Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya shook his head at the antics which occurred during last week's four city media tour to promote the August 26th showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor.
Mayweather, 40 years old, comes breaks a two year retirement to face the UFC superstar in the main event of a Showtime Pay-Per-View at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
McGregor, a massive name in MMA, is also a massive underdog as he takes part in his first boxing match, scheduled to take place at the junior middleweight limit of 154-pounds.
Mayweather-McGregor takes place three weeks before the highly anticipated fight between Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez and middleweight king Gennady Golovkin - which is being staged by Golden Boy Promotions and headlines an HBO Pay-Per-View event.
De La Hoya expects most boxing fans to avoid shelling out their hard earned money for Mayweather-McGregor - and instead spend their funds on a match that is very likely to create fireworks - Canelo vs. Golovkin.
De La Hoya believes Mayweather is just playing out the same old song and dance. He says Floyd is once again promising a war with plenty of drama, but once the bell rings - the undefeated fighter will once again use his defensive skills and outbox his opponent to a lopsided decision win.
“That’s been the Mayweather era,” De La Hoya told USA Today.
“That’s part of the reason I’ve been so vocal toward Mayweather. He’s made [boxing] into a business, just a spectacle. Let’s trash talk and then once the fight comes around, it’s a bore, it’s a dud. It should be the other way.”
“People don’t want to see fighters run, to see you win a 12-round decision by out-slicking [the opponent]. People pay their hard-earned money to be entertained, not by dancing around and not being hit. They pay for what Golovkin calls ‘the Big Drama Show.’”
2023-10-18 23:39:01
