Watch the thrilling video here: 8RD rout en route to a 9RD TKO victory of Pacman over the Golden Boy
It was absolved by the 3rd round that De La Hoya was going to need a miracle to override the biffing he was taking.
Pacquiao exhibited every punch in the armory, grazing the Golden Boy with straight lefts that almost closed De La Hoya’s left eye and dazing him with hooks, jabs and uppercuts.
It was so brutal of a beating that it was difficult not to feel compassionate for De La Hoya. At the end of the fight, a exhaustively beaten De La Hoya padded across the ring and met his one-time trainer, Freddie Roach.
“You are right,” De La Hoya said to Roach, who had groomed Pacquiao brightly. “I don’t have it any more.”
Pacquiao was a 2-1 underdog, mostly because he was challenging a man who had opposed at super welterweight or middleweight entirely for the last seven-and-a-half years. Pacquiao had only campaigned once as high as lightweight and had fought 75 percent of his bouts before Saturday at super bantamweight or lower.
