In a recent press conference to help hype May 5th’s battle between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr., Mayweather Jr., gave De La Hoya some hard criticism and peppered his comments with insults. Mayweather Jr attacked De La Hoya for the way the fight was negoatiated. Mayweather dissed De La Hoya, calling him a “fake-ass fighter” and a “Brat.” Mayweather also mentioned he doesn’t want to do business with De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions again because they are “Slick.”
“He ain’t real,” Mayweather said at the conference, adding: “And you all keep believing all of them stories he be telling you all, all that media stuff he been telling you all. Oscar De La Hoya is a fake-ass fighter. And it’s just like he says stuff like I don’t deserve to be in the sport of boxing, and I don’t deserve certain things. It’s more like we all know Oscar De La Hoya is greedy. He’s ungrateful and he’s a brat, and HBO will tell you that.”
Mayweather also attacked the way De La Hoya negotiated the fight, saying: “Oscar is a brat,” then adding, “Let me tell you what he did. First, we had a problem negotiating the money. We got the money settled. And then the dude [is] talking about what he wanted to wear. He wanted to wear Reyes gloves. I can’t wear the gloves I want to wear, but he can wear the gloves he wants to wear. So he said let’s put that in the contract, so I said, ‘OK, no problem.’
“And then he said, ‘Well I’m not fighting [below 154 pounds].’ I said, ‘No problem.’ Then he said he wanted to choose where he wanted the fight to be at. I told him, ‘No problem.’ I’m telling you man, this dude is – I’m amazed – I mean [expletive], I don’t ever want to do business with Golden Boy Promotions again. As of right now, I don’t want to do business with them. You can see how the company is. That’s like when Bernard Hopkins’ nephew [Demetrius] fought [on March 17]. He was with Golden Boy Promotions. He fought Steve Forbes and he really got his ass kicked, and look how they gave him the fight. So, you know, you just have to watch them. They’re slick. They’ve got tricks up their sleeve. When I talk like this, they get mad about me putting their company on blast, but to be honest, I mean they have been no different from Don King. They’re no different from Bob Arum.”
