Paquiao now takes his place among the pound for pound greats of history

Manny is a great FIGHTER....no dancing..no shuffles..no waving to the crowd...the man is
a great fighter!!!

 

Was Choynski a washed up,old super-rich promoter/part-time fighter?

Seriously I don't know the circumstances surrounding Walcott-Choynski but Oscar looked ****ing terrible today.

No knock on Manny who's already proven himself to be a modern great but Oscar looked to be a shell of the husk of the endosperm of the fighter he used to be.Manny still deserves full kudo's for the jump in weight and win against the bigger fighter but I was aghast at how poor and lacking in mettle De La Hoya was today.

 

I didn't see the fight,damn. But read the blow by blow over in general. Was De La Hoya that shot?

 

As Sarah Palin would say, "You Betcha"!

 

I've been saying for ages Oscar has become a hack and a conman, constantly putting himself into undeserving "superfights" that **** up the deserving active contenders in the division.He's totally finished and it seemed moving back down to Welter did him no favours eihter.

Loved this fight.Great performance by PAc, but Oscar should have retired years ago.

 

Um, I think you'll find he already is there AND had a reserved seat years ago.

 

Put into historical perspective, I don't think this win is as big an accomplishment as many are hyping it up to be. Still a great win, but I wasn't surprised.

 

oscar was shocking i think he must have had trouble with the weight

but saying that pac deserves full credit like oscar said

pac fought a great fight and won but it was sad to see oscar take a beating he should retire

is this the best victory a small lightweight coming up to welter and beating the best light middle at welter

 

Good post. DLH looked awful last night. Of course Pacquaio had a lot to do with that but DLH looked ripe for the picking and Pacquaio was the right guy with the right style to do so. It was obviously a big win for Pacquaio but I think over time his win over Barrera 1 and his Marquez victory may be viewed as better wins.

I thought DLH would beat a game Pacquaio so to see what happened last night was a bit shocking. I almost felt sorry for DLH who I thought was simply going to turn his back and quit in the middle of the ring on more than one occasion. Pacquaio was already a great before last night and this will help make him more of a superstar. But when the dust settles from this it will be seen as a great, smaller, prime guy viciously destroying a bigger, shot, former great.

Still, great for Pacquaio and his fans he proved a lot of people wrong. I'm really interested in what Pacquaio does next. I've become a big admirer of him and the fact he is constantly facing big challenges is one of those reasons. I hope he gets around to fighting Hatton, Mayweather, Cotto, Marquez 3, Juan Diaz, Mosley and a couple others but I'll settle for even a few of those. As for DLH, yeah he should consider retiring but I actually hope he sticks around for one more fight-carefully picked though. I hate to see him go out like that. A loss would have been one thing but a public flogging is something different.

 

Thanks Red.

 

rakelie ok i exaggerated abit but oscar is still in the top 5 light middles

 

Oscar is clearly shot, he's nowhere near a top 5 LMW. Not to mention the drop down to WW effected him even more.

People really need to put this into perspective. He couldn't even conclusively beat the elite fighters at his prime weight, and you think he'll be beating the elites from 147-154?

 

Williams - yep in his prime
Dzinderuk - probably but largely untested
Forrest - lost to Mayorga twice who Delahoya decapited 2 1/2 years ago. Prob better than Oscar now
Martinez - unproven
Alcine - unproven and bombed out by Santos, who was schooled to Dzinderuk
Spinks - arguably lost to Mayorga aswell as Judah and fought a close 1 with:
Phillips - old journeyman