Comments Thread For: De La Hoya on a Mission To Rebuild, Restore Golden Boy

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By Rick Reeno - When Oscar De La Hoya formed Golden Boy Promotions in 2002, he had a vision of putting together the best possible fights and signing the best talent.

For the next few years, his company was flying high and signing up a who’s who of top name fighters – including Shane Mosley, Bernard Hopkins, Marco Antonio Barrera, Ricky Hatton, David Haye, Juan Manuel Marquez, Victor Ortiz and many others.

Golden Boy made a major statement in 2007, when De La Hoya stepped in the ring to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. on HBO Pay-Per-View. The fight shattered records with a gate of $19 million and 2.4 million pay-per-view purchases with a $130 million in revenue. That event jump-started Golden Boy’s promotional partnership with Mayweather. De La Hoya’s company co-promoted Mayweather’s last ten fights – including another record-breaking pay-per-view in 2013, Mayweather’s win over Saul Alvarez on Showtime PPV – which brought in a gate of over $20 million with 2.2 million pay-per-view buys and nearly $150 million in revenue. [Click Here To Read More]

[daggum]

it's too late you got haymon'd!

[Nightfall]

Oscae de la hoya is one of my all time favorite fighters. but he really damaged the company with his outside the ring issues. he can rebound but hanging out with toprank is going to crumble him. he better hope that alvared does'nt lose that kirkland fight.

[jas]

He got a ****load of money in the settlement in the haymon

He'll be fine

[jjsmyth87]

Oscae de la hoya is one of my all time favorite fighters. but he really damaged the company with his outside the ring issues. he can rebound but hanging out with toprank is going to crumble him. he better hope that alvared does'nt lose that kirkland fight.

Hanging with top Rank will crumble de la Hoya? How do you figure? Top rank has 10x as many fighters as golden boy and 10x the top talent and also have HBO who pay more than ShowTime in his back pocket. Lol please explain how top ra k will crumble him? Top rank has connections with every promoter in the world besides haymon who doesn't have nearly as much top talent as top rank has. Who does haymon have? Mayweather and that's basically it. The rest are b level fighters like Adrien broker and Robert Guerrero. All the future stars fight for top rank. Terance Crawford, Mikey Garcia, Nicholas Walters, Tim Bradley, even Marquez and cotto are with top rank. Lomachenko, Benavidez, Jesse Vargas, Brandon Rios, they have so much talent its ridiculous. De la Hoya would be ****** not to want to do business with the greatest promoter in boxing.

[jjsmyth87]

The funny thing is the only reason arum has a bad reputation on this website is because Floyd mayweather said he doesn't like arum. Everyone who fights for him seems to really like fighting for him, besides the occasional fighter any business would have. Top rank has always been the top company and they never robbed from fighters unlike don king. The. All of a sudden a top rank fighter gets his own promotional company golden boy and is in direct competition. Then mayweather leaves top rank to go to golden boy and the rest is history. Arum never screwed anyone and always has made the biggest and best fights, he only has a bad reputation amongst you duckweather fans, but in the rest of the boxing world they are highly respected and probably the premiere promoters in boxing.

[100percentTruth]

He got a ****load of money in the settlement in the haymon

He'll be fine

GBP lost more than 150 fighters to Al Haymon which is why he was forced to call Bob Arum to work together after talking bad about him for years.

[anonymous2.0]

So Oscar was upset because he couldn't force contractual extensions onto the fighters a la Top rank style? Oscar was upset because he didn't have total control over fighters?

[ramses07]

GBP lost more than 150 fighters to Al Haymon which is why he was forced to call Bob Arum to work together after talking bad about him for years.

I'm pretty sure gbp lost all those fighters bc Oscar wanted to restart working with arum

[Porter's Dad]

I know the business of boxing is ruthless but Schaefer and Haymon really did a number on Oscar.

Haymon in particular seems like a leech. Everywhere he goes, he makes himself more powerful, while leaving those whom he used (and I mean used in every sense of word) - HBO, GBP, Showtime - having to recover from being screwed and pick up the pieces.