Lets make this much clear: Pacquiao is not a lightweight; he’s an average size featherweight at best.  One win over the face first, 135 pound David Diaz does not a lightweight make.

Oscar De La Hoya is a junior middleweight and has been for years.  

The De La Hoya vs Pacquiao fight is a horrible mis-match. Manny Pacquiao is a special fighter, a once in a lifetime battler, but he is human and any man only has so many fights in him.

Manny would fight a crocodile if you paid him enough because he’s a true fighter. He will give his all in there.

But who really wants to see this marvelous little warrior take a beating just to line the pockets of an already super-rich fighter like De la Hoya.

This fight could ruin Pacquiao.  One really punishing fight can often take it all out of a guy and then he’s never the same again.  I love Pacquiao and I would much rather watch him do his thing in ten more fights against men his own size than see him beaten up by what amounts to a bully.

Can people not see that De La Hoya is acting cowardly? He’s afraid to fight a man his own size because he can’t handle taking punishment. He feels that he is somehow so special that he doesn’t have to!  He really doesn’t care what you, me or anybody else thinks because he knows all of us will pay to see it.

He went down against Hopkins before Bernard could get a chance to rearrange his face.  

Frankly, how people are still paying to see this mollycoddled poof of a pug in any sparring session he chooses to televise absolutely amazes me.  De La Hoya is a shameless charlatan.  Are we really all freaking idiots? Oscar sure as hell thinks we are.

I’d strongly advise anybody that considers themselves a supporter of Pacquiao to boycott this fight.  It’s an insult to our intelligence as fans.

If you have to watch it, watch it in a bar, or get all your friends around one TV but do not put money in their pockets.

Show them that we do actually know what were looking at in there.  Vote with your feet!

Barry Kilemade

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