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De La Hoya Fires Salvo At Mayweather As Promoters Look To Move In New Direction

Golden Boy President & co-Founder Oscar De La Hoya "fired a shot across the bow" of the sport of boxing in a letter for Playboy magazine's December issue where he "pulled no punches about his feelings" for the now-retired Floyd Mayweather Jr., according to Bill Dwyre of the L.A. TIMES. De La Hoya wrote of Mayweather, "The fight game will be a better one without you. ... You'll be remembered as the guy who made the most money. As for your fights, we've already forgotten them." Dwyre notes there are several ways to look at these comments from De La Hoya, including a "display of sour grapes" by a fighter who lost to Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. It also could be a "creative way to get people's attention" in advance of Saturday's Canelo Alvarez-Miguel Cotto fight in Las Vegas. De La Hoya's public shot at Mayweather "was more complicated than that, that he was symbolically establishing himself and his promotion company as boxing's Moses, leading his sport through the Red Sea." Golden Boy "has been running about 50 promotions a year, many of them with unheralded young fighters in front of small audiences in Mexico." De La Hoya calls it "showcasing the next generation." But Alvarez "is far from unheralded, and the audience that his fight with Cotto will draw at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, as well as a pay-per-view audience, will be far from small." That fight also "will be crucial to setting the stage for any post-Pacquiao-Mayweather boxing revival." Meanwhile, De La Hoya appears to be "more engaged in his promotion business than ever before." He said that he and Top Rank Chair Bob Arum are "getting along fine and that he is hoping to work with any and all promoters to make sure the 'best are taking on the best.'" The "exception to working with 'any and all' would be Premier Boxing Champions Founder Al Haymon and his considerable stable of fighters" (L.A. TIMES, 11/17).

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