Comments Thread For: Hopkins surprise returns Golden Boy to championship level

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

I’ve had a lot of images of Oscar De La Hoya over the years.

A “Golden Boy” from the Olympics. An unbeatable commodity in the early part of his career from 130 to 140 pounds. And a competitor who never shied from a challenge in the back half of his professional shelf life, even if that thirst for competition didn’t always get quenched in the way he’d planned.

So I guess it’s no surprise that just as the boxing world prepared to shovel dirt on his promotional enterprise in the aftermath of Richard Schaefer’s departure, the fighter in him staged another rally.
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[richardt]

The reports of Oscar's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

[Slick Veteran]

People keep trying to give Oscar all the credit, but the one who made things happen was Hopkins. I remember Hopkins a month ago bragging about how much he knows the business side of things since he been around genius people like Haymon and Schaefer and been managing himself since the 90s. He went on to say many fighters don't think like that, to want to know how money is generated and how much people benefit off you. Hopkins is a businessman on par with Haymon and Schaefer. Also Eric Gomez deserves a lot more credit than Oscar.

What really makes Hopkin dangerous is that, he knows how to include himself in different groups of social circles to get what he's trying to attain, while being neutral and being extreme. Just a month ago he was praising Schaefer and now he just revived Goldenboy and HBO in one go.

[Mr. Philadel]

People keep trying to give Oscar all the credit, but the one who made things happen was Hopkins. I remember Hopkins a month ago bragging about how much he knows the business side of things since he been around genius people like Haymon and Schaefer and been managing himself since the 90s. He went on to say many fighters don't think like that, to want to know how money is generated and how much people benefit off you. Hopkins is a businessman on par with Haymon and Schaefer. Also Eric Gomez deserves a lot more credit than Oscar.

What really makes Hopkin dangerous is that, he knows how to include himself in different groups of social circles to get what he's trying to attain, while being neutral and being extreme. Just a month ago he was praising Schaefer and now he just revived Goldenboy and HBO in one go.

I agree with this entire post...especially the bold!!

[The Big Dunn]

The reports of Oscar's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

ODH had nothing to do with this. It was Hopkins, Gomez and the matchmaker. ODH is too busy tweeting out fantasy cards that have no way of being made.

[The Big Dunn]

People keep trying to give Oscar all the credit, but the one who made things happen was Hopkins. I remember Hopkins a month ago bragging about how much he knows the business side of things since he been around genius people like Haymon and Schaefer and been managing himself since the 90s. He went on to say many fighters don't think like that, to want to know how money is generated and how much people benefit off you. Hopkins is a businessman on par with Haymon and Schaefer. Also Eric Gomez deserves a lot more credit than Oscar.

What really makes Hopkin dangerous is that, he knows how to include himself in different groups of social circles to get what he's trying to attain, while being neutral and being extreme. Just a month ago he was praising Schaefer and now he just revived Goldenboy and HBO in one go.

excellent post.

[Rocky Rode]

Yeah, Oscar's success post Schaefer really has more to do with him surrounding himself with the right people. One thing we can't forget though is that it's all happening for his company, so naturally he's going to get a lot of the credit, whether it's deserved or not

[richardt]

ODH had nothing to do with this. It was Hopkins, Gomez and the matchmaker. ODH is too busy tweeting out fantasy cards that have no way of being made.

Where did I say that??? I said the reports of his demise have been greatly exaggerated. I said nothing about his role in the recent success. Whether he picks himself or GBP back up or others help him or GBP, he is far from done.

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