It has become almost as closely associated with Cinco de Mayo weekend as fun-filled pinatas, colorful sarapes, backyard cookouts and the Mexican flag: Oscar De La Hoya, as featured attraction to end the Saturday celebrations.
A fiesta for De La Hoya and a siesta for the other guy has been the common theme.
“I’ve always chosen those dates to fight,” De La Hoya said. “It’s always a big celebration.”
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De La Hoya’s showdown with Floyd Mayweather has a couple of distinguishing characteristics from his four previous fights on the Saturday nearest to Cinco de Mayo: This is the first time the fight falls on May 5 and the first time De La Hoya is an underdog.
But it is not scheduling happenstance that, once De La Hoya opted against fighting Mayweather in September 2006, he set this week as the target date for one of his riskiest fights.
