By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya is saying that he plans on bring the best fights possible in 2015. This is kind of a yearly thing, and you can only wish it were true. De La Hoya may need to check with Al Haymon before he makes big pronouncements like bringing the best fights because we didn’t see the best fights in 2014.
Danny Garcia vs. Rod Salka and Lamont Peterson vs. Edgar Santana are just two of the less than pleasing fights we saw this year. How about Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Alfredo Angulo. That wasn’t very good either.
“Can’t wait for 2015, I will be using the influence and pressure of the fans to bring you the best fights possible. @GoldenBoy Boxing,” De La Hoya said on his twitter.
We may see Canelo vs. Miguel Cotto in early 2015. That’s a decent fight, but far from what I consider to be the best.
If Canelo or Cotto were considered to be the best fighters at 160, then I would see this as being a fight that you can consider the best. But if we see Canelo face Gennady Golovkin then we’re definitely looking at one of the best fights possible. De La Hoya obviously has no control over the Top Rank promoted Miguel Cotto, so he’s not open to discussion.
What’s sad is that the Canelo-Cotto fight might end up blocking the best fight that can be made between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao. With Canelo insisting that he fight on the Mexican holidays, he could very well be getting in the way of a much bigger fight involving far more talented fighters in Mayweather and Pacquiao.
Canelo is a decent fighter, don’t get me wrong, but we’ve already seen him exposed by Mayweather, Austin Trout and Erislandy Lara. Canelo is more of a fighter that is famous for being famous rather than famous for being talented or famous for having achieved anything in his career. His biggest wins are controversial victories.
De La Hoya needs to put his foot down so that we see guys like Danny Garcia fighting the best opposition. It would be a pity if he continues to fight Rod Salka type fighters. The same goes for Deontay Wilder. We need to see these guys step it up a level and stay at that level all the time rather than having them take breaks. Garcia arguably lost to Mauricio Herrera and then he turned around and fought Salka rather than Herrera again to clear up the controversy.
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