Friday, March 29, 2024  |

News

Aficianado

Oscar De La Hoya still longs to box, knows he can’t

Fighters Network
15
Sep

ARLINGTON, Texas – Oscar De La Hoya made a strange admission on Thursday. Though he’s been retired since 2008, he still misses getting punched in the face.

“That’s the one part of boxing that I really did miss,” De La Hoya told RingTV.com with a smile nearly the size of Texas. The Golden Boy, now CEO of his own promotional company, spoke in a side room at AT&T Stadium following a press conference for Canelo Alvarez’s title fight with Liam Smith on Saturday on HBO Pay-Per-View.

“It’s because when you get hit, something in your eyes happens,” he said. “You turn on this switch in you where you want to retaliate and your adrenaline is going. You want revenge.”

De La Hoya still has hunger pangs for the sport but the 43-year-old also has no misgivings about making a comeback. “I miss it every day,” he said. “But the great thing is I’m too old to get back in there. You could make an argument (that I can still fight). But believe me, I wouldn’t last two rounds.”



 

Struggling to locate a copy of RING magazine? Try here or…

SUBSCRIBE

rsz_001ring_11nov16_coverus

You can subscribe to the print and digital editions of RING magazine by clicking the banner or here. You can also order the current issue, which is on newsstands, or back issues from our subscribe page. On the cover this month: Sugar Ray Leonard

SIGN UP TO GET RING NEWS ALERTS