Oscar De La Hoya Boxing News
De La Hoya addresses Dana White’s criticism
June 6th, 2017
By Allan Fox: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya spoke to ESPN on Monday to talk about the September 16th fight between Golden Boy star Saul Canelo Alvarez and middleweight knockout knockout artist Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs). During the discussion, De La Hoya addressed the criticism leveled at him from UFC […]
Canelo-Golovkin takes Sep.16 date in Vegas BEFORE Mayweather-McGregor could grab it
June 6th, 2017
By Allan Fox: Oscar De La Hoya says he wanted to make sure that he snatched the September 16th date in Las Vegas for the Saul Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady “GGG” Golovkin BEFORE Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor could take the date. Call it paranoia on De La Hoya’s part if you want, but […]
De la Hoya: Canelo will knockout GGG within 10 rounds
June 5th, 2017
By Jeff Aranow: Oscar De La Hoya is already predicting that his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) will be knocking out middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) in their fight in 3 months on September 16 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is very ambitious of De La […]
De La Hoya: Errol Spence is an AMAZING talent
June 1st, 2017
By Scott Gilfoid: Oscar De La Hoya is one of many in the boxing world that was super impressed with unbeaten Errol Spence Jr. (22-0, 19 KOs) with his 11th round TKO win over IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs) at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England. Spence was brave enough to go to […]
De La Hoya: Mayweather-McGregor is a step backwards for boxing
May 31st, 2017
By Allan Fox: Oscar De La Hoya is still railing on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor fight being bad for the sport of boxing in general. De La Hoya sounded off on the subject last week when he tore into the Mayweather-McGregor fight in seeing it as little more than just a money […]
De La Hoya: Spence will knockout Brook in late rounds
May 27th, 2017
By Scott Gilfoid: Oscar De La Hoya is looking forward to tonight’s big fight between American talent Errol Spence Jr. and Kell Brook in their scrap for Brook’s IBF welterweight belt in England. De La Hoya sees Spence knocking out the 31-year-old Brook in the late rounds of their fight at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, […]
De La Hoya says Mayweather-McGregor will hurt boxing
May 25th, 2017
By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr’s circus fight against UFC star Conor McGregor has Golden Boy Promotions boss Oscar De La Hoya concerned that the fight could do irreparable harm to boxing by driving fans away from the sport due to the match being such a horrible one. De La Hoya points out that boxing […]
De La Hoya predicts Canelo-GGG does 3 million PPV buys
May 25th, 2017
By Allan Fox: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is predicting 3 million pay-per-view buys for the September 16th mega-fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin 37-0, 33 KOs) on HBO PPV. This might sound like another one of De La Hoya’s overly ambitious predictions for the number […]
De La Hoya: I made Canelo-GGG to help the sport
May 15th, 2017
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya says he made the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Gennady “GGG” Golovkin fight because he cares about the boxing fans and he wanted to help the sport. De La Hoya maintains that he could have made 4 smaller fights for Canelo without risk, but he […]
Spence destroys Brook says De La Hoya
May 13th, 2017
By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Oscar De La Hoya is picking Errol Spence (21-0, 18 KOs) to beat IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) by a knockout in their fight this month on May 27. Da Hoya is really high on the talent of the 27-year-old American Spence, and he sees him as too […]