News - Fight Oscar De La Hoya -VS- Manny Pacquiao

Speaking to insidesports.ph, Manila Standard and Viva Sports from the Wild Card Gym where Pacquiao worked out today, Roach said Pacquiao was coming along “great” and they had “a very good workout before the press tour” which opens at the Statute of Liberty in New York as we reported weeks ago following a conversation with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum read more ...

Tickets to "The Dream Match" -- the 12-round welterweight super fight between six-division world champion OSCAR DE LA HOYA and boxing's No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter MANNY PACQUIAO – are already gone just hours after going on sale today, making the almost 16,000-seat arena a complete sell out with a gross gate of almost $ 17.0 million, making it the second biggest gate in boxing history read more ...

Ricky Hatton is dead set on facing the winner of Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao, taking place on December 6 in Las Vegas. Hatton fights a few weeks earlier, in Las Vegas, against IBF junior welterweight champ Paulie Malignaggi. Last week, De La Hoya said that he was willing to share the services of trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. with Hatton. In order to do so, Hatton would have to train up in Big Bear, California where read more ...

The Golden Boy also commented on making the contract weight of 147 lbs. against Pacquiao, a number he hasn't seen since facing Arturo Gatti in 2001. "I've fought at 154, I've fought at 160, but that's not my natural weight," said De La Hoya. "My natural weight is welterweight at 144 or 140. I can make that weight easily. I know Manny Pacquiao says that if I don't make the weight, there'll be a $3 million fine for every pound read more ...