De La Hoya's choice avoids family feud
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Boxing Oscar De La Hoya has chosen Dedham's Freddie Roach as his trainer for a May 5 super welterweight title fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather's father, Floyd Sr., who has trained De La Hoya since late 2000, turned down an offer to be in the boxer's corner against his estranged son. De La Hoya confirmed yesterday that he offered ...
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Coming into this middleweight title bout, which turned out to be more mega-event than mega-fight, Oscar De La Hoya called Bernard Hopkins a bully.
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He&#39;s confident despite having to accept less money than Oscar de La Hoya and bowing to a weight limit. By Jim Jenkins -- Bee Staff Writer.
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Uh, about that &quot;Once and For All&quot; that Erik Morales-Marco Antonio Barrera III was titled. Forget it. Finality is set aside in boxing when to do so means good business, and these
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Everyone was hoping to see a reincarnation of Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvin Hagler when Oscar De La Hoya challenged undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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Mention Bernard Hopkins, and Felix Trinidad winces. Bring up Oscar De La Hoya or Roy Jones, and Trinidad shakes his head.
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Both Bernard Hopkins and Oscar de la Hoya, in the days leading up to their fight, had expressed hope that their respective careers might be defined by Saturday night&#39;s events at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
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Bernard Hopkins invoked the spirit of Frank Sinatra before, during and after Saturday night&#39;s knockout of Oscar De La Hoya in a bout that did a decent job of living up to its billing as fight of the year.
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David Ortiz had a different view of a familiar situation.
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It was not quite what Carlos Moya missed the first time. The setting was not his country&#39;s tennis capital and his former home, Barcelona, but the capital of the Spanish region Andalusia.
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If Bernard Hopkins v Oscar de la Hoya did not quite live up to its ludicrously lofty billing, it was through no fault of the fighters.
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NEW YORK - One thing Bernard Hopkinsâ knockout of Oscar De La Hoya hasnât changed for the middleweight champion: he still needs to beat Roy Jones to feel fulfilled.
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In the end it was as easy as Bernard Hopkins predicted. In round nine Oscar De La Hoya collapsed to the canvas in agony from a short, left-hook and that was how Saturday&#39;s super fight at the MGM in Las Vegas ended.
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Nearly an hour after knocking out Oscar De La Hoya in the ninth round Saturday night in the MGM Grand Garden Arena, undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins
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Bernard Hopkins defended his  undisputed world middleweight championship for the 19th time on  Saturday, knocking out Oscar De La Hoya in the ninth round of  their scheduled 12-round bout in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Unbidden, Floyd Mayweather Sr. will tell you how good he is as a trainer. It doesn&#39;t hurt that he trains Oscar De La Hoya, but even if he were prepping a palooka, Mayweather would boast.
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An old-school fighter used an old-school punch to knock out the star of the new era of boxing. Bernard Hopkins delivered a devastating shot to Oscar De La Hoya&#39;s rib cage, knocking out boxing&#39;s Golden Boy