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Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya didn’t appear to love what UFC president Dana White needed to say on Friday in regards to the 47-year-old’s probabilities in opposition to Conor McGregor in a proposed crossover boxing battle.
De La Hoya blasted White as “fortunate” and simply an “aerobics instructor”.
De La Hoya had been telling anybody who would hear during the last two years that he’d cease McGregor in simply two rounds in a boxing ring, however after McGregor accepted De La Hoya’s problem earlier within the week, De Le Hoya subsequently appeared to again off the thought.
White was requested by the UFC 249 media in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday about De La Hoya’s prediction, and the UFC president laughed McGregor vs. De La Hoya off.
De La Hoya will need to have seen that video or examine it as a result of he went ballistic through Twitter quickly after that video made the rounds on social media.
De La Hoya tweeted on to White, “you're such a little bit b*tch, by no means laced a glove apart from being a field aerobics instructor. The Fertitta brothers are those who constructed the enterprise and also you had been fortunate sufficient to only have 10% of UFC.”
De La Hoya gained the gold medal as a light-weight for the U.S. on the 1992 Summer season Olympics in Barcelona and adopted that up by profitable 10 world titles in six completely different weight lessons as an expert boxer between 1992 to 2008.
One of many high pay-per-view sellers in boxing historical past, De La Hoya retired after being stopped by Manny Pacquiao within the eighth spherical in 2008. However De La Hoya was one in every of his era’s hottest fighters and completed his stalwart boxing profession with a file of 39-6 with 30 knockouts.
Since 2002, De La Hoya has been the top of Golden Boy Promotions, one of many high boxing promoters within the sport.
De La Hoya vs. UFC?
It’s been a busy day for De La Hoya, at the very least when it comes to his run-ins with high-profile UFC figures.
First, it was Conor McGregor, who De La Hoya tweeted about after McGregor accepted De La Hoya’s two-round knockout prediction as a problem and accepted it.
“For the file: McGregor, I by no means challenged you,” De La Hoya stated through Twitter. “I used to be simply requested a query and I merely spoke the reality…”
Hours later, after all, De La Hoya went after White.
It looks like Friday was De La Hoya vs. UFC day, at the very least within the Corridor of Fame boxing champion’s thoughts.
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