An author of 34 books including Muhammad Ali-His Life and Times who was honored by the Boxing Writers Association of America and became the first internet writer to ever receive the Nat Fleischer award for career excellence in boxing journalism has challenged Oscar De La Hoya

In an excellently researched article spurred by the random blood testing controversy which scuttled the mega fight between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr and unsubstantiated allegations by Golden Boy Promotions and the Mayweather camp that Pacquiao was on performance enhancing drugs, Thomas Hauser has challenged De La Hoya himself to set an example and “show the world how a righteous PED-free fighter acts.”

In his article Hauser said he was not talking about Lidocaine “which Oscar acknowledges having taken when he suffered a cut prior to his 2004 fight against Bernard Hopkins, nor am I talking about creatine which Lem Satterfield, then of the Baltimore Sun, authoritatively reported that Oscar incorporated into his training regimen in 1999 when he was preparing to fight Felix Trinidad” saying “I’m talking about the possibility of something more.”

Hauser even suggest wording for the waiver that Oscar can make public and send to the Nevada State Athletic Commission:

In what was perceived as a dig at De La Hoya’s blog in Ring Magazine which he owns and where he challenged Pacquiao to take the random blood test,. Hauser said ““C’mon, Oscar. If you have nothing to hide, then do it. It’s only a piece a paper. Just sign the waiver.”