Should Pac only get limited credit for beating an old ,weight drained,shot Oscar

I'm not limiting any credit, he was 3/1 against going into this fight wasnt he? Most were picking Oscar by way of and plenty were saying he has zero chance. No one is pretending this was a prime Oscar, but it was still a great victory.

 

I think it goes without saying.

 

Calzaghe 0 Jones and DLH- Pac are not the same, Joe was favoured to beat RJJ and he did so, Pac was an underdog.

I knew the crack before the fight, we knew DLH isnt at his best and we new he was gonna struggle with weight, and I still pick DLH to knock him out, sighting the fact that its a former flyweight champ fighting a former middleweight champ...mismatch!atsch

 

how was he drained? he was 145 for over a month...and that came out of oscars mouth.....
oscar wasnt show when he nearly shut out steve forbes a few months earlier.....
another idiot thread....also check the predictions and the odds...everyone favored DLH!!
dude got beat down...it happens...give the winner credit instead of making excuses for the loser

 

Um, RJJ had proven in MANY prior fights that he wasn't the same fighter since coming down in weight. It hadn't been proven with DLH that he wasn't the same.

"Proven" being the operative word. Stop clutching at straws.

 

I thought Manny would be too much for Oscar before the fight due to Oscar:

a)Not having the right hand that works so well against Southpaws

b)His left being negated by the herky jerky Pacquiao movement.

However, I was surprised by how little Oscar threw. I think being shot has a part to do with it but Oscar had a tendency in his career to stand there like an idiot when things were going against him and he didn't know what to do. Against Hopkins, Mayweather, and now against Pacquiao.

 

It happens over night sometime.

However, Oscar hasn't quite been the same Golden Boy for a long time. A lot of people were underwhelmed with his performance against Forbes last time out. There were warning signs, just nobody thought Oscar was past his best to the point of being shot. An Oscar that isn't competitive at 147, is a shot Oscar as far as I'm concerned. There was nothing in the performance to suggest otherwise.

 

Who did you voted to win before this fight ever happened?
Ahhh i see: another hypocrite!!!

 

shut the hell up........

 

Stop making your love for Pacquiao cloud your judgement. The thread brings up good points.

It doesn't matter who was the favourite before the fight, it wasn't apparent that Oscar was in terrible shape until the opening bell rang.

 

he was weight drained and he managed to be 2 pounds under the limit? right.

please dont start with the calzaghe **** again. your boy was dropped by rjj and only managed a ud. pac arguably won every round and made dlh, a guy who only been stopped once, quit on his stool. how are they even?

 

Manny's victory is a bit more convincing than Calzaghe's given the massive weight jump and the fact that he totally destroyed a bigger man and KTFO'd him. Calzaghe outboxed RJJ just slapped him to death in the end.

 

Oscar was KTFO? I thought he retired on his stool.