Oscar De La Hoya calls for Floyd Mayweather rematch and says it would sell twice as many pay per views as Conor McGregor fight

Oscar De La Hoya wants a rematch with Floyd Mayweather and he believes it will be one of the biggest fights in the history of boxing.

In fact, he thinks it will be bigger than Mayweather’s crossover fight with Conor McGregor and it would reach five million homes - more than double the McGregor fight.

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Former four-weight world champion FMayweather is preparing to fight YouTuber Money Kicks in Dubai this year but De La Hoya would like the chance to write a second chapter of their story after their first fight in 2007 saw Mayweather win via split decision.

Speaking to DAZN, De La Hoya, 49, said he thinks Mayweather can be tempted by the money involved.

“Obviously, he’s [Mayweather] all about the money,” the former three-weight world champion started.

“This would be probably the biggest fight out there for him. I believe it would be bigger than him fighting McGregor. It would be bigger than him fighting Logan Paul or whoever he’s bound to fight next.

“I think that people want to see real fights. People want to see legend versus legend, champion versus champion. This is what we do.

“This is what we’ve done for practically all our lives. People, not that they’re getting tired of seeing these exhibitions, but people want to see real fights,” De La Hoya reasoned.

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“They want to see real legends in the ring. Fighters like Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, and myself, we are real legends who put it out on the line and were in the ring for many years, fighting for world titles for decades.

“I strongly feel that a fight with Floyd would be massive, would be huge. That alone would attract Floyd Mayweather. I strongly feel a fight with me and Floyd can easily generate five million homes. 

“With all the technology, there’s so much that you can integrate in terms of publicising the event, in terms of making it that much bigger.

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“You now have the meta worlds, the NFT’s. You have that whole social media platform. It can be pretty big.”

De La Hoya was meant to face Vitor Belfort last September, but a bout of COVID kept the boxing legend out.

Although he’s back in training, De La Hoya admits he has been feeling some after-effects of COVID and doesn’t know whether he will fight again.

But it sounds like a big payday with Mayweather would be enough to tempt him.

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