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Pacquiao Must Look At Oscar’s Venture As A Boxing Promoter In Preparation For Politics By Oliver Suarez PhilBoxing.com Fri, 19 Feb 2010  There was a time, when Oscar promised to clean up the sport of boxing. In an article by Los Angeles Business Journal, he said. "We want to change the sport of boxing. We want to bring some integrity and honesty to the sport." Oscar‘s image as a fighter was a humble young man, who had to persevere in order to get to the top. His image along with his willingness to fight the best opponents possible made him the top draw in boxing. Despite a less than stellar record against elite opponents, he was no doubt the main star in the sport of boxing. He’s also a smart business man, who unlike many boxers invested his money wisely, and is now one of the most powerful men in boxing. More importantly, similarly to Pacquiao, he often shares his wealth to numerous charities or foundations. He helped built the Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School in his hopes to provide great education for kids. There is no doubt that much like Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya has influenced many people’s lives in positive ways. Now Oscar is one of the two most powerful promoters along with Bob Arum in the sport of boxing. Golden Boy Promotions has rapidly become one of the two most influential boxing promotion company along with Top Rank. But can Oscar ever view his company as successful without first following up on his initial intention to clean up boxing? So far, Oscar has done nothing to change our view about the corruption in the sport. Did he bring integrity and honesty to the sport when he went along with Mayweather Jr in linking Pacquiao to steroids? Did he bring credibility to the sport when he made conflicting statements about Pacquiao in support of Mayweather Jr? In addition, many fighters from Golden Boy have been involved in controversial decisions. Remember the first Diaz and Malignaggi, Funeka vs. Guzman, and Beibut vs. Campillo fights? Also in the same Los Angeles Business Journal article, it was mentioned that he wanted the alphabet-soup of sanctioning bodies to be done away with and form one national league that oversee the sport. Has he done that or been vocal about it lately? The fact is just like past politicians who had great intention at the start, Oscar was eaten up by his corrupted environment. Now, he may have become one of those people that he had admonished. He was supposed to set the standards as a promoter, instead he found himself playing the same game as his predecessors. As Bob Arum said, "Everybody wants to clean up the sport. They all say that. Then they realize the sport is the sport." The boxing world is filled with politics, corruptions and people with no integrity. Oscar De La Hoya is no doubt a great man, who had great intentions, but he proved that it’s difficult for anyone not to get his hands dirty in a corrupted environment. As much problems that the sport of boxing has, it might pale in comparison when compared to the world of politics, so as Pacquiao tries to prepare himself for politics, he only needs to look at his rival for what can happen. Link to los angeles business journal article: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Oscar+after+the+bell:+De+La+Hoya+readies+for+life+outside+the+ring-a0122865208 Check out my other article: Will The Success Of Philippine Boxing Continue After Pacquiao? http://www.sportzhypeboxing.com/2010/02/will-success-of-philippine-boxing.html Click here to view a list of other articles written by Oliver Suarez.  |
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