oscar delahoya video

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what you think of this video? added some fights where delahoya got knocked down and hurt and showed heart to win the fight by ko, and in his early career his toughest fight v. a european fighter that almost ko'd delahoya

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well he got hurt bad a few times but didnt take a backwards step when he got up

the guy is a hof no doubt

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bump, bump, bump

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Oscar de la Hoya (born February 4, 1973 in Montebello, CA) — nicknamed the Golden Boy — is a Mexican-American boxer who won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games and is considered one of boxing's all time greats. Oscar de la Hoya became Ring Magazine's "fighter of the year" in 1995 and between 1997 and 1999 was regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world by Ring Magazine and KO Magazine. He is considered to be the biggest non-heavyweight attraction ever and the only fighter in the history of boxing to win nine world championships in a record six weight classes .

During his amateur career, De la Hoya's record was 223-5 with 163 knockouts. He was the United States' top Olympic boxing hope when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died at age 35. On her death bed, he promised her that he would win an Olympic gold medal.




Boxing Career
De la Hoya was raised as the son of Mexican immigrants in impoverished circumstances in East Los Angeles. He began boxing at the age of eight.

On November 23, 1992, De la Hoya made his pro debut. He went on to win titles in 6 different weight divisions and beat former and current world champions Troy Dorsey (KO 1), Jimmy Bredahl, (KO 10), Jorge Paez, (KO 2), Genaro Hernandez (TKO 6), John John Molina (W 12), Rafael Ruelas (TKO 2), Julio Cesar Chavez (TKO 4, KO 8), Miguel Angel Gonzalez (W 12), Jesse James Leija (KO 2), Pernell Whitaker (W 12), Hector "Macho" Camacho (W 12), Ike Quartey (W 12), Arturo Gatti (KO 5), Francisco Javier Castillejo (W 12), and Fernando Vargas (KO 11). His only losses include a controversial majority decision loss to Félix Trinidad and two close decision losses to Shane Mosley. Oscar has been stopped only once in his entire career by the much larger Bernard Hopkins (KO 9).

On September 14, 2002, Oscar fought his nemesis "Ferocious" Fernando Vargas. After fiercely competitive early rounds, Oscar seized control of the latter half of the fight. In round 11, Oscar De la Hoya dropped Fernando Vargas with a left hook. Fernando Vargas got up at the count of nine, but De la Hoya finished him with a barrage of punches forcing the referee to stop the fight at 1:48 of round 11(TKO 11). It was later revealed that Fernando Vargas had tested positive for steroids in his post-fight drug test.

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 his rival, former world champion Yori Boy Campas threw in the towel, indicating that they were giving up, and officially gave De la Hoya a seventh round knockout win. On September 13, he and former rival Mosley met once again, in Las Vegas, and Mosley once again took away De la Hoya's world title belts, with a 12 round unanimous decision over The Golden Boy. This decision was met with a great deal of controversy, as De la Hoya was seen by many as the better fighter that night.

On February 9, 2004, the FBI announced it would investigate whether the rematch with Mosley had been fixed, placing Arum's promoting company, Top Rank, in the middle of a scandal that allegedly involved bribing the judges so they would score the fight for Mosley. No evidence of fixing was discovered.

De la Hoya next challenged Felix Sturm for the WBO world middleweight title on June 5, 2004. He won that fight by a disputed unanimous decision to become the first boxer in history to win world titles in 6 different weight divisions. After that, he hoped 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. A left hand to the body sent him to the canvas, knocking De la Hoya out for the first time in his career. Hopkins would later join De la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions, a boxing promotion firm.

Though De la Hoya is currently his own manager, he is trained by former Welterweight contender, Floyd Mayweather Sr.

De la Hoya is currently scheduled to face WBC world junior middleweight Ricardo Mayorga on May 6, 2006 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

De la Hoya said that this might be his last year of boxing and has revealed that he wants to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. as his last opponent.

De la Hoya's record stands at 37 wins and 4 defeats, with 29 wins by knockout.







After reading this how can he not be one of the greats all time.