Isaiah's Tech

So, the big news, who won? Manny Pacquiao or Oscar De La Hoya? Manny Pacquiao won. He was just too fast for De La Hoya to handle.

From Round 1 to Round 8, Manny Pacquiao dominated over Oscar De La Hoya. Oscar had about 4 inches of height over Pacquiao but it just didn't really play a factor. Now, i'm not an expert on Boxing but i did box for a few years in the past. It wasn't really anything too major or serious. But, anyone with 2 pairs of eyes could tell that Manny was just way too fast for De La Hoya to handle. He was very active, moving his feet and especially bobbing and moving his head, so that De La Hoya couldn't connect with his jabs. The weight loss for De La Hoya may have looked like it played a bit of a factor, because he did really look like he had no energy and he looked really sluggish. Obviously, though, for Manny Pacquiao the significant weight gain did not slow his punches down but, instead made his punches hurt that much more. Kudos goes to Oscar though, for not getting knocked out. Going into the fight, Pacquiao (148.5 pounds) actually weighed more than De La Hoya (147 pounds). All the announcers were saying that this was very shocking because De La Hoya was about 18 pounds heavier than Manny when this fight was announced, and for him to lose all that weight was definitely awkward. Before the fight, De La Hoya mentioned that he was on a never before used diet which was prescribed to him by an East Coast doctor or something like that. But, anyways, more about the fight. Manny was active all fight and did a good job of throwing his jabs. De La Hoya just couldn't stop Manny's left straights and hooks, as they were just slipping through the middle of De La Hoya's guard. By the 3rd or 4th round, Manny picked up the pace even more, to largen his lead over De La Hoya. This is when De La Hoya's 'beautiful face', as the announcer's called it, started to get reddish under his left cheek. This cheek is what Pacquiao kept on hitting with both his right and left hand. By the 8th round, there was a nice purplish bruise under Oscar's left eye, and he could barely keep his eye open. De La Hoya's trainer, coach, and doctor said that Manny was just too fast and they knew Oscar couldn't do anything about it. So, they told the referee and the ref. called the fight. Manny had won 10-9 in every round, and completely dominated the 7th round earning him a 10-8 round score, judging from the scorecard of the announcers. Manny was just simply too fast for De La Hoya. He would jump in, throw about 1-2 and the occasional 4 punch combination and jump back out to put his guard up. It was a very technical and well thought out plan from Pacquiao's corner, thanks to Freddy Roach, Manny's coach.

Me and my mom watched this fight on my laptop, while i was updating my facebook status throughout the length of the fight. We watched it using Sopcast, like i said in my previous post, on channel 24267. My mom's constant shrieking was the complete opposite of how dominant Manny Pacquiao was in this fight. He was simply amazing, and is reportedly going to fight Ricky Hatton in his next fight. All in all, a great fight from Manny, but from Oscar, not-so-much. I really think he should just retire, he's too sluggish and too old to fight. Maybe Manny Pacquiao is just really that good, seeing how he is the #1 pound for pound fighter in the world, since Floyd Mayweather retired. I can't wait to watch Pacquiao fight again.

The Philippines is probably going nuts.

Photo source: http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ap-delahoya-pacquiao&prov=ap&type=lgns