‘Boxing media have been paid off’: De La Hoya goes off on Reynoso, Canelo vs Crawford, Dana White and more

Oscar De La Hoya sounds off on the whole Canelo vs Crawford event.

Oscar De La Hoya continues to express his bitterness towards a number of folks in the boxing industry, starting with the boxing media at large, Canelo Alvarez’s trainer Eddy Reynoso, and moving on to Dana White as he’s obviously frustrated that Turki Alalshikh chose White to lead the promotion of Canelo vs Crawford over himself. Here’s some of what De La Hoya had to say below.

“I actually did some digging and confirmed many members of the boxing media have been paid off by certain people and essentially muzzled,” De La Hoya said. “I mean, these are the facts. For example, six of Eddy Reynoso’s fighters have tested positive for PEDs, the latest being Jaime Munguia two weeks ago. Six fighters and no one is questioning this? This doesn’t seem suspicious or out of the ordinary to you?

“We just accept the explanation of ‘everyone is eating tainted meat’? Come on, Jesus Christ. Doesn’t this warrant an investigation into Eddy’s camps? I mean, look, I’ve known Jaime for over 10 years and he always tested clean up until his last camp with Eddy and his fight in Riyadh. How is it ethical that you have six fighters testing dirty from the same camp and we don’t have questions and consequences? Where’s the boxing media?

“I mean they crucified Ryan Garcia every f-ckin’ day for a year over a tiny bit of ostarine. So why are they so quiet now? I don’t know man but when something stinks it’s usually sh-t. I’m so disappointed in the media who I treated like gold for 30 years. I didn’t realize you guys could be bought that easily.

“Now what the media is reporting and it’s circulating is that Canelo vs Crawford is the biggest fight of the decade. I mean to a purist and a fighter [like myself] it’s laughable because you have Crawford jumping up two weight classes to fight Canelo who’s a natural light heavyweight. Crawford who couldn’t push back Madrimov? Life and death with Madrimov! What do you think Canelo’s going to do to him, run him out of the ring!

“You know what’s laughable also, Dana White being named the promoter of this fight considering he’s never been in the boxing space, has no stable of boxers. He didn’t negotiate sh-t, and is being handed this fight on a silver platter and called ‘promoter.’ He’s the trust fund baby of boxing. That’s it.

“And get this — the fight will take place during the day of September 13 in Las Vegas, during the day! So Canelo will fight during the day on Netflix just to accommodate UFC Noche later that evening on a different network. So does that mean this fight isn’t important?

“Oh, and Dana, now you’re turning your back on the UFC? I mean we all know you’ve been trying to get into boxing for years. On your own you couldn’t do it. Remember Zuffa? Oh, but now that Daddy Turki has negotiated a big fight and he paid for it you’re seriously proud to be the trust fund kid pretending to be the face of this fight? I mean, this whole thing is a sh-t show. Aren’t you embarrassed?”