Oscar De La Hoya profanely dismisses Mayweather-McGregor fight
Oscar De La Hoya has dismissed the Mayweather-McGregor fight before, but he went profane with his thoughts on Twitter with the bout getting closer.
It’s easy to dismiss Saturday night’s match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor as an overhyped farce or a money grab for all involved. Boxing legend Oscar Del La Hoya has made his negative feelings about the bought known previously, and it’s safe to say he won’t be paying very close attention to it.
De La Hoya has repeatedly said the Mayweather-McGregor fight is a blow to boxing’s credibility, if it really has much left at this point as MMA has usurped it in popularity. But it’s also a fair point too on the idea MMA star McGregor thinks he can train in a more specific discipline than he has been competing in and compete with Mayweather, who will carry a 49-0 record into Saturday night’s much-anticipated fight.
Still, De La Hoya took his criticism to another level on Friday, with a profane (NSFW, you’ve been warned) tweet that he took down and then very quickly put back up.
If you want to amuse yourself, here's Oscar De La Hoya being #madonline before deleting the tweet. #MayweatherMcGregor pic.twitter.com/XXH9IVeHSk
— Bloody Elbow (@BloodyElbow) August 25, 2017
FUCK YOU #MayweatherVsMcGregor BOTH OF YOU ARE DISRESPECTING THE SPORT OF BOXING #CaneloGGG Sept 16th https://t.co/SX1Co1Uuj8
— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) August 25, 2017
De La Hoya and his Golden Boy Promotions are currently promoting a middleweight bought between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin for Golovkin’s unified title belts. That fight will take place Sept. 16 in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena, the same venue as Mayweather-McGregor. Earlier this summer, Golovkin offered his own pointed dismissal of Saturday night’s fight.
"“If you want to watch a true fight, a true boxing fight, like a classic fight, welcome to Sept. 16th. If you want to a watch show — like, I don’t know, a business show, a comedy show — Floyd is Floyd. Conor, he is a very good fighter but he’s not a boxer.”"
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If Mayweather fights on Saturday night as he usually does, which is to say defensively to the point of bogging things down, it usually wouldn’t matter who’s in the ring with him. But McGregor is the unpredictable wild card, and that sells pay per-views and drives interest whether De La Hoya likes it or not.