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I found this extra script on ESPN where our good ole fat lard Dan Rafeal wrote about Oscars presence or lack there of. check it out
Does Oscar De La Hoya want to be a real promoter or just be the figurehead for Golden Boy Promotions while everyone else at his company does the hard work? Although he has talked about rolling up his sleeves and getting serious, he has been MIA for some very important recent events. He didn't bother to show up for the Bernard Hopkins-Roy Jones fight in April, which needed every single bit of promotional effort that could be mustered. He was a nonentity during the massive Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Shane Mosley promotion, odd given that he could have offered keen insight because he fought both. He was nowhere to be seen during fight week except for a cameo at the postfight news conference. Last week, he didn't even show up in New York for the American debut of Amir Khan, whom Golden Boy considers one of its most significant signings. When you sign somebody you hail as a future superstar and he crosses the pond for the first time for an HBO fight at Madison Square Garden, shouldn't the face of the company be in the house to help promote the event? When I sat down with Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer in New York, I asked him about De La Hoya's noticeable absences and he was clearly uncomfortable with the question, perhaps because he's the one doing most of the work. He mentioned something about De La Hoya and his family recently moving from Puerto Rico back to Los Angeles full-time, but that rings hollow. You don't blow off fight week for Mayweather-Mosley -- the biggest fight of the year so far -- or Khan's important night because you moved. Schaefer stumbled a bit through his answer and I got a lot of him looking down and shrugging. I could tell he was frustrated and restraining himself from being critical of his partner and close friend. This week, De La Hoya was a no-show for the news conference in Los Angeles promoting Saturday night's fourth Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez fight at the Staples Center.
Does Oscar De La Hoya want to be a real promoter or just be the figurehead for Golden Boy Promotions while everyone else at his company does the hard work? Although he has talked about rolling up his sleeves and getting serious, he has been MIA for some very important recent events. He didn't bother to show up for the Bernard Hopkins-Roy Jones fight in April, which needed every single bit of promotional effort that could be mustered. He was a nonentity during the massive Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Shane Mosley promotion, odd given that he could have offered keen insight because he fought both. He was nowhere to be seen during fight week except for a cameo at the postfight news conference. Last week, he didn't even show up in New York for the American debut of Amir Khan, whom Golden Boy considers one of its most significant signings. When you sign somebody you hail as a future superstar and he crosses the pond for the first time for an HBO fight at Madison Square Garden, shouldn't the face of the company be in the house to help promote the event? When I sat down with Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer in New York, I asked him about De La Hoya's noticeable absences and he was clearly uncomfortable with the question, perhaps because he's the one doing most of the work. He mentioned something about De La Hoya and his family recently moving from Puerto Rico back to Los Angeles full-time, but that rings hollow. You don't blow off fight week for Mayweather-Mosley -- the biggest fight of the year so far -- or Khan's important night because you moved. Schaefer stumbled a bit through his answer and I got a lot of him looking down and shrugging. I could tell he was frustrated and restraining himself from being critical of his partner and close friend. This week, De La Hoya was a no-show for the news conference in Los Angeles promoting Saturday night's fourth Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez fight at the Staples Center.
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