By Dan Ambrose: Just to show you how desperate Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya has become to try and get boxing fans excited about the September 15th mismatch between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez and the slender light welterweight Josesito Lopez that has been hand-picked by Golden Boy, De La Hoya has resorted to bringing up how he was thrashed by the much smaller Manny Pacquiao back in 2008 to show that size doesn’t matter. Unfortunately it does matter.
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De La Hoya: Khan vs. Garcia is a 50-50 fight
By William Mackay: While Amir Khan has been busy bragging about how he’s going to blow away WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia on July 14th, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya sees the fight as being a competitive one that could either way.
Cotto won’t be taking part in De La Hoya’s 154 lb tourney
By Dan Ambrose: Gabriel Penagaricano, the legal adviser for former WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s), says Cotto won’t be fighting in Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya’s 154 pound tournament that he recently mentioned. Instead of fighting in the tourney, Cotto will be back in the ring on December 1st against an opponent still to be determined.
De La Hoya interested in a 154 lb tourney
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya says he’s interested in putting together a single elimination junior middleweight tournament with eight fighters that would take place over several months, according to RingTV. De La Hoya sees this a good vehicle for making stars out of a handful of junior middleweights. I’m not sure that I agree with him, but he’ll do what he wants to do.
De La Hoya thinks it’s a bad idea for Pacquiao to fight Bradley again
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya doesn’t think it’s a good idea for Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley to step inside the ring again to fight in a rematch, because he thinks boxing fans will see the rematch as having been part of some grand scheme put together by Bradley and Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum due to the controversy from their fight earlier this month.
De La Hoya: This is the perfect time for Cotto to fight Mayweather
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya thinks that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is more vulnerable now to getting beaten than he ever has in the past as he heads into his mega fight against WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto next month. De La Hoya doesn’t say why he feels that way, only that he thinks that Cotto is getting Mayweather at the exact right time in his career.
De La Hoya: Saul Alvarez will look better against Mosley than Mayweather and Pacquiao did
(Photo credit: Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions) By Eric Thomas: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya sees WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez doing a better job on 40-year-old Shane Mosley than mega stars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao did in beating him recently.
De La Hoya gives Saul Alvarez advice where to tag 40-year-old Shane Mosley
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya has reportedly given WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez instructions in where to hit 40-year-old Shane Mosley in their May 5th pay-per-view fight, according to boxing news from Fighthype.com.
De La Hoya says he’ll never fight again
By Chris Williams: You can rule out Oscar De La Hoya making a ring return as part of his huge news that he talked about revealing on Tuesday. De La Hoya said today that he’ll never return to the ring. Some news, eh? This is the breaking news that De La Hoya was supposed to be revealing I suppose.
De La Hoya has a BIG annoucement to make on Tuesday
By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya is saying that he’s got some huge earth shattering news to break this Tuesday that supposedly will change the boxing industry. It sounds interesting but I can see it being something mundane like Golden Boy Promotions signing a contract with HBO or something like that. It might be a big deal for him but as far as changing the boxing industry, I kind of doubt it.