From one boxing legend to another, Oscar De La Hoya is pleading Floyd Mayweather to hang up the gloves for good.
Mayweather retired from professional boxing after he defeated MMA star Conor McGregor in 2017, bringing his perfect record to 50 wins. Although Mayweather never set foot in the ring again as a professional fighter, he has stayed busy doing exhibition bouts with celebrities and influencers.
Mayweather’s most recent one was on Aug. 24, when he went the distance with John Gotti III in Mexico City. The fight was ruled a no result, given it was an exhibition bout, so no scoring was involved. It was an uneventful fight that had no knockdowns and plenty of boos.
De La Hoya is not keen on Mayweather’s exhibitions, and would like to see him stop.
“Floyd Mayweather fought another exhibition against Gotti last Saturday, a real sh*t show that left the crowd booing in the arena at the end,” De La Hoya said on his Instagram. “In the middle of the second round, Floyd literally had the referee swapped out. He didn’t like that the referee told him to stop hitting behind the head. Floyd is used to having the refs do whatever he wants, and he wasn’t getting his way this time.
“It was so embarrassing. Floyd, you’re 50 years old. You’re a legend in this sport, and I’ve stood up for you in countless interviews, including Shannon Sharpe’s podcast last week. But you have to stop embarrassing yourself with these exhibitions. I know life i hard and life is expensive, but come one man, put your legacy first. Nobody wants to remember you like this.”
Mayweather has fought in eight exhibition bouts since retiring professionally from boxing. The multiple-time former champion hasn’t shown any intention of stopping these exhibition bouts.
De La Hoya and Mayweather share more than the boxing promotor space. The two fought back in 2007 for the WBC middleweight title in a blockbuster fight. Mayweather defeated De La Hoya via split decision.
Next thing you know he will be doing something embarrassing like posting party style photos in underoos
It is a slippery slope next step after exhibition bouts.
And all of ODLH’s fighters are pleading him to stop embarrassing them by shaking his wiener in a thong
Floyd never really took real damage his entire boxing career.
Now he makes serious spending money in retirement fighting exhibitions and taking zero damage.
He should continue as long as it doesn’t affect his health and people keep paying.
they are the maroons
Oscar is regularly drunk and high in public or on media. He cuts videos in a thong. He has plastic surgery. He mismanages fighters and feuds with active fighters and other promoters. He has also publicly discussed doing exhibition matches.
Why can’t we get a Mayweather vs Crawford exhibition?
You mean Dana ? LOL
Yes but he’s also fought publicly with Eddie Hearn and others. I love what Oscar did as a fighter and deeply respect his in the ring accomplishments. He ducked no one and took on every tough challenge most other fighters of his era would have avoided. But his actions are simply cringe inducing. He’s a bad parody of himself.
Oscar would do backflips from the amount of booger sugar he could buy if he was offered the kind of money Floyd is making to have these exhibitions which are little more than public sparring sessions.