Oscar de la Hoya: Larry Merchant's $5-million comment "ridiculous"

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    http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/golden-boy-rebuffs-merchants-claim-15943
     
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    Merchant is an idiot.
     
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    indeed. He feels so threatened by the popularity of MMA. He's a boxing purist who isn't open to other forms of combat sports.
     
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    http://mmajunkie.com/news/13835/was-oscar-de-la-hoya-really-paid-5-million-to-attend-affliction.mma
     
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    Merchant has backed off of his claim (Sherdog.com):

     
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    At the end of the article Merchant agreed to attend an Affliction MMA event to the tune of $100,000.

    Affliction might actually do it the way they burn through money.
     
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    Dana White claims that while the $5-million figure Merchant threw out is bunk, he knows that Affliction paid Oscar 20% of their PPV revenue to involve Golden Boy in the event. So for those keeping track, that's 50% to the PPV provider, 20% to Golden Boy, and another percentage to Fedor's camp.

    Apparently Affliction isn't interested in money--which is good, because soon they won't have any to worry about.
     
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