A former world welterweight champion has claimed that he dropped pound-for-pound great Oscar De La Hoya twice before forcing him to quit during a sparring session.<\/p>\n
Known as \u2018The Golden Boy\u2019, De La Hoya enjoyed outstanding success during his professional boxing career, in which he became world champion in six weight classes.<\/p>\n
He rose to stardom during the 1990s, where he produced legacy-defining victories over the likes of Pernell Whitaker, Hector Camacho, Ike Quartey and Julio Cesar Chavez, one of his own boxing heroes.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t an easy ride for De La Hoya during the later stages of his career however, as he suffered several defeats before eventually announcing his retirement from the sport in April of 2009.<\/p>\n
One of those defeats came against Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao, who stopped De La Hoya in the 8th round of their clash at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas back in December 2008. <\/a><\/p>\n Prior to his showdown with Pacquiao, De La Hoya called on former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz to assist him in sparring at his camp at the Big Bear gym in Southern California.<\/p>\n Speaking to Fight Hype recently,<\/a> Ortiz claimed that he dropped \u2018The Golden Boy\u2019 on two occasions before forcing him to quit after just two sparring sessions.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I get to training camp in Big Bear. This is my first time ever speaking about this so Oscar, if I offend you hey the truth will set you free \u2026<\/p>\n \u201cBoom, I go \u201cOkay that\u2019s an easy jab\u201d, he throws a straight right. Boom. Dropped him, he\u2019s on his knees \u2026 I go \u201cCheck this out, I\u2019m gonna finish him\u201d. Nacho\u2019s saying \u201cWhy are you hitting him so hard?\u201d I\u2019m like \u201cI\u2019m working with this guy, he\u2019s the 10-time world champion. What are you talking about?\u201d Again, boom. Drops again. Gets out of the ring, takes all his stuff, leaves.\u201d<\/p>\n Ortiz would go on to have an impressive career of his own, becoming the WBC welterweight champion when he defeated Andre Berto in April of 2011. Perhaps the most notable moment of his tenure came just a few months later however, when he was controversially stopped in the 4th round of his showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. <\/a><\/p>\n Mayweather caught Ortiz with a two-punch combination whilst the latter had his hands down following a referee\u2019s break, which left viewers outraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former world welterweight champion has claimed that he dropped pound-for-pound great Oscar De La Hoya twice before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-720738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}