Oscar De La Hoya says he is fighting for more than just a world title in a fifth weight class when he takes on Javier Castillejo June 23rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the Spaniard's World Boxing Council super welterweight belt. The former four-division champion told media assembled at the St. Regis Hotel that he's staying in the fight game to settle a couple of scores. That's in my plans. I feel in my heart that I'm the only one out there who can beat those guys. Mosley, who won the WBC welterweight title from De La Hoya, is thought to be without peer in the 147-pound division.
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De La Hoya seems willing to oblige this ambitious plan, perhaps in that order. Vargas, the former junior middleweight champion who has not looked as ferocious as he once was since his loss to Trinidad, is expected to fight for the WBA 154-pound later this year. If both Los Angeles-area products can win belts at 154 pounds, a unification bout would be a natural at L.A.'s Staples Center or in Las Vegas. Mosley, another L.A.-area fighter who can't find a suitable challenger at 147 pounds, said he would consider going up in weight for Trinidad before the Puerto Rican champion left for the middleweight division. Perhaps Mosley, who has fought in front of consistently smaller live audiences since beating De La Hoya, can be persuaded to leave his welterweight throne to face his old rival if two junior middleweight titles are on the line.