Floyd Mayweather explains his dislike for longtime rival Oscar De La Hoya.
It had been well-known for many years that boxing legends Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya don’t see eye-to-eye. After a 2007 fight between the two that saw Floyd win a split decision, the two men have been at odds over a wide variety of issues. De La Hoya retired not long after and is now one of the biggest promoters in the game with Golden Boy, while Mayweather has done extremely well essentially promoting himself.
In a recent interview on Mayweather’s preferred media outlet, FightHype, Floyd laid out why he thinks Oscar doesn’t like him and didn’t hold back about anything (transcription via Bad Left Hook):
“My thing is this. I just think that honestly, Oscar De La Hoya never liked me. I think he never liked me, honestly. He just thought that I was a loud mouth fighter that probably could fight a little bit and probably win a couple world titles. That’d be it. If you look at his boxing career, he jumped from trainer to trainer.
“My boxing career started in 1987. I’ve had two trainers…I’ve had two cutmen. I’ve had two trainers throughout my whole career — two cutmen, two trainers. You know but this is the same fighter [that wanted to fight like me]. The same fighter who wanted to fight just like me. You can pull up articles, and the articles will tell it all.”
Floyd then goes on to discuss Oscar calling him out on the domestic violence charges that Mayweather has been convicted of, and brings up Oscar’s well-publicized issues as a retort. He even brings up Oscar’s hypocrisy in regards to Conor McGregor:
“The same guy that calls me a woman beater, is this the same guy that was committing adultery? Is this the same guy? Is this the same guy who has admitted to being a cokehead? Is this the same guy who admitted to being an alcoholic? Is this the same guy that tried to stop the Conor McGregor fight? He tried to stop the Conor McGregor fight, now he wants to fight McGregor.
“Everybody that’s on here right now, pull up the photos. Google and pull up the photos of Oscar De La Hoya dressing in drag. Now one thing about me…if I was a young fighter fighting right now, fighting under Golden Boy, I couldn’t do it! I couldn’t do it!”
Finally, he addresses Oscar’s possible return to the ring and whether a rematch is in the cards:
“This motherf—ker don’t even got a million followers! First this motherf—ker better get a million followers.”