Manny Pacquiao Dominates David Diaz
June 29, 2008 by Michael Sedor
Filed under MMA-UFC
Ninth Round TKO win for Manny Pacquaio. David Diaz didn’t score one round. Diaz summarized it best after the fight to the Top Rank announcer “He was so f***ing fast. I didn’t think he was that fast.”
After the fight Pacquiao indicated to the Top Rank interview (but not HBO’s Jim Lampley) that he wants to go up to 140 and fight Ricky Hatton. We’d love to see that one. The promise of the Pacquiao payday might also bring Floyd Mayweather out of retirement.
After the jump and/or below is a youtube of the HBO recap and Manny interview.
Below that is a youtube of David Diaz’ Top Rank interview. He’s really likable AND he drops the f-bomb four times! Enjoy
What about that pre fight bout where the fighter was disqualified for a bad blow and the other was sitting down bloody for 5 minutes bafore anyone did something. what was that about? bad officiating?
Pacman, You The MAN!!!!!!!
You’re right Dante. The DQ of Humberto Soto was an appalling travesty. Boxing writer Graham Houston said it “must rank as one of the worst pieces of refereeing in boxing history” on his Fight Writer site, http://www.fightwriter.com/?q=node/1738, and called for Joe Cortez to retire.
I’m in agreement with that conclusion. Cortez has long let his “firm but fair” shtick take precedence over the fights themselves. He’s become one of those refs who wants the sport’s action to be about him and not the athletes.
The Soto DQ could be the last straw on Cortez’s career. Let’s hope so. Even so, Soto’s record got the L but he already had 6 of them and I doubt his Ring Magazine ranking will change.