While Filipino Manny Pacquiao is preparing for his bout against Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in Texas on March 13, Oscar De La Hoya, head of Golden Boy Promotions, is busy lining up a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and. Sugar Shane Mosley for sometime in May.
That said, as far as De La Hoya is concerned, those are simply the fights before the real fight that fans have been waiting for.
Manny Pacquiao versus Floyd Mayweather Jr.
"That fight has to happen," De La Hoya said Tuesday of the proposed bout which fell apart earlier this month in a drug-testing dispute. "It's too big not to happen. We just have to cross one hurdle."
De La Hoya is adamant that it will be taking place “and a lot sooner than people think”.
Attention now however has to turn to Pacquiao against Cottey.
His former trainer Rick Stehely doesn’t believe that Pacquiao can lose but most punters think it will be a lot closer than that. Clottey is a former world champion and should he somehow manage to pull off a remarkable victory his value would go through the roof.
Accordingly he won’t be there to make up the numbers.
This is Pacquiao’s first defense of his WBO welterweight title and even Stehely believes that Clottey could go all twelve rounds with his former boxer. But if that is the case he is predicting a big points win for the champion.
Australian promoter Peter Maniatis pointed out that this will be the first time that Pacquiao will fight at 147 pounds since he faced Oscar De La Hoya. He believes that while Clottey “is a tough fighter", Pacquiao is a superstar the likes of which he has never seen before.
When all is done and dusted all that fight fans will want to know is when is the Manny Pacquiao versus Floyd Mayweather Jr. super-fight taking place.
If anyone mentions drug testing they'll probably land up bound and gagged and be used as a practice dummy for clinical drug testing trials.
Bring on the big one!
Source: therichmarksentinel.com
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