Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao

Can Oscar De La Hoya save boxing?

In case you haven’t heard yet, one prized fighter will collide with someone yet to prove he’s worth all the hype on December 6 at the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas. And in case you didn’t get that, it’s a ‘’Golden Boy’’ Oscar De La Hoya - Manny ‘’the Pacman’’ Pacquiao face-off in what many are calling as the ‘’Dream Match.’’

Dream match? More like mismatch to me. Oscar De La Hoya is obviously the better, more experienced fighter and probably the only way for Manny Pacquiao to pull off a win on this one is run around the ring, avoiding De La Hoya’s right hooks.

Oscar De La Hoya has a career record of 39 wins with only five losses. 30 of those wins came by way of knockout. However, De La Hoya has declined over the years. His losses came in the last nine years of his career with three of them happening in his last seven fights that spanned from 2003 to 2008, the last one of which against now-retired former WBC super welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.

It was a stroke of genius that Pacquiao’s people scheduled a fight against De La Hoya at this point of De La Hoya’s career. Pacquiao has been doing this a lot lately, scheduling a fight against the aging Erik Morales, the retiring Marco Antonio Barrera and a slower and older Juan Manuel Marquez.

This time though, Pacquiao could be walking into a brick wall since De La Hoya will be taking advantage of all kinds of statistical data, from reach to weight, and a fighter of his caliber should be ashamed if he lets a fighter like Pacquiao score a win over him before he walks away from the ring.

Still, being a true fighting champion, the owner of the multi-million Golden Boy Promotions and aspiring builder of a real estate empire in the United States is taking a calculated risk against boxing’s biggest joke.

If De La Hoya loses this fight, he will leave the sport to a boxer who don’t know what’s the difference between a jab and a hook. Worst case scenario? More punks like this guy will come out of the woodwork pretending to be a scientific boxer.

And yes, that’ll be the end of boxing.

Can Oscar De La Hoya KO Manny Pacquiao? Bodog Sportsbook has the odds. Bet now.

Oscar De La Hoya 1.49

Manny Pacquiao 2.65

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