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Oscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973)
—nicknamed the Golden Boy— is an
American boxing|boxer who won the gold medal at
the 1992 1992 Summer Olympics|Barcelona Olympic
Games.

He was the United States' top Olympic boxing hope
when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
On her death bed, she made him promise that he
would win the gold, and he did. She soon passed
away at 35.

De La Hoya signed for 1 million dollars with
promoter Bob Arum and went on to win 5 world
titles and beat former and current world champions
like Troy Dorsey (KO 1), Jimmy Bredahl, (KO 10),
Jorge Paez, (KO 2), Genaro Hernandez (KO 6), John
John Molina (Split Decision win 12), Rafael Ruelas
(KO 2), Julio Cesar Chavez (KO 4, KO 8), Miguel
Angel Gonzalez (Unanimous Decision win 12), Jesse
James Leija (KO 2), Pernell Whitaker (SD win 12),
Hector 'Macho' Camacho (UD win 12), Ike Quartey
(SD win 12), Arturo Gatti (KO 5), Javier
Castillejo|Francisco Javier Castillejo (UD win
12), and Fernando Vargas (KO 11).

He also has lost to world champions Félix
Trinidad (Majority decision loss 12), Shane Mosley
(UD loss 12, split decision in 12), and Bernard
Hopkins (knocked out in nine rounds).

De La Hoya is one of the favorite boxers of United
States|American cable channel Home Box Office|HBO,
where he currently produces a popular Spanish
language boxing show called Boxeo de Oro.

De La Hoya's interests outside the ring include
architecture, acting, fashion designing, and
singing. He designed his own house in Big Bear
Lake, California, has a clothing line (BUM, or
Boxing UniforMs) and released a Grammy nominated
CD in October 2000, entitled "Oscar de la Hoya."
It has 13 tracks. 

He married Puerto Rican singing superstar, Millie
Corretjer, on October 5, 2001 and lives half of
the year in Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles
and the other half in Puerto Rico. De La Hoya has
3 children by 3 different women: Jacob (b.
February 18, 1998), Devon (b. November 30, 1998)
by former dancer Angelique Desbrow and Atiana de
la Hoya|Atiana Cecilia (b. March 29, 1999) by
actress Shanna Moakler. In June 2003, Desbrow's
family reported her and Devon missing. Their car
was found, parked at a Riverside, California
shopping center. The two were found safe five days
later.

On May 3, 2003, as part of the Cinco de Mayo
festivities, he retained his World Boxing
Council|WBC and World Boxing Association|WBA world
Jr Middleweight championships, when the corner of
his rival, former world champion Yori Boy Campas
understood that Campas had taken too much
punishment in round seven. They threw in the
towel, indicating that they were giving up, and
officially gave De La Hoya a seventh round
knockout win. De La Hoya hurt his left hand in the
process of defeating Campas. On September 13, he
and former rival Mosley met once again, in Las
Vegas, and Mosley once gain took away De La Hoya's
world title belts, with a 12 round unanimous
decision over The Golden Boy.

On February 9, 2004, the FBI announced it would
investigate whether the rematch with Mosley had
been fixed, placing Arum's promoting company, Top
Rank, in the middle of a scandal that allegedly
involved bribing the judges so they would score
the fight for Mosley.

De La Hoya next challenged Felix Sturm for the WBO
world Middleweight title on June. He won that
fight by a close but unanimous decision to become
the first boxer in history to win world titles in
six different weight divisions. After that, he
hoped to unify that title with the three other
world Middleweight championships, held by Bernard
Hopkins, on September 18. De La Hoya cancelled a
contract with NBC to cover the Olympic Games in
Athens so that he could fulfill the compromise
against Sturm, and later on, against Hopkins.
Because of this, NBC has filed a lawsuit against
him, asking for 30 million US dollar|dollars. 

He lost to Hopkins by a ninth round knockout on
the appointed date; a left hand to the body sent
him to the canvas, knocking De La Hoya out for the
first time in his career.

De La Hoya's record stands at 37 wins and 4
defeats, with 31 wins by knockout.

In April 2005, De La Hoya and a Southern
California real estate developer, Highridge
Partners, formed a real estate investment
partnership, named Golden Boy Partners, to invest
in Latino neighborhoods.