Billy’s Boxing Blog

On Wednesday morning I got the press release from Golden Boy stating Oscar De La Hoya would make his big announcement on Thursday. I quickly got on the horn to see if I could verify what the big news would be. After a few well placed calls I got the info I was looking for and relayed the message via email to our biggest fan Frank Boff. I then went to the other websites to see if anyone had a bead on the story and much to my dismay ESPN’s Dan Rafael already had the news locked in. I let Boff know and expressed my disappointment that I was beaten to the punch. Boff quickly wrote back with these kind words, “Fat Dan gets stories because ESPN is the most “legit” website and has a big readership. Promoters use him like a toilet to funnel what ever sh*t they want out there.”

With those words of wisdom I was able to swallow my pride and realize, if nothing else I was on the right track and could be happy that I was able to dig out the same info, even though I wasn’t spoon fed the news.

Throughout the remainder of the day I received calls that all came to the same conclusion, this was an event for the almighty dollar and had nothing to do with Oscar going out with a belt, there was no one who was pleased with his apparent opponent, Manny Pacquiao. To every man and woman, Pac appears to be just too small of a task for The Golden Boy.

The announcement will come today and if it is in fact Manny I have no doubt it will be a huge cash cow of an event, but will it seal Oscar’s legacy?

The jury is still out on this one.

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