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Almost immediately following his victory over Genaro Hernández, Oscar De La Hoya, the reigning WBO lightweight champion, would sign a deal with Madison Square Garden president Dave Checketts, who was in attendance for the Hernández fight, that would see De La Hoya make his next title defense against an yet-to-be-named opponent in the famed arena in what would be his New York City debut. [2]
The fight was considered to be moved to the undercard of the James Toney–Roy Jones Jr. super middleweight title fight where De La Hoya was scheduled to make a title defense against a yet-to-be-named opponent on November 18, but Carl Griffith was eventually named De La Hoya's opponent for that date. After De La Hoya easily dispatched Griffith ...
De La Hoya would then ask a Los Angeles superior court for a restraining order against them, leading to Mittleman and Nelson to file a $10 million lawsuit against De La Hoya in turn. [ 4 ] As a result of his withdrawal from the Concepcion fight, De La Hoya risked a 90-day suspension from the New York State Athletic Commission , which would put ...
De La Hoya dominated Campas, landing 264 of 498 thrown punches for a success rate of 53% while Campas only landed 75 of his 348 thrown punches for a paltry 23% rate. While Campas was never knocked down, De La Hoya constantly punished Campas to the point that his face was red and swollen, causing his trainer to jump on ring apron late in the ...
A fight between 2-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya and former WBA super featherweight champion had been in the works for nearly three years. Hernández had first been offered $500,000 by De La Hoya promoter Bob Arum in October 1992 to face the yet-to-debut De La Hoya for Hernández's super featherweight title some point in 1993 provided Hernández first get past his challenger Raúl ...
De La Hoya, who participated in Eva Longoria Bastón’s 2022 doc “La Guerra Civil,” has known since retiring in 2008 that he wanted to make a documentary about his life and career. “When I ...
Oscar De La Hoya is done running from his haunted past. He is done hiding behind the "golden" facade and he is done lying. No longer feeling pressured to maintain what is left of his once ...
The De La Hoya–Campanella fight was the main event of a fight card produced by Top Rank dubbed Rising Stars which also featured IBF middleweight champion Roy Jones Jr. defending his title against Thomas Tate and IBF lightweight champion Rafael Ruelas defending his title against Mike Evgen. Jones was reportedly "furious" upon learning that the ...