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Mayweather Jr. Answers Questions Two Dudes ‘Axe’ him About De La Hoya, Merchant, Ortiz and Pacquiao

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Anyone who ever complains about the growing number of MMA fanboys with URL’s and podcasts claiming to be journalists needs to listen to the clip above of two dudes, who are obvious fans of Floyd Mayweather, feeding the boxing champ softball questions. In fact, some of the questions aren’t actually questions at all, but at least we sort of get to hear what Floyd has to say about a few things.

One of the interviewers is a DJ by the name of “DJ Whoo Kid” and the other seems to be DJ WK’s hype man and FMJ’s biggest fan, given his numerous nuthugging statements like “Ortiz got exactly what he deserved after that headbutt.” He obviously wasn’t listening during the first half of the interview as he continually asks the exact same questions as Whoo Kid.

As a public service for those readers who can’t (or won’t) sit through the interview, check out the key points after the jump.

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Anyone who ever complains about the growing number of MMA fanboys with URL’s and podcasts claiming to be journalists needs to listen to the clip above of two dudes, who are obvious fans of Floyd Mayweather, feeding the boxing champ softball questions. In fact, some of the questions aren’t actually questions at all, but on the bright side, at least we sort of get to hear what Floyd has to say about a few things.

As a public service for those readers who can’t (or won’t) sit through the interview, check out the key points:

• Floyd says Pacquiao is irrelevant and can fight his leftovers

• He doesn’t know who or when he’s fighting next, but he’s downplaying a fight with Pacquiao even though the fans want to see it

• He says Pacquiao is afraid to “take the test,” which is a reference to Manny’s refusal to do weekly Olympic drug testing during camp for the bout

• He knew Larry Merchant wouldn’t give up pestering him about the “cheap shot” he hit Ortiz with

• Mayweather has no preference between Merchant and Max Kellerman because they’re “pretty much the same” and neither want to give him his credit

• He would prefer to see Lennox Lewis do post-fight interviews

• He believes that Emmanuel Steward, Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley want to find a fighter to beat him, but he says they would need to bring in a robot to get the job done

• Floyd isn’t worried about Merchant’s claim that he’d kick his ass if he was 50 years younger

• He blames Ortiz for the controversy since “somebody started it and [he] finished it”

• He says the ref called “time-in” and all of the kissing and hugging is unnecessary and is supposed to be reserved for after the fight

• He says Oscar De La Hoya is jealous of him

UFC News: Oscar De La Hoya Praises Dana White Regarding Deal with Fox

Former six-division boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya recently sung the praises of UFC President Dana White, mostly in regards to the UFC’s new television deal with Fox.Scott Christ of Bad Left Hook transcribed the entire interview from FightHubTV…

Former six-division boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya recently sung the praises of UFC President Dana White, mostly in regards to the UFC’s new television deal with Fox.

Scott Christ of Bad Left Hook transcribed the entire interview from FightHubTV.com, with Bloody Elbow’s Brent Brookhouse providing the MMA-relevant portions.

“The Golden Boy” pulled no punches when showing his love for the direction the UFC is heading in.

“First of all, I congratulate Dana White for doing an amazing job. My utmost respect to Dana White, I believe he’s a brilliant guy, he’s a tremendous person to have in a combat sport. I think they did an outstanding job in promoting the UFC, and look at where it’s at now.”

Despite De La Hoya’s enthusiasm for the UFC, he still showed some strong support for the sport of boxing.

“They struck a deal with Fox, which is amazing for the UFC, for MMA, my hat’s off to him. Boxing will be back on network television, I can feel very confident in saying that. Sooner than later, it will be back on network television.”

While the general consensus seems to be that boxing is a dying sport, De La Hoya explained why he still has faith.

“When you put good fighters together, people want to watch. And when you have any type of network behind boxing, you will create ratings. And it’s a matter of when, and we’re working that—with Golden Boy Promotions, we’re working on taking those next steps.”

De La Hoya also sung the praises of the Fertitta brothers, along with White.

“He’s been doing tremendous deals and this goes to show you that Dana White and the Fertitta brothers are brilliant. They know what they’re doing, and they’ve obviously taken it to the next step, to the next level. And who knows where the MMA’s gonna go? Sky’s the limit.”

For those not familiar, Frank Fertitta III is the younger brother of Lorenzo Fertitta, and is an owner of Zuffa LLC.

Just in case it wasn’t clear yet, De La Hoya said he’s a fan and supporter of White’s all the way, particularly because it can only help boxing in the long run.

“What Dana White has done has been amazing, outstanding. I salute him, and keep on doing a great job. And Dana White has done an amazing job. What that can do for boxing is just open doors, because it’s a combat sport. And I salute him.

“I believe he’s doing some big things. More power to him.”

De La Hoya hasn’t fought since suffering a round eight TKO against Manny Pacquiao back in December of 2008.

Meanwhile, the UFC on Fox series makes its debut on November 12. So far, the event has two blockbuster fights in Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos for the heavyweight title, and Clay Guida vs. Ben Henderson in a title eliminator fight at 155 pounds.

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Oscar De La Hoya Admits to the Drag Pictures, Booze and Cocaine

Source: WWTDD The New York Post reported that famed boxer and Golden Boy Promotions founder, Oscar De La Hoya gave an interview to Univision detailing his troubles surrounding the leak of his drag pictures taken.

Source: WWTDD

The New York Post reported that famed boxer and Golden Boy Promotions founder, Oscar De La Hoya gave an interview to Univision detailing his troubles surrounding the leak of his drag pictures taken with model, Milana Dravnel. In the interview, De La Hoya says:

“Let me to tell you, yes, yes, it was me [in those pictures]… I am tired now of lying, of lying to the public and of lying to myself.”

De La Hoya admits to paying Dravnel $20 million dollars to make the pictures go away… which is strange since we all already saw them so that sounds like a waste of money. But it was all part of his scheme to deny the pictures and claim they were manipulated photos. De La Hoya says he was high on booze and cocaine at the time the pictures were taken. He was admitted into a rehab center in May to get his life back together.

One of these nights when I was drunk and alone again, I asked myself, ‘Is it worth it to be alive?’ I was already feeling like I had nothing. And what is going through your mind are your children, your wife, the people who love you.”

So hopefully, Oscar De La Hoya has gotten his life in order and we won’t see any more embarrassing pictures of the fighter in the future, because he didn’t look all that great in women’s underwear…

Oscar De La Hoya Paid $20 Million to Buy Lingerie and Heels He Wore In Infamous Photos and To Make Model Who Took Them ‘Go Away’

(When you wake up with a bad hangover and the front page of The NY Times is emblazoned with photos like these of you, you know it’s about time for you to hit the Betty Ford Clinic.)

Fresh off of a recent stint in rehab, Oscar De La Hoya sat down for a cathartic interview on Univision’s “Aqui y Ahora” show this week in which the former boxing champ came clean on a number of things, including his alcohol and drug abuse, infidelity and the fact that the infamous photos of him in lingerie, fishnet stockings and high heels were real.

The New York Times now reports today that the boxer and Siberian model, Milana Dravnel who took the cross-dressing photos and later sued De La Hoya for $100 million for making her out to be a liar and accusing her of digitally adding his face to the images reached an out of court settlement for $20 million. Court documents obtained by the newspaper show that one of the stipulations of the settlement, that bound both sides to a confidentiality agreement, was that the outfit De La Hoya wore in the photos be returned to “The Golden Boy.”

(When you wake up with a bad hangover and the front page of The NY Times is emblazoned with photos like these of you, you know it’s about time for you to hit the Betty Ford Clinic.)

The New York Times now reports today that the boxer and Siberian model, Milana Dravnel who took the cross-dressing photos and later sued De La Hoya for $100 million for making her out to be a liar and accusing her of digitally adding his face to the images reached an out of court settlement for $20 million. An anonymous source from the court where the lawsuit was filed told the newspaper that one of the stipulations of the settlement, that bound both sides to a confidentiality agreement, was that the outfit De La Hoya wore in the photos be returned to “The Golden Boy.”

There’s no word as to whether or not he has worn the outfit since, but perhaps not coincidentally, around the time of the settlement JWoww joined the cast of Jersey Shore.

Oscar De La Hoya Admits to Alcohol and Cocaine Abuse, Suicidal Thoughts, and Infidelity [VIDEO]

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Usually we only bring up boxing when it involves Floyd Mayweather Jr. getting arrested or sued or talking shit about MMA. But we wanted to pass along Oscar De La Hoya‘s bombshell new interview with Univision, in which the boxing legend discusses the personal demons that have haunted him over the past few years. After entering treatment at the Betty Ford Center in May, De La Hoya is now three months’ sober, and in the process of rebuilding his life. Some highlights from the interview:

On his lowest point: “Rock bottom was recently, within a couple of years. Just thinking, ‘Is my life was even worth it?’ I don’t have the strength, I don’t have the courage to take my own life, but I was thinking about it.”

On substance abuse: “There were drugs. My drug of choice was cocaine and alcohol. Cocaine was recent, in the last two years, last two-and-a-half years. And I depended more on the alcohol than the cocaine. It took me to a place where I felt safe. It took me to a place where I felt like if nobody can say anything to me. It took me to a place where I can reach out and just grab my mom, who passed away when I was younger. I was dependent on those drugs.”

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On his lowest point: ”Rock bottom was recently, within a couple of years. Just thinking, ‘Is my life was even worth it?’ I don’t have the strength, I don’t have the courage to take my own life, but I was thinking about it.”

On substance abuse: ”There were drugs. My drug of choice was cocaine and alcohol. Cocaine was recent, in the last two years, last two-and-a-half years. And I depended more on the alcohol than the cocaine. It took me to a place where I felt safe. It took me to a place where I felt like if nobody can say anything to me. It took me to a place where I can reach out and just grab my mom, who passed away when I was younger. I was dependent on those drugs.”

On infidelity: “I don’t consider myself a sex addict. I’ve been unfaithful to my wife. I was unfaithful. [More than once], yes. We’re obviously not talking a Tiger Woods here, but I was unfaithful. It was filling the void of maybe not feeling loved to a certain point. It was filling the void of maybe not feeling safe.”

On rehab and recovery: ”Before I left Malibu, after seven weeks, I paid for another three weeks. It’s something I feel I have to do to keep me in check, [to] make sure that I’m jabbing ‘the monster’ you know, and keeping him at distance. We call it ‘the monster, it’s always there, it’s always there when you’re walking out the door, it’s always there behind you, shadowing you. And the more I’m prepared, the better I can fight this monster off. It’s the biggest fight of my life…I could put Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, [Fernando] Vargas, I could put all of my opponents in one ring and battle all of them, but this monster is gonna be the toughest fight of my life. But I’ll be ready.”

Semi-related: Five MMA Fighters Who Beat Addiction

Why MMA Is Becoming More Appealing Than Boxing, Purely from a Fan Perspective

Like many fight fans, I fell in love with boxing fan from an early age, and became progressively intrigued by the scintillating lure of arguably the purest sport on earth, which involved two men enclosed in a ring vis-à-vis, with a view to ultimately disconnecting his adversary from consciousness, thereby determining the better individual combatant. Isn’t this, after all, the very essence of all sport, the veritable embodiment of competition?

Then along came MMA and the UFC, which assured us that this is “as real as it gets”. Inspired by “Vale Tudo” tournaments in Brazil, the UFC and the sport of MMA have roots in the ancient Olympic combat sport of Pankration in 648 BC”. Indeed, the UFC showcased fighters of multiple disciplines in order to identify the most effective martial art in a real fight. Could anyone dispute that this was the purest form of existing combat, replicating true-to-life NHB combat scenarios? (ok, aside from the fact that most belligerent men in bars don’t wear spandex nuthuggers).

I believe that my route into MMA fandom is a rather conventional one, paralleled by a vast number of my contemporaries that pertain to the “MMA Community”. Of course there are those for whom boxing and MMA will forever prove mutually exclusive, to be adjudged in isolation, with those people liable to perceive my endeavour to compare and contrast the sports as sacrilege.

It is generally anti-MMA boxing fans that express such a grievance since this cohort invariably constitutes combat sports’ version of a “snob”, whist conversely MMA fans tend to simultaneously display an admiration for its pugilistic predecessor. This is neatly epitomised by spearheads of both sports, Bob Arum, Bert Sugar, Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta. Bob and Bert openly confess their distaste for the sport of MMA (though they harbour a respect for the majestic marketing of the UFC), whilst Dana and Lorenzo are self-professed boxing enthusiasts (Dana in fact instructed boxing before encountering MMA) who believe that both sports may coexist harmoniously.

For others boxing and MMA may be inextricably linked, falling under the bracket of “combat sports”. Many, like myself, will have been introduced to/encountered one sport through the other, having been enticed into MMA as a natural progression to an initial appreciation of boxing or vice-versa.

I would now like to return to the initial title and enumerate the multiple elements which have contributed to cultivating a sport in MMA that in my humble opinion is better to, and for, the fans than boxing. And, just to qualify this assertion, I am not contesting which sport is better per se (as this is wholly/holy subjective), nor am I arguing which sport is more popular (After all, the 16,412 fans that packed Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena for Pacquiao vs Mosley is nearly 1,600 more enthusiasts than the UFC has ever drawn to the same venue), but rather which is better to and for the fans, hence purely from an objective fan perspective.

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