Oscar De La Hoya (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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Oscar De La Hoya (IPA pronunciation:) (born February 4, 1973) — nicknamed the Golden Boy — is an American boxer who won a gold medal for the United States Boxing Team at the Barcelona Olympic Games and is considered one of boxing's all time greats. Oscar De La Hoya comes from a boxing family, his Grandfather, Father and Brother were all boxers but it was Oscar who took his Boxing to the superstar level. De La Hoya became Ring Magazine's "Fighter of the Year" in 1995 and Ring Magazine's best "Pound for Pound" fighter in the world in 1997. His fights throughout his entire career have generated a total of almost half a billion dollars in sales alone. De La Hoya's record seems even more impressive when you consider the level of competition he's faced throughout his career, he's defeated over a dozen world champions and has won 6 world titles. De La Hoya capped off an outstanding amateur career which included 223 wins, 163 by way of knockout and only 5 losses. De La Hoya captured the hearts of America when he won the United States only boxing gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, knocking out his opponent, a win in which he dedicated to his deceased Mother.

Personal life

He married Puerto Rican singing superstar Millie Corretjer on October 5, 2001, and lives in Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. Their first child, Oscar Gabriel, was born on December 29, 2005, in Puerto Rico.

De la Hoya has three other children:

• Jacob (b. February 18, 1998) by a woman whose identity is unknown
• Devon De La Hoya (b. November 30, 1998) by former Las Vegas show girl Angelicque Mcqueen
• Atiana Cecilia (b. March 29, 1999) by actress Shanna Moakler.

Career

On November 23, 1992, De La Hoya made his professional debut. He won titles in 5 different weight divisions including lightweight, super lightweight, welterweight, junior middleweight and middlewieght. He also beat former and current world champions Troy Dorsey (TKO 1), Jorge Paez (KO 2), Genaro Hernandez (TKO 6), John John Molina (W 12), Rafael Ruelas (TKO 2), Julio César Chávez (TKO 4, TKO 8), Miguel Angel Gonzalez (W 12), Jesse James Leija (TKO 2), Pernell Whitaker, Hector "Macho" Camacho (W 12), Ike Quartey (W 12), Arturo Gatti (TKO 5), Javier Castillejo (W 12), and Fernando Vargas (TKO 11). His losses include a majority-decision loss to Félix Trinidad and two decision losses to Shane Mosley, a split-decision, and a unanimous decision and a split decision to Floyd Mayweather Jr. He has been knocked out once in his career by Bernard Hopkins (KO 9).

On September 14, 2002, De La Hoya fought "Ferocious" Fernando Vargas. Their feud had begun when De La Hoya allegedly laughed at Vargas years earlier when Vargas fell into a snowbank. . De La Hoya won the fight at 1:48 of round 11 (TKO 11).

On May 3, 2003, as part of the Cinco de Mayo festivities, he retained his WBC and WBA world junior middleweight championships when the corner of former world champion Yory Boy Campas threw in the towel, and officially gave De La Hoya a seventh round technical-knockout win. On September 13, he and former rival Mosley met once again, in Las Vegas, and Mosley won De La Hoya's world title belts via unanimous decision. De La Hoya would later demand an investigation into the scorecards.

De La Hoya next challenged Felix Sturm for the WBO world middleweight title on June 5, 2004. He was awarded a unanimous decision, to become the first boxer in history to win world titles in six different weight divisions. All three judges scored the bout 115-113 in favor of De La Hoya. Compubox statistics counted Sturm as landing 234 of 541 punches, while counting De La Hoya as landing 188 of 792.

Middleweight Challenge against Hopkins

De La Hoya attempted to unify that title with the three other world middleweight championships, held by Bernard Hopkins, on September 18. He lost to Hopkins by a ninth round knockout, in afight he was arguably winning. A left hand to the body sent him to the canvas, knocking De La Hoya out for the first time in his career. Hopkins was ahead on two scorecards by the scores of 79-73 and 78-74, while a third judge had De La Hoya winning 77-75. De La Hoya made $30 million for the fight and Hopkins, who made only $300,000 in a fight just nine months before fighting De La Hoya, got a minimum of $10 million. It was the biggest payday of Hopkins's career. Hopkins would later join de la Hoya's own boxing promotion firm; he owns twelve percent of univision Golden Boy Promotions.

Comeback Against Mayorga

De La Hoya faced WBC world junior middleweight Ricardo Mayorga on May 6, 2006 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. De La Hoya won by TKO at 1:25 in the 6th round due to referee stoppage.

Mayweather Fight

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De La Hoya did not fight again in 2006, but returned in May 5, 2007 bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr., who is the welterweight champion. The fight took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Early Las Vegas odds had Oscar as a 2-to-1 underdog to the younger Mayweather. De La Hoya lost his WBC super welterweight title as Mayweather Jr was declared the winner split decision, improving his record to 38-0 and taking home the title. The final scores were 115-113 De La Hoya, 116-112 Mayweather and 115-113 for Mayweather. But the match was considered highly controversial as many fans were frustrated that Mayweather won many rounds he was highly inactive in. Many fans booed the decision as it was read and even Mayweather Sr. said he felt his son had lost. However, Compubox told another story, with Mayweather being more efficient and landed a much larger percentage of his punches and actually landing more total punches than de la Hoya. De La Hoya's corner even went as far as to protest the outcome, but the Nevada State Commission held firm.

It has been reported that Oscar earned at least $45 million for the fight, and Floyd earned at least $25 million.

Amateur Highlights

• 1990 Gold Medalist U.S. Olympic Cup
• 1990 Gold Medalist Goodwill Games
• 1990 Gold U.S. National Championships
• 1991 Gold Medalist USA vs. Olympic Festival
• 1992 Gold Medalist USA vs. Boxing National Championships
• 1992 Gold Medalist USA vs. Bulgaria
• 1992 Gold Medalist World Challenge

Amateur record: 224-5 with 164 knockouts

Professional Record

Record to Date
Won 38 (KOs 30)	Lost 5	Drawn 0	Total 43

Date	Opponent	W-L-D	Location	Result
2007-05-05	Floyd Mayweather Jr. WBC Super Welterweight Title	38-0-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	L SD 12
2006-05-06	Ricardo Mayorga WBC Super Welterweight Title	28-5-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 6
2004-09-18	Bernard Hopkins WBA Middleweight Title WBC Middleweight Title IBF Middleweight Title WBO Middleweight Title	44-2-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	L KO 9
2004-06-05	Felix Sturm WBO Middleweight Title	20-0-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W UD 12
2003-09-13	Shane Mosley WBC Super Welterweight Title WBA Light Middleweight Title	38-2-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	L UD 12
2003-05-03	Luis Ramon Campas WBC Super Welterweight Title WBA Light Middleweight Title	80-5-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 7
2002-09-14	Fernando Vargas WBC Super Welterweight Title WBA Light Middleweight Title	22-1-0	Las Vegas, NV, U.S.	W TKO 11
2001-06-23	Javier Castillejo WBC Super Welterweight Title	51-4-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W UD 12
2001-03-24	Arturo Gatti	33-4-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 5
2000-06-17	Shane Mosley WBC Welterweight Title	34-0-0	Los Angeles, California, U.S.	L SD 12
2000-02-26	Derrell Coley	34-1-2	New York, New York, U.S.	W KO 7
1999-09-18	Felix Trinidad WBC Welterweight Title IBF Welterweight Title	35-0-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	L MD 12
1999-05-22	Oba Carr WBC Welterweight Title	48-2-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 11
1999-02-13	Ike Quartey WBC Welterweight Title	34-0-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W SD 12
1998-09-18	Julio César Chávez WBC Welterweight Title	101-2-2	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W RTD 8
1998-06-13	Patrick Charpentier WBC Welterweight Title	27-4-1	El Paso, Texas, U.S.	W TKO 3
1997-12-06	Wilfredo Rivera WBC Welterweight Title	27-2-1	Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.	W TKO 8
1997-09-13	Hector Camacho WBC Welterweight Title	64-3-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W UD 12
1997-06-14	David Kamau WBC Welterweight Title	28-1-0	San Antonio, Texas, U.S.	W KO 2
1997-04-12	Pernell Whitaker WBC Welterweight Title	40-1-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W UD 12
1997-01-18	Miguel Angel Gonzalez WBC Light Welterweight Title	41-0-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W UD 12
1996-06-07	Julio César Chávez WBC Light Welterweight Title	97-1-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 4
1996-02-09	Darryl Tyson	47-8-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W KO 2
1995-12-15	Jesse James Leija WBO Lightweight Title	30-1-2	New York, New York, U.S.	W TKO 2
1995-09-09	Genaro Hernandez WBO Lightweight Title	32-0-1	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 6
1995-05-06	Rafael Ruelas IBF Lightweight Title WBO Lightweight Title	43-1-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 2
1995-02-18	Juan Molina WBO Lightweight Title	36-3-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W UD 12
1994-12-10	John Avila WBO Lightweight Title	20-1-1	Los Angeles, California, U.S.	W TKO 9
1994-11-18	Carl Griffith WBO Lightweight Title	28-3-2	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 3
1994-07-29	Jorge Paez Vacant WBO Lightweight Title	53-6-4	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W KO 2
1994-05-27	Giorgio Campanella WBO Super Featherweight Title	21-0-0	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 3
1994-03-05	Jimmi Bredahl WBO Super Featherweight Title	16-0-0	Los Angeles, California, U.S.	W TKO 10
1993-10-30	Narciso Valenzuela	35-13-2	Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.	W KO 1
1993-08-27	Angelo Nuñez	10-4-3	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.	W TKO 4
1993-08-14	Renaldo Carter	27-4-1	Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, U.S.	W TKO 6
1993-06-07	Troy Dorsey	15-7-4	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 1
1993-05-08	Frank Avelar	15-3-0	Primm, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 4
1993-04-06	Mike Grable	13-1-2	Rochester, New York, U.S.	W UD 8
1993-03-13	Jeff Mayweather	23-2-2	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	W TKO 4
1993-02-06	Curtis Strong	14-6-2	San Diego, California, U.S.	W TKO 4
1993-01-03	Paris Alexander	15-6-2	Hollywood, California, U.S.	W TKO 2
1992-12-12	Clifford Hicks	13-6-0	Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.	W KO 1
1992-11-23	Lamar Williams	5-1-1	Inglewood, California, U.S.	W KO 1

Pay-Per-View History

Rafael Ruelas ( 5/95) 330,000 buys = $9.9 million

Genaro Hernandez(9/95) 220,000 buys = $6.6 million

M.A. Gonzalez(1/97) 345,000 buys = $12.1 million

Pernell Whitaker(4/97) 720,000 buys = $28.8 million

Hector Camacho(9/97) 560,000 buys = $22.4 million

Wilfredo Rivera(12/97) 240,000 buys = $9.6 million

J.C Chavez II ( 9/98) 525,000 buys = $23.6 million

Ike Quartey ( 2/99) 570,000 buys =$25.7 million

Felix Trinidad(9/99) 1.4 million buys = $71.4 million

Shane Mosley(6/00) 590,000 buys = $29.5 million

Javier Castillejo(6/01) 400,000 buys = $16.0 million

Fernando Vargas(9/02) 935,000 buys = $47.8 million

Yory Boy Campas(5/03) 350,000 buys = $17.5 million

Shane Mosley II ( 9/03) 950,000 buys = $48.4 million

Felix Sturm(6/04) 380,000 buys = $19.0 million

Bernard Hopkins(9/04) 1 million buys = $56.0 million

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (5/07) 2.15 million buys = $150 million

Became the richest fighter of all-time after fightnig Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Totals: 11,665,000 buys, generating $594.3 million.

Life Outside the Ring

De la Hoya produced a boxing show on American cable channel HBO: a Spanish-language boxing show called Boxeo de Oro. He has one clothing line through Mervyns department stores, and released a Grammy-nominated CD, entitled Oscar de la Hoya. Released through EMI International on October 10, 2000, the self-titled CD is a Latin Pop album with thirteen tracks in both English and Spanish.

In the summer of 2004, de la Hoya starred in and hosted a boxing reality television series on Fox and Fox Sports Net titled The Next Great Champ

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in boxing
• List of lightweight boxing champions
• List of male boxers
• List of WBC world champions
• Ring Magazine pound for pound
• Millie Corretjer

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