John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry GCVO ( 20 July 184431 January 1900 ) was a Scottish nobleman, remembered for lending his name and patronage to the " Marquess of Queensberry rules " that formed the basis of modern boxing, for his outspoken atheism, and for his role in the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.

If Oscar didn ’ t fight me, he would not have been anything in boxing.

Some of Arum's superstars from the 1990s include former world flyweight champion Michael Carbajal and six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya and current boxing superstars includes eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and three-division world champion Erik Morales.

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In May 2007, the super-welterweight boxing match between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. on HBO PPV became the biggest-selling non-heavyweight title fight, with a little more than 2. 5 million buyers.

During the 1990s, the city became famous as a spot for boxing champions who need to train, Oscar de la Hoya, Fernando Vargas and Shane Mosley being among the famous boxers who have trained at Big Bear.

It took, in the eyes of Puerto Rican boxing fans, 18 years to really avenge Gómez's defeat against Sánchez, and that was when Félix Trinidad beat Oscar de la Hoya in 1999.

In 1970, he first regained a boxing license and promptly fought two comeback fights, against Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena in an attempt to regain the heavyweight championship from Joe Frazier.

The 9th Marquess is particularly well-known because of the rules of boxing that were named after him ( the Marquess of Queensberry rules ), and for his litigious interaction with Oscar Wilde.

Had a brief but successful career as a boxing promoter ; Promoting George Foreman's comeback, Bernard Hopkins, Oscar De La Hoya, Charles Murray, and Micky Ward, early on in their careers.

Goldfield reached a peak population of about 20, 000 people in 1906 and hosted a lightweight boxing championship match between Joe Gans and Oscar " Battling " Nelson.

Oscar De La Hoya also headlined several boxing cards here during the mid-to-late ' 90s, as did Shane Mosley.

The fight involved no world titles, but that did not prevent it from being a large boxing event: With Bernard Hopkins's knockout of Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones Jr .' s knockout defeat weeks before, there were no more immediate big fights in the future, and both boxers had impressive knockout records.

On October 5, he announced his retirement from boxing, although he later returned onto the ring to fight Michele Piccirillo and then Oscar De La Hoya.

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Jesse James Leija began his professional boxing career on October 2, 1988, beating Oscar Davis by knockout in round one, in Leija's native San Antonio.

In 2004, Baruchel played boxing hopeful Danger Barch in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, which received an Oscar for Best Picture the following year.

From 2001 to 2008, the highest grossing event at the arena is the boxing fight between Manny Pacquiao and Oscar Larios, earning 96. 2 million pesos.

As of December 2011 the MGM Grand Garden Arena has held twenty UFC events starting with ( UFC 34, and most recently UFC 148 ), as well as numerous professional boxing superfights including that of Mike Tyson, Julio César Chávez, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

Romero had another two year lay-off from boxing before returning for one more fight: trying to win the South American Lightweight title, he was knocked out in the second round by Oscar Benavides Muniz on October 31, 1989 in Chile, after which he retired for good.

* John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry ( 1844 – 1900 ), the man behind the Marquess of Queensberry rules that formed the basis of modern boxing, and, much later, the downfall of author and playwright Oscar Wilde.

Other fighters, such as Oscar Bonavena, Juan Roldán, and Luis Firpo, did not win world championships, but were also popular among boxing fans during their years as professional fighters.

Brutal battles with Champions Gabriel Ruelas, Manuel Medina, Kevin Kelley Jesse James Leija and Tom Johnson as well as facing Olympian and future 5 time World champion Oscar De la Hoya were milestones in Dorsey's boxing career.

Research by boxing historian Enrique Encinosa has uncovered 22 amateur bouts ( listed below ), verified through Cuban newspapers Diario de la Marina and La Noche, as well as various books published by biographers or the Cuban government.

Leonardo Cruz ( born January 17, 1953 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic ), better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr. Featherweight champion from the Dominican Republic.

Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambelé ( born December 23, 1945 in San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar ) is a Colombian boxing trainer and former two time world Jr. Welterweight champion.

Some of the titles included Firpo-Dempsey ( 1923 ) on the boxing match between American heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Argentinian champion Luis Firpo, Uruguayos Forever ( 1924 ) on Uruguay's Olympic gold medal in soccer, and Humberto de garufa ( Little Umberto's Folic, 1924 ), on the visit of Italian Prince Umberto of Savoy to Buenos Aires.

The largest roofed facility in the city is the Ciudad de Salta Stadium, chiefly used for basketball, volleyball, and boxing.

* Santo en la venganza de la llorona ( Santo in " The Revenge of the Crying Woman ", 1974 ) ( co-starring boxing champ Mantequilla Napoles )

He is involved in promoting sports ( most notably basketball, baseball, and boxing ), Los Cangrejeros de Santurce ( Basketball team ) and also owns Puerto Rican sports television network Deportes Puerto Rico.

He had been winning boxing titles at school and had been a keen reader from a very early age, although not properly attaching to poetry until about aged fifteen, when he picked up a Walter de la Mare poem and was " instantly and permanently hooked ".

I have no resentment towards him ... De la Hoya was younger than me during our fight, and I was on my way out of boxing.

Early in the fight De la Hoya employed boxing to connect combinations while avoiding Trinidad's attacks.

A master of la savate, the French art of boxing with the feet!

As it became established in London, the art expanded to incorporate combat techniques from the Tenjin Shinyō, Fusen and Daito schools of jujutsu as well as British boxing, Swiss schwingen, French savate and a defensive la canne ( stick fighting ) style that had been developed by Pierre Vigny of Switzerland.

While some may see a conflict of interest in a boxing promoter being paymaster of what is essentially a magazine / rankings organization that awards world titles and belts, De La Hoya says that is not the case.

De La Hoya comes from a boxing family.

In the summer of 2004, De La Hoya starred in and hosted a boxing reality television series on Fox and Fox Sports Net titled The Next Great Champ.

In 2008, De La Hoya starred in a commercial alongside several Mexican boxing champions for Pronosticos lottery in Mexico.

In early 2011, De La Hoya visited U. S. military personnel in Kuwait and Iraq under the auspices of the USO, holding boxing clinics and greeting the troops.

Mosley defeated De La Hoya by a close 12 round unanimous decision and joined the exclusive group of world boxing champions that have reigned in three or more divisions.

Both men were in the prime of their careers and the fight was the highest grossing non-heavyweight boxing encounter until Mayweather vs. De La Hoya years later.