Oscar De La Hoya was prepared to die in the ring against Manny Pacquiao.
training camp in Big Bear, California, that the Dec. 6, 2008 fight against PacMan would be his final bout. And if it led to a 10-bell salute, so be it.
Just four months later, on April 14, 2009, De La Hoya announced his retirement across the street from where his seven-foot bronze statue still stands in front of what was then known as Staples Center. "Yeah, you are [interpreting that scene in the documentary correctly]," he says."When I went into the ring for Pacquiao, I knew something was wrong. When he was hitting me, I literally was in the corner hoping he would land the perfect punch, just to end it all."
Looking all but defeated in his corner, De La Hoya was asked by a doctor if he was experiencing headaches or dizziness. The doctor was waved off. Weeks again walked over to De La Hoya's corner and sternly warned him, "OK. Listen, listen, listen. No, listen. If you keep taking punches I'm stopping the fight, OK?"
De La Hoya finished with a professional boxing record of 39 wins, 30 knockouts and six losses. He conquered 10 world titles in six weight classes. But the Olympic gold medalist and 2014 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, somehow, still feels he never lived up to his potential in the ring. He's got his father, "I think part of me always wanted to make my father proud. And I've always heard whispers that I could have done a lot better, that your father expected more from you.
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