Word: hoya
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During these dismal economic times, perhaps the sweet science can relieve a little stress. "Picture some person you hate," says boxing champ Oscar De La Hoya. "Put their face on that bag and just punch at it. Let go of those frustrations." Feel free, by the way, to imagine punching your stock portfolio or some doughy-faced financier...
...glean more boxing insights, TIME visited De La Hoya--who, at 35, is still the most popular fighter in the world--in Big Bear Lake, Calif., where he was preparing for his Dec. 6 pay-per-view bout with Manny Pacquiao, the top-ranked pound-for-pound boxer on the planet...
...want to be like every other fighter and do it one more time. That's obviously when it gets dangerous.' OSCAR DE LA HOYA, world-champion boxer, on plans to retire before he is permanently injured. His upcoming match against Filipino Manny Pacquiao is expected to be the most profitable fight in boxing history...
...Ringside seats cost $3,000. (By comparison, the top ticket for the recent, much-ballyhooed fight between Oscar De la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather at the MGM casino in Las Vegas were priced at $2,000.) The Ibragimov-Holyfield fight failed to live up to its lofty price tag, however, as the champ and challenger conducted a 12-round Krokus City pantomime. It was the case of a lionhearted, but aged ex-champ conserving his strength in order to go the distance against a belt-holding opponent who has benefited greatly from boxing's fall from primacy in the West...
...Hoya vs. Mayweather won't go down as the greatest fight ever, but say this much: it had currency. What mattered for people who love boxing, who understand its history, is that for one night in May 2007 the sport recaptured the public's imagination, finding itself again in the mainstream of American culture. It was a fight for fighting, and fighting...