Golden Boy wants to light up Brooklyn
After building a strong market in the West Coast, boxing legend and promoter Oscar De La Hoya traveled to Brooklyn this week to initiate the first step of what would be the reemergence of boxing on the
East Coast.
De La Hoya, the owner of Golden Boy Promotions, is reportedly planning to light up Brooklyn with a number of big-time fights, featuring some of the elite boxers in the world.
In fact, the Golden Boy Promotions already arranged a world class fight for boxing fans in New York last May, when Britain’s top-dog Amir Khan battled New York native and former welterweight champion Paulie
Malignaggi at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
Now, De La Hoya is looking to shift his attention on creating blockbuster matchups in the city of Brooklyn, specifically at Barclays Center – the future home court of the New Jersey Nets.
Aside from his promotional plans, De La Hoya is also interested to find new talents in the area and provide Brooklyn based boxers a chance to show their ability at the big stage.
"I feel that Brooklyn boxing deserves the opportunity to create champions, and when you see all these kids training at Gleason's Gym, you can see the glimmer in their eye," De La Hoya told the Associated
Press Thursday. "They want to be like us, they want to be world champions."
So far, Golden Boy has found hard-hitting middleweight prospect Daniel Jacobs, who previously held NABO and NABF championship belts.
Meanwhile, Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer bragged the promotional outfit will not stop until they discovered and developed numerous world class boxers in the borough.
De La Hoya is also considering an option to build an office in Brooklyn to further strengthen its rapport with homegrown boxers.
"Takeover is not the right word," Schaefer told the AP, when asked to describe the company's goals. "We're going to aggressively pursue any and all avenues."
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