By Miguel Maravilla
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De la Hoya spoke about the upcoming showdown between Santa Ana’s Alexis Rocha vs. Giovanni Santillan of San Diego. Rocha vs. Santillan takes place Saturday October 21st at the Forum in Inglewood, California live on DAZN.
De La Hoya also spoke about the card and boxing history of the Forum, the WBO’s upcoming decision on Terence Crawford, championship sanctioning bodies in boxing, California State Athletic Commission on bringing more fights to Los Angeles, Ryan Garcia and more.
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100% agree with Oscar about titles in boxing. There are too many “champions” “super champions” and super duper champions” in boxing which causes confusion. No champion should be exempt from fighting the next best fighter. On the other hand, Oscar is a promoter so he may sing a different song if his fighters had all of these perks.
The problem when a fighter needs a tune up fight then they pick up a Uber driver -boxer
Oscar one the greatest all times
It depends on the circumstances. If a boxer like Spence is trying to change his entire style for a rematch with Crawford he needs to fight an “Uber driver-boxer” tune-up first to build up his confidence and understand how his new tricks work in an actual fight versus trying them out on a monster like Crawford.
His style will be hard to change
Now a boxer can’t be fighting back to back for a world title
So in order to don’t get rust he pick up a ta I driver then go for the championship fight