OSCAR VS. COTTO ANYONE?

That would be a sorry fight anyway.
De La Hoya the naturally bigger man..come on now
He don't want to fight the real deal Welterweights like cotto, margartia, williams..he knows if he do he might just get his ass kicked ...thoroughly.

Why would he even try and fight manny that little dude just came up from 126 lbs to 130lbs not long ago. He wouldn't even be able to keep De La Hoya off of him. Thats a safe bitch ass money move. He got money already he should go for substance.

He should be looking at Margarito, Cotto, anybody but a lightweight.

nah cotto gone after margarito destroyed him


i lost alot of respect for cotto after that fight, i really thought he was gonna bk like pretty boy and just cruise through his career

he is scared of margarito cuz the raza will support him more.

it wouldnt bk as big of a deal about the weight as you think. So what paqioua (sp) has tons of power and speed. As long as he didnt get hit by that left hook golden boy really aint got much for him.

Sources: De La Hoya, Pacquiao agree to Dec. 6 fight in Vegas
By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com

Updated: August 27, 2008, 3:30 PM ET

De La Hoya To Announce Fight With Pacquiao

Oscar De La Hoya, boxing's biggest star, will announce Thursday that he will meet pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao on Dec. 6, two sources close to the fight told ESPN.com.

Top Rank's Bob Arum, whose company promotes Pacquiao, would not confirm a deal was in place for what would be the year's biggest fight, but he did tell ESPN.com that De La Hoya would host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday to announce his opponent.

"We'll know who is he is fighting tomorrow," Arum said Wednesday from Youngstown, Ohio, where he was attending a promotional event for the Kelly Pavlik-Bernard Hopkins fight that he is co-promoting with De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions. "I made a commitment that I wouldn't say anything and that tomorrow there would be an announcement. I'm not allowed to make any comments. Everything will be clear on Thursday."

Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer would not confirm the deal, either, but sounded positive when asked about it.

"Last week the deal was 90 percent dead, but we were able to revive it. The fact that it has been so quiet is a good sign," Schaefer said from Mexico, where he was traveling on business with De La Hoya. "It's been a lot of back and forth and skillful negotiating and to try to get each side to soften their stance. If the fight was Arum vs. Schaefer, it would have been made awhile ago."

Schaefer dismissed reports this week that welterweight titleholder Paul Williams was under serious consideration to meet De La Hoya. Schaefer said that although Williams' name was thrown out during an internal meeting, it was quickly dismissed, and no contact was ever made between the De La Hoya and Williams camps. Williams promoter Dan Goossen confirmed that as well.

De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs), who has repeatedly said the December fight would be the last bout of his storied career in which he's won world titles in six weight divisions, has been in talks with Pacquiao (47-3-2, 35 KOs) for weeks. But negotiations got bogged down when the sides could not come to an agreement on how to split the revenue, which is expected to exceed more than $100 million.

De La Hoya stood firm for weeks on a 70-30 split in his favor; Pacquiao was demanding a 40 percent slice of the pie.

The rest of the major issues, from the maximum weight to the size of the gloves, were agreed upon, with Pacquiao getting his way on a 147-pound weight limit and 8-ounce gloves.

The percentage split that De La Hoya and Pacquiao have apparently agreed to is unclear.

Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer and one of De La Hoya's former trainers, has been an outspoken advocate of the fight, going so far as to say he would train Pacquiao for free because he was so confident he would win.

Roach told ESPN.com on Wednesday that Pacquiao, whom he hadn't spoken to much recently, left him two voice mails about 7 a.m. ET.

"He left me the messages and at the end of one of them, he said, 'Thanks for all your help.' I read that as the fight is done," Roach said.

Pacquiao, a lightweight titleholder who has won belts in five weight classes and is the national icon of the Philippines, would move up to welterweight for the showdown with De La Hoya.

The fight is expected to take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where De La Hoya has fought five of his past six bouts and seven of his past 10.

i'm keeping my professional boxing know how out of this topic, too lazy to type it anyhow

There is a high possibility that Pacman will move up those weightclasses and involuntarily leave his power in the lower weightclasses. Look at Roberto Duran after he left ltweight division, hell even floyd hasn't been hitting as hard when he moed up, diego corrales (rip), ricardo mayorga, roy jones. History tells me that pacman isn't going to have enough pop to hurt the naturally bigger man De La Hoya.

But I would love to see him prove me wrong and knock out De La Hoya for taking such a butch move and fighting this little dude