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Oscar De La Hoya isn’t thrilled by Dana White’s transfer into boxing.
It was confirmed in latest days that White together with WWE president Nick Khan have partnered with the game’s Center Jap cash males within the Saudi Arabia to launch a brand new boxing league beneath the TKO Group Holdings umbrella, with a September date reportedly focused for its first excessive profile occasion.
The transfer lastly confirms White’s long-anticipated entry level into boxing promotion which has for years been dominated by the game’s extra conventional governing our bodies the WBO, WBC, WBA, and IBF, in addition to probably impacting a number of the extra large identify promoters — corresponding to Golden Boy Promotions’ head Oscar De La Hoya.
And talking of the brand new alliance between TKO and Turki Al-Sheikh, De La Hoya mentioned that he won’t again down if and when issues get scorching.
“I did hear that [Al-Sheikh] handed over the reigns of boxing to Dana White,” De La Hoya mentioned by way of Boxing News.
“I felt slightly offended, as a result of I’ve been in boxing all my life and I’ve been selling for 20 odd years. So what I’m going to do is keep in my lane and do what I do for Golden Boy and with DAZN and provides the battle followers one of the best fights that may probably be made, simply the way in which we’ve been doing for years.
“You realize working with Turki, Riyadh Season…it’s an honour for me to try this, however I’ve my enterprise that I’m going to handle as nicely, and no person’s going to the touch me there as a result of we’re one of the best builders within the battle recreation, and we take our fighters to championship ranges, to superstardom like the way in which we did with Canelo and Ryan Garcia.
“I’m gonna stick in my lane and I’m going to work with Turki as a result of it has been very constructive, it has been actually good. The competitors in boxing is basically good, it’s constructive, it’s nice, however I’m going to proceed doing what I do as a result of boxing is what I really like, boxing is what it’s what made me, what helped me get right here, and I’m by no means leaving.”
