A salute, to the PPV King, and guy who brought boxing to the masses

[Vasyl’s dad]

in the 90s and kept it afloat into the 2000s.

Oscar De La Hoya

You may not like him as a fighter for whatever reason, but you know you were at a someones house watching when his fights were on.

Lets be real, the guy was just born to be a star. He turned his Olympic Gold medal, into a boxing empire.

His very first headlining PPV fight, was in his 18th pro bout.

People just wanted to see this guys fights. And, he did it all without the marketing schemes or internet.

Thank you Oscar, for making Saturday nights, fun!

[Vasyl’s dad]

Burner, why no love for the ppv kingpin? Too light?

[-PBP-]

De La Hoya events were always fun to watch.


Wish I could have been to one live.

[dibzvincent143]

I gave him all the credit for what he has done. if he's in this era, he would've been bigger.

[T.Horton]

Oscar was a huge part of boxing for a decade and he was in some real donnybrooks (yep, i said donnybrooks), never avoiding anybody that
i can remember.

[Redd Foxx]

I've never been a true "fan", but I have all the respect in the world for the guy and the best boxing PPV parties I've ever been to were DLH fights.

[paulf]

So many of these guys on NSB show Oscar no respect, but that's because 9/10ths of them weren't watching back when Oscar, Roy, and Evander were RUNNING THINGS.

Oscar was the ****ing man.