THE PRICE OF PAIN


Oscar De La Hoya / June 23, 2001
photo courtesy David Martinez private collection
By Jim Amato

In many sports a participant is subject to pain 판의 미로 다운로드. It goes with the territory. The nature of the beast so to speak. To me there can be no greater obvious damage to a participant then in boxing. If you are a boxer and happen to be matched with a superior opponent you must try to summon the courage to endure the pain 다운로드.

All of this is the game and it is expected of you. Anything less from you could brand you as a coward to the average fan who sits on couch and sips beer watching you take a first class shellacking 위기의 남자 다운로드. Oh the fan will call you a gutless dog but he has probably never stepped into the ring. If he has it was probably not against world class opposition. I have seen some great fighters take terrible beatings. Case in point, the recent beat down of Oscar De La Hoya against a fighting machine named Manny Pacquiao. It was decisive and it was sad.

This brought back the memories of the great Ali beating battered by Larry Holmes. Of Holmes being wasted by a young terror named Mike Tyson. There was Donald Curry being savaged by Lloyd Honeyghan. The worst for me was seeing my hero Roberto Duran being tormented by William Joppy. I can bring up so many other examples. Like Bobby Chacon being ripped apart by Ray Mancini. Etc, etc…It all spells one thing…SADNESS. Look at some of the beatings the great Julio Cesar Chavez absorbed as his career was winding down. Time waits for no man. Even the greatest will be defeated. Erosion takes a man’s talent like a flowing river cuts through the earth.

I hope now the Oscar will retire. He has nothing left to prove. I worry that another great fighter, Shane Mosley will suffer a sad defeat at the hands of Antonio Margarito.