I was wrong about the fight and I'm ready to eat my crow

didn't you boycott the fight?

 

The great thing about this fight was it was all or nothing. Whoever you picked you were gonna look a fool if you got it wrong. Pacquiao might have got blown away by the bigger man since there were a few unknowns with whether he could take a shot, and us Pacquiao pickers would look like clowns.

Then on the other side all the Oscar pickers are talking about size, how big Oscar is and how small Pacquiao is. When Pacquiao's path to victory used his size to his advantage, his natural quickness, his ability to see slower guys punches coming and his lack of height meaning Oscar had to hit down.

Thats boxing.

 

I too was wrong and I'm very happy about it.

 

I don't understand why so many people thought DLH was going to win based simply on the size difference. Never made any sense to me - given the fact that Pac was simply more skilled and DLH was a bit past his prime, slower, and over-confident. I just always thought Pac was going to win handily, and this is yet another example of people being fixated on someone's size.

 

Very true it was satisfying. I picked DLH inside of 8 but rooted against him for even wanting to make it happen. I'm glad DLH took nothing away from anybody but the WW limit really did him in so all in all he got what was coming.

 

i can respect that, you aint like some of the other clowns who just said "so he was shot" or some other dumb ****...... if you real give it where it due, props

 

thanks guys for being a man

 

Chavez was only 33 years old when Oscar beat him. Chavez was also the Champ at the time and high on the Pd 4 pd list. Oscar is going to be 36 years old within 2 months, and had only won 50% of his fights over the last 5 years. Quite a difference.

 

agree

 

I agree that Pac has more skills and has improved on them fight after fight. He has the right jabs in his arsenal now, double left straights, left uppercuts, improved defense and footwork, more balance, etc. He also counterpunched. This a new Pac, I should say. He has kept on improving. I think he will finally KOd talkative Marquez in a rematch.

 

Well to be fair he also came in at the lightest weight he'd been in a decade or more.

We all saw how that worked out for Chris Byrd and Roy Jones. Going back down in weight at that age is a bad idea.

The one advantage DLH had here was size and he blew it. He actually came in lighter than Manny Pacquiao. Figure that one out.

 

So what was a greater accompplishment DLH/Chavez or DLH/Pacman? I really can't answer this now because I thought the WW limit really did DLH in but I'm not here to take anything away from Pac.