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Why Mayweather won't fight Pacquiao, according to Oscar De La Hoya


Despite Floyd Mayweather's recent eagerness to fight Manny Pacquiao, retired six-division champion and Golden Boy Promotions founder Oscar De La Hoya still doesn't believe for a second that the brash American really wants to tangle with the Filipino.
 
"Mayweather will not fight, because he thinks that if leaves the sport undefeated [he will be considered the best ever], but he won't be because people will respect you more when you face the toughest, the strongest, the most dangerous," De La Hoya said in an interview with ESPN Deportes.
 
"It doesn't matter who, all of the biggest names lost- Sugar Ray Robinson, [Muhammad] Ali, Pacquiao. What matters is the legacy we're leaving behind."
 
De La Hoya fought and lost to both fighters, Mayweather in 2007 and Pacquiao in 2008. Six years had passed since the public first clamored Pacquiao and Mayweather go at it, leaving De La Hoya dumbfounded as to why it's yet to happen.
 
"I can not understand why this [fight] has not been done. I cannot understand why, because in my day, during Chavez's time, we saw the best fight with the best," De La Hoya said.
 
"I have that pride. I wanted to fight with the best, win or lose, but it was against the best. I can not understand these things." —JST, GMA News
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