NEW YORK (AP) – Oscar De La Hoya is not through with boxing or Sugar Shane Mosley quite yet.
“I’m definitely going to fight again, that’s for sure,” De La Hoya said Wednesday. “I will box again. There will definitely be a rematch with Mosley.”
Six weeks after losing the WBA and WBC 154-pound titles to Mosley, De La Hoya said he wanted a chance to reverse that outcome. He had said before the fight that he would retire if he lost.
Mosley won an unanimous decision but De La Hoya was outraged by the outcome and demanded an investigation. He has backed away from that.
“A decision is a decision,” he said. “They can be wrong at times. People make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. I landed over 150 more punches and didn’t get the decision. The public knows who really won. As long as the public knows who really won, that’s all that matters.”
It was De La Hoya’s second loss to Mosley, and after the fight he sounded like he wasn’t interested in a third match. Now, that apparently has changed.
De La Hoya made the comments Wednesday during a news conference to introduce him as an Olympic boxing commentator for Telemundo Sports, the Spanish language network owned by NBC. He will also contribute to NBC’s coverage of the games in Athens.
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