Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya, 47-years-old, admits he was heavily inspired to return to the ring after watching Mike Tyson’s performance in November.
Tyson, 54-years-old and a former undisputed heavyweight champion, retired from the sport in 2005, and returned battled to an eight round draw with Roy Jones Jr.
He plans to fight again in the coming months.
De La Hoya, a five division world champion, has been discussing the idea of a comeback for months.
The “Golden Boy’ walked away from boxing in 2008 after suffering a one-sided TKO defeat at the hands of Manny Pacquiao.
Unlike Tyson, De La Hoya is interested in taking part in fully sanctioned fights against the very best – like IBF middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin.
But before he moves further in the direction of a comeback, De La Hoya wants to speak with Tyson to get his thoughts and life strategy on what it takes to make the full return swing.
“I’m thinking about it, yeah, absolutely. I do wanna talk to Mike Tyson about how he felt, just his philosophy on why he did it, how he did it — because he looked phenomenal. He looked great. For a guy who’s 54, 56 years old, he looked in amazing shape. Yes, his timing might’ve been off just a bit but he looked good. And so I was very happy for him and I would love to pick his brain on just the process, and how it took him to get to that mind frame, to the level,” De La Hoya told Fighthype.com.
“So we’ll see after that conversation how I feel. But yeah, I’m in shape, I’m actually running every single day. I feel great. I’m at about 169 right now, so I think I can get down to 154. So we’ll see.”