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OSCAR: THEY WOKE UP THE GIANT
By Alex P. Vidal, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ? A visibly irked Oscar De La Hoya said the unfavorable words of his critics led by his former gym mentor Freddie Roach have helped motivate him to aim for a quick knockout when he battles the world?s best Read Full Story >>>A CIRCUS WITHOUT CLOWNS
By Sid Bañez, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
Sportswriters and fans have denounced the Dream Match as a circus. Others have called it a farce. Even Jose Sulaiman, the President of WBC, the alphabet-soup organization with a history of screwing boxers ?even their its Read Full Story >>> Boxing Prediction for Oscar De La Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao
By John Novoselac, DogHouseBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
I first asked Oscar about this fight over a year ago after Larry Merchant suggested the idea. Oscar said he thought the idea was interesting. I could see the dollar signs lighting up in his eyes, and I then knew that ther Read Full Story >>> "THE GOLDEN CHILD" OPENS UP FOR "THE GOLDEN BOY" ON DEC.6 PAY-PER-VIEW OPENING BOUT
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
LOS ANGELES, December 4 - Before "The Golden Boy", Oscar de la Hoya, enters the ring for his super fight this Saturday night against Manny Pacquiao, boxing's brightest young prospect, Daniel "The Golden Child" Jacobs, will put his perfect 12-0 record on the line against Victor Lares in the HBO Pay-P Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya Vs. Manny Pacquiao: Dream Match Or Mis-Match?
By Randall Stevens, Baller Status, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
Some say boxing is a dying sport, with the quality of fighters diminishing (or maybe just their bank-ability) and the rise of MMA (mixed martial arts), but you wouldn't know that with th Read Full Story >>> Heading into bout with Pacquiao, De La Hoya already sparring with ex-trainer
By Bernard Fernandez, Philadelphia Daily News, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
Throughout his 16-year professional boxing career, Oscar De La Hoya has hired and fired trainers as if he were George Steinbrenner orchestrating the New York Yankees' game of managerial musical chairs. With the recent addition of Mexican veteran "Nacho" Beristain, the "Golden Boy" is working on what Read Full Story >>> De La Hoya has style to beat Pacquiao: Dundee
By Kieran Mulvaney, Reuters, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Renowned trainer Angelo Dundee believes Oscar De La Hoya has the perfect style to beat WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao in their highly anticipated welterweight clash on Saturday.
Dundee, who has trained such great fighters as Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and Georg Read Full Story >>> THE DREAM IS ALMOST REALITY
Sportinglife.com (UK), Fri, 05 Dec 2008
Despite the criticism, despite the protests, it's almost upon us.
A year ago not even the most hardened of gamblers on the Las Vegas Strip would have risked their dollars on Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao meeting inside a ring.
But on Saturday night inside the MGM Grand they'll lock horns Read Full Story >>> De La Hoya victory might not be Oscar-winning to some skeptics
By Robert Morales, L.A. Daily News, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
BOXING: Skeptics believe
De La Hoya hurting sport
by taking fight against
smaller Pacquiao.
Vernon Forrest had just beaten Sergio Mora to win back his junior middleweight world title Sept.13 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Juan Manuel Marquez knocked out Joel Casamayor in a lightweight fig Read Full Story >>> When it comes to De La Hoya, big wins just a memory
By Roman Modrowski, SouthtownStar.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
What was the last big fight Oscar De La Hoya won?
It's a question worth considering while discussing the showdown Saturday between De La Hoya (39-5, 30 knockouts) and Manny Pacquiao (47-3-2, 35 KOs).
Even seasoned boxing fans need a second before answering.
It wasn't his technical knockout of Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao, De la Hoya winning odds near even
GMA News Online, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
MANILA, Philippines - The Dream Match has been called a mismatch, a circus, and a no-contest.
Betting lines on Friday (Thursday, US time) in Las Vegas clearly showed otherwise.
Oscar de la Hoya's winning odds continued to slip after The Golden Boy was listed as a mere minus-165 favorite to bea Read Full Story >>> Freddie Roach out to bite Oscar De La Hoya
By Tim Smith, New York Daily News, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS - Oscar De La Hoya has a history of firing trainers after he loses a fight. Freddie Roach didn't mind ending up on that long list after De La Hoya lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. - the only fight that Roach worked on with De La Hoya.
But Roach didn't appreciate being made the fall guy for th Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao confident in cutman
By Steve Carp, Las Vegas Review Journal, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
When Juan Manuel Marquez was busting open Manny Pacquiao in their March 15 fight at Mandalay Bay, Joe Chavez might have saved Pacquiao from a technical-knockout loss.
Pacquiao had several lacerations around his right eye, and Chavez, working as the cutman in Pacquiao's corner that night, did a gr Read Full Story >>> RON BORGES Vegas Diary-Part 2
By Ron Borges, The Sweet Science, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS ? A promoter, by the very nature of his job, is an optimist. But Bob Arum seems to be taking that to a new level this week.
Amidst a sagging economy, American consumers putting away their credit cards and reducing their discretionary spending and the oncoming Christmas rush, Arum Read Full Story >>> Roach playing mind games with Oscar
15rounds.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS ? Manny Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said he urged Oscar De La Hoya to see a sports psychologist when he was in De La Hoya?s corner before the loss to Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
De La Hoya refused.
So, now, Roach is trying to do what a psychologist might have done:
Get into De La Hoya?s he Read Full Story >>> De la Hoya's loss to Mosley should have asterisk
By Wallace Matthews, NewsDay.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
There are five blemishes on Oscar De La Hoya's 44-fight professional boxing career. One was a matter of Bernard Hopkins' left hook to the liver. Three were a matter of opinion.
And one, we know now, was a result of cheating.
De La Hoya, who has practically carried big-time pay-per-view boxing Read Full Story >>> Boxing fans trade playful jabs
Tennessean.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
Cortland Finnegan is rooting for Manny Pacquiao against Oscar De La Hoya in Saturday's welterweight fight in Las Vegas.
That irks fellow Titans cornerback Chris Carr, the team's self-designated expert of quirky things, including the current state of boxing.
On Thursday, Finnegan sat out practi Read Full Story >>> Arum to sue Victor Ortiz camp over bankruptcy filing
15rounds.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
LAS VEGAS ? Bob Arum said he is appealing a bankruptcy ruling that allowed prospect Victor Ortiz to jump to Golden Boy Promotions and the Top Rank promoter threatened to sue his co-managers, Shelly Finkel and Rolando Arellano, whom he called creeps.
Arum angrily blamed Finkel and Arellano for inter Read Full Story >>> The Architect
By Steve Kim, MaxBoxing.com, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
On HBO's infomercial series '24/7', much has been made of the work being put in by Oscar De La Hoya and his long-time strength and conditioning coach, Rob Garcia, as he prepares for his first fight at the welterweight limit in Read Full Story >>> Picking Pacquiao to win on points
By Colin Seymour, S.F. Boxing Examiner, Fri, 05 Dec 2008
I still think Oscar De La Hoya can punch harder than Manny Pacquiao. But my money is on Manny to land more punches and upset Oscar in their welterweight megafight Saturday in Las Vegas.
My pick is not consistent with my long-held belief that a fighter should compete at the lowest weight possi Read Full Story >>>
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