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De La Hoya fights Saturday night against light-hitting Steve Forbes in what is scheduled to be the first of three fights before he calls it a well-done career by the end of the year. It's a homecoming of sorts for the fighter from East L.A., but merely an appetizer for bigger things later this year against the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr., and possibly Miguel Cotto.¹

Bart Barry of CBS Sportsline (boxing) has an interesting article about the future of Golden Boy Productions. While 2008 will be a huge year for them with De La Hoya’s fight Saturday, a rematch with Mayweather in September and a retirement in December, there are questions about how the company plans to make money after their one and only superstar stops competing.²

It will be an unprecedented super fight between two boxing superstars and former Olympians, an event poised to shatter records. Golden Boy Promotions announces, The World Awaits–six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya versus unbeaten, four-division world champion Floyd Mayweather–for the junior middleweight championship.³

Nothing against Forbes, but the only scenario in which this is a somewhat competitive bout is if De La Hoya doesn’t train properly and completely looks past this fight to his rematch with Mayweather. There is precedent for such a scenario.⁴

Meanwhile, the De La Hoya camp is furious that Trinidad pulled out of talks for a rematch to move up to 154 pounds to fight Reid. They have now decided that Oscar De La Hoya will try and regain a portion of the 147-pound title in his next fight, promoter Bob Arum said.⁵