Don’t know if this was already known but it’s posted today on Skysports site.
Maybe someone at SkySports has considered there may be boxing fans in the UK??
Look forward to a top event live on British telly!
[b]SEE BEAUTY TAKE ON THE BEAST… LIVE!
The Golden Boy of boxing will usher in a golden period of boxing on Sky Sports.
Oscar de la Hoya’s first fight in 18 months - against wildman Ricardo Mayorga - will be brought to you live in the early hours of Sunday, May 7.
It kicks off a magical month here on Sky Sports, with Ricky Hatton’s WBA welterweight title challenge against Luis Collazo, Clinton Woods’ world title defence against Jason DeLisle and Esham Pickering’s crack at IBF featherweight king, Valdemir Pereira, all following hard on its heels.
And there will be much more for fight fans to cheer over the coming weeks, although if the pre-fight talk is anything to go by de la Hoya’s match-up with Ricardo Mayorga will be hard to beat.
Mayorga, who has been known to step onto the scales with a beer in hand and celebrate success by sparking up a cigar in the ring, has been doing his best to rile the man with the golden touch and gleaming Hollywood smile.
Not content with aiming a cuff at the back of de la Hoya’s head in a press conference, the Nicaraguan has accused him of taking a dive in his last fight, the middleweight unification clash with Bernard Hopkins.
It has stirred something in the Golden Boy, who has vowed to make Mayorga pay for his antics by knocking him out cold.
Not surprisingly for the only man to win world titles at six different weights, de la Hoya will start as favourite.
He is stepping back down to light-middle having ventured up a division and has already taken care of Shane Mosley and Fernando Vargas at 154lbs. Inactivity and age are not on the 33-year-old’s side, but with 28 out of his last 29 fights being for recognised world titles, he is no stranger to the Las Vegas spotlight.
Mayorga has only fought twice in the same period, but comes to the MGM Grand with two defeats in his last four bouts, against the class of Felix Trinidad and Cory Spinks - the latter seeing him deducted a point for hitting after the bell and for holding and hitting.
It promises to be a real beauty and the beast clash for Mayorga’s WBC light-middleweight belt - and it is coming to you live only on Sky Sports.[/b]
http://www.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,12-1219134,00.html
