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By Patrick Kehoe - An expected crowd of 30,000 sporting and fight fans will be filling up the Home Depot Center in Carson, California to celebrate their golden guy, Oscar De La Hoya, as he takes on season two “The Contender” runner up Steve Forbes. A genuinely festive atmosphere has over taken this L.A. “Homecoming” promotion, revellers glad handing “The Golden Boy” at every stop along the way leading up to this contest of un-equals. Outside of Forbes’ family, friends and trainer Jeff Mayweather, no one really cares much about ‘the other guy’ in this fight of necessary inconvenience for the great De La Hoya. Sure, he’s come ‘home’, to the Los Angeles area, to make a fan friendly ceremonial lap of honour, while trying to get his body and mind into something like fighting shape, in lieu of the more important task of facing down Floyd Mayweather in September. [details]
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Forbes is a nice guy and a good boxer. It sucks watchin a guy like him bein set up for a fall, but he's gonna get some nastiness done to his career in this fight. -
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Noboby is giving forbes a fighting chance, ey. That may very well be a mistake b/c there's no way any1 can say de la hoya is not overlooking his upcoming opponent. Anytime you've already booked your next two fights, you're undoubtedly looking past the first hurdle. By all accounts, oscar is still a part time fighter..full time promoter attempting to regain his form against a pretty slick boxer & full time fighter in forbes. I still dont think it'll be a walk in the park for de la hoya (regardless of the obvious physical advantages).Comment
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