De La Hoya Switches Pick "Cotto Will Beat Pacquiao"

[Machingo69]

if you think oscar just preventing his credibility and not look like a fool then i can tell that you dont have a common sense....all oscars credibility was already lost......hes just a fool in the peoples eyes now...

He's a fool that has one of the biggest boxing promotion company on earth and not to mention that he has over $500 Million da bank. Yeah he's a real fool alright.

The Pacquiao kokk suckas get more ******ed by the day. No wonder they're called *******S..... LOL

[jstraightright]

This is coming from a so called legend but really a true biiiiiiiitttttttttccchhh who quit on his stool and got his head bounced around like a ping pong ball for 8 rounds. If the punches weren't hurting him his *** self shouldn't have quit... whether he's right or not about Cotto doesn't matter because he quit out of fear of taking any more punishment so for him to say that is just ******....

[bluetuazon]

You are correct but this is not Cotto's division and this guy putting Cotto and Hatton in the same sentence as if they were in the same division. It's light welter but it's still a different weight category.

Regardless, Cotto is gonna spank little Pacs ass till Roach says "NO MAS" and throws in the towel like Manning would throw deep for a touch down. LOL

well see about that mac69......lol

[simpac]

100% sure now that pacquiao will win the fight. ODL is not good in fight prediction. As he said that he will win over pacman, Hatton will win over pacman, marquez will win over mayweather. All went the other way. Maybe after 20 fight prediction he will get at least 1 right

[bluetuazon]

100% sure now that pacquiao will win the fight. ODL is not good in fight prediction. As he said that he will win over pacman, Hatton will win over pacman, marquez will win over mayweather. All went the other way. Maybe after 20 fight prediction he will get at least 1 right

this is the same DLH who quit on his stool right???

no mas!!! classic!!

[Webber676]

I dont give a dime for DLH opion, he is a loser and a liar. He said is was personal for him when he face Manny the got humiliated in from of everybody... "There is nothing you can do about this yourself, he is too fast"

No again this change of mind from realistic to fictitious is all personal for him, inside him he doesnt want the better man to win but rather that Pacquiao lose badly. But hey! he can continue to dream because that wont happen.

If Pacquiao doesnt hit hard why in the hell he was holding the ropes fighting a guy who looked like his younger son? he need to thanks his corner for the rest of his life because if not for them, Manny murder him. Oscar you are a big LIAR!!!

[paylapz83]

Hey Pay4***38, Light Welter is still a different weight category. Hatton never fought passed 140 lbs. But any way, Hatton is history and so will Pac after Cotto lands his left hook to the ribs... Cotto is gonna man handle little pac. Probably body slam him n' ****.

you know chongo,i dont know if youre just trying be smart here or what,,,,,
if you have commonsense,hatton fought manny and claim himself as undefeated in slw div....why he got 1 loss?

[Webber676]

Another reason why Manny didnt landed one thousand more power punches on this bas__rd was because at the same time time the he was attacking he was trying to be cautious and tried to systematically wear the bigger man dont with lighter but safer punch combinations.

[MaYaN_SuN]

lol Are you guys ******? It took Paq 8 rounds of unanswered shots to stop De La Hoya. That's not one punch punching power.

So technically, Oscar's right. Paq doesn't have that stopping power. If he has a punching bag infront of him, a stiff body, and his punches just start to add up, THEN he gets the TKO's or KO's. I won't factor in Hatton, just cause Hatton had a awful chin.

Now David Diaz ate a **** load of punishment for 9 straight rounds before finally being stopped. Kendal Holt took out a younger Diaz with far less effort. Paq had to work non stop to accumulate a ridiculous amount of unanswered shots over 9 rounds to get the same result.

Oscar was the same way. He was able to deal with Manny's strongest shots initially, but since he couldn't do **** or get arms out of his chest to punch, he was basically a punching bag. And it all just added up to the end of the fight.



Now I do think Manny has a heavier punch at this weight, but in the Hatton fight he was far more flat footed and slower to explode off his feet. Paq missed EVERY SINGLE lunging left hand because Hatton would see it coming and slip it. And that's Paq's signature punch, and it was slower than usual.

The left handed that eventually ended the fight was one where Paq had his feet planted. If Paq did his little hop before throwing that, bells and whistles probably would have went off in Hatton's head and he probably would have ducked or slipped it, instead of letting it get through.

So I don't even think Paq's gonna be able to dart in and out against Cotto and slash through him. If anything Paq's best chances are going to be on the inside, where he can land another freakish heavy shot. But if Cotto is on his fight game, and 100% aware of everything going on in that ring...he'll get up from any knock downs, if any even take place.

Not only that, but when's the last time Paq has looked good when another fighter was fighting back?

[Webber676]

Its true Cotto is very smart but you need to know that is not the same to know what to do and to do what you know. Pacquiao's speed wont give Cotto even time to to think he will be forced into defensive mode and safity first and wont have a break to execute any game plan he has.

Actually the best game plan I think should be to quite before getting killed in the ring and contacting Hatton early for reference on the best hospital and surgeon near MGM Grand in Vegas.