Oscar De La Hoya Claims Death Threats Kept Him From Attending Davis-Garcia Post-Fight Press Conference
Oscar De La Hoya revealed he received death threats on Saturday which kept him from attending the post-fight press conference.
De La Hoya was attending the fight between Gervonta Davis and his fighter, Ryan Garcia. It was a massive fight and Davis won by seventh-round TKO due to a body shot. However, after the event, De La Hoya was missing from the post-fight press conference which he says is due to him receiving a death threat.
“As for myself…… my security team told me – ‘boss, we gotta get the f— out of here’ – because I received death threats. You guys don’t know this, I received death threats throughout the whole week and [my security team] just said it was simply too dangerous, so we got out of there. And plus, Eric Gomez, who is president, who was right there front and center with Ryan Garcia, so there was no issue, no problems,” De La Hoya said (h/t BoxingScene).
“This [talk about me and Hopkins] is all coming from all these PBC minions that are just attacking Ryan, attacking Golden Boy, but it’s all good,” De La Hoya added. “Ryan Garcia made this [fight] happen, Tank made this [fight] happen. We had a great fight. The best man won. My hat’s off to you. Tank Davis you’re a great fighter. Ryan Garcia, I have your back, Bernard has your back. We’re with you 1000% and you will be back better than ever, stronger than ever – guaranteed.”
Along with Oscar De La Hoya, Bernand Hopkins was also not allowed to attend the fight which De La Hoya says was PBC’s call.
“I do want to clarify why Bernard Hopkins and I weren’t at the post-fight press conference. First of all, Bernard Hopkins was accused during the weigh-in of having testosterone cream on his hands and touching Gervonta Davis. He only wanted to help him because he was going to fall off the stage. So PBC, Gervonta’s promoter, banned [Hopkins] from everything. He couldn’t get inside the ring, he couldn’t do anything during the promotion.”
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