Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya, born in 1973, is a Mexican-American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008. Nicknamed The Golden Boy of Boxing, he won the lightweight gold medal for the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics and went on to win 11 world titles in six weight classes, with lineal championships in three of them. The Ring named him Fighter of the Year in 1995 and rated him the top fighter in the world, pound for pound, in 1997 and 1998. In 2002 he founded Golden Boy Promotions, which also moved into mixed martial arts promotion in 2018, making him the first American of Mexican descent to own a national boxing promotional firm. He has held dual American and Mexican citizenship since 2002.