{"id":66595,"date":"2025-08-13T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66595\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:44:09","slug":"oscar-de-la-hoya-names-the-fighter-he-faced-with-the-best-chin-i-hit-him-with-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66595\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya Names The Fighter He Faced With The Best Chin: “I Hit Him With Everything”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar De La Hoya<\/a> shared the ring with a number of generational greats throughout the course of his professional career.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Golden Boy\u2019 entered the paid ranks back in 1992 after he walked away from the Olympic Games in Barcelona with a lightweight gold medal.<\/p>\n

He would go on to win world titles in no less than six weight classes throughout the course of his 16-year tenure<\/a>, ranging from super-featherweight up to middleweight.<\/p>\n

De La Hoya racked up a number of career defining victories along the way, defeating the likes of Hector Camacho, Pernell Whitaker, Ike Quartey and Mexican icon Julio Cesar Chavez Sr to name just a few.<\/p>\n

In a round of \u2018Best I Faced\u2019 with The Ring Magazine, De La Hoya didn\u2019t hesitate to name Chavez as the toughest opponent that he ever shared the ring with, paying homage to the durable chin of the hall-of-fame inductee who he claims is his \u2018hero\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hit him with some good shots and he still wouldn\u2019t go down. He had one of the best chins in the world, ever. Very resilient. He still is my hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018The Golden Boy\u2019 backed these claims up in a separate interview with Fight Hub TV<\/a>, where he says the Mexican great was \u2018known\u2019 for having such a good chin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, I have to say Julio Cesar Chavez had one of the best chins in boxing, he was known for that, he was known for his granite chin \u2026 His chin was by far, if not the best, one of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

De La Hoya took on Chavez Sr in June 1996 during the latter stages of the Mexican\u2019s career,<\/a> with \u2018The Golden Boy\u2019 claiming the a fourth round stoppage victory to become the new WBC super-lightweight champion. They would rematch two years later, with Chavez retiring on his stool in the eighth due to sustained damage.<\/p>\n

Chavez is widely considered to be one of the greatest fighters of all time by fans and analysts globally. He fought on 115 occasions during his 25-year professional career, winning world titles across three weight classes along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar De La Hoya shared the ring with a number of generational greats throughout the course of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-66595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}