By Brian Webber: Oscar De La Hoya blasted Al Haymon of PBC in response to Terence Crawford’s social media rant on Tuesday about his failed talks with Errol Spence Jr.
De La Hoya says he’s going to speak a lot of truths about who is holding up the biggest fights from taking place.
Crawford went off, blaming Haymon for failing to give the green light to a big-money offer of $25 million a piece for him and Spence from an outside company for them to fight.
Eventually, Crawford got tired of waiting for the Spence fight to happen. When he was offered an eight-figure deal by BLK Prime to fight David Avanesyan on December 10th, he readily accepted.
De La Hoya called Haymon a “cancer,” saying that when he had Keith Thurman, Adrien Broner, Deontay Wilder, and Leo Santa Cruz as part of his Golden Boy Promotions stable, he had the plan to turn them into stars. Now that they’re with PBC & Haymon, they fight just once a year, if that.
Some would argue that De La Hoya’s move to sympathize with WBO welterweight champion Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) is a strategy to get him to sign with Golden Boy.
Don’t you fucken get it. Al Hamon is the Cancer here. When I promoted Broner, Spence, Leo, Deonty, Thurman etc etc they were relevant and I had a plan for the to become stars, now they are just fighting 1 time a year if that. Wake up you idiots.
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) November 2, 2022
My respects to @terencecrawford and exposing the Al Hamon circus. I’ve been dealing with this shit for years, I promoted “all” the PBC fighters and its all the same bullshit with them, they are not in charge. I’ll be going live soon to elaborate and expose the truth.
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) November 2, 2022
I didn’t talk before because I try and be a professional but I now know I’m dealing with a bunch of losers and casuals that don’t know shot about the business of boxing.
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) November 2, 2022
Fuck the casuals I’m speaking my voice and standing up for the truth and the fighters
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) November 2, 2022
What do you mean bitter? Don’t you assholes wanna see the fights happen? I guess you don’t know shit about boxing you casual fuck
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) November 2, 2022
Nor true , Ortiz pulled out of fight because of health reasons. Ryan has fought and now wants tank but Al is dragging his feet. Facts my son
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) November 3, 2022
They have 0 prospects because they do not know how to build. When Al and other people stole all the fighters I built, what did I do? I started from scratch again and I’m not stopping anytime soon.
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) November 2, 2022
It is true that Broner, Wilder, Thurman, and Santa Cruz only fight once a year with PBC, and their popularity has arguably dipped.
De La Hoya isn’t happy with PBC about the way that he lost many of his Golden Boy fighters to that company. At one time, Golden Boy’s stable was huge, rivaling that of Top Rank, but when PBC emerged, it was like a huge vacuum with many of De La Hoya’s top fighters leaving his company to go with Haymon.
It’s unlikely that Golden Boy will be able to be the company that they were in the past unless they get a hard-working, charismatic lead promoter similar to Eddie Hearn to work hard promoting events and attracting younger fighters to sign with them.
It’s surprising that De La Hoya hasn’t already hired somebody for that role because he’s not cut out for that position.
Some boxing fans believe that the reason De La Hoya hasn’t been matching his biggest stars, Ryan Garcia, Jaime Munguia and Vergil Ortiz Jr, against quality opposition is because if they get beat, he won’t have anyone that can take their place.