Oscar De La Hoya Boxing News

By William Mackay: At the recent press conference with WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi to announce their May 15th fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya was positively gushing over his new Golden Boy fighter Khan, saying “We strongly feel Amir [...]

By Esteban Garduno: In the latest boxing news, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya chimes in with his own prediction on the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight for this Saturday night, saying in an interview with Sky Sports, “I think Manny Pacquiao will have an easy time with Joshua Clottey. Styles make [...]

By Esteban Garduno: In looking over Manny Pacquiao’s resume in the past few years since 2007, an argument can be made that most of Pacquiao’s opponents in this time period have been pretty much shot for the most part. Let’s look at who Pacquiao has fought since 2007: Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez, David [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Say what you want about Oscar De La Hoya, but he sure knows how to pump up his fighters and make them look like the best thing since sliced bread. Speaking about World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye, De La Hoya says “With his explosive fighting style, heart, youth and charisma, [...]

By Nate Anderson: Former boxing great Oscar De La Hoya, the founder of Golden Boy Promotions, is ecstatic about his recent signing of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan with his promotional outfit. De La Hoya thinks that he can make a huge star out of Khan in the United States and around the world. [...]

By Liam Santiago: Mexican-American legend, Oscar De La Hoya has blasted Manny Pacquiao for refusing blood tests. De La Hoya said in an article at Ring.tv, ”If Pacquiao, the toughest guy on the planet, is afraid of needles and having a few tablespoons of blood drawn from his system, then something is wrong. The guy [...]

By Sean McDaniel: According to Steve Bunce, Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) is considering making a comeback in the middle of 2010 against a still to be determined opponent. Hatton, 31, is open to the idea of fighting World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan, but says that he wants to have a part [...]

By Derrick P. Villanueva: Would be a perfect match, don’t you think? Two boxing legends with massive fan bases clashing one final time in their careers to relive their “Glory Days.” Why is it perfect? 1.) The money involved in such a fight would decisively send both fighters into retirement [...]

By Klaas Mabetlela: Oscar De La Hoya was never really one of my favourite boxers but there is no denying that he helped to put boxing on the map during his career. His body of work is solid, he brought back non-fans to boxing and people appreciated his guts in taking the best and biggest [...]

By Al Francis: Golden Boy promotions was established in 2001, since then they have strived, and to some degree succeeded in becoming the world’s leading boxing promoter, but the way they have achieved this makes us wonder how can this be good for boxing long term.

By Dave Lahr: Judging by how poorly the ticket sales have gone fore Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez bout for September 19th, I’m starting to wonder whether Mayweather is in fact a huge pay-per-view attraction. Marquez may not be a big star, but he’s certainly popular enough to create a big PPV gate [...]

By Shaun Campbell: These articles will be attempting to determine the results of fights that unfortunately never happened, either because of the different era or just whether the fighters never got together to make it happen. It is similar to the Super fight between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano (obviously on a smaller scale). Now, [...]

By Eric Thomas: Floyd Mayweather Jr. appeared on the Chelsea Lately show on Monday night, and when asked by Chelsea “you don’t like Oscar De La Hoya, do you”? Floyd Mayweather Jr. then responded “Would you like a man [De La Hoya] that wears fishnet stockings?” Mayweather is referring, of course, to the scandalous [...]

By Jason Kim: Oscar De La Hoya is completely sold on Juan Manuel Marquez being able to pull off an upset on September 19th against Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California, saying in a Thursday conference call “I’m convinced he [Juan Manuel Marquez] will win this fight.” De La Hoya [...]

By Liam Santiago: Boxing legend, Oscar De La Hoya has said he is 100% sure that Juan Marquez will beat Floyd Mayweather and will knock him out. De La Hoya states that Marquez has every aspect in his style needed to be victorious. He sais, ”I am 100% sure Marquez wins, styles make fights and [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions thinks that Juan Manuel Marquez has the style to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. on September 19th. Specifically, De La Hoya points out Marquez’s counter punching ability, along with his aggressiveness and his excellent stamina.

By William Mackay: As of now, no one knows whether Ricky Hatton will decide to continue fighting or not. However, it’s looking like Hatton will decide to continue fighting because he was hinting about making a decision in three weeks in a recent interview he made after meeting with Muhammad Ali.

By Dave Lahr: In Oscar De La Hoya’s weekly blog, he’s predicting that Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KO’s) will beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 KO’s), giving Floyd his first loss of his career in doing so. De La Hoya feels that the two years that Mayweather has been out of the ring, along [...]

By Eric Thomas: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions wants Juan Diaz to fight Ricky Hatton, according to the boxing news site Fight Hype. While Diaz, 25, was being interviewed after last Saturday night’s fight by Max Kellerman, De La Hoya whispered in Diaz’s ear, telling Diaz to mention Hatton’s name to Kellerman [...]

By Jason Kim: Oscar De La Hoya thinks it’s high time that Roy Jones Jr. hangs up his boxing gloves for good, according to an article from The Ring. De La Hoya thinks that the 40-year-old Jones will likely win this Saturday night’s bout against former International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Jeff Lacy in [...]

By Jason Kim: Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KO’s) says he doesn’t plan on coming out of retirement, and that he will be moving from Puerto Rico to Los Angeles to be closer to his company Golden Boy Promotions, according to the Daily news. De La Hoya is said to be happy in [...]

By Chris Williams: Unfortunately for David Haye, he might have lost his only chance at beating a Klitschko when he injured his back shadow boxing. Haye, 28, had little chance of beating Wladimir Klitschko, but he at least a small chance of knocking Wladimir out if the Ukrainian made the mistake of letting Haye get [...]

By Manuel Perez: According to Gmanews, Manny Pacquiao is planning on fighting only one more time in October against the winner of Juan Manuel Marquez or Floyd Mayweather or possibly Miguel Cotto and then retire and goes into politics. I suppose a lot of Pacquiao’s boxing fans will be in mourning after hearing this dreadful [...]

By Jim Dower: According to Setanta Sports, six-division champion Oscar De La Hoya is under the belief that Juan Manuel Marquez can beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. if Marquez uses his boxing skills, and elects to jab Mayweather. De La Hoya, 36, points to his own minor success that he had in fighting Mayweather Jr. in [...]

By Eric Thomas: Recently retired six-division champion Oscar De La Hoya is reportedly advising Ricky Hatton not to hang them up so quickly, telling him to that it’s not the end just because he lost a 2nd round TKO to Manny Pacquiao last Saturday night. Obviously, De La Hoya speaks from experience since he’s been [...]

By Dave Lahr: Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KOs) proved one thing last Saturday night in his 2nd round loss to Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand, namely that Hatton can no longer take a big punch like he used to. Perhaps it was Hatton’s 10th round knockout loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in December 2007 [...]

By Jim Dower: It’s like Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been asleep for the past two years and has only now woken up with his announcement today of his planned boxing comeback on July 18th against Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas. At the press conference Mayweather said, “He’ll [De La [...]

By Manuel Perez: Oscar De La Hoya let loose the dogs of war in an interview with Sky Sports, saying Floyd “Mayweather Sr. is a better coach [than Freddie Roach].” De La Hoya, 36, was previously trained by Roach, and said that he still loves him but thinks that Floyd is a better technical coach [...]

By Jim Dower: According to an article from J. Michael Falgoust in the USA Today, boxing trainer Emanuel Steward feels that Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) would have won his December 6th, 2008 bout with Manny Pacquiao if Oscar had come into the fight at a weight that was normal to him. [...]

By Eric Thomas: Former 10-time World champion Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) will be holding a retirement part on September 19th. In attendance will be former star opponents of De La Hoya, which will possibly be famous stars like Bernard Hopkins, Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pernell Whitaker and Felix Trinidad. The meeting [...]