Oscar De La Hoya insists Floyd Mayweather rematch bigger than Conor McGregor fight

Oscar De La Hoya believes a blockbuster rematch with Floyd Mayweather would break the PPV records previously set by Money’s fight against Manny Pacquiao in 2015.

The ‘Golden Boy’ of boxing also reckons a rematch would eclipse both his recent clashes with Conor McGregor and YouTuber Logan Paul.

Mayweather, 44, is currently set to face Dubai rich kid Rashed Belhasa – aka Money Kicks – in an exhibition bout later this month.

Speaking to DAZN, De La Hoya said: “Obviously, he’s [Mayweather] all about the money.

“This would be probably the biggest fight out there for him. I believe it would be bigger than him fighting McGregor. It would be bigger than him fighting Logan Paul or whoever he’s bound to fight next.

“I think that people want to see real fights. People want to see legend versus legend, champion versus champion. This is what we do.

“This is what we’ve done for practically all our lives. People, not that they’re getting tired of seeing these exhibitions, but people want to see real fights.

“They want to see real legends in the ring. Fighters like Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, and myself, we are real legends who put it out on the line and were in the ring for many years, fighting for world titles for decades.

“I strongly feel that a fight with Floyd would be massive, would be huge. That alone would attract Floyd Mayweather. I strongly feel a fight with me and Floyd can easily generate five million homes. 

“With all the technology, there’s so much that you can integrate in terms of publicizing the event, in terms of making it that much bigger.

“You now have the meta worlds, the NFT’s. You have that whole social media platform. It can be pretty big.”

De La Hoya, 49, was due to face Vitor Belfort in September but