Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya quite pleased following Saul Canelo Alvarez’s 11th round knockout win over WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev last Saturday night in front of a crowd of 14,490 fans at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
There is no doubt the upcoming, November 2 clash between defending WBO light-heavyweight champ Sergey Kovalev and middleweight king Canelo Alvarez is a big fight – but is it “huge?”
“It doesn’t get any bigger than this,” said Oscar De La Hoya. “It’s History,” boasted the fight poster.
It was 15 years ago today inside a sold-out MGM Grand in Las Vegas that De La Hoya made the quite audacious challenge of reigning middleweight king Bernard Hopkins.
Ryan “Kingry” Garcia is unhappy with Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya about a comment from him about how the 20-year-old’s social media popularity hasn’t carried over to his boxing career inside the ring.
Jaime Munguia (33-0, 26 KOs) of Tijuana, Mexico hosted a press conference today at the Golden Boy Headquarters in Los Angeles, Calif.
Golden Boy is proud to share the exciting news that Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star and the veritable king of the middleweight division, has won the prestigious 2019 ESPY award for Best Boxer.
Oscar De La Hoya has made no secret of that fact that HE will call the shots with regards to if and when a third fight between his star fighter Canelo Alvarez and his arch-rival Gennady Golovkin takes place.
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It was twenty years ago this month (February 13th) when Oscar De La Hoya fought what may well have been his greatest fight; his finest win.
As fans know, when Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya met in 1999, it was a huge welterweight showdown – one that ended up shrouded in controversy.
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There really is no debate about it: Canelo Alvarez is THE biggest star in all of boxing today.