Oscar De La Hoya has piled in on the Eddie Hearn debate by stating the U.Okay. promoter doesn’t know boxing.
Sizzling on the heels of Floyd Mayweather CEO Leonard Ellerbe, who additionally blasted Hearn’s capability to placed on fights in america, De La Hoya bemoaned the dealing with of Canelo Alvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol.
Ellerbe claimed the combat offered 120,000 Pay Per View buys on cable and satellite tv for pc and made solely 9 million {dollars} on the gate. Canelo’s contract with DAZN ensures him $34.5m per combat, which might have been a substantial loss.
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De La Hoya believes Hearn’s lack of ability and lack of expertise of the U.S. market injury the fighters he’s trying to work alongside.
“It was a lose-lose scenario,” De La Hoya mentioned. “No one knew Bivol in any respect.
“I might have promoted Bivol to get a much bigger title as a result of no one knew who he was earlier than he fought Canelo. He was irrelevant. He was no one.
“We have been truly going to face him in opposition to [Gilberto] Zurdo Ramirez, however Canelo has a promoter now who doesn’t come from the boxing world. He doesn’t know the combat recreation, and he bought Canelo beat.
“It was the unsuitable model. Las Vegas had no buzz in any respect.”
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On Hearn’s fame within the sport since making an attempt to interrupt America, De La Hoya added: “He’s a personality, that’s all it’s.
“The enterprise of boxing, to construct superstars, to construct champions, takes a number of technique. It takes a number of perception, understanding the fighters, understanding their kinds, and that’s one factor I’m an skilled at.
“Once I constructed Canelo Alvarez when he crossed the border from Mexico on the tender age of 18 years outdated, and I promoted his first combat, we had a imaginative and prescient.
“We knew precisely what we had in our arms. We constructed him to be a monster.
“Look, he’s doing a number of fights that imply nothing, particularly right here within the U.S.
“He is likely to be a very good promoter within the U.Okay. He’s constructing European fighters, however which means nothing right here within the U.S.
“I do know this can be a enterprise. He’s companions with DAZN, and clearly I’m companions with DAZN, however let’s simply keep in our personal lanes and do our jobs proper.
“Let me concentrate on the U.S. market and construct champions, and boxing will preserve thriving for a few years.”
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