Oscar De La Hoya: record, next fight and profile →
LOS ANGELES – Two of boxing’s brightest stars in Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Ryan Garcia are both signed to Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. If you leave it up to the principals involved in making a potential fight between the upstarts, the pair of 23-year-old fast-rising contenders would meet for a fight sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Oscar De La Hoya was a mainstay fighting around Cinco de Mayo week throughout his illustrious 16-year career. As a promoter, the boxing icon created the same opportunities around the Mexican holiday for the fighters he helped build, chiefly Canelo Alvarez.
LOS ANGELES – Oscar De La Hoya was preparing for a comeback fight against Vitor Belfort on Sept. 11 last year, but the Hall of Fame fighter was derailed from his master plan when he contracted COVID-19 eight days before his scheduled bout.
De La Hoya, Ortiz Media Day Photos Gallery - Undefeated, WBO International Welterweight Champion, Vergil Ortiz Jr. (18-0, 18 KOs), of Grand Prairie, Texas and Chairman and CEO of Golden Boy, Oscar De La Hoya hosted a special press event today at the Galen Center to promote the upcoming bout between Vergil Ortiz, Jr. and #3 WBO ranked welterweight Michael “The Problem” McKinson (21-0, 2 KOs) of Portsmouth, Great Britain. (photos by Lina Baker)
William Zepeda has already emerged as a lightweight to fear, though the stakes have been raised by his own team. Oscar De La Hoya, founder and chairman of Golden Boy Promotions spent fight week insisting to anyone who would listen that Zepeda (24-0, 22KOs) is ready for any lightweight in the world. The Hall of Fame former six-division champion name-dropped WBC lightweight titlist Devin Haney (27-0, 15KOs) as a potential future victim for the unbeaten 25-year-old southpaw from San Mateo Atenco, Mexico.
Ryan Garcia is set for his ring return. The moment will come versus a previously explored opponent, as the unbeaten lightweight contender will face Ghana’s Emmanuel Tagoe. Terms were finalized Friday afternoon for the fight, which will take place atop an April 9 DAZN show from Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is still very eager to get in the ring with Floyd Mayweather for a second time. The two retired Hall of Famers collided in the ring back in May of 2007 - which Mayweather won by way of a close twelve round split decision to become a junior middleweight champion.
An intriguing lightweight bout between Ryan Garcia and Isaac Cruz for the first quarter of 2021 is apparently off the table, on the assumption it was ever a realistic possibility.
Ahead of his IBO World super middleweight title eliminator against István Szili on March 26, 2022, at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, former five-time world champion Felix Sturm sat down to talk about the collaboration with recently founded LIB Boxpromotion, his motivation to keep fighting, his opinion on superstar Saul “Canelo“ Alvarez and a possible fight between the two, the recent trend of YouTubers-turning boxers, and a look back on his own career.
Ryan Garcia believes he found his first fight back in 2022. It remains to be seen whether the unbeaten lightweight contender jumps to the front of the line, but he was among the more interested observers for Saturday’s divisional championship bout on DAZN from Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater in New York City. In a massive upset, George Kambosos Jr. prevailed by split decision victory to dethrone previously undefeated lineal/WBA/IBF/WBO lightweight king Teofimo Lopez Jr. No sooner than the official verdict was announced, Garcia offered his services as the next challenger.