World boxing legend continues to cook his return to the ring seeks revenge for his defeat before facing Mexico
The legend of world boxing Oscar de la Foia continues to cook his return to the ring and this time did not mention the Kazakh Gennadiy Golovkin as a possible rival, but the American Floyd Mayweather, above other rivals such as the Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, Whom he stopped promoting a few months ago.
De la Hoya, 47, told FightHub TV who continues to work on his return, and who one of the options he is looking for is to avenge that defeat that Mayweather inflicted on him in 2007 in one of the best-selling events in the history of this sport and it generated $ 130 million for 2.4 million homes sold in the pay-per-view system.
“I’ve always priced myself to face the best, and why go with the second best? Why not better against the guy who beat him? Why not go for example against Mayweather in a revenge fight? De la Foia said when asked if Canelo’s name appeared on his list of possible rivals.
“This is a really intriguing thing. Let’s see how I feel, and from here we go,” added the head of Golden Boy Promotions, a company that this Saturday will promote the first title fight of undefeated Californian Ryan Garcia, who will face Olympic champion Luke Campbell in Dallas for the interim scepter of the World Boxing Council.
“I could definitely think so, “he added about the fight with Canelo,” but the focus is on the biggest prize“, Sentenced Óscar, who could join the wave of returns in boxing as Mike Tyson, Roy Jones and Julio César Chávez have done, although unlike them, he wants to do like the Argentine Sergio ‘Wonder’ Martinez, who took off his gloves, but to fight professionally.
As a boxer, Óscar won the gold medal in Barcelona in 1992 and fought from that same year until 2008. He established himself as the first boxer in history to have won titles in six different categories, from Superpluma weight to Medium weight, through Light, Superlight, Welter and Superwelter.