hey genius, Hoya was at that weight weeks before the fight. their idea was to be comfortable at the weight and not drain any weight hours before the fight.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...car-de-la-hoya-might-end-up-like-erik-morales http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eNGDdCD-0wE#t=86s June 23 2001. That was the last time that Oscar has ever fought at welterweight before the 2008 fight with Pacquiao and after he went up all the way to 160.
i would favor either version of floyd over pac. unfortunately floyd will never face him, so we'll never know. we can only talk about hypotheticals...
aint that a ***** farmy? Floyd's team was there to watch how Pac would get torn up against Cotto. They were expecting cotto to soften up Pac so that FLoyd could call out pac and fight him. After Pac destroyed cotto, Floyd's team took a ****. and they still shittin up to this day.
http://www.zimbio.com/Oscar+De+La+Hoya/articles/424/Freddie+Roach+Nacho+Beristain+Oscar+De+La "Before the fight started. When he gained two pounds [from 145 to 147] between the weigh-in and fight time." In an earlier point in the interview, Roach said: "I saw the IV in his arm, I saw the IV marks, it was fresh tape, they hydrated him too late, they waited too long to hydrate him. It was nothing illegal... The thing was, they couldn't get anything into his system... Nobody let him build his body back up. They did it to themselves." ........ Taking nothing away from Pacquiao, the weight killed De La Hoya that night. What's more, Roach said, upon seeing De La Hoya run at the same track Pacquiao ran at, that De La Hoya's face was drawn and he had trouble getting around the track because of weight.