Oscar De La Hoya isn’t thrilled by Dana White’s move into boxing.

It was confirmed in recent days that White along with WWE president Nick Khan have partnered with the sport’s Middle Eastern money men in the Saudi Arabia to launch a new boxing league under the TKO Group Holdings umbrella, with a September date reportedly targeted for its first high profile event.

The move finally confirms White’s long-anticipated entry point into boxing promotion which has for years been dominated by the sport’s more traditional governing bodies the WBO, WBC, WBA, and IBF, as well as potentially impacting some of the more big name promoters — such as Golden Boy Promotions’ head Oscar De La Hoya.

And speaking of the new alliance between TKO and Turki Al-Sheikh, De La Hoya said that he will not back down if and when things get hot.

“I did hear that [Al-Sheikh] passed over the reigns of boxing to Dana White,” De La Hoya said via Boxing News.

“I felt a little offended, because I’ve been in boxing all my life and I’ve been promoting for 20 odd years. So what I’m going to do is stay in my lane and do what I do for Golden Boy and with DAZN and give the fight fans the best fights that can possibly be made, just the way we’ve been doing for years.

“You know working with Turki, Riyadh Season…it’s an honour for me to do that, but I have my business that I’m going to take care of as well, and nobody’s going to touch me there because we are the best developers in the fight game, and we take our fighters to championship levels, to superstardom like the way we did with Canelo and Ryan Garcia.

“I’m gonna stick in my lane and I’m going to work with Turki because it has been very positive, it has been really good. The competition in boxing is really good, it’s positive, it’s great, but I’m going to continue doing what I do because boxing is what I love, boxing is what it’s what made me, what helped me get here, and I’m never leaving.”