Oscar De La Hoya suggests Canelo Alvarez vs. Ryan Garcia ‘down the road’ at a catchweight to settle their beef

Oscar De La Hoya, the Hall of Fame fighter and CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, has an interesting idea to one day settle the growing beef between pound-for-pound king Canelo Alvarez and unbeaten rising star Ryan Garcia: a catchweight meeting inside the ring.  

Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) will snap a 15-month layoff on April 9 when he faces fellow lightweight Emmanuel Tagoe (32-1, 15 KOs) at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The 23-year-old phenom, who has a massive social media following that includes 8.7 million Instagram followers, recently recovered from a wrist injury and canceled a return last summer for mental-health reasons, which he later admitted included thoughts of suicide.  

Nearly all of the headlines surrounding Garcia’s comeback, however, have centered upon his suddenly tenuous relationship with Alvarez after Garcia announced last month he was leaving trainer Eddy Reynoso and Team Canelo in favor of Joe Goossen. The soap opera only escalated in recent days when Alvarez criticized Garcia’s work ethic, leading to a lengthy Twitter response from the young fighter who, until recently, looked up to Alvarez as a mentor.

De La Hoya, who promotes Garcia and formerly served in the same role for Alvarez, was asked by CBS Sports on Tuesday to elaborate upon Garcia’s cryptic response about the real reason his fighter cut ties with Reynoso, a two-time trainer of the year.

“I don’t know, but I hope it’s a future fight against Canelo and Ryan Garcia in the near future,” De La Hoya said.  

While De La Hoya’s comments seem laughable on the surface considering Garcia competes at 135 pounds and Alvarez is the undisputed champion at super middleweight (and is moving back up to 175 pounds in May), “The Golden Boy” went out of his way to bring up the topic a second time when asked about the fallout of his messy 2020 divorce with Alvarez, whom De La Hoya began promoting in 2009. 

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