Like so many celebrated boxers before him, including Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar “Golden Boy” De la Hoya (the one cowering against the ropes) just didn’t know when to quit. This, despite vowing that he would not ruin his legacy by entering one too many fights and being forced to end his career in punch-drunk stupor like them.
Well, he did just that. In fact, in a patently misguided attempt to cling on to, or to reclaim, his glory days, 35-year-old De la Hoya stepped into the ring on Saturday night in Las Vegas and got the kind of ass whooping he used to give journeymen fighters when he was in his prime.
I just don’t have it any more. My heart still wants to fight, that’s for sure. But when you physically can’t respond, what can you do? (Oscar De la Hoya)
Moreover, it could only have added insult to his injury that the person who finally forced De la Hoya into overdue retirement was not even a marquee fighter like Floyd Mayweather.
Instead, it was a little-known Filipino named Manny Pacquiao who ended things for De la Hoya, mercifully, by knocking him out in the eighth round.
But after De la Hoya was caught on camera last year posing in a wig, fishnet stockings and high heels, I knew his career was over and admonished him as follows:
Oscar insists that the photos are fake. But let’s see if he has the balls to tell that to a judge and jury by not only suing the woman who outed him but also every tabloid in the world that published the compromising photos. And, apropos balls, he’d have to have iron ones to ever set foot in a boxing ring again…!
[Oscar De la Hoya outed!…, The iPINIONS Journal, September 23, 2007]
Now, aside from the fact that he never sued the woman in question, De la Hoya’s performance on Saturday only reinforced the notion that his pugilistic (masculine) prowess has indeed given way to his perverted (feminine) proclivities….
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