On Tuesday afternoon, the
always…uh…shall we say, “entertaining” Oscar De la Hoya tweeted (@OscarDeLaHoya),
“Everyone wanting to be a boxing promoter? Good luck. Easier said then done.” The
timing of this message was a tad strange but perhaps it was directed at one 50
Cent, well-known crony of Floyd
Mayweather, who just recently took out a promoter’s license in
New York (and will be doing so in other states very soon).
By Wednesday night, it
seemed like “Fiddy” had caught wind of Oscar's tweets and responded with his own
barrage of tweets (and not necessarily in this order) toward the “Golden Boy”:
- “sweet heart I'm surprised you would respond
to me and Floyd starting company the way you did.”
- “I just want you to know if you ever want to
talk you can give me a call girl”
- “I don't gamble floyd do,but I bet you you
won't be promoting Floyd mayweather no more. TMT PROMOTIONS”
- “girl you can call me if you want to talk. Ok”
- “Baby girl,@oscardelahoya,baby girl you here me,stop hating
STOP IT RIGH NOW.”
- “now every body wants to be a promoter girl
you better stop.”
50 would reply, “Great back
pedal,can you swim backwards like that to girl?lol I except that as a apology.#GBB #TMT more
success a head.”
Two things here: first, I
can't believe I just did a story based on a bunch of tweets from two individuals
I don't even follow (welcome to covering boxing in the year 2012) but based on
his history, 50 (or if you want to be more formal about it, Curtis Jackson)
wasn't in this to just promote the likes of Yuriorkis Gamboa or Andre Dirrell,
who are talented fighters, no doubt. Second, the real money in this business is
in pay-per-view and Mayweather is the most lucrative pay-per-view franchise in
boxing and there is already a built-in audience from which to draw from.
Boxing, for 50 Cent, could
be another venture like Vitamin Water. Make an early investment and then cash
out.
The questions are just who
will run the actual infrastructure of TMT Promotions on a day-to-day basis and
will Al Haymon and Leonard Ellerbe still be involved? There are other questions
to be asked and the man who can best answer them is being released next week.
Isn't Twitter great?
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