They're giving this fight a hook
As the Dec. 6 bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao approaches, the propaganda is flowing freely from the two camps.
Manny Pacquiao versus Oscar De La Hoya has a chance to turn into the most chewed-on boxing match because Tyson versus Holyfield.
It is still 19 days until the renowned pair steps into the ring at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas for what has turn into the most anticipated 12 rounds of the year. But the slings and arrows of pre-fight propaganda have been soaring for some time now.
Pacquiao and De La Hoya might really turn out to be worth all the noise.
The promoters -- De La Hoya's own Golden Boy Promotions and Bob Arum's Top Rank for Pacquiao -- have cut a contract that will bring De La Hoya a minimum of $15 million and Pacquiao a minimum of $10 million, no matter what happen in the ring the night of Dec. 6.
That's a large nut to crack, so the promoters have been functioning hard. The fight sold out in 17 minutes, and the goal of 1.5 million pay-per-view buys on HBO will make nice profit limitations all around.
But the economy is abruptly of such concern that there is a worry about the embarrassment of empty seats. The casinos buy tickets in move forward for their big players, but there are fewer big players going to Las Vegas right now. The same worries can be relevant to people who may now consider a $54.95 pay-per-view investment for a link of hours of home viewing a bit extravagant.
In the best of times, this one would have had the Vegas high rollers clamor for ringside seats and would have challenged the record 2.4 million pay-per-view buys set when De La Hoya lost a split result to Floyd Mayweather Jr., May 5 last year.
Still, if boxing knows not anything else, it knows how to crank up the sale machine.
Monday, at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, the sport play good cop-bad cop for assembled cameras and notebooks. The players were Pacquiao and his trainer, Freddie Roach, and without preparation it, they did a great audition for parts on "Law & Order."
Roach, who skilled De La Hoya for the Mayweather fight, called his former pupil "weak minded" and his current pupil "brawny minded." Pacquiao said he wouldn't comment on that.
Roach has been quoted regularly as saying that Pacquiao could very well knock out De La Hoya in this fight at 147 pounds. Pacquiao said that "a big success would be a bonus."
Roach called De La Hoya a "part-time fighter who has only fight four times in the last four years while Manny has fought four times in the previous year." De La Hoya is 35, Pacquiao 29, and Roach said that De La Hoya will learn, as Ali did alongside Holmes and Julio Cesar Chavez did against De La Hoya, what happens to old boxers alongside young guns.
"Oscar will find out how Chavez felt 10 years ago," Roach said. "The younger battalion takes over. It's Manny's time now."
Pacquiao, asked whether De La Hoya was the best-skilled boxer he had fight to date in his 52 professional fight, said yes.
To be clear, Roach is not a usual bad cop. He is the conflicting of a loud-mouthed carnival barker. A former boxer who battles Parkinson's illness on a daily basis and runs a gym that has produced 22 world champions, he always has been cruelly direct and honest. When Roach says he is "100% confident" that Pacquiao is the improved fighter in this one, that's because he is.
On the other hand, Pacquiao, the pride of the Philippines, is less likely to eloquent confidence or exuberance because English is not his first language and he is more contented staying with the safe and predictable.
Clearly, Roach has a plan and is excited about it. Asked what he experiential when De La Hoya stopped using his effectual jab against Mayweather in the later rounds, leading to his loss, Roach got a twinkle in his eye and said, "I know why the jab congested working and that's part of our plan."
Clearly, Roach is having fun with all this. Asked why he had a huge painting on the wall of his gym that depict De La Hoya fighting Felix Trinidad in their 1999 classic, Roach said, "I just put it up there since some guy wanted to sell it."
He pauses for result.
"Been up present a year," he said.
Clearly, the fun has just begin.
Source :http://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-sp-dwyre18-2008nov18,0,5224541.column
Manny Pacquiao versus Oscar De La Hoya has a chance to turn into the most chewed-on boxing match because Tyson versus Holyfield.
It is still 19 days until the renowned pair steps into the ring at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas for what has turn into the most anticipated 12 rounds of the year. But the slings and arrows of pre-fight propaganda have been soaring for some time now.
Pacquiao and De La Hoya might really turn out to be worth all the noise.
The promoters -- De La Hoya's own Golden Boy Promotions and Bob Arum's Top Rank for Pacquiao -- have cut a contract that will bring De La Hoya a minimum of $15 million and Pacquiao a minimum of $10 million, no matter what happen in the ring the night of Dec. 6.
That's a large nut to crack, so the promoters have been functioning hard. The fight sold out in 17 minutes, and the goal of 1.5 million pay-per-view buys on HBO will make nice profit limitations all around.
But the economy is abruptly of such concern that there is a worry about the embarrassment of empty seats. The casinos buy tickets in move forward for their big players, but there are fewer big players going to Las Vegas right now. The same worries can be relevant to people who may now consider a $54.95 pay-per-view investment for a link of hours of home viewing a bit extravagant.
In the best of times, this one would have had the Vegas high rollers clamor for ringside seats and would have challenged the record 2.4 million pay-per-view buys set when De La Hoya lost a split result to Floyd Mayweather Jr., May 5 last year.
Still, if boxing knows not anything else, it knows how to crank up the sale machine.
Monday, at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, the sport play good cop-bad cop for assembled cameras and notebooks. The players were Pacquiao and his trainer, Freddie Roach, and without preparation it, they did a great audition for parts on "Law & Order."
Roach, who skilled De La Hoya for the Mayweather fight, called his former pupil "weak minded" and his current pupil "brawny minded." Pacquiao said he wouldn't comment on that.
Roach has been quoted regularly as saying that Pacquiao could very well knock out De La Hoya in this fight at 147 pounds. Pacquiao said that "a big success would be a bonus."
Roach called De La Hoya a "part-time fighter who has only fight four times in the last four years while Manny has fought four times in the previous year." De La Hoya is 35, Pacquiao 29, and Roach said that De La Hoya will learn, as Ali did alongside Holmes and Julio Cesar Chavez did against De La Hoya, what happens to old boxers alongside young guns.
"Oscar will find out how Chavez felt 10 years ago," Roach said. "The younger battalion takes over. It's Manny's time now."
Pacquiao, asked whether De La Hoya was the best-skilled boxer he had fight to date in his 52 professional fight, said yes.
To be clear, Roach is not a usual bad cop. He is the conflicting of a loud-mouthed carnival barker. A former boxer who battles Parkinson's illness on a daily basis and runs a gym that has produced 22 world champions, he always has been cruelly direct and honest. When Roach says he is "100% confident" that Pacquiao is the improved fighter in this one, that's because he is.
On the other hand, Pacquiao, the pride of the Philippines, is less likely to eloquent confidence or exuberance because English is not his first language and he is more contented staying with the safe and predictable.
Clearly, Roach has a plan and is excited about it. Asked what he experiential when De La Hoya stopped using his effectual jab against Mayweather in the later rounds, leading to his loss, Roach got a twinkle in his eye and said, "I know why the jab congested working and that's part of our plan."
Clearly, Roach is having fun with all this. Asked why he had a huge painting on the wall of his gym that depict De La Hoya fighting Felix Trinidad in their 1999 classic, Roach said, "I just put it up there since some guy wanted to sell it."
He pauses for result.
"Been up present a year," he said.
Clearly, the fun has just begin.
Source :http://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-sp-dwyre18-2008nov18,0,5224541.column
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