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Oscar De La Hoya vs. Javier Castillejo, billed as The Quest, was a professional boxing match contested on June 23, 2001, for the WBC super welterweight championship. [ 2 ] After 12 rounds, De La Hoya defeated Castillejo to take the WBC and lineal super welterweight titles.
For only the second time in his career to that point, De La Hoya was taken the full 12-round distance. Despite failing to score a knockdown in the fight, De La Hoya was extremely accurate offensively during the fight, landing 361 punches out of 561 thrown for an impressive 64% success rate, while González outthrew De La Hoya, he landed over 100 less punches (251 out of 751) for a 34% success ...
In 1953, Ray Arcel [5] began promoting bouts on ABC. Unfortunately, shortly after arranging the fights for ABC, [6] Arcel [7] ran afoul of organized crime. The matches on ABC competed with other network television fights run by the International Boxing Club [8] (IBC), who were reputed to have underworld ties.
The fight was largely back and forth, with each fighter trading rounds throughout the first six rounds. Vargas was able to bloody De La Hoya's nose after an impressive fifth round; however, De La Hoya stormed back to take rounds six through eight and opened a gash under Vargas' right eye.
Oscar De La Hoya, having lost his previous fight to Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5, 2007, announced his return in February 2008 to boxing in what would prove to be a year-long absence to face Steve Forbes on May 3, 2008, a former IBF super featherweight champion who had recently appeared on the ESPN reality show The Contender. The bout was ...
After having defeated former 2-time featherweight champion Jorge Páez in July 1994 to win the vacant WBO lightweight title and thus become a 2-division world champion at only 21-years old, Oscar De La Hoya was scheduled to return to his hometown Los Angeles on October 8, to make the first defense of his newly won title at the Grand Olympic Auditorium where he had won his first world title ...
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De La Hoya nevertheless controlled the majority of the fight and won a comfortable unanimous decision, with two judges scoring the fight 116–111 and the third scoring it 117–110. [6] [5] Unofficial HBO scorer Harold Lederman scored it 114–113 for Molina.