The_budweiser Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 (edited) OSCAR DE LA HOYA STATEMENT Los Angeles (September 10) - Canelo Alvarez and I have big fights coming up this weekend. His is the ring and mine in treatment. I will not be at the fight this Saturday to cheer Canelo to victory since I have voluntarily admitted myself into a treatment facility. I explained this to Canelo and he understood that my health and longterm recovery from my disease must come first. Thank you for your understanding. I ask for your support and privacy during this difficult time for me and my family. Read more: http://www.ringnews24.com/index.php/world-boxing-news/item/10168-oscar-de-la-hoya-to-miss-mayweather-vs-canelo-to-receive-treatment Edited September 10, 2013 by WelshDevilRob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Re: De La Hoya back in rehab and misses "The One" event this Saturday Oscar in attention grabbing shocker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RINGNEWS24 Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment http://ringnews24.com/media/k2/items/cache/18a97e7c9001549383b7d769f43c720c_S.jpg Ring Legend and Boxing Promoter, Oscar De La Hoya will miss this weekend's huge clash between Floyd Mayweather Jnr. and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. More... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment As Scott said, the man's an egomaniac. If he wanted to be left alone and to keep things private, a good way to do that is not issue a press release. He's made a big thing about his recovery previously, being X days sober or whatever, so perhaps he should just keep quiet for a while and deal with his demons in private. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Re: De La Hoya back in rehab and misses "The One" event this Saturday Oscar in attention grabbing shocker. --- Oscar looks to have done as much as he can to protect his limited interests(Canelo) and his company. This step is the only way for him to get some privacy from the frenzy that this alleged fight may cause in the overly feminized boxing media who tend toward group hysteria. See the uproar over the Mosley/Mora fight when the bigger Mex/American ran away from little Shane in the Floydy style everyone raves about. Since Mora ain't with Showtime or Hayman and is the wrong ethnocolor mix, he could never get the same credit even though everyone knows he's a feather fisted boxer like Floydy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoztheMadman Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment As Scott said, the man's an egomaniac. If he wanted to be left alone and to keep things private, a good way to do that is not issue a press release. He's made a big thing about his recovery previously, being X days sober or whatever, so perhaps he should just keep quiet for a while and deal with his demons in private. You are being too harsh on him. He's a celebrity, a public figure-he couldn't be able to keep it a secret even if he wanted to. His presence would be noticed pretty soon. So he figured, better make it public rather than trying to hide it and give the tabloid something to nibble on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment You are being too harsh on him. He's a celebrity, a public figure-he couldn't be able to keep it a secret even if he wanted to. His presence would be noticed pretty soon. So he figured, better make it public rather than trying to hide it and give the tabloid something to nibble on. He makes no effort to keep things secret, except his frolicking with prostitutes/escort girls, trying on their lingerie then trying to destroy them for talking about it. Certainly tried there. Aside from the boxing press, does anyone really give a toss about Oscar? Really? I'm not convinced, and since he makes a big deal of his problem instead of just saying "I'd rather not talk about it unless I have to" Answering questions in an interview is one thing, putting out a press release the week of the fight suggests he wants the attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment I personally don't think its attention seeking. His behaviour has probably been erratic and GBP have gotten him help. I also don't go along with the conspiracy theorists, that the fight is Fixed and Oscar, is checking in so he has a good excuse, when Mayweather is robbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemurphy Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment I really want to give Oscar the benefit of the doubt here, but he's been such a media whore in the past that I refuse to believe he can't break away from treatment for a few hours to attend the fight. He was just bragging about six months sober a couple weeks ago and he spent the entire day hanging around the weigh-in last Friday for Arreola-Mitchell. I know when you have an addiction then the timing of when you do treatment is sometimes odd (one of my FB friends mentioned that he went into treatment just two days before having Christmas with his two little girls, something he wanted to do more than anything, but he simply had to get help immediately), and I'd afford DLH that privacy without questioning it......if he didn't have a 20-year-old track record of grabbing the spotlight for everything he does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment I personally don't think its attention seeking. His behaviour has probably been erratic and GBP have gotten him help. I also don't go along with the conspiracy theorists, that the fight is Fixed and Oscar, is checking in so he has a good excuse, when Mayweather is robbed. --- Actually it's Floydy with the history of robbing Castillo and Judah outright and the beneficiary of too many referee/corner stoppages esp in the Cortez fights still "freshly" stunk on the books as 2 of his last 6 fights. Castillo and Judah were Uncle Bob fights, but the Cortez fights were pure GB. Bottomline is he's deliberately made himself "incommunicado" in advance of what he promotes as the biggest fight in history. He can claim not to have dirty hands when the dirty monkey business of boxing shows up for it's cut of the proceedings. If a fairly officiated contest, I'll be the first to note it, if not, well, you know how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Anyone want to explain to me how Judah was robbed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Anyone want to explain to me how Judah was robbed? Mayweather should have been DQ'd for what his corner did? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Mayweather should have been DQ'd for what his corner did? I wondered about that, but it was during a timeout and Judah's team entered the ring as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment I wondered about that, but it was during a timeout and Judah's team entered the ring as well. I might be wrong (and it's pretty common that I am) but I don't believe a time out allows a corner man to enter the ring. The only current mention of "time out" in the WBC rule book is: 4. The referee may call “time out” during the bout and consult with the instant replay panel, if in doubt, as to any scenario. Now you're going to say it wasn't a WBC fight, which is true, sadly however the IBF don't seem to have any mention of a "time out rule" and neither do the IBO. As Roger "instigated a riot" I tend to feel his offense was worse than that of Yoel Judah who merely reacted. If someone can find a full description of the "time out rule" I doubt they'd find any mention of "allowing a corner man to enter the ring" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Now you're going to say it wasn't a WBC fight, which is true, Aww, I love it when you give me credit for being cleverer than I am ;) If the time-out doesn't count, he should have been disqualified, I suppose. Why did Judah get fined when Mayweather didn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment I think Judah did punch uncle Roge in the ensuing melee though I'm not certain on that. I'm sure our royal highness will tell us his theory on it at some point ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poztin Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment A DQ was the only way Judah would have come away from that fight with a win because after his promising start, he was starting to get his arse spanked by chickenboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Isn't their claims that Mayweather touchdowned in the Judah fight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skav Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Isn't their claims that Mayweather touchdowned in the Judah fight? He did, Judah threw a right hand and Floyd's glove briefly touched the canvas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemurphy Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment He did, Judah threw a right hand and Floyd's glove briefly touched the canvas. Without reviewing it, I think your right. It should've been ruled a knockdown and wasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemurphy Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment As Scott said, the man's an egomaniac. If he wanted to be left alone and to keep things private, a good way to do that is not issue a press release. He's made a big thing about his recovery previously, being X days sober or whatever, so perhaps he should just keep quiet for a while and deal with his demons in private. Great point, he's the only guy who screams to respect his privacy in a Press Release :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemurphy Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Aww, I love it when you give me credit for being cleverer than I am ;) If the time-out doesn't count, he should have been disqualified, I suppose. Why did Judah get fined when Mayweather didn't? Judah didn't have his Uncle taking the heat for most of the incident, in other words, Roger took the fall and someone in a position of power must have thought to add anything to Floyd himself would be an unbalanced scale of justice. Floyd is great at letting other people take the Rap, it's like the various scuffles with parking lot attendants and the shooting at the Roller Skating Rink, only this time was inside the Ring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefthook Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Re: Oscar De La Hoya to miss Mayweather vs Canelo to receive treatment Hope he comes back ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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