Famed boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya decided to step into the MMA game and challenge Dana White and the UFC last month. It did not go well. With his Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz PPV promoted under the Golden Boy MMA banner reportedly only doing 25-30k buys, it’s pretty easy to point at the event as a failure.
But according to De La Hoya, that’s because PPV is suddenly dead.
De La Hoya and White have been bantering back and forth for a while, and White summed up his side of things at the UFC 232 press conference:
”It started with him telling people not to watch Mayweather vs.