De La Hoya Will Fight On.

Former six weight world champion and modern day boxing legend Oscar de la Hoya has decided to remain in boxing but at his more natural fighting weight of the 147-pound welterweight division. De La Hoya lost two of his high profile fights at welterweight to Felix Trinidad and then Shane Mosley. The move might rekindle the possibility of De La Hoya’s meeting with light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu as was first mooted in the mid-to-late nineties. Tszyu, at thirty-five years of age might seek another defining fight at welterweight being that he has already dominated the light welterweight class so thoroughly. De La Hoya tried to do the impossible in defeating middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins but apparently has realized the limitations of his physical self and decided to ply his trade again in the relative comfort zone of welterweight. Cory Spinks will inevitably be mentioned as a future opponent for both Tszyu and De La Hoya and when you factor names such as Zab Judah and Kermit Cintron into the mix, exciting times await the welterweight division.