Upon my return from a New York vacation last week, I made my rounds and sniffed around at what I missed in the boxing world while I was gone.
There wasn’t much news-worthy information that I missed, until I came across Oscar De La Hoya’s comments regarding the current state of promotional entities in the sport of boxing.
First and foremost, if you think this is the first time the boxer-turned-promoter has said something shocking, you haven’t been reading.
De La Hoya has gone into hot waters in the past, with an ill faded weekly column featured on ?The Ring Magazine’s online site, where he has aired out a public beef in the past with rival promoter Bob Arum, and subsequently was sued in court, (yet not only by this one, but many insinuations by him and his promotional company, Golden Boy Promotions) by Manny Pacquiao after suggesting in his post that Manny Pacquiao’s punches felt “different” in comparison to Shane Mosley’s and Floyd Mayweather’s, as De La Hoya had faced all three in his career, and pretty much alluded that Pacquiao may have been on performance enhancing drugs.
Of all of his rants though, his latest may have been the chart topper in what has so far been a mostly successful promotional career which has sadly been coincided with ill-faded remarks that continue to piss off his rival promoters
