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The feud between former boxing champions Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya continues to roll on with no end in sight.
Their disdain for each other goes way back, but resurfaced publicly at the end of 2015.
In a December open letter that appeared in Playboy, De La Hoya, addressed Mayweather's retirement from boxing by writing that the sport would be better off without his "boring" style of fighting.
"Let’s face it: You were boring. Just take a look at your most recent performance, your last hurrah in the ring, a 12-round decision against Andre Berto. How to describe it? A bust? A disaster? A snooze fest? An affair so one-sided that on one judge’s card Berto didn’t win a single round? Everyone in boxing knew Berto didn’t have a chance," De La Hoya wrote. "I think more people watched Family Guy reruns that night than tuned in to that pay-per-view bout. But I didn’t mind shelling out $75 for the HD broadcast. In fact it’s been a great investment. When my kids have trouble falling asleep, I don’t have to read to them anymore. I just play them your Berto fight. They don’t make it past round three. Another reason boxing is better off without you: You were afraid. Afraid of taking chances. Afraid of risk."
Mayweather fired back via a conversation with World Boxing News.
"I think he's jealous -- jealous," Floyd said. "The thing is this, I mean, you see Richard Schaefer is gone. Richard Schaefer built Golden Boy. Honestly, who wants to do business with Oscar De La Hoya? I really care about a fighter's well-being. I'm just saying if Miguel Cotto was my fighter, if Canelo was my fighter, they'd be a lot bigger than they are now."
Following Danny Garcia's win over Robert Guerrero on Saturday, January 24, Money May continued the verbal assault during an interview with FightHype.
"It's good to work with guys like Richard Schaefer and Al Haymon. Guys that's drug free," he said. "Guys that wear suits. Guys that dress like men. And of course, you know I'm sending shots at Oscar De La Hoya. 'Cause I'm always sending shots at him. 'Cause I don't respect a man that dress in drag."
The Mayweather Promotions boss was referring to De La Hoya's past drug problem and photos that surfaced on him wearing women's attire several years back.
UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor has also been a vocal critic of Mayweather because of comments he made attributing the Irish fighter's rapid rise to stardom as an example of racism in combat sports
Mayweather addressed that controversy as well.
"I never said that Conor McGregor was ... I didn't say I had anything against Caucasians or white America, or white people period, or Irish," he explained. "All I said is this. In this world racism still exists, but I'm not racist. That's all I said. And if he got offended, that's life."
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