Oscar De La Hoya, world champion in six weight classes, has never been one to avoid confrontation with active fighters. His most famous clash was the ongoing feud with Canelo Alvarez. However, in the Mexican superstar’s most recent provocation, “Golden Boy” also took aim at Edgar Berlanga and Devin Haney.

While De La Hoya’s clashes with Alvarez are the best documented, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist has most recently been lambasted for Berlanga, who is scheduled to face Canelo in a few weeks. To spite the undefeated super middleweight, De La Hoya joked that he was more Puerto Rican than Berlanga because he lived there for four years, responding to Berlanga’s belief that the country was behind him.

Instead, De La Hoya posted a video declaring that “Puerto Rico has no claim to Edgar Berlanga” and that he is not a Puerto Rican but a New Yorker.

Much to De La Hoya’s delight, those words sparked a response from the “Chosen One,” who announced on social media that De La Hoya had been trying to sign for the past year and “flew in to meet with him.”

In typical De La Hoya fashion, he now hit back with a response of his own, but refused to deny the legitimacy of Berlanga’s comments and instead persisted with the question of whether Berlanga was really Puerto Rican.

Oscar De La Hoya criticizes Canelo Alvarez, Edgar Berlanga and Devin Haney on Instagram today: “F*** you.”

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— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) 22 August 2024

“Edgar Berlanga, I criticized you for not being Puerto Rican – I was simply stating the facts. So you were embarrassed and posted a 14 year old photo of me that the world has seen a million times and posted as a meme? Bro, why didn’t you just post your Puerto Rican birth certificate? Unless you don’t have one. Don’t tell me you’re another idiot who finds the truth offensive, come on bro.”