{"id":921953,"date":"2026-10-05T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921953\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:18:14","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-names-the-one-fighter-who-hit-him-harder-than-manny-pacquiao-it-was-painful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921953\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya names the one fighter who hit him harder than Manny Pacquiao: “It was painful”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> claims to have faced a more formidable puncher than Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, even describing his opponent as having bricks for hands.<\/p>\n

The Mexican-American collided with \u2018Pac Man\u2019 in 2008, suffering an eighth-round stoppage defeat<\/a> in what proved to be the final fight of his Hall of Fame career.<\/p>\n

At that point, De La Hoya was certainly past his best and, to make matters worse, had boiled himself down to 145lbs after competing at higher weights in previous fights.<\/p>\n

Against Floyd Mayweather, for instance, the \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 lost a split decision at 154lbs<\/a> and, prior to that, had suffered a ninth-round knockout defeat in his middleweight clash with Bernard Hopkins in 2004.<\/p>\n

It was back in 1999, however, that De La Hoya reckons he was hit the hardest by any opponent, despite managing to defend his WBC world title with a split decision victory.<\/p>\n

Standing in the opposite corner, meanwhile, was Ike Quartey, who certainly troubled the welterweight champion by scoring a sixth-round knockdown.<\/p>\n

Describing their encounter as a \u201cRocky movie\u201d, De La Hoya has told Showboy Sho<\/a> all these years later that Quartey packed an even harder punch than Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he had bricks in his hands. That\u2019s how hard he hit. He would hit me and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh, damn\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would hurt different; it was painful. [But] it was a fun fight. It was like a Rocky movie \u2013 he dropped me once \u2026 then I dropped him [twice].<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fight was even [on the judges\u2019 scorecards] going into the last round. So I got him in the corner, threw like 35 punches \u2013 hit him in the face \u2013 and he was still throwing back.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to getting dropped, De La Hoya floored Quartey in the same round before scoring a 12th-round knockdown and ultimately winning on points.<\/p>\n

Quartey is a former WBA welterweight champion, ending his career with a record of 37 wins from 42 fights, 32 of those wins by knockout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya claims to have faced a more formidable puncher than Manny Pacquiao, even describing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-921953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}