With the big fight coming up, it's time to take a look
at the Mayweather De La Hoya betting odds.
The Golden Boy taking on the Pretty Boy in what will be
one of the biggest fights in boxing history. De La
Hoya has always been a huge draw, with a non-heavyweight
fight record of 1.4 million buys when he took on Felix
Trinidad in 1999. With six months to market and
promote this battle, you can expect the buys to approach 2
milliions, which would be a boxing record. The fight
will be on May 5, 2007 on HBO PPV. De La Hoya comes
into this bout at 38-4 with 30 KOs, while Mayweather is a
perfect 37-0 with 24 KOs. Both of these fighters
have hinted at retirement after this fight, but it appears
more likely that Mayweather, who wants to go out on top,
will give it up than De La Hoya. Oscar is a great
business man and he'll probably earn a significant amount
more than Floyd will in this fight (i'ts reported
Mayweather will get $10 million and Oscar $25 million) , and he isn't going to
want to turn away these large purses when he's in good
health.
De La Hoya is putting his belt on the line, but this means
that Mayweather is going to have to move up in weight
from 147 pounds to 154. If Mayweather can take
Oscar's belt, this will mean he has held titles in five
different weight classes over the course of his career.
Another key factor in the fight will be the Floyd
Mayweather, Sr. factor. He has been De La Hoya's
trainer for quite some time but Oscar only wanted to
give him $500,000 up front and an additional $500,000
for a victory. Senior wanted a straight $2 million
but when he was denied he made up with his son and now
will be in his corner for the fight. We'll see
what this means for the fight on May 5th and if we can
cash in with our
Mayweather
De La Hoya betting.
