To be fair it he likely didn’t randomly bring it up. This instead sounds like a reporter asking him about his fight with Mayweather. Probably asked him a specific question about how he felt physically due to his age.
I highly doubt De La Hoya randomly called boxingscene.com in 2020 to tell them he had two injured rotator cuffs in his 2007 fight with Mayweather.
No probably not but he could have handled the question better if this was the case, it comes across very bitter, especially when you consider his and Mayweathers history
I don’t think Mayweather, Calzaghe or Malignaggi broke their due to poor punching form. Broken hands in boxing can happen to any boxer by accident. This accident can happen by throwing a punch and your target moves, and the punch lands on your target but not its intended location. It’s very difficult to hurt your hand on a heavy bag. Because it’s just a stationary object where your punch will always land on the intended location. Versus an opponent, if they happen to duck their chin down and you instead hit them in the head, that’s an injury waiting to happen. If you aim for the body but the opponent sticks his elbows out, and you hit your wrist with the bended elbow, that’s a painful wrist injury waiting to happen.
These are all very common injuries in boxing. You’d hear all about them, see them happening, and maybe even have them happen to you if you join a boxing gym for long enough. They are accidents. Like in WWF with a wrestling move gone wrong, despite the “show” being scripted, and the winner being pre-determinded, happens all the time and therefore causes real life injuries. Accidents happen all the time in professional sports and it can happen to athletes doing everything perfectly. You don’t go 51-0 and 46-0 in pro boxing if you have bad punching form.
As far as Mayweather already having injured hands before the Hernandez fight and using “xylocaine” for that fight, I have no answer for completely made-up comments. I rather not entertaining trolling comments bud.
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