{"id":612097,"date":"2026-04-17T03:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612097\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:23:14","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-warns-boxers-about-signing-with-zuffa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612097\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya warns boxers about signing with Zuffa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya takes aim at Zuffa Boxing and its Saudi financiers once again, noting their plans to withdraw funding into LIV golf as an early warning sign of what\u2019s to come in the boxing business. In that respect, De La Hoya says it\u2019s just a matter of time before the golden faucet gets turned off and fighters don\u2019t want to be stuck in a Zuffa contract when it eventually does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSpeaking of bleeding cash, I estimate the Saudis have spent at least a billion dollars since entering the boxing space, two years ago,\u201d De La Hoya said. \u201cI mean, how? They paid $100M for Canelo alone and just paid Conor f\u2014kin\u2019 Benn $15M. They also paid a lot of f\u2014king money to buy The Ring Magazine which is a dead asset! Plus, all the other events they put on, and they\u2019re fully funding the failed science experiment known as Zuffa Boxing. Actually, it could be way more than a billion bucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAnd where are they recouping that investing? On ticket sales and PPVs? They don\u2019t even sell tickets at the events in Saudi, and the PPVs are a tiny fraction of income. Again, the Saudis are fully funding Zuffa. So fighters beware and make sure you read the fine print because you may need to get out of your Zuffa contract in a few months. There might not be any money left.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya takes aim at Zuffa Boxing and its Saudi financiers once again,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-612097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}