

 

That's going to be a wild fight.

 

:happy:jjj

 

Another article regarding thursday announcement....



Sources: De La Hoya, Pacquiao agree to Dec. 6 fight in Vegas

By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com
(Archive)

Oscar De La Hoya, boxing's biggest star, will announce Thursday that he will meet pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao on Dec. 6, two sources close to the fight told ESPN.com.

Top Rank's Bob Arum, whose company promotes Pacquiao, would not confirm a deal was in place for what would be the year's biggest fight, but he did tell ESPN.com that De La Hoya would host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday to announce his opponent.
"We'll know who is he is fighting tomorrow," Arum said Wednesday from Youngstown, Ohio, where he was attending a promotional event for the Kelly Pavlik-Bernard Hopkins fight that he is co-promoting with De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions. "I made a commitment that I wouldn't say anything and that tomorrow there would be an announcement. I'm not allowed to make any comments. Everything will be clear on Thursday."

Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer would not confirm the deal, either, but sounded positive when asked about it.
"Last week the deal was 90 percent dead, but we were able to revive it. The fact that it has been so quiet is a good sign," Schaefer said from Mexico, where he was traveling on business with De La Hoya. "It's been a lot of back and forth and skillful negotiating and to try to get each side to soften their stance. If the fight was Arum versus Schaefer, it would have been made awhile ago."

Schaefer dismissed reports this week that welterweight titleholder Paul Williams was under serious consideration to meet De La Hoya. Schaefer said that although Williams' name was thrown out during an internal meeting, it was quickly dismissed, and no contact was ever made between the De La Hoya and Williams camps. Williams promoter Dan Goossen confirmed that as well.

De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs), who has repeatedly said the December fight would be the last bout of his storied career in which he's won world titles in six weight divisions, has been in talks with Pacquiao (47-3-2, 35 KOs) for weeks. But negotiations got bogged down when the sides could not come to an agreement on how to split the revenue, which is expected to exceed more than $100 million.

De La Hoya stood firm for weeks on a 70-30 split in his favor; Pacquiao was demanding a 40 percent slice of the pie.

The rest of the major issues, from the maximum weight to the size of the gloves, were agreed upon, with Pacquiao getting his way on a 147-pound weight limit and 8-ounce gloves.

The percentage split that De La Hoya and Pacquiao have apparently agreed to is unclear.

Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer and one of De La Hoya's former trainers, has been an outspoken advocate of the fight, going so far as to say he would train Pacquiao for free because he was so confident he would win.

Roach told ESPN.com on Wednesday that Pacquiao, whom he hadn't spoken to much recently, left him two voice mails at about 7 a.m. ET.
"He left me the messages and at the end of one of them, he said, 'Thanks for all your help.' I read that as the fight is done," Roach said.
Pacquiao, a lightweight titleholder who has won belts in five weight classes and is a national icon in the Philippines, would move up to welterweight for the showdown with De La Hoya.

The fight is expected to take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where De La Hoya has fought five of his past six bouts and seven of his past 10.

Dan Rafael is ESPN.com's boxing writer.