And those of us on the battered East Coast thought Hurricane Sandy was a windbag.
On Sunday, hours ahead of the terrible “Frankenstorm,” and interestingly hours behind Manny Pacquiao’s highly publicized arrival in Los Angeles, 39 year old promoter Oscar de la Hoya sent out a tweet hinting of a ring comeback.
Lets hope this was Oscar being a puckish promoter, just puffing up his star attraction from Mexico.
Let’s hope Oskie was teasing, let’s hope this was a pre-Halloween trick.
In his less than 140 character message, OLDH said he thinks he can “do damage” to any junior middleweight in the world save for Golden Boy’s new Golden Boy, Canelo Alvarez.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t think the launching of GBP shows at Brooklyn’s slick Barclays Center and his humungous and sensitive ego combine to tempt the former ring superstar to lace up the gloves once more.
But, in more reflective moments than a cursory tweet, Oscar has freely confessed that the daily strain of diligent training has no appeal to him at this stage of his life. In fact, he did not train that hard for the supposed mismatch against Manny which ended with big betting favorite Oskie quitting ingnominously on his stool.
Better Oscar should line up behind Ricky Hatton’s comeback because the popular Mancunian and known GBP “associate” is coming back for the right reason. Hatton is going back into harm’s way because he sorely misses fighting.
My guess is that this tweet was just another harmless message, another passing thought from old warhorse Oscar because I don’t think it was intended to be anything more than slightly provcative…that and as praise for Canelo.
