De La Hoya says he won’t fight Mayweather again, will stay retired

By Boxing News - 06/17/2015 - Comments

dela567453424By Chris Williams: In response to Floyd Mayweather Jr. saying he’s willing to fight him in September, Oscar De La Hoya replied back on his Instagram account, saying that he won’t be coming back to fight Mayweather, and that he’s happy with his career. De La Hoya says he’s going to continue focusing on his promotional company Golden Boy Promotions to try and keep it growing in the future.

De La Hoya is losing a lot of money by not taking the fight against Mayweather. With the kind of cash that De La Hoya could make in a second fight against Mayweather, he could help pump up his Golden Boy Promotions company, which recently lost a lot of major fighters who have gone elsewhere.

“So I hear Floyd wants to give me a rematch now. Our first fight had a rematch clause. It had to take place within the year. He retired a year and one day,” De La Hoya said. “Look, I’m retired, I’m happy, I’m content. I’m never coming back. I’m gonna continue growing Golden Boy.”

De La Hoya recently said that he’s thinking coming out of retirement to fight WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. Mayweather basically called De La Hoya’s bluff today by saying he could fight him instead in a rematch. It’s a fight that would bring De La Hoya a lot more money than he could get against someone like Golovkin. But as it turns out, it looks like De La Hoya only mentioned Golovkin’s name in order to name drop. In other words, to get attention in the media by linking his name with a highly popular fighter who is quickly taking over the boxing world with his impressive knockouts.

Golovkin obviously saw through De La Hoya’s ploy, because he never even bothered replying on the subject of fighting the 42-year-old De la Hoya. He had to know that De La Hoya would never fight him, especially with all the time that De La Hoya has been out of the game.

“I mean, if he wants to, we can rock and roll in September,” Mayweather said via Fighthype.com today. “We can do it at 54. He already know that. He said he wanted the rematch, so if Oscar want it, he can get it in September.”

It’s a good thing that De La Hoya didn’t come back because if he did, Mayweather would do a number on him and likely force him to quit like we saw with De La Hoya quitting in his last fight against Manny Pacquiao seven years ago in 2008.



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