By: Sean Crose
Hall of Fame fighter and Golden Boy Promotions honcho Oscar De La Hoya is outwardly feeling fairly good currently. After collaborating within the wily Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia press tour, the 51 12 months 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?? Where’s all the Hamon fighters?” The Haymon De La Hoya refers to is PBC honcho Al Haymon, a digital camera shy advisor whose group seems (“appears” being the operative phrase right here) to be falling on some powerful occasions, having just lately parted methods with Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford.
“The Hamonites are cringe,” De La Hoya said 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 powerful occasions 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 might be fairly tribal at occasions, and so it’s widespread to see a promotional outlet crumble to the sound of figurative cheers. PBC, nonetheless, hasn’t gone wherever (what the longer term holds stays to be seen).
Regardless of what is 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 said robustly, “im back and im taking over!!!!” [sic]. De La Hoya then went on to counsel one explicit matchup. “I wanna see morel vs Berlanga,” he stated of tremendous middleweights Edgar Berlanga and David Morrell. “What do you guys think ?” Not but completed, De La Hoya went on to make a thinly veiled suggestion that subsequent month’s PBC Keith Thurman-Tim Tszyu struggle is one thing of a joke. Thurman, in any case, has been slightly inactive over the previous a number of years.
“A fighter that hasn’t fought in years and a fighter that nobody knows is a recipe for disaster on @amazon,” he posted, “great 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. Either that or the person was placing on fairly a efficiency for the world to see.
