Floyd Mayweather is a happily retired boxer by all accounts, yet his name is constantly a topic of conversation during major fights. This time Oscar De La Hoya believes that Mayweather will be back in the ring for not one, but multiples fights.
“No [I don’t believe he’ll stay retired], not at all. I strongly believe that he will fight a few more times. Not just once, but a couple of more times. I think he will wait until next year, maybe do the rematch with Pacquiao and then we’ll see what happens,” De La Hoya told Bloomberg.
“It’s all business for Mayweather. That’s all it is. His team…that’s the difference between our fight here on November 21st [between Cotto and Canelo]…it’s about passion, it’s about the fans, it’s about doing the best fight possible and that’s what the fighters will do inside the ring – is give you a war. It is about the business [for us as well], but it’s about the fight first.
Oscar has mentioned Mayweather more this week than his fighter, Canelo Alvarez. If Oscar would’ve devoted this amount of time to the Canelo-Cotto promotion it’d have a lot more hype.