By: Sean Crose
Corridor of Fame fighter and Golden Boy Promotions honcho Oscar De La Hoya is seemingly feeling fairly good these days. After participating within the wily Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia press tour, the 51 yr previous promoter took to social media to concurrently flex and encourage fighters from Premier Boxing Champions to succeed in out to him. “I’m making fights!” De La Hoya posted. “Who else is stepping up?? The place’s all of the Hamon fighters?” The Haymon De La Hoya refers to is PBC honcho Al Haymon, a digicam shy advisor whose group seems (“seems” being the operative phrase right here) to be falling on some robust instances, having lately parted methods with Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford.
“The Hamonites are cringe,” De La Hoya acknowledged mockingly a while later. Hamonites, for many who don’t know, are these people, notably on the web, who’re followers of Premier Boxing Champions and its fighters. De La Hoya, whose had some robust instances of his personal, is now apparently amused by those that are displeased by the rumors that PBC is in some bother. With that in thoughts, the demise of PBC has been predicted and even hoped for now for near a decade. Boxing’s fan base may be fairly tribal at instances, and so it’s frequent to see a promotional outlet crumble to the sound of figurative cheers. PBC, nonetheless, hasn’t gone anyplace (what the longer term holds stays to be seen).
Regardless of what’s going to or is not going to occur to Premier Boxing Champions, De La Hoya was clearly oozing confidence on Thursday. “I don’t give a rats ass what you say,” he acknowledged robustly, “im again and im taking up!!!!” [sic]. De La Hoya then went on to recommend one specific matchup. “I wanna see morel vs Berlanga,” he mentioned of tremendous middleweights Edgar Berlanga and David Morrell. “What do you guys suppose ?” Not but completed, De La Hoya went on to make a thinly veiled suggestion that subsequent month’s PBC Keith Thurman-Tim Tszyu combat is one thing of a joke. Thurman, in any case, has been somewhat inactive over the previous a number of years.
“A fighter that hasn’t fought in years and a fighter that no person is aware of is a recipe for catastrophe on @amazon,” he posted, “nice job AL.” De La Hoya’s prediction for the PBC bout could or could not show to be true. One certainty, nonetheless, is that De La Hoya was feeling fairly happy on Thursday. Both that or the person was placing on fairly a efficiency for the world to see.
