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De La Hoya, Mayweather Start Promo Tour

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:21:46 PM
By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.

 Boxer Oscar de la Hoya, left, raises his dress shirt after future opponent Floyd Mayweather stripped down to his bare chest as the pair posed together for photographers during a news conference announcing their upcoming May 5th fight for the junior middleweight championship in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. The fight between the two former Olympians, six-division world champion de la Hoya and unbeaten four-division world champion Mayweather will be held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)NEW YORK (AP) - It was Oscar De La Hoya's turn to take the podium, and he could hardly get a word in. Floyd Mayweather Jr. was busy yelling back at rowdy fans, posing for pictures and doing everything he could to annoy De La Hoya.

It's The Golden Boy against the Pretty Boy — and, boy, what a scene it was.

"This guy has been under my skin for a while," De La Hoya said Tuesday at the Waldorf-Astoria. It was the first stop of an 11-city promotional tour in advance of their highly anticipated super welterweight title fight on May 5 in Las Vegas.


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