MANNY PACQUIAO AND OSCAR DE LA HOYA may not be fighting for any alphabet title, but their projected $100-million fight has caught the attention of the current welterweight title holders.

Two of them, Antonio Margarito and Paul Williams, both predicted a knockout victory in favor of the taller, bigger and older De La Hoya, reported cable giant ESPN.

Margarito, jilted by De La Hoya in favor of Pacquiao for the Dec. 6 megafight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, sounded like a spurned suitor when asked for his opinion.

“Now Oscar is getting brave with a 135-pound fighter and is trying to convince everyone that it’s a tough fight,” Margarito was quoted by ESPN.com.

Pacquiao, who took the WBC lightweight crown at the expense of David Diaz in June, will be jumping two weight classes to meet De La Hoya, who has fought in the light middleweight territory the past seven years.

“He wants to show the world that he can pull the trigger against a 135-pounder,” added Margarito.

The 5-foot-11 holder of the IBF and the WBA titles was trying to hinge a career-turning fight with De La Hoya but the Golden Boy pointed him to the direction of current WBO champ Paul Williams.

Margarito felt that his sensational 11th round KO of Miguel Cotto, whom De La Hoya initially wanted to fight, gave him a ticket to a super-rich fight against boxing’s biggest star.

But De La Hoya, the 10-time world champion in six weight classes and Olympic gold medalist thought otherwise.

“We believe that there’s still a score to settle between Margarito and Williams,” Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schafer said.

Williams, a 6-foot-1 KO artist, defeated Margarito in July last year for the WBO belt.

“Oscar will stop Manny within three rounds,” Williams told ESPN.

“I don’t want to take anything away from Pacquiao, but his punches won’t hurt De La Hoya. Manny is just too small, and Oscar is just too big.”