By: Sean Crose
“We are watching boxing die slowly,” Oscar De La Hoya said on social media Monday after Canelo Alvarez gained a large resolution over Jermell Charlo on Saturday evening. “I’m calling out all promoters to come together,” De La Hoya continued, “and make all the fights the fans want to see…finally. I’m tired of fighters fighting for money lets star fighting for legacy (sic).”
As far because the Hall of Fame fighter was involved, “Canelo-Charlo (was a) super boring fight,” In different phrases, it actually didn’t assist the game of boxing. “I mean he just showed up for a paycheck,” De La Hoya mentioned of Charlo. But De la Hoya wasn’t performed. “Canelo, obviously like I said, on quicksand throwing bombs,” he continued. “He won easy. But anyway, if we want boxing to survive, if we want boxing to thrive, we need super fights all the time.”
De La Hoya clearly sees boxing as a sport in want of restore – the sort of restore that can take multiple individual to deal with. “Fighters must fight each other,” he mentioned. “We have to come together, promoters, Eddie Hearn, Al Haymon, Bob Arum, whoever is out there – let’s come together, I’m calling you out. Let’s come together, let’s meet, the power of the minds, and come up with something because boxing can die. I’m calling you all out, let’s do this.”
De La Hoya actually is aware of concerning the significance of massive fights that followers wish to see. During his illustrious ring profession, he fought in a listing of them. Whether it was Ike Quortey, Shane Mosley, Ricardo Mayorga, Pernell Whitaker, Julio Caesar Chavez, Felix Trinidad, Floyd Mayweather, Fernando Vargas, Bernard Hopkins, Manny Pacquiao or any variety of title fighters, De La Hoya knew how to attract in eyeballs and ceaselessly engaged in some terrific ring battles. He could not have all the time gained, however De Ha Hoya was all the time recreation for the massive occasion.
With that being mentioned, boxing has certainly had – or can have – some main fights this 12 months. De La Hoya’s personal protégé as an illustration, Ryan Garcia, fought a extremely profitable battle with Gervonta Davis (one which ended with Garcia getting knocked out). Then, after all, there was Terence Crawford’s destruction of Errol Spence on his strategy to welterweight supremacy. Plus, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have lastly signed to combat for the heavyweight champion of the world. Yet if De La Hoya is arguing that this kind of factor needs to be a daily factor, then the person is completely proper.
