Comments Thread For: De La Hoya on Canelo: He's a Friend - But It's Business, That's It

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Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya has expanded on some of his recent statements, with respect to his relationship with Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Last year, there was a lot of tension between the two sides - with the situation erupting last November when Canelo publicly criticized his longtime promoter.
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[Thuglife Nelo]

Is the Athletic still around?

[Califire209]

Careful you might upset Canelita

[Oregonian]

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya has expanded on some of his recent statements, with respect to his relationship with Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Last year, there was a lot of tension between the two sides - with the situation erupting last November when Canelo publicly criticized his longtime promoter.
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Floyd gave this idiotic Neanderthal the opportunity to promote most of Floyd’s fights and how did Oscar repay Floyd?
He continues to bad mouth Floyd every chance he gets.

[Silver Spear]

" He even brought along his own translator for media functions."

Can they do this for every fight? The current person they use to translate is terrible. He is always saying things that the boxer did not say or mean. He forgets or omits half of what was said.

[Derranged]

I take it that Canelo got tired of shoving forks and spoons up Gaylordhoya's ass.

[Griever0730]

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Floyd gave this idiotic Neanderthal the opportunity to promote most of Floyd’s fights and how did Oscar repay Floyd?
He continues to bad mouth Floyd every chance he gets.

Gave him the opportunity? Nobody gives opportunities in business. Ain't no loyalty when it comes to business. They come to agreements. If Mayweather didn't need GB at the time to make the kind of money he was making, he wouldn't have bothered. They needed each other at the time & they both benefited from their time working together. Also, the feeling is mutual bc Mayweather has always taken personal shots at Oscar also & has always stated in those promos & in interviews very openly that he doesn't like Oscar either. They just put aside their petty personal beef & make money together. You don't mix business matters with personal matters. MOE.

[Oldskoolg]

Then he’s not a friend.

[Oldskoolg]

Gave him the opportunity? Nobody gives opportunities in business. Ain't no loyalty when it comes to business. They come to agreements. If Mayweather didn't need GB at the time to make the kind of money he was making, he wouldn't have bothered. They needed each other at the time & they both benefited from their time working together. Also, the feeling is mutual bc Mayweather has always taken personal shots at Oscar also & has always stated in those promos & in interviews very openly that he doesn't like Oscar either. They just put aside their petty personal beef & make money together. You don't mix business matters with personal matters. MOE.

Mayweather didn’t know any better at the time. Once he had haymon in his corner and learned about how he can set up his own promotional company and make more of the money of the purse, ppv percentage, gate, sponsors, merchandise, food and alcohol sales, etc then he didn’t need dlh anymore. This is precisely the reason lucifer hearn has found it so hard to get PBC fighters to commit to him...:they don’t want promoters because they set up their own companies to promote the individual fights when they are signed by haymon and his crew. They have a manager/advisor to make the fights and then they themselves promote it through their businesses. This is what floyd learned with haymon and why he kicked spatula drag queen to the curb

[Griever0730]

Mayweather didn’t know any better at the time. Once he had haymon in his corner and learned about how he can set up his own promotional company and make more of the money of the purse, ppv percentage, gate, sponsors, merchandise, food and alcohol sales, etc then he didn’t need dlh anymore. This is precisely the reason lucifer hearn has found it so hard to get PBC fighters to commit to him...:they don’t want promoters because they set up their own companies to promote the individual fights when they are signed by haymon and his crew. They have a manager/advisor to make the fights and then they themselves promote it through their businesses. This is what floyd learned with haymon and why he kicked spatula drag queen to the curb

If he didn't know better at the time that's on him. Power to him though for learning/finding a way to maximize his earnings with his drawing power for himself. Regardless, I've never heard him say anything bad about dealing with GB on a business level. If anything, working with them helped him learn how to get to where he is at. He can trash DLH on a personal level, but on a business level, he knew what was good. You don't get to the top working with your friends. Sometimes you gotta work with people you don't like to get where you wanna go. Again, MOE.