Twitter me this! If a tweet is uttered with no followers, does it make a peep? I was just wondering because moments ago, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya took time out of his busy schedule to fire some shots at promoter Bob Arum via his Twitter account, despite the fact that Arum has no Twitter account of his own to see the comments or even respond. Sending out a message to his 17,000+ followers, De La Hoya posted the following Twitter update, "People who don't realize bob arum is hurting the sport are so naive." Evidently, De La Hoya is going on the offensive, sort of, to enlighten fans about the harm that Arum is doing by preventing certain fights with Golden Boy fighters from taking place.
"I love boxing so much that I'm going to promote till I die my fans I promise golden boy will deliver the best fights," he would post immediately after in a second tweet before following that up with another post that read, "Thanks my peeps boxing is suffering and fights are not being made because of him." One can only assume De La Hoya is referring to the difficulties they seem to be having with securing a third bout between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao.
Fair enough. I do agree that the feud between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions isn't exactly helping the sport. That being said, I don't know if it's hurting the sport either, and I definitely wouldn't place all the blame on Bob Arum. Someone should remind De La Hoya that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. After all, it was Golden Boy Promotions that expected fans to shell out $44.95 to watch Shane Mosley, who was fresh off of a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision loss to Floyd Mayweather, move up in weight to face former Contender star Sergio Mora, who, by the way, didn't even make weight for the bout, coming in 3 pounds over the 154-pound limit. It was also Golden Boy Promotions that wanted fans to drop $49.95 to see the long-awaited rematch between aging legends Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr., who was fresh off of a 1st round TKO loss to cruiserweight Danny Green.
Granted, although I wasn't exactly thrilled about Manny Pacquiao fighting Antonio Margarito or Joshua Clottey, those two events were far more worthy of being on pay-per-view then Mosley vs. Mora and Hopkins vs. Jones II. So before De La Hoya continues to call the kettle black, perhaps he should look in a mirror and ask himself what exactly is he doing to help the sport, because complaining about Bob Arum behind his back on Twitter isn't exactly going to start solving any of their problems. I'm just sayin'!
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