By Chris Williams: “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya is talking about coming out of retirement to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. again if Mayweather will agree to give a rematch to De La Hoya’s fighter Victor Ortiz.

De La Hoya said this on his twitter: “It’s so sad mayweather has to bash people and flaunt money he’s not going to when he retires. Give Ortiz a rematch. Try beat him fair…And then maybe just maybe i will give you a another chance at me.”

It looks like De La Hoya wants to get in on the act and get a fight with Mayweather himself. A Fight between De La Hoya and Mayweather would be huge, even now after De La Hoya being retired since 2008. His fight with Mayweather in 2007, which De La Hoya lost by a 12 round split decision, brought in 2.4 million pay per view buys, the all the all-time high in that department.

A rematch would likely bring in as much as 1.7 million buys on up. De La Hoya has so many fans and a fight with Mayweather would likely be even bigger than Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao.

By dangling a rematch between him and Mayweather to get Floyd to fight Ortiz again, De La Hoya is being smart. He knows Mayweather wants another fight with him so he can make another bundle of money.

There’s not much risk for Mayweather in fighting Ortiz again because h was so far out of his league against Mayweatheit that it wasn’t even interesting. Mayweather can repeat what h just did against Ortiz, and then get a huge fight with De La Hoya in 2012, if De La Hoya doesn’t change his mind and decide against fighting Mayweather again. There’s less risk for De La Hoya compared to when he fought Manny Pacquiao, because De La Hoya doesn’t have to starve himself to get down to a lower weight. Mayweather wouldn’t be trying to take Oscar’s head off. Instead, he’ll look to outbox him again like he did last time.