By Dan Ambrose: 41-year-old former six division world champion Oscar De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) has been saying that he’s thinking about returning to the ring for a fight. He says he’s been thinking on it. Since revealing the news about him possibly coming back, De La Hoya has had offers from the likes of Shane Mosley for a fight. However, De La Hoya says if he comes back, he only wants to fight the best.
The guy that De La Hoya wants to fight if he returns to the ring is unbeaten IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs). That’s the fighter that De La Hoya would like to test his skills against.
“If I do come back, it’ll be against Triple G,” De La Hoya said via TMZ.com.
The only positive that De La Hoya could get out of a fight against Golovkin would be a big payday. It would definitely help Golovkin’s career in a major way for him to get a fight against De La Hoya. If De La Hoya wants to help Golovkin become a start, he could definitely do that by fighting him. Thus far, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Miguel Cotto haven’t shown any interest in wanting to get in the ring with Golovkin. De La Hoya would make them look bad by coming back to face the Kazakhstan star.
That would be a very difficult fight for De La Hoya to come back against after having been out of the ring for the past seven years since being stopped in the 8th round by Manny Pacquiao in 2008. Granted, De La Hoya was weight drained for the Pacquiao fight after making a terrible mistake of agreeing to fight him at 147 instead of giving Pacquiao a take it or leave it offer.
De La Hoya probably could have gotten Pacquiao to move up to 154 to take the fight, because De La Hoya was clearly the A-side for that fight. But being too nice of a guy, De La Hoya gave Pacquiao a huge gift by agreeing to drain down to 147, a weight that De La Hoya hadn’t fought at in 10 years.
Golovkin would very likely blast De La Hoya out of the ring in one or two rounds at the most. I think it’s very doubtful that De La Hoya would even make it to the 3rd round because he would be getting hit with some tremendous head shots. De La Hoya hasn’t been hit in years, and it would be a huge shock to him to suddenly start getting nailed by a fighter with the kind of power that Golovkin possesses.
In the past, De La Hoya has looked poor when facing middleweights Bernard Hopkins and Felix Sturm. De La Hoya was stopped by Hopkins in the 9th round in 2004, and in the same year, De La Hoya got a robbery win over Sturm in a fight that many boxing fans saw Sturm winning. Never the less, De La Hoya looked terrible against Sturm and took a real bad beating. For a fighter who started his career out at lightweight, De La Hoya would be out of his element against a legitimate middleweight like Golovkin.
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