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Thu 12 Dec 2008Golden Boy still holding all the aces
BOXING INTERVIEW with OSCAR DE LA HOYA: Donald McRaesets the scene as Oscar De La Hoya prepares to meet Manny Pacquiao in Saturday's 12-round non-title welterweight bout in Las Vegas.
EVEN WITH a purple bruise under his right eye Oscar De La Hoya has the kind of face more suited to Hollywood than the battered old ring. But, as the sweat runs down his cheeks in salty little rivulets and his gaunt features become sunken with fatigue up in the beautiful but remote mountains of Big Bear in California, De La Hoya could only be a fighter. Pummelling the speed-bag above his head he makes an eerie series of cries and grunts.
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