Now the boxing boot is on the other foot. I mean what with Golden Boy and its UK affiliate, Team Hatton, talking about dredging up the battered remains of junior middleweight Oscar De La Hoya to fight 140-pounder Ricky.
The promotional tag line for De La Hoya-Hatton is easy: Incest Is Best!
The fight the public has certainly not demanded but which could easily be shoved the throats of the gullible masses would be easy to make with no dropping the ball Bob Arum involved.
There will be no sweat off Uncle Bob;s brow and no lucre for this all Golden all the time international matchup.
Not to mention those pushy and pesky Manny Pacquiao advisers who bollixed up the May 2 Hatton-Pacman bout by demanding proper pay for the Pinoy idol.
I believe the Hatton side will be so ignorant or boorish as to suggest a 50-50 split with ODLH. You know, chain of command and all that.
First question running through my alleged mind is this, will Hatton accept 32 percent against the now tarnished Golden Boy?s 68 percent? Can he swallow that discrepancy the way Megamanny did?
After all, outside and inside even Manchester, there is Only One Golden Boy.
Or maybe, bidding against himself, Richard Schaefer will demand that Oscar take 70 percent to Hatton?s piddling 30 points.
Should Hatton balk at Golden demands then he will revealed as just another temperament toddler, another ingrate who does deserve to the share the ring or the Golden jackpot, with Boss Oscar.
The Golden calf, while slaughtered by Pacquiao, makes the Golden Rules.
