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Oscar De La Hoya (/ ˌ d eɪ l ə ˈ h ɔɪ ə / DAY lə HOY-ə, Spanish: [ˈoskaɾ ðe la ˈoʝa]; born February 4, 1973) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008.
In 2018, De La Hoya added mixed martial arts matches to his roster, as Golden Boy MMA, beginning with a 2018 trilogy bout between long-time rivals Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. [6] The inaugural event took place on November 24, 2018 in California, [ 7 ] and saw Ortiz dispatch Liddell by first-round knockout.
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Bernard Hopkins, billed as It's History, was a professional boxing match contested on September 18, 2004 for Hopkins' WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, and The Ring middleweight championships, and Oscar De La Hoya's WBO middleweight championship. [1]
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 ...
De La Hoya and Hernández had a long-standing personal rivalry going into the fight stemming from, in large part, De La Hoya's popularity. Though both fighters were from the Los Angeles area and both had gone on to capture world titles, De La Hoya by 1995 had already become a huge star in the sport while Hernández remained largely unknown and ...
De La Hoya intends to leverage the popularity of the aging fighters – Liddell is 48; Ortiz is 43 – to kick start his new foray into MMA, which he believes will have something different to ...
Oscar De La Hoya (R) and his father, Joel De La Hoya Sr., embrace after Oscar announced his retirement from boxing April 14, 2009, in Los Angeles.
After defeating Wilfredo Rivera in his previous fight on December 6, 1997, reigning WBC welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya's next title defense was announced to take place the following year on February 28 against his mandatory challenger, the virtually unknown French fighter Patrick Charpentier at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [2]