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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.
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.
These numbers make the event the second-highest-grossing non-heavyweight pay-per-view event of all time. Mayweather has appeared in the three biggest non-heavyweight pay-per-view events in the sport's history: Mayweather vs. Oscar De La Hoya ($136,853,700), Mayweather vs. Ortiz ($78,440,000), and Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley ($78,330,000). [146]
Oscar De La Hoya (/ ˌ d eɪ l ə ˈ h ɔɪ ə / DAY lə HOY-ə, Spanish: [ˈoskaɾ ðe la ˈoʝa]; born February 4, 1973) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008.
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Despite Mayorga's brazen claims--which continued even when the two had entered the ring, when Mayorga referred to De La Hoya's trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. as "a monkey"--and De La Hoya's lengthy absence from boxing, De La Hoya dominated almost the entire fight from the opening bell on. Mayorga threw 333 punches during the fight, but had ...
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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.