Im doing my blog on Oscar Del la Hoya He is a famous Boxer from Montebello,California Febuary 4th 1973 He is a mexican america boxer.His nickname is the Golden Boy his grandfathers were boxers so he comes from a boxing family.His grandfather Vincent is father Joel Sr and brother Joel Jr were all boxers.Del Hoya won the Barcelona gold medal.He was also fighter of the year in 1995.And top rated pound for pound fighter in the whole world that is amazing.He defeated seventeen world champions and won ten different other weight classes all his career.He also got more money than any other boxer in Boxing History holding in at 696 million dollars from pay-per-view income that is crazy.He also founded Golden Boy Promotions so that's where he gets all of his money from that too.He is the first American of Hispanic descent to own a national promotion film.So he has accomplished a lot in his life of boxing he has very good boxing skills.His amature career held 223 wins 163 of them were knock outs with only five losses!!.I bet you he got payed a lot of money!!.He had so many great matches in his career but his dream match was Against Manny Pacquiao his record was 47 wins three ties and two losses but that has gone up since then but he lost all of the twelve rounds but only he won like three other rounds so that was when he was thinking of retiring.And that was a very emotional time In his career so he took some time to think about it and he final thought about and he said i will retire and all around the world it was a very shocking moment in the history boxing he had so much money and that's why he went to school for Little bit and he saw his skill of boxing and he tried that but he said "boxing is still in my vines it tells me to fight but i don't want to but I live for boxing and that will always be with me for the rest of my life".Here is some photos that I will be passing out and I will show you a part of his video where that was his last match in his boxing career and thats where it all ended..