NO COMPROMISE, NO FIGHT DE LA HOYA-VARGAS NEGOTIATIONS ARE ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE.Byline: Michael Rosenthal Assistant Sport Editor Neither side will blink. That means the on-again, off-again on-a·gain, off-a·gain adj. Informal Existing or continuing sporadically; intermittent or occasional: an on-again, off-again correspondence. Oscar De La Hoya-Fernando Vargas fight on May 4 is off for the foreseeable future barring an 11th-hour change of heart. De La Hoya La Hoya is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 30 inhabitants. has made what his handlers call their final offer - $5 million and a percentage of revenues, with an extra $1 million going to the winner - and has waited for Vargas to accept. They're still waiting. Vargas' promoter, Gary Shaw
``That deal will not happen,'' he said with anger. ``... I believe that fight will make over $20 million. We're not going to do a deal for $5 million. How would I explain that to Fernando? ``If they don't change, there's no fight.'' Shaw said he will open negotiations to have Vargas defend his WBA WBA West Bromwich Albion (English Soccer Club) WBA World Boxing Association WBA Weekly Benefit Amount WBA Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (Madison, WI) WBA Wireless Broadband Access junior middleweight title against tough, but relatively unknown Mamadou Thiam. However, he won't say the De La Hoya fight is dead. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that the public is excited about Fernando fighting Thiam or De La Hoya fighting Roman Karmazin,'' Shaw said. ``I can't put Fernando's career on hold while (De La Hoya's promoter-to-be Bob) Arum arum, common name for the Araceae, a plant family mainly composed of species of herbaceous terrestrial and epiphytic plants found in moist to wet habitats of the tropics and subtropics; some are native to temperate zones. plays with me. ``If they want to make a deal, they know my cell number, they know my office number, they know my home number.'' Earlier in the day, Arum, who has agreed in principal to reunite with De La Hoya, was optimistic an agreement with Vargas could be reached. He believes the prospect of fighting Thiam - and earning a fraction of the money he'd make against De La Hoya - will bring Vargas and Co. to their senses before it's too late. ``They don't have an alternative,'' Arum said. ``... The one thing I can say about (Shaw's) Main Events and Shelly Finkel (Vargas' co-manager) is they're not nuts. ``That's why I'm optimistic.'' Of course, De La Hoya's prospects aren't much better than Vargas'. De La Hoya was scheduled to defend his WBC WBC white blood cell; see leukocyte. WBC abbr. white blood cell WBC, n stands for white blood cell. junior middleweight title against Karmazin next Saturday but had to pull out after having wrist surgery. Arum has offered De La Hoya $8 million to fight Karmazin or Yory Campas if he and Vargas can't reach terms. ``I can make $8 million for Oscar falling off a log,'' Arum said. ``Our first priority is Vargas. We have a contract for $5 million and an extra million. Come into our office and sign it.'' --Whitaker-McCline: Lance ``Goofi'' Whitaker, the one-time San Fernando High basketball player, faces Jameel McCline in a 12-round heavyweight bout tonight in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Whitaker (23-1, with 19 knockouts) is coming off a sensational second- round knockout of Oleg Maskaev in March. However, he has changed management and his trainer since that bout. McCline (23-2-3, 16 KOs) scored a first-round knockout of former contender Michael Grant in July. A tape of the fight will be televised on HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy . The show begins at 10:30 p.m. |
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