However, Richard Schafer, the chief executive of Golden Boy, co-promoters for this event, was less restrained.
But while De La Hoya won't be in the ring, his company, Golden Boy Promotions, will.
In the wake of his 1990 Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves Costner was Hollywood's golden boy.
Set designer Michael Yeargan, nominated for his work on "Golden Boy, " has contributed to Mr. Sher's Met productions.
In addition to executives, Facebook has snagged a number of top Google engineers, including Benjamin "Golden Boy" Ling.
Harrington was a golden boy out of the University of Oregon, and the third player taken in the draft.
Patching up the tower, healing Scarlett, Golden Boy, and Dark Hero had taken a real toll on my system.
Golden Boy is now the biggest promoter in the fight business staging more than 100 boxing events in 2012.
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For starters, no none knows when league golden boy Sidney Crosby will return from a serious concussion he suffered last season.
His drama "Golden Boy" about a violinist drawn to the big money of boxing, enjoyed a Broadway revival earlier this season.
Golden Boy Chief Richard Schaeffer is already looking past the coming bout.
Felipe Gonzalez, the former Spanish prime minister, who was once the golden boy of the European left, seems to be distinctly disgruntled.
One day when Golden Boy came by, I had gathered up my courage to ask him something that had been on my mind.
He was the golden boy out of Stanford, rifle for an arm, and athletic enough to have dabbled in professional baseball for a year.
The final straw that broke my back, though, was putting Larry back together after Golden Boy had raced around to find all his pieces.
JDB's prized role as the finance ministry's golden boy, which it has earned by making profits in every year since it was founded in 1951.
Whatever happens, golden boy Tarrin has clearly endured an unpleasant spell.
It is a similar path to what De La Hoya took when he started Golden Boy in 2001 in the later stages of his fight career.
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His company, Miguel Cotto Promotions, is promoting the fight with help from Golden Boy Promotions, which was founded by 10-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya.
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The second Arum quote is a dig at Top Rank rival Golden Boy Promotions, founded by De La Hoya, which has worked with Mayweather in recent fights.
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The company saw so much promise in their golden boy that they put him through a top executive MBA program, eventually promoting him to president of the organization.
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Here's the pitch: Against the backdrop of a looming strike that could shut Hollywood down, a network executive gets dumped in favor of the town's new golden boy.
In reference to Silverman, television's newest golden boy, Wolf spoke of a delightful three-hour dinner the two recently shared, as well as optimism about the future of the fourth-place network.
Seen as a sharp, young "golden boy" who at 45 had turned around Bristol's drug and medical device divisions, he was the handpicked successor of former Chief Executive Charles Heimbold .
Steinberg also encouraged boxing great Oscar de la Hoya to promote his own fights, which the champion eventually did and along with Richard Schaefer, turn Golden Boy Promotions into a powerhouse.
Showtime is poised to make an even bigger push into boxing after HBO announced last month that it would no longer hire fighters from Golden Boy, which is the biggest promoter in boxing.
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Most impressive of all was Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy, " a 19-character play about the rise and fall of an ambitious young boxer that was originally produced on Broadway in 1937.
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Topping it off: One-time golden boy Jerry Seinfeld is back with The Marriage Ref, an unscripted series where sort-of-famous folks serve as marriage counselors, though as of now, Seinfeld has no plans to appear on the show.
He's been trying to convince Anschutz Entertainment Group, the sports and entertainment conglomerate with a double-digit stake in Golden Boy, to put his next big fight on movie screens across the country through its Regal Cinemas chain.
"Valuev was a great champion and an amazing attraction but today is really the beginning of a new time for the heavyweight division and the sport of boxing, " said Schaefer, who is chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions.
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