Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya joined Ariel Helwani\u2019s show to largely discuss what\u2019s going on with the Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn fight, what role he\u2019ll play in that event, and a whole lot more. Check out some excerpts of what he had to say with the full video in the link above.<\/p>\n
De La Hoya on his involvement in the Ryan Garcia vs Conor Benn fight<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, how f-ckin\u2019 petty are these guys not to include me and to make sure I\u2019m not on stage. What, are they afraid I\u2019m going to sock Dana [White] in the nose? I mean, of course I\u2019m going to be there, of course I\u2019m going to be promoting it. Ryan Garcia, everybody knows, he\u2019s my fighter. So, he\u2019s under Golden Boy so we\u2019re looking forward to a big, massive event. I believe the other day Turki said that $6M+ have already been sold so, yeah, it\u2019s going to be a big event. So, I\u2019m really looking forward to being apart of his.\u201d<\/p>\n
On not being at the opening press conference<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t even aware of it. And that\u2019s what these people do, they try to slip by one under me. I really do think they are trying to keep me away from Dana because they know what\u2019s going to happen\u2026Obviously, I\u2019m not going to punch anybody but they\u2019re trying to keep everything from me and we all know Ryan Garcia is a Golden Boy fighter and this is a Golden Boy event, and this is a Zuffa event because Turki bought the event and he included Zuffa because obviously Conor is a Zuffa fighter now. And so, yeah, let\u2019s all work together and everything will be fine. Don\u2019t be afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his intention to take an active part in the promotion<\/p>\n
\u201cFront and center, I will be there. I cannot wait\u2026I\u2019ll be flying in and spending the whole two weeks promoting the hell out of it, making sure that it\u2019s a big event, making sure Ryan gets what he wants, what he deserves, and we\u2019ll take it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
On where his relationship with Ryan currently stands<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a talk the other day and it\u2019s great. It\u2019s good\u2026I know he said a couple things on your show and this and that, but we talked to each other, everything\u2019s great. We\u2019re going to make sure this event is big, we\u2019re going to make sure Ryan gets what he deserves, that he\u2019s treated the way he deserves, and make sure he\u2019s ready and prepared to go up and take the throne from Conor Benn. I mean, he has no throne but I\u2019m saying make sure that he goes out there 100% and beats Conor Benn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya joined Ariel Helwani\u2019s show to largely discuss what\u2019s going on with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-831575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}