OSCAR DE LA HOYA said a rematch with Floyd Mayweather would sell a record-breaking 5MILLION pay-per-views.
Mayweather in 2007 beat De La Hoya in a fight that produced a then-record 2.4m PPVs.
The American legend then eight years later topped the all-time box office buys following his win over Manny Pacquiao, which sold 4.6m PPVs.
But De La Hoya claimed a rematch with Mayweather – despite their pair both being retired – would smash that number out of the park.
He told DAZN: “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 publicising 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, 48, hung up the gloves in 2008 after being dominated by Pacquiao, 43, the Filipino icon who retired himself last year.
But the Golden Boy in March 2021 announced he would make a boxing comeback and later last year signed to fight Vitor Belfort, 44.
In the end, De La Hoya pulled out after being hospitalised following a brutal bout with Covid.
Mayweather a few months earlier had also returned to the ring in an exhibition with YouTuber Logan Paul, 26.
And he is now in talks with 20-year-old vlogger Money Kicks – real name Rashed Belhasa – for a February 20 exhibition on a Dubai HELIPAD.
But De La Hoya slammed the farcical fight, and called for Mayweather to fight him instead.
He said: “Obviously, he’s 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.”
