After Affliction: Day of Reckoning Larry Merchant said this over at the Staple Center in L.A.

"Oscar De La Hoya ... is in nearby Anaheim where his company got a $5 million fee from a T-shirt maker so that he can be personally involved in the promotion of a mixed martial art show," said Merchant. "It would take that much to get me to go to one of those things."     

Golden Boy Promotions Marketing Officer, Bruce Binkow, recently spoke out against the Merchant's comments 

"It's ridiculous [to say] that there was a $5 million dollar fee paid [for de La Hoya's attendance]," said Binkow. "There's a financial commitment obviously that Affliction made, and Oscar felt an obligation through his partners at Affliction [to attend]. I don't know how more simple it can be and why it's any more complicated than that."     

Here is some good news for Affliction.