Oscar De La Hoya comes clean in 'The Golden Boy,' a two-part HBO documentary that’s far more revealing, critical, and ambivalent than most like-minded authorized affairs. Read nschager's review:
, a two-part HBO documentary that’s far more revealing, critical, and ambivalent than most like-minded authorized affairs.
De La Hoya first rose to fame in the ’90s with a backstory fit for a feel-good fairy tale. Raised in tough East Los Angeles by immigrant Mexican parents, he was taught to fight by his ex-boxer father, Joel Sr., and encouraged by his mother, Cecilia, on her deathbed from cancer , to win an Olympic gold medal for her. When he did just that at the 1992 Summer Olympics, the media transformed the attractive and fresh-faced kid into a celebrity.
That’s a stunning admission from the 11-time world champion , albeit one that comes to make sense in light of his past. As De La Hoya tells it in close-up black-and-white interviews, he was raised in a community that prized intense machismo, boozy revelry, and keeping kids in line via violence. The bevy of physical slaps and punches dished out by his dad and mom led to what De La Hoya refers to as psychological “disassociation” in which he became numb to pain.
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