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Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr., billed as The World Awaits, was a professional boxing match contested on May 5, 2007, for the WBC super welterweight championship.. [2] At the time, the bout was the most lucrative boxing match ever, with over $130 million in generated revenue. Mayweather won by split decision over De La Hoya in 12 rounds.
Oscar De La Hoya (/ ... De La Hoya won a twelve-round unanimous decision to capture the lineal and WBC titles. ... De La Hoya vs. Mayweather: The World Awaits ...
After De La Hoya's May 5 loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2007 (see Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.), De La Hoya decided to close out his career with three fights in 2008. The first would be a tune-up bout in May before finishing with two mega bouts in September and December respectively.
Mayweather won the bout by a split decision. The fight once held the records for most pay-per-view buys and as the second-highest grossing fight in the history of the sport. [2] The company also co-promoted, with Top Rank, The Dream Match: Oscar De La Hoya Vs Manny Pacquiao on December 6, 2008.
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 ...
At De La Hoya’s pro debut at The Forum in Inglewood, California, against Lamar Williams on Nov. 23, 1992, only three months after defeating Germany’s Marco Rudolph to win an Olympic gold medal ...
Legendary Latino boxer Oscar De La Hoya was excited for his Sept. 11 fight, which won't take place since De La Hoya contracted a breakthrough Covid infection.
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 ...