If Ryan Garcia will get to struggle Sean O’Malley contained in the Octagon, Oscar De La Hoya hopes to snag a spot on the cardboard towards Dana White.
Throughout Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Garcia referred to as out the reigning UFC bantamweight champion, claiming that he would hand ‘Sugar’ an ass-whooping contained in the Octagon if given the chance. Quickly after, De La Hoya — Garcia’s promoter — stepped into the studio and angled for a chance to struggle the UFC CEO in some sort of a possible boxing vs. MMA supercard.
“I might truly entertain that as a result of Ryan can struggle in the primary occasion and perhaps I can [fight] Dana within the co-main” De La Hoya stated when talking about Garcia’s problem to O’Malley.
The feud between Dana White and Oscar De La Hoya dates again to 2017 when the UFC boss was in the course of co-promoting Conor McGregor’s conflict with Floyd ‘Cash’ Mayweather. De La Hoya stated the bout was “disrespecting the game of boxing,” which clearly didn’t sit effectively with White. In 2021, White referred to as De La Hoya a “crackhead” on X (then Twitter) and accused him of utilizing COVID as an excuse to bow out of a boxing match with MMA legend Vitor Belfort.
Since then, De La Hoya has prolonged an olive department to White, hoping that they might finally squash their long-standing rivalry. Requested about his relationship with the UFC CEO, ‘The Golden Boy’ informed Helwani:
“We’re cool. It’s all good. Nicely, I don’t know if we’re cool. I haven’t talked to the man. I’m good, however that doesn’t imply we will’t go at it.”
Dana White echoed the identical “we’re cool” sentiment in 2022 however made it clear that the 2 would by no means be buddies once more.
“I really feel like De La Hoya’s apology was honest, however there’s no approach that he and I can ever be buddies once more,” White stated throughout a fan Q&A with GQ Sports activities. “He and I had been truly buddies. I used to go to his fights. I used to look at his fights. I used to advertise his fights. That man did approach an excessive amount of injury for us to ever be buddies once more. I recognize his apology. I get it. We’re cool, however we’re by no means going to be that cool” (h/t Bleacher Report).
