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 said this on his twitter page “As I enjoy my 10 months of being sober today I come to realize without a cloud over my bead that I will never ever fight again.”

Oh boy, great news. De La Hoya has been sober for 10 months, stop the presses!

The news that De La Hoya is hinting about likely involves his company Golden Boy Promotions signing a deal with one of the cable giants like Showtime. Yeah, that’s good for Golden Boy and De La Hoya, but I don’t see how it benefits normal boxing fans because there needs to be healthy competition and I’d had to see Golden Boy fighters over and over again on Showtime or HBO without Top Rank or other guys mixes in. I don’t care one way or another if Golden Boy gets a deal with one of the cable giants and I’m hoping that’s not what his “Big news” is because I don’t care.

I’d rather see De La Hoya make a one-fight comeback and take on someone like WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Now that would be interesting because De La Hoya is completely shot, but Chavez Jr. is so badly flawed that even an old De La Hoya would have a chance at beating him unless Chavez Jr. came into the fight weighing some astronomical amount like 190. Sadly, I could see that happening. I hope some day that the WBC had same day weigh-ins to limit how much fighters like Chavez Jr. can rehydrate up to.