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Remember that story we posted a few days ago about Bob Arum trying to structure the Floyd Mayweather Jr-Manny Pacquiao fight without Golden Boy Promotions involved? Yeah, well that got around to Oscar De La Hoya, and he’s not happy about it.

De La Hoya went on a Twitter rant late Tuesday night and called Arum a liar.

“Bob Arum please please stop lying to the public. Sit down with my CEO Richard and make the big fight happen. Before Manny asks questions.

“Hahaha Bob Arum is saying there are a bunch of investors he’s talking to try and make PAC vs mayweather. I can’t stop laughing.

“I talk about it so I can expose this guy to the fans who are demanding this fight. But it’s ok for him to lie behind the press?

“Bottom line is mayweather wants Pacquiao what’s the hold up? Bob”

To answer the last question, Arum reportedly is negotiating terms for the fight. He is really laying it on too. In a recent interview with Boxing Scene, Arum said he considers himself friendly with all the Mayweathers. Yeah, whatever Bob.

Even Pac Man reportedly said the deal is almost done. I don’t know if that’s the case, but Oscar’s rant just comes across as the desperate words of a man whose company is being left behind. Yahoo! boxing writer Kevin Iole told Oscar the same thing, but Oscar doesn’t care.

There’s a reason Arum has called De La Hoya one of the stupidest guys he’s met. But when it comes to his word against my word, I don’t mind people using their outlets to voice their side. The issue here is that Golden Boy has no leverage. Still, I always want to see Top Rank and Golden Boy working together because it’s better for boxing longterm.

Where do we even begin with this one? It may not seem possible, but Oscar De La Hoya could be more messed up than we thought.  We obviously knew he had some issues when he finally admitted to paying $20 million in hush money to cover up those disturbing lingerie photos that were floating around.  A recent NY Post story seems to indicate that De La Hoya wasn’t just dressing in drag and doing drugs — he was completely out of control.

New York model Angelica Marie Cecora came forward and gave an exclusive interview with the Post, every detail of which is worth reading if you’re into hearing about people being drugged out and sick in the head.  Cecora said De La Hoya contacted her through her modeling website and asked that she help him “relax” after he returned home from visiting troops in Iraq.  After initially lying about who he was, De La Hoya reportedly flashed his AmEx Black Card over dinner — during which he was drinking heavily — and asked that Cecora spend the night with him.  That’s when things got extremely interesting.

Cecora said De La Hoya was drinking heavily during dinner and ordered more booze to his room when they got upstairs — and that’s when he got freaky.

“He started to put my stuff on, my underwear. I had a skirt with me. He put that on,” she said.

“He was the exact same size as me. He fit into the tiniest pair of underwear that I had been wearing,” said Cecora, who has posed for Playboy and Maxim.

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Promoter Oscar de la Hoya was so inspired by 52-year-old Dewey Bozella’s win Saturday night that he joked about making a comeback.

“Bozella wins and has inspired me to make a comeback!!!!!” he tweeted Saturday night.

De la Hoya was joking, but some people took it seriously. Boxing writer Dan Rafael wrote a column on the subject and argued that de la Hoya should remain retired to avoid embarrassment. He even included comments from Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer who said Oscar has talked about a comeback.

Oscar then spent the day Sunday bashing Rafael for using the joke as a reason to rip the ex-boxer.

After we reached out to Golden Boy to confirm Oscar was joking, the boxer-turned-promoter sent out a few more tweets to confirm he was only kidding. Now we just need to make sure that Bozella isn’t so inspired by his win that he tries to fight again.

Oscar de la Hoya is out of rehab and apparently trying to cleanse his soul. He admitted in a recent interview with Univision that he cheated on his wife, though his qualifier was that it wasn’t on the Tiger Woods level. He also admitted that the infamous 2007 lingerie pics were him, as Alex pointed out to us in our Facebook group (make sure you join!). From the time the photos were released, de la Hoya denied they were him.

“Let me tell you, yes, yes, it was me (in those pictures),” De la Hoya said in the interview. “I am tired now of lying, of lying to the public and of lying to myself.”

It’s about time he admitted to them because everybody knew they were him all along. The juicy part is that the NY Post says Oscar paid model Milana Dravnel $20 million to keep quiet about the pictures. They also say she had to give back the heels, lingerie and fishnets from the session.

Paying $20 million to tell a woman to keep quiet on the pictures after they already got out? Man, maybe that’s why Bob Arum called him one of the stupidest people he’s met.

Back in May, Oscar De La Hoya shocked many throughout the boxing world when he admitted to having a drug problem and entered a rehabilitation program.  His drug and alcohol problems reminded many loyal fans that it can sometimes be impossible to tell what goes on outside of the public eye.

On Wednesday, Univision TV released an interview during which De La Hoya opened up about his substance abuse problems and relationship with his wife, among other things.  One portion of the interview that struck me as strange came around the 1:20 mark, when Oscar admits to cheating on his wife but notes that he is not on the same level as Tiger Woods.  Check out the Oscar De La Hoya drug addiction interview, courtesy of Sports Grid:

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Former boxer and current promoter Oscar De La Hoya has reportedly entered drug rehab to address a substance abuse problem. TMZ issued the report and had very few details, noting only that he had entered a facility in California. Our guess is someone working at the rehab facility leaked the information which would be an extreme violation of privacy laws, but would confirm the story’s accuracy.

The report that De La Hoya has entered rehab for a drug problem is extremely shocking. Known as the Golden Boy, Oscar has always had an extremely squeaky-clean image both inside and outside the ring. He’s been highly successful in his business ventures since ending his fighting career with his only misstep coming when pictures of him in drag emerged, though his people claimed they were fake.

If Oscar is indeed in rehab for a drug problem, that would confirm there’s much more about him the public did not know. And maybe that’s to what Bob Arum was referring when he hammered Oscar with disparaging comments in February.

LBS has reached out to Golden Boy Promotions for comment on the report.

UPDATE: Going through De La Hoya’s twitter feed, he’s had some curious yet pensive tweets recently that could be indicative of a struggle he’s endured.

On May 12th, he wrote in successive tweets
It’s impossible to hide the truth.eventually your sins will be exposed.
We are alive.that’s all we can ask for.
Stop feeling sorry for your self and start feeling alive for those around you.
Honesty with yourself makes life guilty free.
It’s never to late to stop hating everything around you.

UPDATE II: De La Hoya has confirmed he entered rehab, telling TMZ in a statement

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A shock was sent through the business side of boxing Wednesday when it was announced that Nonito Donaire would be leaving promoter Bob Arum’s Top Rank for Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. This is just the latest twist in an ongoing saga between the rival promotional groups, and there is little doubt it is a massive gain for Golden Boy.

Nonito Donaire is one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world and an emerging star in the sport of boxing. The 28-year-old has been moving up in weight class steadily and picking up fans along the way while posting a 26-1 record. The Filipino Flash’s most recent fight was an eye-opening second-round knockout of Fernando Montiel last month that rearranged his opponent’s face.

Donaire has speed, power, and size for a bantamweight. Whether or not he can become as big as Manny Pacquiao in terms of popularity remains to be seen, but we do know that Donaire is an emerging star.

That’s why his promotional sidestep is so significant for boxing.

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