Toward the tail end of the final press conference of the Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz trilogy fight, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya, in his labored speaking style, pleaded the case of why his main event fighters should get to throw down one last time, for our heard-earned cash, at the ages of 48 and 43, respectively. Using the 40-something success of George Foreman and Bernard Hopkins, De La Hoya, who retired from boxing at age 35, suggested that one never knows when greatness ceases to be.
“Nobody can tell you, ‘You should retire or you shouldn’t fight,’’ he said.