Lies, lies, and more lies.
The announcement of my exit from Boxing Confidential was incorrect by the one and only White Gorilla. You could say his news was premature like… you could imagine how that sentence was supposed to end.
I did consider walking away from my gig here at Boxing Confidential and leaving my fat equity share on the table for John Chavez, but after reading the transcript from Oscar De La Hoya’s conference call to announce his December 6 battle with Manny Pacquiao, I was not disgusted not only by the announcement but the questions asked by mainstream boxing ?journalists?.
Boxing journalists may not be modern day versions of Upton Sinclair, but when a foolish athletic competition is announced you think the ?best? in the business would ask a few hard hitting questions. Instead, the usual suspect tossed curve ball after curve ball to the Golden Boy.
?Why was Margarito side stepped?? ?Isn’t this fight a joke?? None of those questions reached De La Hoya’s protected ears.
I guess the fear of getting on Golden Boy Promotion’s bad side and being excluded from the free fight night buffet is a scary thought for some of these scribes.
Look below at a solid sampling of the questions posed to De La Hoya and keep in mind that Mr. Beachman’s weak probe was the hardest of them all.
Pathetic and poor showing by the ?real? writers.
Greg Beacham (Associated Press): Hello, Oscar. Hey, we know Manny will have reservations about the size discrepancies in this match-up. What were your reservations about fighting a guy who’s smaller than you like that?
Dan Rafael (ESPN): Thanks a lot, everybody. I’ll throw this out to either I guess Richard or Bob. There was a lot of discussion in the lead up to the fight that everything had been agreed on in a very cordial negotiation, down to the split of the fight, that was the big challenge, 70-30, 60-40. What did you settle on?
Robert Morales (LA Daily News): Hey, Oscar, congratulations on getting this fight done. I know you guys did look very hard on this. I know that as a promoter you work very hard at your job from what (Eric) and Richard and everybody has told me. So I’m wondering, I know that you must have went over all the pros and cons of this fight, right in your mind, during this process.
I am assuming that guys like me, Internet ?writers? who have issues with this circus event and would ask the questions that should be asked, were not given time on the international conference call. Too bad you cannot pull the plug on Boxing Confidential, eh Oscar?
