{"id":783428,"date":"2026-09-26T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783428\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:56:07","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-names-the-one-fighter-from-this-era-hed-like-to-face-walk-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783428\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya names the one fighter from this era he’d like to face: “Walk in the park”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> has identified one modern great who, he suspects, would not stand a chance at winning their hypothetical mega fight.<\/p>\n

Once considered the \u2018face of boxing\u2019, De La Hoya crafted a Hall of Fame fighting career<\/a> before assembling a major promotional stable under his Golden Boy banner.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, he managed to become a six-division world champion and, in doing so, was generally embraced as one of America\u2019s biggest sporting stars.<\/p>\n

Such widespread attention eventually contributed to his money-spinning showdown with Floyd Mayweather, who managed to edge their super-welterweight contest by split decision in 2007.<\/p>\n

Back then, De La Hoya was no longer in his prime and, despite his controversial middleweight triumph against Felix Sturm<\/a> in 2004, was typically more successful in the lower divisions.<\/p>\n

If he was to choose any active fighter as an opponent, though, then it would nonetheless face Canelo Alvarez on a Cinco de Mayo weekend.<\/p>\n

With Canelo\u2019s best performances arguably arriving at super-middleweight, De La Hoya would perhaps be contending with a size disadvantage but, even so, the Mexican-American has told Carl Froch<\/a> that, stylistically and commercially, he could not wish for a more ideal dance partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this era, the only guy I would\u2019ve picked is probably Canelo. He\u2019s made a legacy for himself; he\u2019s had longevity in his career; he\u2019s been the face of boxing for quite a while now. So I think I would\u2019ve loved to take him on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would\u2019ve been a walk in the park. What I would\u2019ve done to Canelo is not even funny. His flat-footed stance would\u2019ve been so easy to just dissect. Do I knock him out? I don\u2019t know, because he\u2019s got a good chin. But do I outclass him? Yeah \u2013 look at what Mayweather did to him. Our era was just different.\u201d<\/p>\n

While others would certainly make De La Hoya a favourite against Canelo, the Golden Boy promoter\u2019s insistence on a dominant victory could be somewhat explained by his sour relationship with the four-division world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya has identified one modern great who, he suspects, would not stand a chance at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783428","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\/783428","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=783428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}