Filipino Boxer Manny Pacquiao has won in an eight-round technical knock out over Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya in a boxing event dubbed as “The Dream Match” on December 7, 2008 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States. Manny Pacquiao has already 48 victories in his professional career. Oscar De La Hoya, on the other hand, has 39 victories respectively.

Manny Pacquiao

Oscar De La Hoya enjoyed reach and height advantage over Manny Pacquiao in the fight. The speed of Manny Pacquiao was working well in the first and last round. In the second round, Manny showed more agility and great footwork. De La Hoya also showed excellent aggression. Manny is relying so much on his speed and footwork while Oscar De La Hoya was trying connecting in the fifth round and gave too much emphasis in defending his middle section.

In the seventh round, De La Hoya seemed like hurt that he was not able to throw more punches to Pacquiao as compared to the previous rounds. On the other hand, Manny has thrown more punches together with left and right combinations that almost bring the Golden Boy down. Oscar De La Hoya surrendered in the ninth round and the fight was stopped earlier than the scheduled twelve rounds. Tony Weeks was the referee in-charge of the fight.

From first to the seventh rounds, Manny was dominating the fight. The height and reach advantage of Oscar De La Hoya was obliterated by the speed and power of Manny Pacquiao.

In a post-fight interview, Oscar De La Hoya gave credit to Manny for the job well done and said that Pacquiao deserves the victory. Oscar, however, did not yet finalized if he will be going to retire after the Dream Match with Manny Pacquiao.

With the latest victory over one of the greatest names in boxing, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny is undoubted the number one pound for pound boxer in the world.

 

This particular episode features both Pacquiao and De La Hoya camps as they travel from the opening press conference at the Statue of Liberty in New York to the downtown of Los Angeles on a six-city tour to promote the fight dubbed as “The Dream Match”.