Arum/De la hoya speak

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Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather.


The top two promoters in boxing, in Oscar De La Hoya and Bob Arum rarely get along, but aside from additional promoterspeak, their statements on the highly controversial Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz bout are pretty similar. Disappointment.
Golden Boy Promotion's Oscar De La Hoya, who sort-of has Mayweather on his stable, finally commented on the situation on his twitter page. He says he will push for a rematch:

Ortiz took it to the street and Mayweather finished it in the street. Bad sportsmanship by Mayweather. ORTIZ was just warming up, a young lion does not deserve to go out like that and i will fight for Ortiz to have a rematch. But I feel Mayweather looked good and Ortiz looked good.
Terrible head butt by Ortiz and should have been deducted 2 points, but to win the way he won was not right. Ortiz deserves a rematch!!! ...And sorry to say but the ref. was lost as can be.
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Top Rank's Bob Arum, who is Manny Pacquiao's promoter, says he's disgusted: (HT: BadLeftHook)

Whether it was legal or not legal, it was unsportsmanlike behavior [by Mayweather] and it was a cheap shot [by Mayweather]. I'm disgusted by what I saw.
For this kid to take off on Larry Merchant the way he did and use the language that he did - it was a disgrace.
[Ortiz] intentionally headbutted Mayweather. It is inexcusable, but he paid the penalty, which was the deduction of one point. That doesn't excuse unsportsmanlike behavior and throwing a cheap shot like Mayweather did. That's not something Pacquiao would do. That's not something that any of the fighters that I had in the eighties would do, like Leonard, Hearns and Hagler. It's just inexcusable behavior.




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I like the points he made about the 80s ATG. Floyd is not the man these guys were.

 

They hate each other now days

 

True though. You wouldn't see Hagler, hearns, Leonard doing that ****. Floyd's a coward.