regarding comments he made suggesting that contracts for the megafight were close to being finalized, de la hoya told boxingscene.com on july 26, "i think i said it because i get the question asked so many times that, obviously, i was fed up and tired of it and i just said like, yeah, yeah, it's gonna get made. so it was a quick answer that i should have obviously thought about. but, obviously, negotiations weren't going on. nothing was going on."