Will the Golden Boy call it a career?

By Dan Rafael

Pardon Oscar De La Hoya if he just doesn’t know what to do. The 10-time titleholder across six weight divisions is really struggling right now.

Should he stay?

Or should he go?

It has been three months since he took the beating of his life, an eighth-round TKO loss to Manny Pacquiao in which the favored De La Hoya was not at all competitive against a smaller man. After the eighth round, his face swollen and his spirit broken, De La Hoya retired on his stool, and many wondered whether it would be the last time they saw him box.

Since a postfight interview with HBO’s Larry Merchant in the ring following the bout, De La Hoya has kept a low profile. He didn’t attend the news conference after the fight because he was at the hospital, and he came out of his cocoon only briefly in January to help promote a mixed martial arts event with which his company, Golden Boy Promotions, was involved. read more

Filed under: Bernard Hopkins, Dream Match, Golden Boy, Larry Merchant, Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, Sugar Shane Mosley

Roach vs. Mayweather, Sr.: The Other Exciting Dream Match

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by Leo Reyes

Freddie Roach has just started his own ‘word war’ with Ricky’s trainer, Floyd Mayweather, Sr. The two coaches and trainers will have their own ‘dream match’ as they work behind the scenes on the Pacquiao-Hatton match on May 2, 2009 in Las Vegas.
After the ‘Dream Match’ of popular boxers Manny Pacquiao and Oscar de la Hoya, there is a new match that deserves attention from boxing fans from around the world. This is the match of the boxing strategists and trainers of Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton, two of the most popular boxers in the world today. read more

Filed under: Battle of East and West, Dream Match, Floyd Mayweather, Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, pacman, pacmonster, Ricky Hatton

De La Hoya May Decide Boxing Future in Two Weeks

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By Ronnie Nathanielsz

Oscar de La Hoya’s boyhood friend and Golden Boy Promotions vice president and international matchmaker Eric Gomez says “The Golden Boy’ may decide on whether to return to the ring following his 8th round TKO loss to Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao last December 6, in two weeks.read more

Filed under: Battle of East and West, Dream Match, Golden Boy, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, pacman, pacmonster, Ricky Hatton, top rank promotions

THE REAL DREAM MATCH: PACQUIAO VS. MAYWEATHER

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By Maloney L. Samaco

After Oscar de la Hoya, the number one pay-per-view earner in boxing, was beaten by Manny Pacquiao in the Dream Match that turned out to be his nightmare, the name of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. again cropped up as the next possible Pacman foe after Ricky Hatton. The welterweight division is now crowded with boxing superstars and promoters have a wide variety of quality names to choose from.

In a sport now highly regarded also as an entertainment business, matching big names would perk up live television sales through PPV, which is main source of revenues for the boxers and promoters alike. The boxing world needs popular matches to revive sagging interest in boxing which is slowly eaten up by Mixed Martial Arts.

The real dream match is the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather encounter, the battle of number one pound-for-pound fighters in the world. Mayweather was rated by The Ring Magazine from July 18, 2005 through June 2, 2008 as the pound for pound king until he announced his retirement again. After that it was Pacquiao’s turn to reign supreme until the present. read more

Filed under: Battle of East and West, Dream Match, Floyd Mayweather, juan diaz, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao