De La Hoya is truly an excellent fighter, although I have to admit that he got robbed aganst "Sugar" Shane Mosley. I saw this fight to pay-per-view at my sister's place a number of years back and I even had the presence of mind to score this particular fight. I saw the final outcome 118-116 in favor De La Hoya, but the judges scoring this fight sure as hell didn't. Here was my scorecard:
DE LA HOYA 10-10-10-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10-10-10 - 118
MOSLEY 9-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10- 9-10-10-10 - 116
One judge scored the final seven rounds in favor of Mosley while another scored the final six in Mosley's favor. The end result was De La Hoya was screwed and he wound up losing the junior middleweight title on part of some rather biased scoring.