By Allen Fox: It’s been three years since Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KO’s) last fought and he looked terrible in getting taken out in the 8th round by Manny Pacquiao in 2008. De La Hoya retired after that one-sided loss. However, after three years of retirement, De La Hoya is saying he wants to make a comeback.
De La Hoya said this on his twitter “[Dewey] Bozella wins and has inspired me to make a comeback.”
It sounds like a frightful idea. De La Hoya didn’t just lose to Pacquiao. He was beaten in four out of his last seven fights between 2003 and 2008, with one of those wins, a victory over Felix Sturm, really more of a loss than a win. De La Hoya really stopped fighting on a consistent basis after 2004. After that, De La Hoya fought pretty much once a year until retiring in 2008. He was a part time fighter at that point and it’s not surprising that he was beaten.
De La Hoya can make a big payday if he picks the right opponent. With his name and his popularity, as Dan Rafael pointed out in today’s column at ESPN, De La Hoya can bring in a lot of badly needed money to his Golden Boy Promotions company if he fights someone good. Doesn’t matter if he loses. De La Hoya will still make a ton of money. It will certainly help if he make people somehow believe in him by talking trash or fighting some tune-up fights, but that’s not De La Hoya’s style.
De La Hoya recently dangled his name for a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., saying that if Floyd gives De La Hoya’s fighter Victor Ortiz a rematch that De La Hoya would consider coming out of retirement to fight Mayweather in a rematch. The two fighters fought in 2007 with Mayweather winning by a 12 round split decision in what ended up as boxing’s number #1 pay per view card of all time. De La Hoya-Mayweather brought in 2.4 million buys. Nothing has come close to that figure since then.
Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, said that De La Hoya is very serious about the comeback.
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