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A Fistful of "Buts" And A Handful Of "If's" The Real Fight Is Between Oscar The Promoter vs. Oscar The Fighter
Even though Oscar is not retiring to spend more time with family and then concentrate solely on the business end of Golden Boy Promotions, as of late, he definitely has been acting more like a promoter than a fighter.
Over the course of the last 7 weeks Oscar has been dangling the press on strings like puppets, manipulating it for maximum exposure, all for a decision he undoubtedly knew weeks ago.
Case in point would be the weekend of June 10, Golden Boy promoting their PPV card, Hopkins/Tarver from Atlantic City New Jersey, while Top Rank had their own PPV show, Cotto/Malignaggi, going on in Madison Square Garden in New York.
That is when only hours before the fights took place, Oscar summoned the media to a press conference that was "rumored" to be in regard to his imminent return. By the time all the important media was ushered to Atlantic City they found out the press conference was called off. The reason once again "rumored" was that negotiations with Floyd were breaking down, something Oscar himself admitted today has never been the case.
As a promoter, we can't knock Oscar. He has shown us plenty of smart moves. But as a fighter known and applauded during his career for honesty and playing things straight, he has seriously tarnished his reputation.
Today Oscar the boxer went against the very fiber of his being, starting out by telling us there wasn't going to be any if's or but's, only to leave us with an entire mouthful of them.
IF I am healthy I will fight Floyd on Cinco De Mayo 2007,
BUT, I still may retire before then anyway.
Come again Oscar?
You got 120 people on the phone to basically tell them the same thing you have been spouting since you beat Mayorga.
The Golden Boy we knew back when he was dethroning his boyhood idol Julio Ceasar Chavez would never have played that game of smoke and mirrors with his adoring and loyal fans.
But Golden Boy the promoter was smart, strung us all along, and quite frankly, that's the way it should be done, ask any promoter.
But wearing his other sombrero, he made a mockery in some ways of his hard-earned reputation as a boxer who his fans have always seen and admired as that sweet honest kid from East L.A. who made it through some very tough times to get where he is today.
Somehow, the boxer in De La Hoya seems to think that by defeating Floyd, who many consider the Pound for Pound best in the game today, means that he assumes the torch, and that makes him the P4P champ.
Something tells me that the Promoter De La Hoya knows that isn't necessarily true.
"BUT"...."IF"
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