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| Birth Name(s) : Oscar de la Hoya |
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Full Oscar de la Hoya Biography
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. 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 defeated over a dozen world champions and has won 6 world titles. De La Hoya's amateur career included 223 wins, 163 by way of knockout and only 5 losses. He won the United States only boxing gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, knocking down his opponent, a win which he dedicated to his deceased mother.
His parents were born in Mexico. He married Puerto Rican singer 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.
- Oscar Gabriel (b.December 29, 2005) by singer Millie Corretjer
On November 23, 1992, De La Hoya made his professional debut. He won titles in 6 different weight divisions including junior lightweight, lightweight, super lightweight, welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight. 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 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.
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 a fight 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.
De la Hoya faced WBC world super welterweight champion 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.
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.
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 |
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