‘There’s a lot of options’: Oscar De La Hoya talks future for Floyd Schofield

Wil Esco is an assistant editor of Bad Left Hook and has been covering boxing for SB Nation since 2014.

Immediately following his decision win to claim a world title over the weekend, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya talks about Floyd ‘Kid Austin’ Schofield’s performance over Lucas Bahdi and how he’ll be looking to position him going forward. Here’s some of what he had to say when rating Schofield’s showing.

“I give him an A, considering Bahdi is probably the biggest puncher at 135 pounds,” De La Hoya said. “So I can understand the boxing, I can understand the moving, this and that, but what Kid Austin did tonight, they executed perfectly by boxing, by almost even knocking out Bahdi in the first few rounds. But it was a great fight, and that’s what championship fight is all about — the No. 1 and No. 2 fighting and fighting for that belt.

“There’s a lot of options [for Schofield]. He can fight [William] Zepeda in house, we can go after [Abdullah] Mason who is another good fighter who Top Rank has. So, there’s a lot of options, so we’re going to go back to the drawing board and see what Kid Austin wants to do and we’ll take it from there.

“I think him and Zepeda would be the big fight to do. I mean, Zepeda looked like a beast in his last fight. It’ll be interesting because Zepeda doesn’t have the power like Lucas Bahdi but he has the punch output which can make for a great, great, great fight. So we’ll see what happens.”