Oscar De La Hoya Research Paper

His life came to an unfortunate end on June 10, 1946 when he died in an automobile accident in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the age of 68. Jack Johnson arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. He started boxing at a young age. He won his first title in 1903 and won the world heavy weight title seven years later. He later fled the country from breaking the law of marrying a white woman. After a car crash his life came to an end but his legacy lived on and he became a figure of blacks in sports and in Black

     In 1942 he would join the U.S. Army, during the hard times of World War 2. During this time he fought close to 100 exhibitions before some 2 million servicemen. After the war, he knocked out Billy Conn again, and won three other fights, including two with Jersey Joe Walcott, before abdicating his title, and retiring. However, because he needed money to pay back taxes, he returned to boxing. After not fighting for two years, he lost a one sided-decision to his successor as champ, Ezzard Charles, in 1950. He then retired for good when Rocky Marciano knocked him out in the eighth round in 1951. Louis' boxing career earned him close to 5 million dollars, but most of his money was lost due to his extreme generosity. The IRS,

In 1980, a world renowned athlete by name of Julio Cesar Chavez, made his professional boxing debut in Culiacan, Mexico at the tender age of 17. This kicked off a career that spanned for the better part of 25 years, which made Chavez the greatest Mexican boxer of all time and is considered one of the greatest fighters in professional boxing history. Even though, Chavez has been retired for the past decade, many upcoming amateur’s boxers wish to become the next boxing legend following his footsteps. With outstanding achievements in the sport, impressive athletic ability, and overcoming personal adversities Julio Cesar Chavez is a great man for the next generation to idealize and respect.

Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old African American male from the Bay Area in California. During his life he participated in illegal activity, and spent time in jail. Once he was free, he decided it was time to change his life around for his daughter, and girlfriend. Around the time of his death, he was jobless and was struggling to find ways to take care of his family. Oscar can be described as compassionate and willing to help others. Oscar’s compassionate and helpful side was shown in the film when he cared for a stray dog and helped a stranger in the grocery store.

Everything begins when Oscar at the age of seven his mother finds him crying for a girl and his mother tells him to be respected by women, before this event Oscar was seen in the community as a small playboy Dominican Rubirosa, he has a relationship with two girls at the same time for a week, a week before the girls ask him to have to choose which of the two is going to stay and then the two left him.it can be said that from that moment everything began.

Many can say that Oscar was self-handicapping. He often created situations that he knew would made him fail. For example, he used his weight and inability to talk to girls at hand because he was afraid he would not succeed. He used it as a safety net to make him feel it was not his personality or looks that was drawing him away from girls others thought he should date. Yunior pushed Oscar to get over this fear that was only hurting him but, Oscar gave up every time and went back to “being

Oscar, who was a Dominican man, did not fit the stereotype of a Dominican man. He "couldn't play sports," did not know how to fight, and enjoyed reading science fiction and comic books (Diaz 20). Moreover, Oscar was also not particularly attractive and overweight. Unfortunately for Oscar, Dominican men were "supposed to have Atomic Level G", to "be pulling in bitches with both hands, and be athletic and muscular" (24). Furthermore, they were expected to be extremely macho and exude confidence. It was not Oscar's fault that he lacked some of these characteristics because he "didn't have no kind of father to show him the masculine ropes (15). As a result, he did not have much luck with the ladies and, "everybody noticed his lack of game", criticizing him (24). This illustrates how this stereotype and gender role was widely accepted and how those who defied it were alienated. Thus, life was extremely difficult for Oscar, who struggled with many problems throughout his life because he was not the typical Dominican

The legendary boxer Oscar De La Hoya. De La Hoya a competitive, athletic Mexican-American born in Los Angeles, California. Oscar grew up in a family of boxing competitors. The nickname “The Golden Boy,” created by his classmates and fans during high school at James A. Garfield, gave De La Hoya worldwide recognition. He graduated from high school and the same year was selected as a 1992 Olympics competitor for boxing. The young boxer took home a gold medal in Barcelona at the Olympics. He has fought in a total of 20 world championships and won ten world titles. During his career in the year 2002, he opened up his own boxing firm called Golden Boy Promotions. The boxing firm located in Los Angeles; known as the first Mexican-American

The first thing that I would like to elaborate on is George Foreman’s championship title. Many people do not know that before the popular George Foreman Grill was even thought of, George Foreman was in the ring, fighting for the title of heavyweight champion. He finally earned it in 1994. At the end of his career as a heavyweight, he had a record of 76-5.

In Oscar’s early years, he had an experience in his life that had changed him and the way he would live his life forever. Oscar

On February February 25, 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida, I faced off against the heavily favored Sonny Liston in the fight for the title. It had been a close fight the whole night until the sixth round. I was feeling confident and ready for the next round. When I heard the bell ding, I came out ready and came out swinging. Finally, I landed a combination of punches knocking Sonny to the ground. As the ref check on Sonny he declared that I had one the fight due to technical knockout. I had just won the World Title . I kept fighting and kept the title under my name for three years until one day came around. I had received a call from the World Boxing association and they said they were taking away my title. This is where my boxing career changed in the blink of an eye.

Jack Johnson also known as the first black heavy weight champion, frightened many Caucasian men. One might ask if it was because of his colossal size or if it merely was because of the fact that Johnson demanded equality. He wanted to be known all around the world, and nothing was going to stop him; not even a white man. In order for Johnson to be taken seriously, he challenged multiple white men to boxing matches. He wanted to prove to those men and the world that he was no ordinary black boxer. However, no white male boxer would meet up in the ring

At age 22 in 1964, he won the WBA, WBC, and lineal heavyweight titles from in major upset. Muhammad Ali was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Ali has 7 daughter and 3 sons, 3 former spouse, 1 mother 1 father. Central High School. Childhood and Early Career.

Once he reached the very top rankings for ameteur boxing, he started boxing in the pros as a featherweight 2 months after the olympics. Floyd’s first match was against Roberto Apodaca, weighing in at 130 pounds. Just 2 rounds into the fight, Floyd had won his debut by a knockout. Floyd had continued to beat on his opponents, having won thirteen out of his first seventeen fights by either knockout out or technical knockout. After his 17th fight came his title fight against Genaro Hernandez.

He traveled to rome and won the light heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 summer olympics. After he won his first 19 fights , including his 15 knockouts , he received his first title which was shot on february 25 , 1964. Against reigning