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In one of the most talked about boxing events of the year, boxing legend and welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya will go up against lightweight champion and pound-for-pound top-rated fighter Manny Pacquiao. Taking place at the welterweight limit of 147 lbs, the match will be held on December 6, 2008 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. Due to the history making nature of this fight, Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao tickets are likely to sell out quickly.

In addition to Saturday night’s bout between Oscar de La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao, the recent bouts between middleweights, Bernard Hopkins and Kelly Pavlik and Joe Calzaghe versus Roy Jones Jr., have firmly put boxing back in the limelight, not only in the

Pacquiao began fighting professionally at 106 pounds, and has fought just once at lightweight -- weighing in at 134.5 pounds when he wrested the World Boxing Council lightweight crown from David Diaz on June 28.

He'll take on De la Hoya at the MGM Grand on Saturday at a compromise welterweight limit of 147 pounds -- which will be the lightest De la Hoya has been since his 2001 victory over Arturo Gatti.

"I feel very comfortable at this 147-pound weight right now," said Pacquiao, who nonetheless has made it plain he plans to go back to lightweight after the fight. "I've fought larger guys before. It's not a problem."

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