Yahoo’s Top 25 Most Powerful People In Boxing List Is Lame, Includes Oscar De La Hoya And Manny Pacquiao

31 January 2008, 6:00 PM. By Alejandro de la Cruz

Well that’s according to Yahoo Sports. And since they surpassed ESPN in the latter quarter of last year as the premier site for sports, then they must be right. Unfortuantely, we were bored out of our stinking minds as to who was on the list. Bob Arum, Don King are the only promoters we recognize. And frankly, who gives a crock about the rest. The only boxers named on the list were “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya; Filipino pound-for-pound champ Manny Pacquiao; “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather Jr.; and Bernard Hopkins rounded out the list at number 19. Where’s Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, or George Foreman’s grill? And we can’t believe Harold Lederman was left out because, frankly, HBO Boxing would be no where if it weren’t for Lederman’s moronic scorecards. The list after the jump.

1. Oscar De La Hoya, boxer/promoter
2. Ross Greenburg, president, HBO Sports
3. Bob Arum, chairman, Top Rank
4. Richard Schaefer, CEO, Golden Boy Promotions
5. Al Haymon, boxing manager
6. Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxer
7. Mark Taffet, senior vice president, HBO Sports
8. Don King, owner, Don King Productions
9. Shelly Finkel, manager
10. Todd duBoef, president, Top Rank
11. Kery Davis, senior vice president of programming, HBO Sports
12. Emanuel Steward, trainer/manager/broadcaster
13. Ken Hershman, senior vice president and general manager of sports and event programming, Showtime
14. Bruce Trampler, matchmaker, Top Rank
15. Jose Sulaiman, president, WBC
16. Manny Pacquiao, boxer
17. Eric Gomez, matchmaker, Golden Boy Promotions
18. Fernando Beltran, promoter
19. Bernard Hopkins, boxer/president, Golden Boy East
20. Cameron Dunkin, manager
21. Lou DiBella, president, DiBella Entertainment
22. John Bailey, chairman, Nevada Athletic Commission
23. Leonard Ellerbe, CEO, Mayweather Promotions
24. Dan Goossen, president, Goossen-Tutor Promotions
25. Gary Shaw, president, Gary Shaw Productions