Did Oscar short-change boxing fans?
When he quit like a golden girl in his corner, De la Hoya decided his pretty face did not need any more touch-ups. He has bagged the big money anyway. Why would he? He made double what the man who beat him up did! In feigning inability to fight, though, he deprived millions of boxing fans the single most exciting moment in a boxing match : witnessing a KNOCKOUT. This is what fans pay a lot of DOLLARS to see. l mean how can he quit when he has not even gone down not even once. Great fighters give it their all up to the end. At this level you owe it to the fans to provide the drama and excitement they have paid huge sums to see. With the gazillion dollars he is getting, it becomes a moral obligation to the fans to do his best to the end or until the referee stops the fight. Cowards try to save their face and quit. Oscar always says he loves boxing. But apparently only when he is winning, or when he has a good chance of winning. Once he has met his match, he walks away like a dog with his tail between his legs, with a bag full of money in his pocket. Bye bye, Oscar...

De La Hoya is a has been now, he was a great boxer but his glory days are over.


You've seen life through distorted eyes
You know you had to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you do not want to know

a true champion never quit,he rather die.

Yes! He fooled a lot of fight fans - not me - into thinking he is still got it. That coming down from 154-160 to 147 ai not a problem. That he felt better than ever at 147 (''What was l doin' at 160?''). Truth is, he lost everything - his power, his skills, even his stamina - by coming down to 147. That is too much pride, man. He wanted a spectacular farewell fight so instead of fighting Coto, Margarito, Hatton or even Floyd Jr., he instead pick on a small guy Manny Pacquiao, thinking he'd have an easy time. Well, it is Manny who had an easy time, practically toying with Oscar for 8 rounds.

Oscar short-changed his fans by putting on a bad acting performance because it was fixed. He short-changed his fans to put more change in his pants for when he is going to make the Pacquiao / Hatton fight -- and we all know Hatton is with GOLDEN BOY!!!

MSNBC - just announced a major probe into the fight.stay tuned.