De la Hoya to pay Pinoy Pride Pacquiao $3 Million per Pound Beyond 147 lbs.

Makes me wish I was a boxer myself.

Only in the big-bucks boxing world of Oscar De la Hoya and Pinoy pride Manny Pacquiao could one demand three million big ones per excess pound you lug inside the ring. Pacquiao, the Filipino boxing sensation that fell the biggest Mexican boxing names one after the other is taking in Oscar de la Hoya on December 6 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

This fight (we don’t have the merchandising title yet) takes on a lot of dimensions that one can talk about it from so many angles: Revenge, Greed, and pure entertainment. This is so not unlike your usual Monday afternoon TV drama flick. Boxing critics are ranting about how De la Hoya seems to be wanting to get the easy way out by fighting a size-disadvantaged fighter instead of taking on for a rematch either Bernard Hopkins or Shane Mosley. He lost his bouts with these two.

Those who love the drama angle relish how De la Hoya would exact revenge for the Mexican legends whose sterling bright careers Manny Pacquiao have extinguished one by one. Consider the brightest of the brightest in Mexican boxing: Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez, Hector Velasquez, Oscar Larios, Eric Morales, Jorge Solis, and David Diaz. Big names, champions of Mexican boxing, whose heads are figuratively strewn together and hung like medals around Pacquiao’s chest.

Oscar de la Hoya reportedly took it upon himself to fight the Filipino sensation to disprove what Freddie Roach said about his not being “able to pull” the trigger against Pacquiao.

The money part is the best part.

Big bucks. This is what it’s all about. Both fighters are not in it for glory or title. They have plenty of those. Money is the prime agenda in this fight. While the other bouts of prominent boxers only assures them of $8 million dollars take-home pay, the De la Hoya-Pacquiao negotiations started off with a minimum earnings of $10 million dollars for Manny Pacquiao.

Subsequent negotiations almost stalled when t

he Pacquiao camp said no to the 70-30 sharing in favor of the Golden Boy. Now that both camps have reached an agreement (to an undisclosed sharing scheme) one could only speculate on what the Pacquiao camp initially disclosed to the press: something like between $15 million to $20 million dollars.

I wish I was a boxer. No, I wish I was Manny Pacquiao.

Forget about the purse. Just think of what the Mexican killer from the Philippines would get for every extra pound after the 147-pound max Oscar de la Hoya weighs when it is time to face the scale. $3 million dollars per extra pound! Just three tiny extra pounds and Pinoy pride Pacquiao will top what other boxers receive for winning a big championship bout.

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