{"id":549123,"date":"2026-04-24T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:39:07","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-admits-he-would-consider-comeback-under-one-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549123\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya admits he would consider comeback under one condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six-division world champion and Golden Boy Promoter Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> has not fought since 2008 but has revealed that he would be willing to make a return for one man.<\/p>\n

De La Hoya is a modern pound-for-pound legend, being one of just two six-division champions in the history of the sport \u2013 joined by Filipino fan-favourite Manny Pacquiao, who reached eight, in that extremely elite club.<\/p>\n

Whilst De La Hoya has moved into the promotional side of the sport, \u2018Pac Man\u2019 recently made his professional comeback, as he challenged Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight world title last July in an attempt to break his own record as boxing\u2019s oldest 147lbs ruler.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao could only muster a draw in that fight, but is now set for an even bigger fight \u2013 at least in terms of money \u2013 having signed for a rematch with Floyd Mayweather, who famously defeated him in \u2018The Fight of the Century\u2019 back in 2015.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether that bout could impact Mayweather\u2019s famous 50-0 record or not, with \u2018TBE\u2019 seemingly looking to change the fight contract to an exhibition bout despite signing for a sanctioned contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Should that fight go ahead in September and Mayweather come out on top once again, De La Hoya told FightHype<\/a> that he would also be willing to rematch Mayweather.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a fighter. I will always be a fighter. If Mayweather beats Pacquiao, Floyd, you owe me a rematch! Let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayweather defeated De La Hoya via split-decision to claim the WBC super-lightweight world title in 2007, with De La Hoya still maintaining that he deserved the victory in that fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-division world champion and Golden Boy Promoter Oscar De La Hoya has not fought since 2008 but has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-549123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}