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De La Hoya announced his retirement on April 14, 2009, ending any speculation about a potential fight with Julio César Chávez Jr., son of the former champion and Mexican icon Julio César Chávez, Sr. [52] Later in 2009, De La Hoya held an exhibition boxing fight versus basketball player Shaquille O'Neal as an episode of the television show ...
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao, also billed as The Dream Match, was a professional boxing match contested on December 6, 2008. [1] Pacquiao defeated De La Hoya via technical knockout when De La Hoya decided not to continue with the fight before the start of the ninth round.
The first fight was contracted at light middleweight or 154 lbs and De La Hoya's WBC junior middleweight title was on the line. However, Mayweather would have come in as champion and defend his WBC/The Ring welterweight titles. As a tune-up fight, De La Hoya fought Stephen Forbes (33–6) on May 3, with Floyd Mayweather Sr. as his trainer. De ...
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.
The fight was largely back and forth, with each fighter trading rounds throughout the first six rounds. Vargas was able to bloody De La Hoya's nose after an impressive fifth round; however, De La Hoya stormed back to take rounds six through eight and opened a gash under Vargas' right eye.
Like his fight against Trinidad, De La Hoya felt that he had won the fight and called for a rematch in his post-fight interview. However, De La Hoya was so disenchanted with the loss that he even considered retirement. [9] De La Hoya would not fight for the remainder of 2000, eventually returning to defeat Arturo Gatti in March 2001.
The fight's original November 21, 1998 date was scrapped after De La Hoya suffered a cut above his left eyelid during a sparring session. After getting stitches for the injury, it was recommended De La Hoya not resume sparring for another three weeks and as a result, the fight was pushed back to February 13, 1999.
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad, billed as The Fight of the Millennium, was a boxing match held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF welterweight championships.