Lost in translation:
Oscar, you have pretty eyes
How many times did Joey Porter tackle Jerramy Stevens in the Super Bowl? Yeah, I couldn’t find any either. All that trash talking was so ridiculous and manufactured that it would have been the biggest farce of the Super Bowl if the officials hadn’t stepped in and made sure they were the jokes. (Well, let’s not go down that road again before Seahawks fans get angry.)
The reason I bring it up is that boxing is about the only sport where you can actually back up your trash talking with meaningful hits. Ricardo Mayorga and Oscar De La Hoya got into it during a press conference.
Mayorga fired the first salvo:
This clown sitting here to my right has disrespected me. He keeps saying that he’s going to be fighting in September or October, like he’s fighting a nobody in May.
I’m the champion. You’ve got to recognize that. My strongest hand is my right hand. You see his eye? I’m going to detach his retina.
De La Hoya responded by calling him an old woman and telling Mayorga multiple times that he was going to knick him out.
I really wish this had happened during the Shani Davis – Chad Hedrick news conference. Or perhaps Johnny Weir and any other ice skater.
