Eddie Hearn Roasts De La Hoya: “He’s Lost All His Fighters”

Eddie Hearn grilled promoter Oscar De La Hoya in an interview, saying, “He’s lost all his fighters,” and his company, Golden Boy, is “Done.”

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Hearn was in reactionary mode in response to De La Hoya’s Clap Back Thursdays this week, in which he gloated about his fighter, Anthony Joshua, getting knocked out by Daniel Dubois last weekend and had Devin Haney join him in the crowd about his ticket issues.

De La Hoya says that Hearn doesn’t know how to build fighters, and that guys who signed with him will either lose or get hurt. Hearn believes that De La Hoya is bitter and hurt inside because he lost Canelo Alvarez and Jaime Munguia, two of his top fighters.

He also points out that Ryan Garcia is out for the rest of the year. Vergil Ortiz Jr’s recent fight against Serhii Bohachuk on August 10 did not sell many tickets at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.

Hearn noted that De La Hoya once again failed to take advantage of his Clap Back Thursdays to talk about his own fighters from Golden Boy in an attempt to promote them. It would obviously be the logical thing to do rather than use the valuable time to waste other promoters and their fighters.

“He’s just a weird guy, but we all need weird things in our lives. I don’t like people pretending to be so happy but actually burning inside with this silly voice he’s put on,” promoter Eddie Hearn told the Stampede groundsresponding to Oscar De La Hoya’s comments about him during his Clap Back Thursdays post.

“He’s lost all his fighters, and I think he’s hurting. Canelo is obviously gone. Jaime Munguia, he pretends he’s not gone, but he went to Top Rank. Vergil Ortiz, you saw his crowd against (Serhii) Bohachuk. Ryan Garcia is out for a year. Golden Boy is done.”

Canelo has been gone for a while now, but Ryan Garcia is now putting in the best numbers. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended him until April 2025. Munguia just lost to Canelo, and it’s unclear if he’ll ever be a star.

“He (De La Hoya) is still a character. I don’t take what he says too seriously either,” Hearn said. “I just think he has a lot of demons, Oscar. I just hope he’s okay. When he says, ‘Look at AJ, he fell. He doesn’t know how to build fighters.’ AJ is probably the best built fighter out of any fighter in our generation. Oscar is Oscar. That’s another week of not talking about his fighters, all of whom are basically irrelevant.”

Joshua has brought a lot of money into Matchroom and will continue to do so if he is carefully matched. It wouldn’t be a good idea to match him up again against Dubois or any other sluggers. Joshua is too fragile in the chin department to fight slaves at this late stage of his career.

“We met with His Excellency on Friday. I don’t think he’ll be annoyed if I say he wants to see the rematch,” Hearn said of Turki Alalshikh wanting to see the rematch between Joshua and Daniel Dubois.

Hearn should keep Joshua away from Dubois and focus more on matching him against Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk. These are two guys who don’t hit hard, and are still winnable fights for Joshua if he has the right game plan.

“Obviously, that’s our option to take, and it could very well happen. We’re going to think a little. Get his hand out, and get everything checked out, and we’ll see if it’s possible,” Hearn said of Joshua.