De La Hoya has a decision to make

” The issue all along, Oscar De La Hoya understood, was not what he would do with Ricardo Mayorga on May 6 but rather what he’d do on May 7, after he was finished with him. That remains the question today, although anyone who has watched De La Hoya for long assumes he knows the answer to that just as he knew the answer all along to Mayorga’s angry riddle.

It took barely a minute for De La Hoya to make clear to Mayorga that his foul-mouthed pre-fight insults and vows of a violent end to their impending confrontation had fallen on deaf ears. Refusing to back up or use his speed and smooth footwork to slip away when Mayorga charged from his corner of the MGM Grand Garden Arena to open the first round of their WBC junior middleweight title fight, De La Hoya elected instead to hold his ground, ducking and slipping one wild bomb after another while calmly waiting, like the mongoose, for the mistake he knew was coming.”

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