Manny Pacquiao stops Oscar De La Hoya in TKO

AMAZING!

Smaller Pacquiao Topples De La Hoya (NY Times)

Manny Pacquiao fought a lot bigger than he looked. Oscar De La Hoya simply looked old.

Pacquiao dominated his bigger and more famous opponent from the opening bell Saturday night, giving De La Hoya a beating before De La Hoya declined to come out of his corner after the eighth round.

The fight was so lopsided that it could mean the end for De La Hoya, boxing’s richest and most marketable star.

It was only the second time in his 16-year professional career that he was stopped in a fight, and it came at the hands of a fighter who fought at 129 pounds months earlier. At 35, he seemed not only well beyond his prime but unable to offer any answer to the punches that Pacquiao was landing almost at will.