Hell Yeaaaa , cant wait :) check fightnews.com
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Oscar-Floyd is on for May 5!
Monday, November 13 2006
By Karl Freitag
http://www.fightnews.com/fightnews_2...lDjuxYmzG.html
Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather have reached an agreement to fight on May 5. The fight was finalized today. The bout will be promoted by Golden Boy Promotions. "We are not going to comment what the deal is," Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer told Fightnews.com. "It's a fair deal and if the pay-per-view hits the numbers which we anticipate it will, it will be new record payday for both guys.....It's going to be big. It's clearly the biggest fight in boxing and I think it's the kind of fight which will transcend and which will clearly capture the interest of the American public and the American sports fans, because it is Mayweather pound-for-pound number one fighter in the sport against Oscar, the most popular and biggest name in the sport. Actually I was looking today at Oscar's trophy case in our office and I was standing in front of one of the belts which was a ring belt that had 'Oscar De La Hoya, pound for pound' on it, and it was 1997. So here we are ten years later and the question is, can he do it again?"
"Oscar realizes this is a dangerous fight," continued Schaefer. "He realizes that he's going in as the underdog, but this is what exactly motivates him, this is what gets him going, this is what he is about and what his entire career is all about. Always going for the biggest challenges. I think that was what his active career was that what he'll be remembered for. The guy who always took on the biggest and the best."
no prizes for second ;D
but yeh great news... so far...
I fink mayweather is going to anhilate oscar. I wudnt be surprised if he got a late stoppgae. Providing his hands hold out.
One thing that i hope people remember about ODLH is that he did take everybody on and ducked nobody! It's GREAT to see someone like that in boxing now days.