Just tried to rewatch Hoya vs Pacman

i agree, i'm a huge hatton fan, and i give manny all the credit in the world for a sensational KO.....but i have yet to watch the replay or will i ever.....

 

at first i cannot rewatch pac-morales1 (eventhough i made a couple of bucks) but when i thought that pac did a great job fighting his heart out after the accidental headbutt, i realized that i should be proud watching that fight. sooner or later, pac will also get old (he's old now by ring age standards) and if he comes back to fight a younger and stronger fighter after he retires he could possibly be on the same boat as oscar.

great boxers come and go but their legacy will be left impressed in our minds. it just sucks when a fighter that you've invest much of your emotion supporting would be the one walking unto the sunset.

 

It was painful for DLH but you can't deny the size difference and that DLH was going in as a huge favorite. Pacquiao wasn't supposed to win this, unlike Leonard/Camasho or Duran/Joppy.

Pac vs Barrera I, no way in hell was Barrera shot in that one. The rematch sure, but not the first fight. Going in for the rematch Barrera was coming off a close fight with JMM in a fight many believed Barrera won and could have stopped Marquez late if it wasn't for the referee screwing Barrera, that can't be denied either.

 

i just said that he already had almost 15 years of ring age. he is old but i didn't say that he was past his prime. it's just amazing that after those years of fighting with a come-forward style, pac had maintained being in prime form. changing style did helped him and he is now more defensively aware than the first 12 years of his career.

 

If you watch comments/predictions videos from experts all over youtube before the Pac/DLH fight you would think Pac is set to get KILLED going in against DLH. Guys like McGirt, Roger Mayweather, JMM, Vernon Forrest, Mike Tyson and many others claiming Pac is in for a serious beating. Funny how people TOTALLY forgot that.

 

No one expected Tyson to show up the way he did against Douglas either, no one expected Trinidad to get destroyed the way he did against Hopkins, no one expected Pavlik to get spanked one-sidedly against Hopkins and so on.

That's the point of boxing, you just can't predict something 100%, even certain predictions which are proven correct end up wrong with ONE PUNCH changing everything.

 

Tyson is my favorite fighter ever but that fight wasn't competitive, Tyson was rocked/stunned from round one and even though it might have looked competitive for a good 20 seconds of each round it didn't make the entire thing competitive. Tyson was getting brutally beat on. Speaking of the count, theories of that were all over and still are, do you know that coincidentally Tyson got the SAME EXACT count Douglas got when knocked down?, here's a nice video that covers it up.

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Trinidad was getting schooled and eventually knocked out. That fight wasn't competitive in any way either. Hopkins used class A defense and offense when needed, Trinidad had no answer to it and Hopkins admitted he figured out how to beat Trinidad by watching his fight with DLH.

I predicted Hopkins/Pavlik too, still doesn't change the fact that nearly everyone else saw Pavlik KO'ing Hopkins.

Hoya's beating is no different than those and what I'm referring to is a general view NOT comparing what happened in the ring. In the end this fight goes in the same category as the rest, a huge underdog going in and making it look the complete opposite by dominating 100%.

 

Many scored it for Barrera or saw it as a very close fight.

 

You must've forgotten all the furor about it then. I didn't see the fight, but I remember polls and wild angry discussions about what should've happened.