Bibliography Of Oscar De La Hoya
Bibliography of Oscar De La Hoya
Birthplace: East Los Angeles, California
"I want to be considered one of the great legends in boxing" Oscar De La Hoya.
Oscar De La Hoya is a Mexican-American boxer who won the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
Oscar De La Hoya was six years old when he first began to box. "My brother, Joel Jr., put a pair on me and the other pair on one of my cousins," Oscar recalled. " Then he yelled 'Time!' immediately, I covered my cheeks with the gloves." "The next thing I knew wham the first punch is a left jab that goes between my gloves and lands smack on my nose!" Oscar De La Hoya ran home, crying every step of the way.
De La Hoya never pictured himself becoming a fighter. He was always found in the park playing baseball with the other kids. It was actually his older brother Joel Jr. who many believed had the potential to become a great fighter.
Joel Jr. never pictured his younger brother as a fighter. "Oscar hated physical confrontations; He never had a street fight. He preferred to play with skateboards near the house and baseball in the park. Nothing violent. But boxing is in the De La Hoya tradition and blood. It goes back several generations when his grandfather, Vicente, a 126-pound amateur in the 1940s, and his father Joel, Sr., who fought as a lightweight in the professional ranks in the mid-1960s."
Oscar was being pushed to go to the gym and learn to defend himself. He started going to the Eastside Boxing Gym in East L.A and began training and remembers that "every time I won a fight, my cousins, aunts and uncles would give me money. A dollar here, a quarter there, half a buck."
It was there that this future world champion began his road to stardom.
He quickly discovered the ingredient that would make him a devastating fighter, his powerful left hand. He began to train religiously.
Oscar's first true test was at the...
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