Tag Archives: Oscar De La Hoya

  By Scoop Malinowski Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi had their first date at the Oscar De La Hoya vs Felix Trinidad world welterweight title fight Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas in 1999. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase both sat ringside at the Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton III world ...

By Scoop Malinowski Showtime Boxing will shutdown operations at the end of 2023 after first televising pro boxing back in 1986. Showtime Sports president, Stephen Espinoza said, “As we evolve our strategy to more efficiently allocate resources and align our content offering across the business, we’ve made the difficult decision ...

By Scoop Malinowski Three world champion caliber fighters are not holding back on their analysis of Jermell Charlo’s embarrassing, pathetic, and perhaps corrupt non-effort vs Canelo Alvarez. They, of course, can’t bluntly say Charlo threw the fight or played soft for the money maker from Mexico but they are coming ...

  By Scoop Malinowski Status: 1992 Olympic gold medalist. Pro boxer from 1992-2008. Won eleven world titles in six weight classes. Final ring record was 39-6, 30 KOs.  Boxing promoter for GOlden Ht: 5-10  Wt: 165 DOB: February 4, 1973  In: Los Angeles, CA Childhood Heroes:  Alexis Arguello. He was ...

 Ryan Garcia and Tank Davis will fight on April 22 in Las Vegas. Today they met face to face the first press conference announcement in Manhattan at the Palladium Times Square. I have to say, Davis is one of the most uninteresting professional athletes I’ve ever seen or heard. I ...

By Scoop Malinowski Everybody with half a functioning frontal lobe knows Al Haymon is impossible to deal with, impossible to persuade to match one of his key assets into a high risk fight vs a top fighter he doesn’t control. Al Haymon prefers to keep his name fighters all under ...

By Scoop Malinowski Oscar De La Hoya is desperate and his Golden Boy operations is wounded. He has no other bona fide money makers and Canelo Alvarez is all he has left. And so we are seeing an all out effort by De La Hoya to make sure his franchise ...