Podcasts, press conferences, TV commercials, an HBO four part episode mini series and an eleven city U.S. tour to boot, all the rock star status you can possibly handle wrapped up for just one night of boxing. While the world anxiously awaits for this super sized showdown to commence between the six time division champ ?Golden Boy? Oscar De La Hoya 38-4 (30) and the undefeated P4P ?Pretty Boy? Floyd Mayweather Jr. 37-0 (24) which will take place May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, fittingly on HBO Pay Per View 9 PM ET/ 6 PM PT, we get our daily dose of the drama that surrounds this over sized shindig.
After compiling up a stellar amateur career of 223-5, and earning himself a Gold Medal in the Barcelona Olympic Games, the California based boxer Oscar De La Hoya embarked on a professional boxing career that has expanded over a period of fourteen and a half years. The ?Golden Boy? fired out of the shoot in late 1992 earning himself five consecutive knockout victories before ever seeing the scorecards, which he won unanimously. In his time as a professional De La Hoya has electrified the fight fans and has a hit list of who?s who in the boxing world. Names such as John John Molina, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker, Fernando Vargas and Hector Camacho has fallen victim to De La Hoya, Oscar has earned himself world championship hardware in six different weight classes in his run as a professional and at this time holds the WBC Light Middleweight title, which he will defend May 5th.
