{"id":682547,"date":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682547\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:42:07","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-names-the-fight-hes-working-on-that-everyone-wants-to-see-ill-make-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682547\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya names the fight he&#8217;s working on that &#8216;everyone wants to see&#8217;: &#8220;I&#8217;ll make it happen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a host of major fights in the works, Golden Boy Promoter <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/oscar-de-la-hoya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> has revealed his intention to bolster the boxing schedule and get one blockbuster event over the line, seeking to deliver the fight that \u2018everybody wants to see\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A number of showdowns are being touted at present, with the long-awaited meeting between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua set for the end of the year, whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/pacquiao-offered-route-to-title-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Pacquiao is also set to embark on a mission to break his own record<\/a> as boxing\u2019s oldest ever welterweight world champion.<\/p>\n<p>One other fight that has been in the pipeline throughout 2026 is <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/nelson-predicts-conor-benn-ryan-garcia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Garcia\u2019s mandatory defence of the WBC welterweight crown against Britain\u2019s Conor Benn<\/a>, with an announcement for the event being teased ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cn9qzz0l5d2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Benn\u2019s April win over Regis Prograis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet, De La Hoya, promoter of Garcia, had maintained that he had not been approached for the proposed bout, lowering expectations of a reported September 12 fight date in Las Vegas, which had been announced by Garcia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a surprise twist, De La Hoya has taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Daixg9cBIKl\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> to confirm that he is now actively working on the fight, vowing that he will make it happen despite previously believing that there was a lack of interest in the scrap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working on Ryan Garcia vs. Benn. I just got the memo today, that is the fight that everybody wants to see, so I am going to make it happen for you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it seems as though that September date could be back on the cards, with De La Hoya presumably now involved in Zuffa boxing\u2019s plans to stage the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a host of major fights in the works, Golden Boy Promoter Oscar De La Hoya has revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682547","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=682547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}