Team Pacquaio has struck a good deal regarding this stipulation in the fight contract. They have smartly lessen some advantages that Oscar De La Hoya may have over Manny Pacquiao come fight night.
If ever Oscar De La Hoya fails to come during the weigh-in with the right weight, Manny Pacquiao already is sure to bag several million dollars from him with his negligence.
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DL Hoya to pay $ 3 million for every pound over 147
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
By Nick Giongco
Oscar De La Hoya is dead-certain of tipping the scales at 147 lbs or even less during the official weigh-in on the eve of his Dec. 6 brawl with Manny Pacquiao.
"I have already talked with Bob Arum and he told me that Oscar has agreed that the penalty will be $ 3 million for every pound or a fraction thereof in excess of 147 lbs (during the weighin),"said Pacquiao lawyer Franklin Gacal yesterday.
Gacal had batted for the inclusion of that agreement in the official fight contract to prevent De La Hoya from gaining more advantage as he is naturally the bigger boxer.
"Oscar is the bigger boxer, is taller (at 5-10 as to Pacquiao who is 5-6) and has the reach advantage," said Gacal, noting that the Golden Boy will have to sweat it out to make the welterweight limit.
In his last two fights — against Floyd Mayweather and Steve Forbes—De La Hoya came in at 150 lbs.
De La Hoya, who turns 36 in February next year, hasn’t fought at welterweight since stopping Arturo Gatti in March 2001 but is confident that he can still make the weight.
After destroying Gatti, De La Hoya campaigned mostly at super-welterweight (154 lbs) aside from moonlighting as a middleweight (160 lbs) in 2004.
Pacquiao, who turns 30 on Dec. 17, started out as a light-flyweight (108 lbs) when he turned pro in 1995 and has since moved up to lightweight (135 lbs), winning world titles at flyweight (112), super-bantam (122) and super-feather (130) along the way.
Despite his obvious size advantage, De La Hoya is of the opinion that by fight night, boxing fans won’t notice the difference.
"Well, I think first of all a lot of people are going to be very surprised when we’re standing next to each other. Size really isn’t going to be that much of a big difference. It’s not going to be like Roy Jones against John Ruiz with the size differential," said De La Hoya during a teleconference call from Los Angeles.
Despite the tremendous odds, Top Rank chief Bob Arum believes Pacquiao has more than genuine chances of upsetting De La Hoya.
"Manny has got lots of speed and his southpaw style will frustrate Oscar," said Arum, who promoted De La Hoya from 1992 up until 1999 when he severed ties with the 76-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer from New York.
Arum added that Pacquiao-De La Hoya will rank among the all-time greats, stressing that the match up will be mentioned in the same breath with the Ali-Frazier trilogy in the 1970s and Sugar Ray Leonard’s historic bouts with Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler of the 1980s.
"This fight has worldwide implications. It is an American Olympian fighting against the greatest fighter, the greatest athlete to come from the country of the Philippines. And, someone of my age, I realize what the Philippines has meant to the United States, what it’s meant to the world. The Philippine people fought courageously with the Americans at Bataan and Corregidor in the second World War."
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Oscar De La Hoya to Pay Manny Pacquiao $3 Million for Every Pound Over 147
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Manny Pacquiao to Settle Old Score with Oscar Dela Hoya
We can't blame Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao if he is shooting for the stars by fighting Oscar "Golden Boy" De La Hoya.
For one, a fat paycheck awaits him win or lose. Of course, this is not the only motivation and Manny don't want to go home a loser.
Second is that by beating Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao will elevate himself even more to greater heights among top boxers of all-time, which also will increase his stock and per fight purse.
So in this fight, Manny Pacquiao has nothing to lose and everything to gain. Go Pacman!
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Pacquiao to settle old score with Dela Hoya
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
By Nick Giongco
Squaring off with Oscar De La Hoya has become an obsession for Manny Pacquiao that the Filipino southpaw believes he is capable of shocking the world in the event they meet in the ring on Dec. 6.
"I know that winning against De La Hoya is going to be tough but I have full confidence in what I can do and I know I can score an upset," Pacquiao said during a brief break in his vacation with his loved ones in the United States.
While a De la Hoya fight will guarantee him the fattest paycheck of his career, Pacquiao said there’s a personal aspect in this fight that is being proposed for Dec. 6 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"There’s going to be lots of money involved but I also have to settle something personal (with De La Hoya)," said Pacquiao, who did not elaborate, although ringsiders believe that De La Hoya’s disenchantment with the fighter began when Pacquiao turned his back on a contract that he signed with the Golden Boy.
Pacquiao has already met and discussed the merits of a De La Hoya fight with his promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, and Arum has scheduled to meet with GBP Chief Executive Officer Richard Schaefer this Wednesday to determine whether a deal can be made between the two rival promotional outfits.
Recently, Pacquiao told a gathering of boxing beat writers, columnists and sports editors that he drools over the prospects of rumbling with a "legend like De La Hoya" and that he believes his trainer Freddie Roach is not out of his mind when he told the press that Pacquiao can get the job done even against a bigger fighter in De La Hoya.
Arum and Schaefer will deal with the revenue sharing not only in the pay-per-view, ticket sales and purse but likewise on the delicate issue of the weight limit and brand of the gloves that will be used.
Initial reports inside Team Pacquiao said the 29-year-old General Santos banger is asking million and De La Hoya has been quoted as saying that a fight involving himself would enable Pacquiao to earn up to five times the amount that he’s been getting.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Manny Pacquiao vs. Oscar De La Hoya Boxing Fight
Greetings boxing fans!
Welcome to the "Manny Pacquiao vs. Oscar De La Hoya Boxing Fight" website.
In this boxing website, you will get news updates, issues, and fight results on the upcoming boxing fight between boxing legends Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao and Oscar "The Golden Boy" De La Hoya, billed as David vs. Goliath.
This blockbuster boxing fight is scheduled on December 6, 2008 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada and is expected to top the pay-per-view receipts fitting two of the most famous boxing icons in today's generation.
Who's going to emerge victorious? Will it be Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, who is being compared as David or will it be Oscar "The Golden Boy" De La Hoya who is likened to as the giant Goliath. Let's find out as we continue to watch their preparations for the upcoming big event.
