Oscar De La Hoya was born on February 4, 1973, in Montebello, Los Angeles, California. In 2018, he began sponsoring mixed martial arts (MMA) fights, beginning with a 2018 trilogy showdown between long-time rivals Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, with the inaugural Golden Boy MMA event on November 24, 2018. He is the first American of Mexican heritage to operate a national boxing promotion company, and he is one of the few active boxers to take on promotional duties.
He announced his retirement as a fighter in 2009, after a 16-year professional career.ĭe La Hoya formed Golden Boy Promotions, a combat sport promotional company with a 25% ownership in the Houston Dynamo, in 2002. De La Hoya earned around $700 million in pay-per-view revenue before being overtaken by Floyd Mayweather Jr. In 1995, De La Hoya was named The Ring magazine’s Fighter of the Year, and in 19, he was the magazine’s top-rated pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Garfield High School, he won a gold medal in the lightweight division and reputedly “put a sport back on its feet,” earning him the moniker “The Golden Boy of boxing.” When De La Hoya represented the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics, shortly after graduating from James A. BoxRec ranks him as the 29th best pound-for-pound boxer of all time. He has won 11 world titles in six different weight classes, including the lineal championship in three of them. Oscar De La Hoya, born on 4 February 1973, is a former professional boxer from the United States who became a boxing promoter in 2002 and a mixed martial arts (MMA) promoter in 2018.įrom 1992 to 2008, he competed as a boxer. Oscar De La Hoya takes the scale during the weigh-in for his upcoming non-title welterweight boxing match against WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, Friday, Dec.
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