Oscar De La Hoya slammed for \u201cclassless\u201d reaction to Rolly Romero loss Associated PressBoxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya has been slammed for his \u201cclassless\u201d reaction to Rolly Romero\u2019s loss on Saturday. Romero lost his WBA super-lightweight world title to Isaac Cruz, who stopped the champion in the eighth round of their fight in Las Vegas. De La Hoya promotes super-lightweight contender Ryan Garcia and a potential world title shot against Romero was spoken about earlier this year. However, Romero, who is promoted by Mayweather promotions, opted to fight on Al Haymon\u2019s Premier Boxing Champions latest show and a fight never materialized. Romero, instead, defended his title against Cruz on the promotion\u2019s first show on Amazon Prime Video. After Romero lost his title on Saturday, De La Hoya, alongside fellow Golden Boy Promotions promoter Bernard Hopkins, was filmed laughing at his expense on Instagram with a message that read: \u201cWe just heard Rolly got stopped by a chihuahua LMAO.\u201d As such, Leonard Ellerbe \u2013 CEO of Mayweather promotions \u2013 hit out at the pair and dubbed them \u201cclassless\u201d for their reaction. \u201cWow, Rolly is OK but what if he wasn\u2019t and something tragic happened?\u201d Ellerbe tweeted. \u201cClassless behavior from two Hall of Fame fighters and promoters especially immediately after a fight in my opinion. Props again to Isaac Cruz and his team on a terrific performance.\u201d Cruz could well look to fight the winner of next month\u2019s huge fight between Garcia and WBC champion Devin Haney, while IBF champion Subriel Matias and WBO champion Teofimo Lopez also offer another chance of a unification fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oscar De La Hoya slammed for \u201cclassless\u201d reaction to Rolly Romero loss Associated PressBoxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya has been slammed for his \u201cclassless\u201d reaction to Rolly Romero\u2019s loss on Saturday. Romero lost his WBA super-lightweight world title to Isaac Cruz, who stopped the champion in the eighth round of their fight in Las […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}