De La Hoya Likes the Competition

Oscar De La Hoya, still stinging from his controversial defeat against Shane Mosley on Sept. 13, was proudly, and defiantly, wearing his promoter’s hat on Tuesday.

The reason: De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, which will hold its first pay-per-view show Nov. 22 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, will go head up against two other boxing shows aimed primarily at Latino fight fans the same night.

And while the Showtime card in Houston will feature Rocky Juarez and Francisco Bojado, De La Hoya will compete directly against the man who promotes him as a fighter -- Top Rank Chairman Bob Arum -- as Arum will be promoting a KCAL9 card at the Arrowhead Pond.

“There’s food for everyone to go around, let’s put it that way,” De La Hoya said. “But in the future we do have to organize it better.”

On Oct. 4, Arum promoted a Latino-heavy card at Staples Center the same night that James Toney stopped Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas, saying that his audience would not be affected by the heavyweights. De La Hoya disagreed, saying audiences prefer good fights, regardless of ethnicity.

“I say it is selling the Latino fighter short, that’s my opinion,” he said. “The reason why I say that is that we shouldn’t be exposed to just the Latino crowd.”

De La Hoya’s first pay-per-view show features World Boxing Council super-bantamweight champion Oscar Larios of Guadalajara, Mexico; 2000 U.S. Olympian Jose Navarro of South Central Los Angeles and Javier Jauregui of Guadalajara.