By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya is working on some important fights for some of his biggest stars for 2015. De La Hoya specifically mentions Adrien Broner, Keith Thurman, Lucas Matthysse, Abner Mares, and Robert Guerrero.
All of those fighters have been taking it easy for a while and it would be good to finally see them matched up against some quality fighters once again.
By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions says he’s going to try and put together a unification fight between WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) and IBF 147lb title holder Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs) for early 2015.
This is a fight that should have been made in 2014, but instead Garcia’s adviser Al Haymon matched him against the much smaller lightweight Rod Salka in a fight that turned out to be a dreadful mismatch last August.
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya says that his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) will still fight on May 2nd no matter who his opponent is. If he can’t get a fight against WBC middleweight title holder Miguel Cotto, then Canelo will still be fighting on May 2nd against whoever De La Hoya can dig up for him.
What De La Hoya isn’t saying is whether Canelo’s fight will be on HBO pay-per-view or not or just regular HBO. If Floyd Mayweather Jr faces someone good like Manny Pacquiao, or even a halfway decent opponent, then it’s going to be next to impossible for Canelo to bump Mayweather from the May 2nd date.
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya is banking on the proposed fight between WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) reviving the Mexico vs. Puerto Rican rivalry like it was in the past when the likes of Antonio Margarito and Cotto faced each other in two bouts.
The Cotto-Canelo fight still hasn’t been negotiated and there are major questions whether it’s a fight that can be negotiated unless there’s movement on the side of the 24-year-old Canelo. If Al Haymon’s alleged $40 million offer to Cotto to face Floyd Maywesther Jr is true, then it’s very likely that Cotto will take that offer.
My resolution for 2015 is for all top fighters to challenge themselves and fight the very best competition. #ucandoit #fight #fansfirst
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) December 26, 2014
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya says that his resolution is for the top fighters in boxing to challenge themselves to fight the very best competition next year in 2015. Unless De La Hoya is talking about Golden Boy fighters, it’s hard for that to be considered a resolution, because De La Hoya only has control over the fighters in his own stable.
By Chris Williams: While Manny Pacquiao has been known to be a puncher with excellent power over the years, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya refutes that notion.
De La Hoya says that Pacquiao hits no harder than Floyd Mayweather Jr, who isn’t thought of as a big puncher by anyone. Mayweather is someone that picked up a lot of knockouts earlier in his career in the lighter weights at super featherweight before he moved up in weight to welterweight.
Pacquiao is kind of in the same boat in that regard. Pacquiao picked up a ton of knockouts in the lighter weight classes, but since he moved up to welterweight, his knockouts have dried up after he initially stopped De La Hoya and Miguel Cotto. Pacquiao’s fight against Ricky Hatton was at light welterweight, so it doesn’t count as far as what Pacquiao has done at welterweight. Pacquiao’s power has had little effect on the welterweights in the past four years, and that doesn’t seem to be changing as he gets older.
LOS ANGELES (December 24, 2014) – Sports Illustrated has named Golden Boy Promotions Founder and President Oscar De La Hoya its 2014 Boxing Promoter of the Year.
The famed magazine noted: “De La Hoya has re-established himself as a force on the promotional landscape. He has repaired Golden Boy’s relationship with HBO, restored a working relationship with rival Top Rank and continued to build junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez into one of the biggest stars in boxing…his best days as a promoter lie ahead.
By Jim Dower: Amir Khan (30-3, 19 KOs) says he wants a big name in 2015, and he’s hoping that he can get a fight against either Floyd Mayweather Jr or Manny Pacquiao, preferably both next year.
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya thinks Khan would give Pacquiao some difficulty due to his talent and fighting style.
“As I was watching myself get demolished by Manny Pacquiao [in 2008]. I couldn’t help but think about Amir King Khan giving Pac some serious problems,” De La Hoya said on his Twitter.
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.
By Dan Ambrose: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) still insists that he’ll be fighting on May 2nd and in September of next year despite the fact that Floyd Mayweather Jr has already said that he plans on fighting on those dates next year.
Canelo wants to fight on the Mexican holidays in May and September, and he sees it as a case of him wanting to take the dates due to him being Mexican. However, it might end up biting Canelo in the backside if he does try and compete with the popular Mayweather because it’ll mean that Canelo’s pay-per-view numbers for those months will likely wind up much smaller than they would be if he were to fight on another date.