Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya became the "Golden Boy" of boxing with his surprising win of a gold medal in the 1992 Olympic Games. Since then he has captured five boxing titles in five different weight classes, ranking him among boxing's elite. He has often been referred to as the best contemporary American boxer.

Oscar De La Hoya was born on February 4, 1973 in East Los Angeles, California. His parents had immigrated to the United States from Mexico. De La Hoya's family was poor when he was growing up. His father, Joel Sr., worked as a warehouse clerk for a heating and cooling company and his mother, Cecilia, was a seamstress. De La Hoya had two siblings--an older brother named Joel Jr. and a younger sister, Ceci.

Boxing was a tradition in the De La Hoya family. De La Hoya's paternal grandfather, Vincente, was an amateur featherweight in Durango, Mexico, and his father had a brief professional boxing career in the United States with a 9-3-1 lightweight record. As De La Hoya told Interview magazine, "Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six." As a child De La Hoya would join his father and older brother at the Pico Rivera Sports Arena. The family had assumed that Joel, as the oldest son, would continue the family's boxing tradition. De La Hoya himself admitted that he was an unlikely candidate to become a boxer. "I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street--and get beat up," he told Sports Illustrated.

Date Opponent W-L-D Location Result
2007-05-05 Floyd Mayweather Jr. WBC Super Welterweight Title
38-0-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. L SD 12
2006-05-06 Ricardo Mayorga WBC Super Welterweight Title
28-5-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 6
2004-09-18 Bernard Hopkins WBA Middleweight Title
WBC Middleweight Title
IBF Middleweight Title
WBO Middleweight Title
44-2-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. L KO 9
2004-06-05 Felix Sturm WBO Middleweight Title
20-0-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W UD 12
2003-09-13 Shane Mosley WBC Super Welterweight Title
WBA Light Middleweight Title
38-2-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. L UD 12
2003-05-03 Luis Ramon Campas WBC Super Welterweight Title
WBA Light Middleweight Title
80-5-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 7
2002-09-14 Fernando Vargas WBC Super Welterweight Title
WBA Light Middleweight Title
22-1-0 Las Vegas, NV, U.S. W TKO 11
2001-06-23 Javier Castillejo WBC Super Welterweight Title
51-4-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W UD 12
2001-03-24 Arturo Gatti 33-4-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 5
2000-06-17 Shane Mosley WBC Welterweight Title
34-0-0 Los Angeles, California, U.S. L SD 12
2000-02-26 Derrell Coley 34-1-2 New York, New York, U.S. W KO 7
1999-09-18 Felix Trinidad WBC Welterweight Title
IBF Welterweight Title
35-0-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. L MD 12
1999-05-22 Oba Carr WBC Welterweight Title
48-2-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 11
1999-02-13 Ike Quartey WBC Welterweight Title
34-0-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W SD 12
1998-09-18 Julio César Chávez WBC Welterweight Title
101-2-2 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W RTD 8
1998-06-13 Patrick Charpentier WBC Welterweight Title
27-4-1 El Paso, Texas, U.S. W TKO 3
1997-12-06 Wilfredo Rivera WBC Welterweight Title
27-2-1 Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. W TKO 8
1997-09-13 Hector Camacho WBC Welterweight Title
64-3-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W UD 12
1997-06-14 David Kamau WBC Welterweight Title
28-1-0 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. W KO 2
1997-04-12 Pernell Whitaker WBC Welterweight Title
40-1-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W UD 12
1997-01-18 Miguel Angel Gonzalez WBC Light Welterweight Title
41-0-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W UD 12
1996-06-07 Julio César Chávez WBC Light Welterweight Title
97-1-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 4
1996-02-09 Darryl Tyson 47-8-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W KO 2
1995-12-15 Jesse James Leija WBO Lightweight Title
30-1-2 New York, New York, U.S. W TKO 2
1995-09-09 Genaro Hernandez WBO Lightweight Title
32-0-1 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 6
1995-05-06 Rafael Ruelas IBF Lightweight Title
WBO Lightweight Title
43-1-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 2
1995-02-18 Juan Molina WBO Lightweight Title
36-3-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W UD 12
1994-12-10 John Avila WBO Lightweight Title
20-1-1 Los Angeles, California, U.S. W TKO 9
1994-11-18 Carl Griffith WBO Lightweight Title
28-3-2 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 3
1994-07-29 Jorge Paez Vacant WBO Lightweight Title
53-6-4 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W KO 2
1994-05-27 Giorgio Campanella WBO Super Featherweight Title
21-0-0 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 3
1994-03-05 Jimmi Bredahl WBO Super Featherweight Title
16-0-0 Los Angeles, California, U.S. W TKO 10
1993-10-30 Narciso Valenzuela 35-13-2 Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. W KO 1
1993-08-27 Angelo Nuñez 10-4-3 Beverly Hills, California, U.S. W TKO 4
1993-08-14 Renaldo Carter 27-4-1 Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, U.S. W TKO 6
1993-06-07 Troy Dorsey 15-7-4 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 1
1993-05-08 Frank Avelar 15-3-0 Primm, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 4
1993-04-06 Mike Grable 13-1-2 Rochester, New York, U.S. W UD 8
1993-03-13 Jeff Mayweather 23-2-2 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. W TKO 4
1993-02-06 Curtis Strong 14-6-2 San Diego, California, U.S. W TKO 4
1993-01-03 Paris Alexander 15-6-2 Hollywood, California, U.S. W TKO 2
1992-12-12 Clifford Hicks 13-6-0 Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. W KO 1
1992-11-23 Lamar Williams 5-1-1 Inglewood, California, U.S. W KO 1