"if freddie roach were in a room with osama bin laden,kim jung il and jack the ripper.....
and he had a gun but only one bullet....he`d still try and shoot oscar de la hoya..."
GW,
In all fairness, MadJack (not MJ here, the REAL Mad Jack, mad as in crazy insane) the Ripper is already dead,
and Kim Jung is about to join him,
so it's really only a 1 in 2 choice!
But yeah, Osama would be safe . . .
Two more notes on the fight:
1 - for those that think the weigh-in was fixed (and I offer no opinion there) if the fix is on in the weigh in, how would you like to have your $ on Pac in the actual fight?
2 - Oscar's career comes down to one fight.
If he loses to tonight, it will be his legacy - all his other accomplishments will be pushed to the background, faded whenever he is mentioned.
Regardless of all he has achieved, like him or not (and I have never been a fan and done plenty of columns thru the years bearting him for a variety of reasons) he will be remembered for having lost to a lightweight. It will overshadow all else.
The wins, the belts, the bouts will still be there, but foreshadowed by losing to a little guy - a much littler guy.
An unshakeable, ugly asterisk on his career.
He knows this.
He's a lot of thing, but not stupid.
Incentive enough, even at his age . . .
