System of logic would prescribe that an adept big man - in this case De La Hoya - should be able to overcome the good smaller man.
“I will be extremely, extremely disappointed if this fight doesn’t end in a knockout,” De La Hoya pronounced. “It will be a total tragedy for me.”
De La Hoya realizes, won’t be captivated by a competent victory over the ruling pound-for-pound kingbolt.
But most significantly, De La Hoya himself will not be fulfilled by anything other than a clean-cut, convincing victory. He’s brawling a guy who has spent incisively three-quarters of his boxing career at super bantamweight or lighter.
But to the Golden Boy, who is fighting the universally acknowledged pound-for-pound champion for the second time in his last three fights (the last one being his loss to Floyd Mayweather in May, 2007), anything other than a knockout is not acceptable enough.
