Weight drained De la hoya or Coralles, whose win we should credit more?

Just to clarify facts,
between pacquiao's win over Oscar against
mayweather's win over Chico


Oscar did make weight weeks before the fight:hey

Chico did not even make weight on his first attempt at weigh in:bart

so which win should we credit more?:think

below are the reports


Mayweather destroys a drained Corrales
Castillo cements his position as lightweight champion by .....Chris Bushnell
http://www.boxingchronicle.com

It was complete domination. For the entire duration of their highly-anticipated showdown, Floyd Mayweather Jr. used his speed and defense to thoroughly outclass previously unbeaten Diego Corrales. When it was over, Corrales had been knocked down five times in less than ten rounds, the only times in his career that he had touched the canvas. While the fight failed to generate even a fraction of the excitement that was expected, it was nonetheless a dazzling showcase for Mayweather, Jr.

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The first round established the vast superiority of Floyd Mayweather's handspeed. Launching quick jabs and leaping in with lead rights, Mayweather was able to pop Corrales seemingly at will. Although Mayweather moved from side to side in between his single-punch bursts, Corrales had no problem cutting off the ring. Time and again, Mayweather found himself trapped in a corner, with a much larger Corrales moving in for some offense. But every time Corrales would let his hands go, Mayweather would simply duck and weave, tie Corrales up, or spin out to center ring. Corrales was lucky to catch a few scant body shots in these corner exchanges, his only landed blows of the round.

After the first round ended, Floyd Mayweather, Sr., exiled to the front row, shouted to his estranged son "Keep this up and we'll have him out of here in 8 or 9 rounds." He was one round off. Mayweather, Jr. could be seen leaning through the ropes to catch his father's unsolicited advice... and he followed it. Mayweather simply continued along at the exact same pace for the entire fight, and sure enough Corrales slowly broke down.

Official PunchStat numbers tallied only 60 landed blows for Corrales after 10 rounds of action... and that number might have been a bit high. Corrales was unable to find Mayweather all night. In every round, Corrales followed Mayweather's movement closely, keeping the pressure on. But his pressure was almost never accompanied by thrown punches. Corrales may not have thrown a single punch at center ring all evening, opting to save his limited offense for those times that he trapped Mayweather in a corner, or on the ropes. But he just couldn't land. Meanwhile, Mayweather was tattooing him.

Pretty Boy Floyd only occasionally unleashed the four and five punch combinations that brought him to the spotlight several years ago, but he didn't need to. Over and over, he simply launched his crisp, quick punches at Corrales. More than half the time, he landed clean. Corrales was mostly unfazed by Mayweather's power, but the constant abuse swelled his face and wore him out. Mayweather was conscious to work the body, and by the mid rounds was fluidly mixing in liver shots with his hooks and crosses.

By the sixth round, Corrales' frustration had grown while his knees had weakened. Although Corrales landed his best punch of the night in the sixth - a counter left hook that drew a grin from Mayweather - his fatigue was getting the better of him. Mayweather's shots bounced off Corrales' head prior to the sixth, but now his laser-guided bombs began swiveling Corrales' head.

The seventh was a nightmare for Corrales. Moments after the bell to begin the round, Mayweather leaped at Corrales Roy Jones-style with a lead left hook. Corrales ate the punch and dropped immediately to his hands and knees. He got up and beat the count, but looked weak. Mayweather attacked when the fight resumed, and Corrales got in a good shot while Mayweather flurried on him. But a minute later, Mayweather caught Corrales with yet another flush lead hook, and this one made Corrales sit down. Corrales again rose, his legs looking even more frail. Mayweather flurried again, finally trapping Corrales in a corner for a change. Referee Richard Steele looked on the verge of stopping the bout when Corrales went down for a third time. It was unclear if Corrales wilted under Mayweather's barrage, or if he consciously tried to take a knee to halt the flurry... but he was down again. When he got up, he appeared clear-headed, and Steele let the fight continue... but the bell sounded to save Corrales from further abuse. Judges are reluctant to score a round lower than 10-7 in a three knockdown round... but a 10-6 could have been justified given the completely one-sided action.

Believe it or not, Corrales had his best round in the eighth, although he lost that round, too. Fighting with more desperation, Corrales threw sustained punches for the first half of the round, but only a single left hook landed. The rest caught nothing but air. Mayweather easily tucked his chin behind his shoulder and slipped the incoming. These misses amounted to the final Corrales effort, as the missing seemed to only tire him out more, and he rarely threw another punch all night.

After a ninth round that saw Corrales follow Floyd around without throwing, Mayweather put an end to the contest in the tenth. Halfway through that round, he again popped Corrales with a short left hook. Corrales' knees buckled, although he looked coherent. As Richard Steele counted, Corrales consciously stayed down on one knee until 8, after which he popped up and was allowed to continue. Mayweather calmly continued his speedy assault, and a moment later, a straight right hand landed on Corrales' chin. Corrales' legs were gone, and the punch made him genuflect in place, his knees touching the canvas before he popped back up to a standing position. Corrales cursed himself, frustrated that his body could not do what he wanted. He was awake, unhurt, and extremely frustrated. But his corner had seen enough.

As Richard Steele reached the count of five, Corrales began shouting "No! No! No! No!" His father/trainer was on the ring apron holding a towel. He was calling the fight. Steele didn't see the forfeit, and might have accidentally let the bout continue had Corrales not protested and ran to the corner. But as soon as Steele saw the situation, he waved the bout over. Mayweather KO10.

Corrales (now 33-1/27) was livid, repeatedly demanding "What the **** are you doing?!" He had a point. He was on his feet in a championship contest. His head was clear, even though his legs could barely keep him up. His father, having warned Corrales repeatedly that he would stop the bout if Corrales didn't throw more punches, wasn't concerned with how Corrales looked at the time. He was thinking about the future. Corrales will live to fight another day... if his out-of-the-ring legal troubles don't send him to the big house for an extended layoff.






BRILLIANT PACMAN BATTERS OSCAR
By Graham Shaw


Manny Pacquiao produced an astonishing display to stop Oscar De La Hoya after eight rounds of their superfight in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

The reigning P4P king disproved the old adage that size matters by moving up three weight divisions in just eight months to hand out a sustained beating to the faded 'Golden Boy'.

In March this year Pacquiao was plying his trade at super-featherweight, while De La Hoya was a light-middle.

Here they met at welterweight, and Oscar was expected to hold all the aces in terms of size and reach.

But once the hype was over and they finally got in the ring, it was speed that mattered as the Filipino icon first befuddled De La Hoya, and then battered him.

Manny started the bout by boxing well from the outside, and even in the early going he just couldn't miss with his straight left lead through the De La Hoya guard.

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He had trouble landing ,anything as Pacquiao continued his smash-and-grab raid by hitting and moving with bewildering speed.

By the halfway stage De La Hoya's left eye was starting to swell, and Pacquaio was pitching a virtual shutout on the scorecards.

In the seventh it was time for Manny to move in for the kill, and with De La Hoya seemingly powerless to get off the ropes, the Filipino icon scored at will with sustained attacks.

De La Hoya signalled that he wanted to go on despite his struggles, and did keep Pacquiao at bay for the first two minutes of round eight.

But in the dying seconds of the round he was back on the ropes a broken man as Pacquiao handed out more punishment. It was like Ali v Holmes back in 1980 - a once-great fighter faded beyond recognition acting as a virtual punch bag.

With his eye virtually shut, Oscar was told by referee Tony Weeks between rounds that if he kept eating punches the fight would be stopped.

More punishment wasn't necessary though, as De La Hoya's corner pulled him out before the ninth could get under way.

 

atleast those where valid sources dumbassatsch

and I already highlighted some parts of the article for your pentium 1 brain:good

 

and DLh was not the favorite on their fight with pac?:huh

duhhhhh....

 

it depends on how you lost the weight, chico was struggling even at the weigh ins

that would really take a toll on you and considering he is 6 feet tall, taller than Oscar...:nut

 

hurt?

easy counter, hehehehe... seriously man, what's your take on this issue?