LAS VEGAS — There are three good reasons Manny Pacquiao and his promoter did not anxiously call out Floyd Mayweather after one of the most meaningful upsets in recent boxing history: One, they don’t need him now; two, they don’t want to negotiate with him anyway; three, he’s retired and safely beyond reach.
The starmaker Oscar De La Hoya sniffed out a winner again, with a nose sniffing little after he lost again, forced to retire on his stool and sent for a hospital exam after eight rounds favoring a smaller man who never had fought within three weig
