There's a picture of Devon sitting ringside with Oscar at the Wilder-Stiverne fight...
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-boxing-oscar-de-la-hoya-canelo-alvarez-randy-caballero-20150123-story.html
http://thaboxingvoice.com/de-la-hoya-vargas-from-foes-to-co-trainers-as-the-golden-boy-helps-develop-his-16yr-old-son-devon/53647?var=no
De La Hoya-Vargas- from foes to co-trainers as the Golden Boy helps develop his 16yr old son Devon
Oscar has a son named Devon that is sixteen years old. Oscar has been working on developing Devon into a possible star in boxing and has been working alongside his former nemesis, now friend, “El Feroz” Fernando Vargas.
The two formal rivals began building a friendship late last year/early this year when De La Hoya invited Vargas to watch some fights. Shortly after, Golden Boy signed one of Vargas’ fighters, Cesar “The Great” Quiñonez, and they have been working together ever since. The combination of having Oscar and Fernando teaching young Devon will do him good as he will learn how to box and how to bang in the ring. For Oscar, should everything go well, he may have found a new calling aside from promoting
TR's future could well be darker than its ever been with a HBO relationship that could go south if Peter Nelson takes Hershman's position or due to PBC's impact on the sport, but it ain't got anything to do with the super talented prospects TR has.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how things go with TR and HBO if it's Peter Nelson who gets that role.
It was Nelson who prompted the Arum about "Nelson doesn't have that vision...and I'm not gonna let him screw up our prospects by taking away from us what was our great strength and that's the ability to match-make".
Of course, it was right after those comments that Oscar Valdez got put on HBO on the Bradley-Vargas card.
So who knows.
It'll be interesting to watch it play out.
I didn't realize he had this many sponsors:
“We’re very happy with these ratings for Gennady, which have continued to see extraordinary growth since his first fight on HBO in September 2012,” K2 Promotions’ Tom Loeffler said. “As he continues to sell out arenas in America and garner the top sponsorships in boxing with the Jordan Brand, Apple, Tecate, Bijan and Samsung, among others, it’s clear that Gennady is one of the most marketable fighters in the world.
http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/post/_/id/15888/ggg-scores-hbos-most-watched-fight-in-nearly-a-year
It was hilarious to see ESPN have a graphic up this week showing Canelo gains something like 15.3 pounds between the weigh in and fight night.
Everybody knows what he's up to.
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Hopkins went to 156 for Oscar, Floyd went to 154 for Oscar, Canelo went to 152 for Floyd, Paul Williams went up to friggin 160 for Martinez, etc.
These are one fight examples.
How many of those fighters tried to create their own weight divisions?
(And then gain 15 pounds after the weigh-in?)
Hopkins went to 156 for Oscar
DLH wasn't the champ, he was a junior middlweight coming up after a loss in Mosley rematch who coudln't beat Felix Sturm.
At age 34 hopkins only had 1 belt and was still at middleweight what are you talking about?
go re-read my post and do your research please.
What the gibberish?
You brought what Hopkins did at light heavyewight and didn't even address the Taylor fights.
Hopkins was 34-2 and lost his first pro fight, the only other fight he lost was to rjj. Hopkins then went on to go up 2 weight divisions
Boxing Scene was caught lying about Golovkin numbers. Basically a scandal.
It's a vast media conspiracy!!!!!!!!!
Or you're just wrong...
Francisco A. Salazar @FSalazarBoxing · 3h3 hours ago
Nielsen ratings are in for #GolovkinWade .. 1.325 million viewers, peaking at 1.388 million, the highest viewed fight on HBO in 2016 #boxing
Mitchell Abramson @mabramson13 · 3h3 hours ago
Golovkin vs. Wade peaked Saturday on HBO at 1,388,000 viewers. Gonzalez vs. Arroyo averaged 1,001,000 viewers, peaking at 1,140,000 viewers.
I rather see low ppvs in the $25.99-$39.99 range every other month then the insane $69.95 ones we have now.
There's almost no fight in boxing right now worth $70.
I wouldn't pay half that for the Canelo-Khan card.
I could maybe do a Crawford-Postol PPV with a good undercard for a $25 SD/$35 HD price tag.
He is being sarcastic because thats how kellerman tried to say Manny was greater
gotcha.
shoulda passed over this thread like i normally do when I see Kellerman's name.
TV is broken down quarterly. You have to look at the quarter. Biased fanboy
Boxing matches don't start at the top or bottom of every hour and last for 30-60 minute intervals.
You've seen what the fight averaged...you just don't want to accept it.
Hopkins was 34-2 and lost his first pro fight, the only other fight he lost was to rjj. Hopkins then went up 2 weight divisions
Yeah, just skip over the Jermain Taylor fights.
There were Mexican/Mexican American fans who turned on Chavez Jr. for not taking the Golovkin fight.
The backlash would probbaly be worse for Canelo considering he'd be dumping a belt/insisting on a catchweight.
OK we get it. Gg is the best ever. He be hypothetically beats everyone. The fact that you favor gg over a legend and great fighter like Trinidad is embarrassing
"best ever" is a strawman.
And if you want to take Trinidad over Golovkin at 160, have at it.
I'd take Golovkin over Jermain Taylor, too, btw.
HBO has so much money invested in so few fighters.
Not sure this is good for them, now or especially long-term.
But, on the potentially positive side...if HBO is willing to pay $2 million for Golovkin to fight a guy like Wade, they should be invested enough in him to really apply pressure on Canelo/GBP to make that fight.
The topic was the criticism of Hopkins biggest wins over so called smaller opponents. Both better than any Golovkin opponent by far.
Since you can't comprehend that and stay on topic, any further discussion about it is pointless.
If you don't compare them at the same age and through the same amount of fights the comparison doesn't mean anything.
The topic was opponents who moved up in weight which is why I didn't get into the topic of their ages.
Conveniently ignoring everything in Hopkins career prior to the middleweight tournament.