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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, having lost his previous fight to Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5, 2007, announced his return in February 2008 to boxing in what would prove to be a year-long absence to face Steve Forbes on May 3, 2008, a former IBF super featherweight champion who had recently appeared on the ESPN reality show The Contender.
Although Oscar chased Mayweather and threw many combinations en route to throwing over 100 more total punches, Mayweather landed at a higher rate; according to Compubox he connected on 207 of 481 punches thrown, De La Hoya on only 122 of 587.
(#9) Oscar De La Hoya vs. (#1) Bernard Hopkins: Sep 18, 2004: De La Hoya's WBO middleweight title: Hopkins wins via 9th–round KO: Hopkins' WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, and The Ring middleweight titles (#1) Roy Jones Jr. vs. (#10) Antonio Tarver II May 15, 2004: Jones Jr.'s WBA (Unified), WBC, and The Ring light heavyweight titles: Tarver wins ...
The bout is set to break records for both number of buys (the current mark is 2.48 million for Mayweather's 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya) and total pay-per-view revenue ($150 million, set by ...
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.
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 ...
De La Hoya, who’s won multiple […] The post Oscar De La Hoya Reportedly Schedules New Fight appeared first on The Spun. ... Floyd Mayweather stepped back into the ring for an exhibition fight ...