Billy’s Boxing Blog

Needless to say last weeks announcement raised a few eyebrows. Lets just jump right into it and see what the kind folks have to say:

Hi Punching Billy

Who do you like Manny or Oscar?

I believe Manny is jumping up way to high in weight….his punches

that KO lightweights won’t hurt even and older Oscar.

Where have all the great fights and fighters gone?

The 80s were great!

Pledrappier

Well since you asked here is my view on the fight:

One of the sticking points to this fight was apparently the glove issue.

I believe that since Oscar wanted 10 oz gloves he knows the hand speed factor may come in to play and I give the edge to Manny here. I believe Oscar feels that with either 8 oz or 10 oz gloves, if he lands the big left hook Manny gets launched into orbit, which is probably true….but, that’s a very big IF, especially if you take Oscar’s fight against Forbes into consideration, he looked neither fleet of hand or foot speed.

So my opinion is…..drum roll please……Manny won the glove issue by getting those 8′s and he believes Oscar wont be able to pull the trigger at all. That is what I believe as well and is why I am picking Manny to win by decision or even a late round stoppage because Oscars face will be a mess. Again, if you go back to the video of the Forbes fight you will see that before the end of round three Oscar’s face looked like a well worn tire .Speaking of tire, I just don’t think Oscar will be able to land the hook and because he will be trying so hard to do so he will tire (okay that was a stretch) rapidly, and when he does you can break out the Hamburger Helper for his soon to be contorted grill.

Most everyone I have spoken to is pretty sour with this fight and they all feel it’s a huge size mismatch and Oscar will pummel Manny into oblivion with the greatest of ease. I do not share those views.

The only way this fight will go down in history as a classic is if Manny wins. And if Manny prevails it may turn out to be a pretty good scrap, contrary to what most people are expecting from this December bout to be.

Mocking Oscar

“I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him” said Mark Anthony.

The saying hits the up-coming fight of Oscar De La hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao right smack on the nose.

You have always been a strong supporter of Oscar DeLahoya’s over the years  for many good reasons.

Happy to read though that you are changing the cut of your jib a little.on that subject.

As you may recall from our conversations,  my impressions of him [Oscar] were not as deeply rooted as yours, simply for the fact that I had the unexplainable feeling  that there were a slightly mean and a yellow streak in him.

Good boxer, but hardly a great one.

One could name 10 light- or welterweights who would have beat him at any time in his career is my opinion.

Well, nevertheless, he is braving himself now to fight a much smaller, lighter and shorter opponent.

What does that tell you?

Cheers

Your friend Dietrich

Dietrich,

Your views on the fight are the majority trust me, I understand where you are coming from.

As far as your personal views on Oscar, well let’s just say that I wouldn’t peg Oscar in that fashion and leave it at that. I don’t think either one of us are really qualified to label him one way or the other outside of the ring, but inside the ring, at his prime and up against the best I think Oscar would have given any of those greats a run for their money.

With that said, Oscar is no longer in his prime and things may be a little different with the current best lightweight, Manny Pacquiao.

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