By Mark Vester
Forget a rematch with Ike Quartey, junior-middleweight Vernon Forrest tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he wants the man that virtually every fighter in the sport wants to fight, Oscar De La Hoya.
Forrest feels that De La Hoya beat the man who beat him, and he beat the man who beat De La Hoya, why not fight?
I admire the logic and it would have made sense some time ago, but De La Hoya has one more fight left in his career, and Forrest aint it. Forrest should rematch Ike Quartey and settle some unfinished business. Ike came out looking better from their Madison Square Garden meeting - and he was the loser.
"For me, the only fighter in my era that I never fought, and only fighter of my era that never fought me is Oscar De la Hoya," Forrest said. "Obviously, that's a fight I'd love to have. He beat the man who beat me [De la Hoya pummeled Mayorga in May]. But I beat the man who beat him [Mosley won two decisions over De la Hoya]. It should be a natural."
