Comments Thread For: De La Hoya on Schaefer: "We're Working Things Out"

[Jimmy The Geek]

They're making very little money on Mayweather fights. If Money Mayweather had his way, he would get rid of GBP. The Greedy Team is too greedy to share profits. GBP hasn't been pumping out fights since the Mayweather hype train. Many of their fighters are on a long layoff. Matthysse, Khan, Guerrero, Berto and many others are now averaging one fight a year. Garcia, Broner, Matthysse, Berto, Guerrero, Lopez, Ortiz, Peterson, Alexander, Maidana, Porter, Thurman... They don't fight each other. Who was Broner's last fight? Who was Garcia's last fight? How about Thurman? Matthysse, etc. GBP can only afford undercard fights.

So no. GBP makes very little money off of Mayweather fights. Oscar is trying to fix things.

I 100% agree. And I am not buying Schaeffer's BS about not wanting to work with Arum. I mean, I don't like Arum either, but a promoter is a promoter and he does what he must to make the most money for the company - and if that means working with people ya' don't like, then tooo bad!

[mrjax]

Yes, he is. It is his company. If no one likes it, then they can leave.

Maybe I should have said that Oscar doesn't have the business sense to run his own company.

[Jimmy The Geek]

Maybe I should have said that Oscar doesn't have the business sense to run his own company.

And...Oscar knows he can't run that company as well as a Schaeffer or an Arum. As a result, that's why he assured people that Schaeffer can be replaced....and it wouldn't really be that hard (I can think of 2 or 3 small-time promoters that can step up until a permanent replacement is found). Now...I think that is pretty good business sense. I mean, Oscar is honest with himself about his strengths and weaknesses. Also, Oscar is trying to put an end to the Promoter Wars - those useless wastes of time and money. Smart thinking. Good Business.

[bimhead]

Funny how u guys talk like u know Oscar. Even go as far as calling him a coward. Lets c he faced all the great fighters of his era, he admits its him in pantyhose, he admits he's addicted to *******, he's man enough to take the initiative and squash the beef with Arum. How is that bein a coward?

sounds like his sex life was incredible,too!!more power to him

[Jimmy The Geek]

I can feel the fear from the Floyd Fans concerning what Oscar will do next,for they know whatever it is, it won't be good for Floyd, and Floyd is powerless to stop it.

Thanks to Arum and De La Hoya, things are about to change in Boxing, and those that refuse to change with them will be history.

[umop-ap!sdn]

One has to understand his life to understand him. Oscar grew up very secluded, even though he was from one of the worst areas in LA, his father never let him do anything.

He never got into street fights, did drugs, dated chicks, it was boxing 24/7. So it's not a shock that in his later years he spread his wings. He was ****ing tons of chicks, having kids out of wedlock and then got into the drugs.

Oscar was a bad mother ***er in the ring, but I also think he missed out on a lot of love in his personal life especially from his father. His mother died when he was young and that affected him as well.

I see this behavior a lot among people who were never allowed to do things on their own early in life. Hopefully Oscar gets his **** together because I think down deep he's a good person and I think Sheafer is going to try and *** him over behind his back.

I met Sheafer in Miami for the Canelo vs Mayweather presser and he came off as one slimy mother ***er.

Kudos on the meaningful post. This was a good analagy of why he may be so fkd!

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Oscar says everything a fan wants to hear, but I'm not sure if Schaefer feels the same way..

Will be interesting how this all unfolds... The canelo-manny fight would be a blockbuster but doesn't make sense for a sports perspective.. Canelo is so much bigger, I don't see the point in manny getting beat up by a young lion.

[Epie2]

Oscar's move to do business with Arum is very laudable. Richard's reason to not work with Bob is personal. Boxing, being a business, should not be derailed by personal hurts especially when these hurts hold great fights to materialize.

[Ayash-Man]

Unifying Boxing

As amazing as Oscar was being a PPV king and taking on all comers and being a great boxer, he has a chance to unify boxing and do things that some people thing is impossible and really not only make the fans happy, but take boxing to a new level. His involvement in boxing now, might make him a second hall of fame career and maybe the most important.

[al-Xander]

I don't understand how De La Hoya is all lovey dovey with Arum yet craps on Mayweather who has been putting money in his pocket the past few years.

GBP makes more money associating with Arum than with Mayweather. Schaefer just don't have balls to say, "F you," to Money Mayweather, "if you need us, then share some of your guarantee." Oscar don't give a **** about Mayweather, who is not making their company financially richer. GBP makes 20 times more on Haymon-less Canelo fights. If you recall, Schaefer was so desperate in making the Cotto vs Alvarez fight. That's probably the fight that would lift them up from the financial mess they're in.