Oscar De La Hoya's
gonna tear him up!
A lot of class.
A lot of class.
Best fighter I ever
saw in my life.
All I gotta say is,
Oscar De La Hoya is
the finest guy in the world.
- He's good looking and...
- He gots it going on.
He's sexy, too.
Representing the world
welterweight champion
of the world, "The Golden Boy,"
Oscar De La Hoya.
Oscar, you sort of get
greeted by your friends
like you're, like, a
rock star or something.
It's amazing how
many people turn out,
and especially women.
One of the things they call
you is "The Golden Boy."
Is that a pressure for you?
Well, not really because...
I've always been a good kid.
I'm a role model to kids.
People understand that
I'm a plus to the sport.
What a brave man
Oscar De La Hoya is.
So I don't think anything
can put a bruise on my image.
I was the chosen one.
Oscar versus Rocky, one-on-one.
You don't want to see
me get hurt, okay?
All the pressure.
It's too much.
And the pressure that
I've had since I was a kid
causing all this anger,
it's, like, building up.
And I knew it would
come back to haunt me.
I don't think any
fighter can say
that they feel like I do
when I step inside the ring.
Because I wasn't
fighting my opponent.
In reality, I was
fighting myself.
I was my own worst enemy.
I was just f*cking
ready to implode.
My life was different.
You know, I grew up in a...
I grew up where,
literally, I was...
I was the sh*t.
I was the man.
I was... I was it, you know?
There was nobody bigger.
It was crazy.
And... and you
start believing it.
You start to live it.
You start to separate
yourself from the world.
I'm 24, making $15 million,
$20 million a fight.
Hollywood loves me.
I'm living the American dream.
So far, everything
De La Hoya touches
has turned to gold.
A projected fight
with Félix Trinidad
could boost De La
Hoya's 1999 earnings
to well over $40 million.
Not bad for a Mexican
American kid from East LA.
Oscar De La Hoya has
been in the spotlight
for one of boxing's
biggest attractions.
De La Hoya has faced some of
the sport's biggest names,
and once again, someone
is trying to knock
De La Hoya off the mountain.
Félix "Tito"
Trinidad has reigned
as the IBF welterweight champ,
with 90% of his wins by KO.
He's young, I'm young.
He's a world champion,
I'm a world champion.
I've won five world titles
in four different
weight classes.
We will be unifying the titles.
And we will see who is
champion of the world.
This is the fight you've
all been waiting for.
This is truly the fight
of the millennium.
What time is it?
Trinidad time!
I'm not gonna talk. My
fists will do the talking.
Oscar! Oscar! Ra, ra, ra!
I'm like this little
kid in the candy store,
hanging out with celebs.
There's women everywhere,
beautiful women.
But then I saw her.
Beautiful, blonde-haired
girl. Tall, slender.
It was like a silhouette.
It was like a...
Almost like a ghost.
I saw this man walk by me.
And all these people
were around him,
and it was so crazy.
And we just looked at each other
and I knew I just,
like, met a soul mate.
This freight train of success,
which has fueled a
continually raging fire
of enormous expectations.
What brings you guys
out here tonight?
She's in the movie.
She was the first
American that I dated.
She was an actress
and she was Miss USA.
For a little Mexican from
East LA, I was like, whoa.
This is gonna enhance
or help my career.
He was fun.
He always made me
feel so beautiful.
I fell in love with him.
You know when they say
you know it's the one?
You know. You really
know. He's the one.
Lisa, what's up next
for both of you?
He's got Trinidad,
and he's gonna win.
Powerful forehand.
A hard right hand by De La Hoya.
Uppercut lands for De La Hoya.
Superior movement
for Oscar De La Hoya.
Being part of a power couple
was things I, you know,
dreamt about when I
was a little girl.
People taking pictures
of us and following us.
Oh, my gosh, there's
the "it" couple.
I loved the attention.
I loved our life.
I'll tell you,
Oscar De La Hoya is
gonna get the best of it.
You don't want it
to turn into that.
I would go to the fights.
I had a car come pick
me up at my apartment
and drive me to Big Bear.
And then we flew on this
private jet and, you know,
were escorted by security
guards and bodyguards
in these secret tunnels, you
know, through the Bellagio
to these penthouses.
And all of a sudden,
Trinidad's left eye
is swelling dramatically.
Big round here for Oscar.
We were just having so much fun.
And I just knew, I was like,
"We're gonna have a baby."
Like, I just know we're
gonna have a baby together.
And I got pregnant
six months later.
We were engaged.
We moved into this
beautiful dream home.
It was like a fairy tale.
De La Hoya winning
the fight so far.
If he can sustain it,
the victory will be his.
But then things got weird.
I wanted that stability.
I wanted to have kind of
like a motherly figure.
But then I would
get tired of it.
An impatient De La Hoya
wants to get back to the action.
And I'd f*ck everything up.
And that's just what life
was for me, you know?
I ruined good
things all the time.
This is a hit-and-run
fight for De La Hoya.
De La Hoya moving away, jabbing,
trying to do just enough
to keep Félix off of him,
virtually giving away the round.
His ex-girlfriend
came out and said
that she had a son with him.
I remember him saying,
"I don't have a son."
And he went and bought
me a tennis bracelet.
De La Hoya making Trinidad miss.
But it's hard to throw
punches at a moving target.
Oh, the picture you
get with one man
dancing around the ring and
the other man chasing him.
And I was like, "Well,
it's okay if you do.
Like, I just need to know."
I remember them doing
the paternity test.
And Jacob did turn
out to be his son.
And I was like, "Okay,
well, we're gonna love him.
And you know, you have
a son. Congratulations."
The boos are being
directed at De La Hoya.
They want to see
Oscar stand and fight
instead of moving away
from the man's shots.
Oscar is just running now.
He's not fighting back at all.
When Atiana was born, he
was really cute as a father.
But he was not the
diaper-changing dad.
De La Hoya is not throwing
any straight right
hands anymore.
He's not throwing
much of anything.
Not what his fans have
expected from him.
I never knew how to face fear.
I would just run.
The question is, can you
win a fight running away?
Being a man, being a father,
it was overwhelming to me.
It was too much for me.
I couldn't face it. I
would just turn my back.
Well, you tell me, do
you think that De La Hoya
has won the fight
the way he's fought
the last several rounds?
I think he had the
fight in control,
and now he's leaving it in
the hands of the judges.
That's been my whole life.
Any type of problem,
any issues...
Well, the winner by
majority decision
de Puerto Rico
and a unified welterweight
champion of the world,
Félix "Tito" Trinidad!
The first loss in the
career of the Golden Boy.
I gave him a boxing lesson, man.
What the f*ck is going on?
Huh?
I landed 120 more
f*cking punches, man.
All true.
He should have
blown up at himself
by closing the show like a
banker counting his money.
- Control.
- God damn it, man.
- Don King bullshit!
- sh*t!
- That is some royal f*cking...
- Don King...
Yeah, you're very...
A few weeks later,
I get a phone call.
It's this woman, Angelique,
the first time I hear this name
in ten months.
We had a one-night
stand. We had hit it off.
She said, "You have a boy.
His name's Devon."
I have three kids now.
To be a father, it's
a huge responsibility.
I just didn't know how to do it.
I didn't know how
to be a parent.
And my answer was to drink.
The very first time
I ever had drinks
was when I was seven,
going on eight years old.
You know, the uncles
would have beers
and they would get drunk.
And one of my uncles tells
me, "Have a little sip.
No big deal."
So I have a drink.
And I thought it was okay
'cause my uncles were
telling me it was okay.
And it felt good.
But 30 sips later,
I just blacked out.
I woke up to my mom's face.
And she slaps the
sh*t out of me.
Boom!
But even though she
was a tough woman,
even though she
was hard on me...
I'm sure she loved me.
She was my mom.
She was everything to me.
When she passed, I drank.
I drank a lot.
And when I turned
professional...
Oscar!
In between fights, I would
squeeze as much alcohol
as I can in those vacations.
But then, you know, it
started getting worse.
All I was thinking about
when I wasn't training
was to just have a good time.
With Oscar, I think
his easy way out
is just to, you know,
walk away from it.
To walk away, you
know, go do his thing,
and not talk about
it, not deal with it.
The way he deals with
it is by partying.
I didn't make a big issue of it
because, you know,
I was in the mix.
We'd party. We had,
you know, our friends,
our mutual friends,
and we'd party
and we'd go out and we'd
have a good old time.
You know, but it
was a progression.
His drinking was always sort
of, like, an issue for me
because he really does
become a different person
when he drinks.
Even now, I look back on it
and I just didn't
want to believe it.
I didn't want to believe,
even though it was
happening to me,
even though I was living it,
even though I was seeing it.
I just... I just...
Maybe I was in
love with the idea,
you know, what I envisioned
him in my mind to be.
Is that difficult,
being in a relationship
with a man that so many
women throw themselves at?
I know that he loves me.
And we're very honest
and we really communicate
with each other and...
Women would call me up and say,
"I slept with your fiancé."
And I would say,
"No, you didn't.
"He would never do that to me.
You just want his money."
I'm not a flirtatious person.
But when a fan comes up to
me and wants an autograph
or a hug or a kiss on the cheek,
I have no problem with it.
And I would chase him
down in the nightclubs
and security guards would see me
and they would rush
him out the back door
so I couldn't catch him.
He would always just tell
me, like, "No, I love you."
And then I had heard that
he was accused of r*pe
by a woman in Mexico.
Things like that
started to happen.
And I stood by him
because I just...
I didn't believe any of it.
My client is terrified about
coming forward with this.
After working through
this with her counselor,
with me, and recovering
from her psychological
and also her physical
injuries from this incident,
we have decided to come
forward at this point,
after she turned 18.
You know, I was told by
Mr. De La Hoya's attorney
that he didn't
remember the event
and he had actually slept with
about 500 women since then.
I'm young.
I have popularity.
I have money.
And that's what they want.
Do you feel, for people who
don't know the whole story,
it has tarnished your image?
Oh, not at all.
I still have my
people behind me.
I still have the sponsors
who are believing me.
This has got to be a
special night for him,
especially what's all going
on outside of his life,
that he can see, "You know what?
"People care. They know.
They believe in me.
They know I didn't do
what they say I've done."
I'd just be really
surprised if it were true,
just based on what
I know about him.
There's some fighters out there
I wouldn't be as
surprised, frankly.
But Oscar's a...
He's a nice guy.
We've got a big natural
case study, in a sense,
of before and after
the #MeToo movement.
Back in the day, we
lived in a culture
of celebrity worship.
They were treated as
having superpowers.
So if there's allegations
of some kind of misconduct,
well, that can't be true
'cause we know this
guy to be amazing.
So he could not have done that.
It certainly wasn't the
Oscar De La Hoya that I knew.
And we had so much
fun and we laughed.
And this person was
not that person.
I never thought he was
guilty of any of it.
You know, I thought these
women were just trying to make
a quick buck.
The easiest thing to do is deny.
"She is making this up
'cause she's a gold digger."
But with the cases that
we've seen in the media,
there's multiple
victims who have
very, very similar stories
about what happened to
them, for the most part.
We were spending
Christmas in Palm Springs.
His friends were having a party
at our house in Bel Air.
So he left and he
went to that party.
And I was really hurt, you know?
I was like, "This
is Christmas."
And then another woman
accused him of r*pe
at our home.
It was reported that
on December 27th
at 1:00 a.m.,
that he sexually
assaulted a female guest
at his residence.
Did I put myself in a position
where I was vulnerable,
where people can,
you know, accuse me of anything?
Yeah, I did put myself
in positions like that
'cause I was reckless.
But... but no,
I'm not a bad guy.
I would never.
It's not in my DNA.
It's not in my...
It's not in my bones
to ever do something like that.
People are complicated
and have multiple sides.
It's not saint or sinner.
But that requires having to see
people in all their humanity,
in all their complexity,
and not just painting
a picture of them in
this very simplistic
and all-good kind of way.
'Cause if you're not all
good, then you're all bad.
Roll tape.
This is my year.
The Golden Boy, Oscar...
Oscar De La Hoya
is the champion.
He gets to do whatever
he wants to do.
Being the Golden Boy, you
can't do anything wrong.
You're not allowed to.
I'm not coming in to box. I'm
coming in to knock him out.
That's like too mean, man.
You know?
You gotta be nice. You
gotta be nice. Come on.
- Do the part.
- Still rolling.
Well, a lot of people are in
love with Oscar De La Hoya.
You always want to give
them your best shot.
It was always being
in a straitjacket.
Read this.
And I couldn't be myself.
It made me live a double life.
Suddenly, Oscar does
not look as quick
as he did early in the fight.
Shane Mosley is out-hustling
Oscar De La Hoya,
out-working him,
out-fighting him
when it matters most.
For the winner by split decision
and new welterweight
champion of the world,
"Sugar" Shane Mosley!
After that fight,
I just cracked.
And I said, "I've had enough."
I wasn't happy with trainers.
I wasn't happy with managers.
I wasn't happy with promoters.
And so I just found
ways to reorganize.
You've said about
your two defeats,
"Don't blame me,
blame my trainers."
Haven't you been
around as a fighter,
nine years as a pro now,
even longer as an amateur,
that you should be able to
make adjustments on your own
during a fight?
The biggest news in
boxing this past week
outside the ring,
De La Hoya has fired
his trainer and
friend Robert Alcazar
and filed a lawsuit
to dissolve his
longtime relationship
with the promoter who has guided
his enormously successful
career, Bob Arum.
Oscar turned against
his Golden Boy team.
When he was managed
by Hernandez,
it was extraordinarily good.
Mike only wanted
the best for Oscar.
He hired a new business manager.
His name was Richard.
And I just knew... I was
like, "This is so bad."
Richard Schaefer, the
great genius banker.
Schaefer was a snake.
He cut us out for his benefit.
Boxing is just about numbers,
calculating and
estimating revenue streams
and Oscar's reach
into the marketplace.
With him, the sky is the limit.
And to the surprise of many,
De La Hoya has launched
his new Latin pop
singing career.
It's something that
I wanted to do.
Not my father, not
my fans, not my...
This is my dream.
What I should have done
is look at the mirror
and say, "Oscar, you have
to get back in line here.
"You have to reorganize
your life here.
It's maybe your fault."
Do you think that the
next act in your career
will be as fulfilling as
all the previous acts?
It'll be different.
We flew to Florida.
And I was there for
about three weeks
while he recorded this album.
Richard told Oscar I
wasn't Latina enough
and that he needed,
in the public eye,
to be respected by
the Mexican community,
to be with a Mexican
or a Latina woman.
The Hispanic market is
no longer a minority.
Salsa and tortilla is outselling
ketchup and white bread,
and that's a fact.
You know there is
something going on.
I was having trouble
singing with passion
and with sentiment.
The producer, he tells me,
"Okay, wait one second, champ.
I have a picture I
want to show you."
And so he showed me
a picture of Millie.
Wow, she's angelic.
She was a Puerto Rican singer.
She was gorgeous.
And I sang the song
with all this, like,
sentiment and passion.
The record label made it
a priority for us to meet.
I told him some girl
has to break his heart
- so he can sing with passion.
- So they do that stuff.
And pain. And pain.
I was going to sing in Texas.
And all of a sudden,
this guy come up stage.
I haven't met him before.
And it was very recent with
that fight with Trinidad.
And here in Puerto Rico,
we're, you know, very
supportive of our people.
So Trinidad was... and he
was the Golden Boy, you know?
It was kind of like
a breath of fresh air
because I had to try.
I was receiving roses
every week in Puerto Rico.
I asked her to be the
love interest in my video.
I went to set that day.
I remember being
with Richard Schaefer
in the golf cart.
I was saying, "Oscar and I are
kind of having some problems."
And he goes, "Well,
you know, Shanna,
I can't control the heart."
And I was like, "Oh,
you son of a b*tch.
Like, you did it."
That night, Oscar
was like, "Look,
"I'm gonna go to New York.
And I'm gonna go do Leno."
And he's like, "And
you know what?"
"He's like, I want you to go
buy new art for the house.
"Go buy new stuff for the house.
"And when I come back,
you and I are
gonna start fresh."
So he flew to New York.
And then he was
supposed to come back,
and I didn't hear from him.
I was at home watching
the Latin Grammy Awards.
And I heard the announcer say,
"Coming up next on the red
carpet is Oscar De La Hoya."
There he was on the
red carpet with Millie
holding her hand, as
if they were a couple.
When I did take
her to the Grammys,
for some apparent reason,
Shanna thought I
was still with her.
We were together, 1,000%.
The next day, he got
in the car with me.
I just said, "Why
did you do that?"
He looked me dead in
the face, he goes,
"I don't love you anymore."
And he goes, "Shanna, I
have more money than God."
And he got out of the car and
he came over to the window
where I was sitting
there bawling.
And he knocked on the
window and he goes,
"Don't be too hard on me."
Nothing he said to
me was the truth.
Nothing.
It was chaotic.
The wedding, everything
was all set up
in, like, two weeks.
It's very important that
when you get married,
that you have the
right woman behind you.
Because I really believe it
can make you or break you.
Millie, she came from
a churchgoing family,
good values, all that stuff.
And I felt that by
me settling down,
that it was gonna
make life easier.
How's baby Atiana?
Great, thank you. Really good.
I appreciate it.
Is she with her mom, Shanna?
How's that all going?
Oh, my God. We're super happy.
I'm the best father
in the world.
I only see him every so often.
Maybe, like, once a year.
And I remember...
I think it might have been,
like, fourth grade or something.
And we were supposed
to get dinner
and then go to Color Me
Mine 'cause I loved art.
And I remember trying to think
of, like, what I would say.
Like, am I gonna call him Dad?
And I remember going
to Color Me Mine
and he painted,
like, a cheeseburger.
And I had the cheeseburger
in my room for, like...
It's probably still
somewhere, to be honest.
When I was seven or
eight, I think we went
to Chuck E. Cheese
or something.
And then he would disappear
for a couple years.
He supported me financially,
paid for my schooling.
But other than that, he
wasn't that parent figure.
I was getting to know
Millie, the person I married.
We buy a beautiful
place in Puerto Rico,
and I live there.
Get the ball! Go!
Here in the islands, you
get this mildew buildup.
And so what I do is, I
just... I bought that machine,
the pressure machine,
and just "shh."
It takes me, like, three
days, but, you know, it's fun.
So if anybody ever needs help
power washing, give me a call.
Looking in from the outside,
everything was great,
but I was lying to myself.
We met, and then
next thing you know,
we were married.
We didn't really have
anything in common.
And then living in an island,
it's a whole different
mentality, you know?
It's a different culture.
So it wasn't where
I felt comfortable
and where I felt myself.
It was like having
a lion in a cage.
There's something about
you here in the paper.
Oh, wow.
I think a lot of people knew him
better than I did 'cause
they watched his career.
So my idea of him
wasn't necessarily
from our relationship,
but it was more
from who I was told he was.
You know, I left it up
to the mothers to...
To take care of them.
And then little Oscar was born.
Two years later, Nina was born.
I remember going to
Big Bear a few times
'cause I know he used
to train up there.
I'd see my uncle
and my grandpa Joel
and my dad and Millie.
"These are your half-siblings
and, you know, say hi."
And she was very
family oriented.
She wanted to bring
everyone closer
and have everyone
have that relationship
with their father.
But I probably felt some
sort of pain or anger,
sadness probably.
My dad, he's not the
biggest communicator.
Your feelings were your feelings
and, you know, they
don't mean anything.
You move on and you get over it.
I didn't tell
Millie about Devon.
And I think she
found out about Devon
in a gossip magazine.
She was pissed.
It wasn't a pleasant
conversation,
to say the least.
He was like the guy on
TV, the guy on my YouTube.
My mom tells me
stories about the fight
when he got knocked down.
And I was just
screaming and crying
'cause I thought he
died in the ring.
He raised me through
a screen, almost.
Thank you very much.
Jacob, my son. I love you.
He's seven months today.
So, mwah, this is for you.
It's just hard.
You're hanging out with
your other children.
Why not me?
Kids would say I'm just
some rotten, spoiled kid
whose father is
Oscar De La Hoya.
And, "You have everything
you want in this world."
I had nothing.
Me getting into boxing,
that was just something
I could latch on to
and feel like I could
have that connection with him.
So it was almost
like I knew him,
but he knew nothing about me.
I was just confused.
What's holding him back?
Devon had lived in
Vegas for quite a while.
But time just goes by
and it just turns messy.
And then I'm just
like, "Ah, f*ck.
"Let me just go back and
focus on my one thing
"that makes me happy, and
that's being in the ring
and f*cking fighting."
Tonight, the time has
come for Oscar De La Hoya
to return to the spotlight
after close decision losses
in two of his last three fights.
Big left hook by Gatti.
Right hand inside by Gatti.
Good form.
Now De La Hoya lands his
first effective combination
and crumbles Gatti with
a trademark left hook.
And Oscar De La Hoya...
I'm still the man. I'm
still the f*cking king.
And there's blood
flowing already
from under Arturo
Gatti's right eye.
Inside the ring,
I felt powerful.
Target practice,
as De La Hoya goes
to the body and the head.
Drives Gatti into the ropes.
And the towel!
The towel comes in
from Gatti's corner.
And De La Hoya has
a fifth round TKO.
I wanted that power
outside the ring too.
Most people in East LA,
they're blue collar,
they're workers.
They're always
working for somebody.
There's always a boss.
And that's what
Oscar wanted to do.
He wanted to be the boss.
The idea started coming
with Richard Schaefer,
why don't we become promoters?
Controlling the playing field.
There's a sense
of power with that
and a lot of money.
I want to start
working my money,
become, like, an entrepreneur.
Golden Boy Promotions.
Good morning. How are you?
I'm really good, thank you.
Good to see you.
Back then, there was
Bob Arum and Don King,
and there was a lot of
complaints from fighters.
And it was either their
way or the highway.
Oscar wanted to
be an alternative.
But Oscar had a lot of
issues, lawsuits, problems.
And that was the first order
of business for Richard.
"I gotta clean up this mess."
And he did that. He
was very good at that.
This was an opportunity
to step on the pedal
and let's go.
I've been disrespected
ever since I was a
kid by everybody.
I want to become a billionaire.
I want to become the
most powerful athlete
on the face of this Earth
because I want respect.
It's power driven.
It's all power driven.
It took a few years
to build the business.
I remember promoting club
shows in a hotel ballroom
with a small budget
to learn the ropes.
I knew that to be a
successful promoter,
I had to keep boxing.
Man, I'm sore!
Oscar wanted to
empower the fighters.
And they saw the value in Oscar.
You have a general
that's been to w*r,
knows what it's like
to be in the trenches.
De La Hoya hasn't
been in the ring
in more than 440 days.
That's a long
stretch of inactivity
for Oscar De La Hoya
against Fernando Vargas
in one of the most
hotly anticipated fights
in our sport in recent years.
We want to see a fight, right?
We don't want to see, "I'll run.
"I'm gonna run.
"Oh, well, this...
Well, this is...
This is the way I fight."
Do you know the difference
between one Mexican
and the other one?
This one has f*cking ba*ls.
I have cojones too,
last time I checked.
I mean, right?
It's younger, hungrier Vargas
against slicker,
richer De La Hoya.
Is it possible to
put in the hard work
when you've already got the
100 million in the bank?
When people doubted
me, it made me want
to prove myself even more.
I wanted to fight the very best
in their prime at
their very best.
Body shot backed De La Hoya up.
He gets precariously
close to the ropes.
People thought I was crazy,
but I was proud of
fighting the fighters
that nobody else wants to fight.
And now Vargas shows
the determination
that has defined his career.
He fought 'em all. He
never ducked anybody.
He fought everyone.
Again, the blood flowing
from Vargas' cheek.
Big left hook hurts Vargas.
A sensational left
hook by De La Hoya.
He wanted to prove,
not only to the
world but to himself,
he wasn't just this pretty boy.
There's so much desire
in Fernando Vargas.
But a better fighter
is beating him now.
He can make Fernando
Vargas eat his words
if he can knock him out.
And he does.
The Golden Boy is
golden once again.
No matter how many hundreds
of millions of dollars
are in the bank, silk pajamas,
he still loves to fight.
He wanted to prove
that he was a tough
son of a b*tch
and that he can compete
with anybody in the world.
All right, we're going slow.
It might take something
of a resurrection
for Oscar De La Hoya
to be a viable opponent
in his second fight
as a middleweight
against a guy who is
gradually closing in
on 20 consecutive
successful title
defenses in the division.
You don't know what you're
getting yourself into yet.
This is new water.
You don't dive in water that
you can't see the bottom of
because you don't know
what's down there.
You could break your neck.
And Oscar was
moving up in weight,
fighting the top fighter
in the world at this time.
It was crazy.
Is he crazy or is
he crazy as a fox?
He has been the middleweight
champion for almost a decade.
And now "The
Executioner" Hopkins!
I never thought he was
gonna ever fight me.
I'm a middleweight.
I'm gonna destroy him.
I mean, come on, the Golden Boy?
We want some of that gold.
You can call it envy, jealousy,
or you can call
all of the above.
I want to kick his a*s.
I was out of my element.
And it was risky.
But it's the risks
that you have to take.
Hopkins is the
bigger, stronger man.
De La Hoya isn't backing up.
He's standing in,
ready to fight.
And two good De La
Hoya left hooks.
And then you say,
"Wait a minute."
He had spirit.
You gotta be able
to take chances.
Oscar finding it harder
and harder to block or duck
Bernard Hopkins' shots.
It's a Bernard Hopkins knockout
of Oscar De La Hoya
in the ninth round.
I took the life out of his body.
He wasn't getting up.
Oscar De La Hoya has never
previously been knocked out.
And he didn't expect
it to happen tonight.
What about him surprised you?
Him coming out to
fight me, straight up.
I mean, nah, he didn't run.
I give him a lot of
credit. He didn't run.
Here's Oscar De La Hoya.
- Great champion.
- Good champion.
He knocks me out.
And it's the one person I
respect the most in boxing.
He expresses himself
and he tells the truth.
And I remember telling Richard,
"Why don't we bring him in
to Golden Boy Promotions?"
I mean, here you have a guy
that just knocked you out
in front of millions of people.
And now you're gonna
partner up with him?
It was a great move.
People respected Oscar after
that, as a businessman,
not just an athlete.
I want to introduce to you
the undisputed middleweight
champion of the world,
Bernard Hopkins.
When we signed our agreement,
and we looked in
each other's face,
we agreed on one thing.
We won't become
those who we despise.
So I say, what the hell?
I want to be with
the Golden Boy.
- Then these over here.
- Exactly.
- Finally...
- And the box seats?
I was ready to
promote my own fights.
For the Mayweather fight,
we started a program
called "24/7" with HBO.
Mayweather was just coming up.
Nobody knew who Mayweather was.
Do a little shake with it.
They followed us
throughout training camp.
Everybody loved it.
Everybody talked about it.
To me kicking Oscar a*s. Bing!
He was the villain.
I was the good guy.
I just finished another
hard day of work.
And it's my second
half's birthday.
It was ahead of its time,
to be able to go
behind the scenes,
to be able to fall in
love with the fighter
or villainize a
fighter on reality TV.
May 5th, pay-per-view,
Pretty Boy Floyd
versus the Golden Boy.
The world awaits the biggest
fight in boxing history.
If you not there,
buy pay-per-view
'cause it's a fight
that you can't miss.
The Mayweather fight for
Golden Boy Promotions
was like our Super Bowl.
Let's go, baby.
I was on a mission
to make history.
It's not all about
me, personally.
Now it's all about the brand.
I'm a money machine.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Golden Boy Promotions
is proud to present the
main event of the evening.
Hard right hand by De La Hoya.
I was promoting the
biggest boxing event
in the history of the sport.
Another De La Hoya
rally against the ropes.
It shattered
pay-per-view numbers.
It is a sustained
attack to the body
like nothing you've seen
in De La Hoya's career.
I made a shitload of money.
But fighting Floyd Mayweather
is a dose of cold reality.
I think you got an even fight.
Was it one last hurrah
for a giant pot of money?
The winner by split
decision and new WBC
super welterweight
champion of the world,
Floyd...
Was I upset with myself
in not getting the win?
Absolutely.
But then again, it's like
I actually felt like,
okay, this was an opportunity
to win outside the ring.
Mayweather was a businessman.
He knew who the
best promoter was.
So I end up promoting
his next ten fights.
Golden Boy didn't take
Mayweather from day one, no.
But if you follow the trail,
first he was the
Pretty Boy Floyd
and then became
Money Mayweather.
That trail came
through Golden Boy.
It solidified me,
as the promoter,
proving to fighters I am
going to show you that
I am the best and I will
have the upper hand.
I have the power.
- Papa.
- Papa.
My life was chaotic.
If I wasn't training, I was
doing endorsement deals,
having to travel.
With Millie, it was a
different relationship.
I knew that her
career was everything
and she loved singing.
But obviously, she
loves her kids more.
So stopping her
career was a big deal.
She sacrificed so much.
I haven't eaten in,
like, five days.
Bro, I gotta make weight.
I do a great meatloaf.
- Oh, she does.
- That I do.
- Yeah, she can cook.
- Yes.
She can't cook what I eat
for training, for fights.
But when I'm not training,
she cooks a hell of a good
meatloaf, let me tell you.
We can eat meatloaf every night.
Wow.
After, like, two weeks,
I get tired of it, but...
You know, 'cause you eat
meatloaf every day...
Hey, you never told
me that before.
Now, the first time
that I cook for him,
I made him a hamburger.
I spit it out.
Yeah, that's...
But it's not that you made it.
It was bought from a
store. And it was...
But you should have eaten it.
Yeah, but it was really bad.
Because... no, but you
should have, you know?
We were coming out...
We were going out
at the beginning.
- And, you know...
- I should have.
It's to be polite.
She was so pissed off.
Yeah, I thought
about dumping him.
But then I married him.
I wasn't happy being at home.
And as much as I
tried to make it work,
my mind was always
somewhere else.
I would go to New York,
where I was in my own world.
f*cking around,
partying, drinking,
living the f*cking
celebrity life.
That was it.
You know, that's
what I got used to.
That's what life is.
And then one of those
nights, you know,
we went to the strip club.
It was one of those wild nights.
All-nighter, private
room, cocaine.
And that's where I met her.
f*cking Milana.
Uh...
I was dancing in one of
the nightclubs in New York.
And that's how I met Oscar.
He was very joyful.
He was very kind.
I felt like a...
Like, you can fall in
love with his spirit
very easily from day one.
He's very charismatic.
And we exchanged numbers,
and then we hung out.
I flew into different places
and brought my friends.
And we had, like, a fun
slumber party kind of situation.
We had music on and
did some substances
that enhance the experience.
When he would have
long trainings,
I wouldn't see him for a while.
And then when he would
show up, he would show up.
There was no
attachments, no strings.
It was only the present moment,
which was deeply liberating.
Sometimes it would be, like,
for ten days at a time,
I would spend time with him.
So I would really
get to know him.
We had a very similar
life situation.
I started working in
the Russian circus
when I was seven years old.
And so I can fully understand
what he was going through,
being a commodity
and being imposed
to be that specific
person that you're not.
And so I had a
lot of compassion.
And it created the
space where he can
freely express himself,
whatever it is that
needed to play out.
He was able to, you know,
shut the door and be himself.
I wake up one morning.
And my handlers called me,
saying, "Hey, somebody
took pictures of you."
What the f*ck?
My lawyer just said these
people want $1,000,000
to make these pictures go away.
So I was like, "We gotta
make this f*cking disappear."
My lawyer and Richard Schaefer,
they caught a flight that night.
I was in the hotel
room sweating b*ll*ts,
thinking about my wife, my kids.
And finally they
called and said, "Okay,
we made the million
dollar payment."
But that next morning...
Front page of the
"New York Post."
It's Oscar De La Hoya.
These pictures that
have surfaced...
- It's crazy.
- Yeah.
You know...
I'm saying, why don't
we move past that?
I was just like, "Oh, my God."
Like, this... Like,
this cannot be him.
I was in shock.
You could imagine
the calls I got.
I was pissed.
This is f*cking bad.
Oh, this is bad.
My heart f*cking dropped.
First thing I thought
about were my kids.
It was uncomfortable.
I'm getting side eye.
Everybody was asking
questions about,
"That's your partner.
Is you okay? You all right?"
I said, "What do you mean?"
Like, I'm, like,
defending myself now.
And I didn't even know what
the hell I was defending.
I'm thinking to myself, you
know, is this photoshopped?
This could be photoshopped.
I was in shock to find out
that the photos even existed.
And then the next day, they
were all over the news.
Every single front
page newspaper,
there you go, Oscar
wearing a fishnet
with a Russian, beautiful,
gorgeous stripper.
Then obviously, I had no
more contact with Oscar.
Now I'm only dealing with
his PR people and lawyer.
It was not me
selling the photos.
Of course, they
didn't believe me.
They thought I was just
trying to make money.
I said, "I want to see Oscar."
Like, "I want to talk to him.
"I want to tell him this.
And let's see how
we can fix this."
So they called every
single newspaper
that they knew and
put me on the phone.
And I said, "I am Milana Dravnel
"and I'm saying that
the pictures were fake
and they were photoshopped."
We hired a forensic expert
who can tell whether
pictures are doctored
or if they're real or not.
We can see here that
whoever retouched this
has pulled a fake piece
of hair across the seam
at which the head was
added to the body.
And around that
hair, you can see
the light-colored
skin of the body
where they didn't go in
and actually fix that.
We can also see changing
resolutions in here
that clearly indicate that
this has been retouched.
He said it, "They're
fake photos,"
and everybody believed it.
So... f*ck.
I'm in the clear.
Hey, hey!
Hey, Oscar! We're
from East LA!
- What's up, man?
- East LA!
Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to this afternoon's
very special ceremony
for a very special person.
And for all the wonderful things
he has accomplished in the ring,
he is a better person
outside of the ring.
Uno, dos, tres!
Oscar!
Never in my wildest dreams
did I think I would be
standing on this podium
with a statue right in
front of Wayne Gretzky
and next to Magic Johnson.
It makes you realize
how important it is
to be the best person I can be,
the best role model I can be.
Boxing, for me,
is just a vehicle.
So thank you very much.
Oscar!
I still remember, to this day,
the conversation
I had with Oscar
when I first told him, "Hey,
you should fight Pacquiao."
Oscar laughed.
"He's too little.
"He's too little, that guy.
There is a difference
of almost 20 pounds."
People want to see that
fight. People are excited.
He's the guy that's coming up.
You know, Pacquiao's,
pound-for-pound,
the best fighter in the world.
Oscar feels very relaxed
and very focused.
He's working on what
he has to work on.
He's fast, Oscar,
but eventually,
your size is gonna
break them down.
They're trying to k*ll me here.
- How many miles...
- Bring it on, baby.
I don't care.
Bring it on. Sure.
I've been through hell and back.
I've been here. I've...
A lot of fights.
I've been and done everything.
I was always the first one
to wake up and go to run.
I was always the
last one at the gym.
At this point, it's
like I'm struggling.
But I had to keep pushing.
I needed to find a way to win.
There you go. Work that hip.
Pull it back in.
Pull it back in.
Time!
I was starting to feel
all the years of taking punches.
I knew this was my last fight.
But I couldn't tell anybody.
My team was relying
on me to win.
It was my secret.
I felt alone.
And for the first time,
I was drunk during camp.
Coming to the ring,
pound-for-pound, the
best in the world,
Manny "PacMan" Pacquiao.
A final prayer for Pacquiao.
Walking into the boxing ring,
the fear that I had inside
was slowly, slowly
just building.
Boxing was what I did
practically all my life,
since I was five years old.
What is my life gonna
be after I leave boxing?
I mean, after I hang up
the gloves, who am I?
Who in the f*ck am I?
I want a good, clean fight.
Obey my commands at all times.
Above all, protect
yourselves at all times.
Let's go.
The Filipino crowd
chanting for Pacquiao,
even before the opening bell.
He takes a straight left hand
and a right hook from Pacquiao.
Those two punches have
reddened Oscar's face already.
And now De La Hoya nails
Pacquiao momentarily.
But he can't find
Pacquiao at the moment.
I think the speed has
been bothersome for Oscar
throughout the round.
Something was not right. I
could see it in his eyes.
He's not even throwing punches.
What is he doing?
Pacquiao sneaks his left hand
through De La Hoya's guard.
I was like, f*ck.
He had no legs. He had
no pop. He had no punch.
Pacquiao is making
De La Hoya look old,
slow, ineffectual.
De La Hoya has zero answers
for the Pacquiao as*ault.
I was scared.
And I said, you know what?
The spark's not there.
He doesn't have it.
He doesn't have it.
Manny Pacquiao is
annihilating Oscar De La Hoya.
And Oscar is barely
throwing back.
Time!
After a few rounds,
came back slumped in his corner.
And I asked, "How
are you feeling?
How are you doing?"
And you can just see it in
his face, just defeated.
I knew right there and
then it was just over.
It was over.
We're gonna...
We're gonna throw...
We're gonna finish the fight.
We can't be receiving
punches like that,
one after the other.
I knew I was gonna get beat up.
I was gonna lose.
But something called me back.
Just give me that one last time.
How he stood up, I don't know.
Because he had nothing.
I'm thinking to
myself, "Oh, sh*t,
he just wants to
die in the ring."
Being inside that ring,
it was a strange relationship
I had with boxing.
It was my love, my pain,
my drug, everything.
I wasn't ready to let it go.
Telling myself, "Man, if
I get hit with one punch
and I never wake up,
it's gonna be okay."
As long as I was inside the
ring, it's gonna be okay.
I was hoping for that.
Hit me with one shot.
I want to get knocked out.
I saw Oscar on
corner of the ring.
He had this blank
stare in his face.
Just dead inside.
I'm just yelling, "Someone
please stop the fight!
Stop the fight!"
There's a lot of glory...
And a lot of money in
Oscar De La Hoya's past,
but it could be that the
long and glorious run
of the Golden Boy is
seeing the curtain drawn
here tonight.
Okay, listen, listen, listen.
If you keep taking punches,
I'm stopping the fight, okay?
It's over!
Manny Pacquiao has
beaten Oscar De La Hoya.
And it was the
right thing to do.
The nearest wall, I
just kind of collapsed.
I just, like...
everything just...
Like, my soul just kind
of drained out of me.
And I just... I slumped
over and I started crying.
I...
I never thought I'd
see that, you know?
I never thought I'd
see that moment come.
It's like climbing a
mountain, you know?
You want to get to the top.
That's your goal.
That's your dream.
There's no turning back.
So I'm there climbing
the mountain.
And once I get to the
top, I'm not satisfied.
I won 11 world titles
in six different weight classes.
I mean, who in the f*ck is
not satisfied with that?
But I didn't live
up to my potential
inside the ring.
I could have given a lot more.
I could have been...
Yeah, I could have been.
Boxing is what I was born to do.
And when I can't do it
anymore, when I can compete
at the highest level,
it's... it's not fair.
It's not fair to me. It's
not fair to... to the fans.
It's not fair to nobody.
I'm announcing my retirement.
This is the end of the road
for me inside the ring.
The king is dead.
At least the king of box office.
Oscar De La Hoya
had a great career.
He fought with
glory and dignity,
certainly a Hall of Fame career.
He brought people into boxing
who would not normally
have been there.
I represent a lot of people
who couldn't care
less about boxing,
but I liked him.
Fans want fighters
who take risks.
That's what Oscar De La
Hoya has given to boxing
through the whole second
half of his career.
There's a difference between
champions and superstars.
If you go to LA Live, you'll
see a statue out there.
Yo, that's respect.
How many greats in
LA ain't got that?
But out with the old
and in with the new.
I know it's not fair.
But who said fighting is fair?
After I retired, I was
just f*cking boozing it up.
Searching for that rush.
I'm gonna come out of
the closet as Superman.
To be honest, I never
thought there was a problem.
We were out partying, we
were all having a good time.
You know, I'm in the
mix. I'm in the mix.
But then I started
doing my own thing.
And he's doing his thing.
And I let him continue,
you know, getting deeper
and deeper into the
partying and the nightlife
and what have you.
When it became a problem
was when he admitted himself
into rehab.
Me and Millie were
arguing about something.
And she told me, "Look,
you embarrass me.
"You embarrass the family.
"I want you to go
on national TV.
I want you to tell the
whole world the truth."
It was more than once.
But taking pictures,
I don't remember.
I do remember there
were two girls.
And then all of a sudden,
it's like, boom, blacked out.
Of course I lied.
But I lied, you know,
to cover him up.
Because I never meant for
the pictures to come out.
I understood exactly
what he needed.
The feminine expression,
being able to be joyful
and playful and child-like,
all those qualities
were suppressed.
And he was, like, really
connected to the feminine,
especially with me.
You know, some people get drunk
and they just want to roll
on the floor and do nothing.
No, he wanted to sing
and put on clothes
and pretend, play.
And sometimes he would cry.
He would, like,
break down crying,
which most men can't do.
I didn't feel judged.
It was playful.
I'm a fighter.
I'm a manly guy.
And it's like, "Okay,
let me throw this on.
Oh, no, it's funny.
Oh, yeah, whatever."
It's, like, no big deal.
He did mention to me...
I don't know how
much of it is true.
Maybe it's all a part
of his imagination.
But he told me his mother
always wanted a little girl.
So she would dress him up
in little girls' clothes
and they would sing
around and play.
We often dressed up.
I would shop specifically
for him thinking, like,
"Oh, this tutu would
look great on him.
Oh, this fishnet."
He said, "Bullshit.
"They f*cking, you
know, photoshopped this.
"It's bullshit.
"This f*cking girl
is trying to get me.
They just want to extort me."
But I knew they were real.
I know him.
I didn't believe them
until he came out
and said it was him.
He doesn't come out and
talk to us beforehand.
It's always through the media.
My mom, her main goal
was for me to have a dad.
She tried for many years,
dealing with lawyers
on the phone,
reaching out to people
in my dad's camp.
They didn't want me around
for certain reasons.
I mean, probably had to do
with his career and whatnot.
She tried every which
way to connect them.
And Oscar resisted
for many reasons.
I don't know if it was something
that was advised to stay away.
"She trapped you. She
did this on purpose."
I don't know the reasons,
but he resisted seeing him.
I was just afraid.
I was basically scared, you
know, to confront, to...
To look at him in the eyes.
I just grew tired
of it, to be honest.
I haven't met him in 16 years.
I just decided to reach out.
And I actually messaged
him on Instagram.
And I said, "Hey, you
know, now's the time.
"I'm grown enough to understand.
"Like, hey, you know,
"let's just be
both the bigger man
and just get this
over with, you know?"
I met him when I was 16.
We planned this
dinner that night,
this little Mexican
restaurant at the MGM.
Long dinner table in
the back, private room.
I remember just
thinking in my head,
like, what am I gonna say?
What am I gonna say?
What is he gonna say?
You know?
Waiting, waiting,
waiting, waiting.
Didn't want to order food.
And he came through
the back door.
And I saw him and I
just started bawling.
When I first saw him,
all I saw in his eyes,
it was f*cking pain.
The pain that I
caused, that k*lled me.
The emotions going
through my body
were just sad, happy,
the whole nine,
but also angry, you know?
I just wanted to hug
him, but also, you know,
I just wanted to f*cking
punch him in the face.
But I just held him
as tight as I could,
and I didn't want to let go.
I didn't want to let go.
That's the one thing I
regret the most is...
Is not being there for him,
you know, when he was a kid.
But, you know, it's like...
I'm here, you know?
I'm here now.
Family. That's
what I was missing.
The first time I met Devon,
I was sat next to him
on the same plane.
She was like, "Devon?"
I was like, "Ati?"
We were going to
a fight in Texas.
You don't realize, like,
how much you have in common
with your brother
that you never knew.
We were gonna
become best friends,
but then we're kind of
like, why would you sit us
on the plane next to each
other for us to, like,
meet for the first
time, you know?
So we got to Texas and
then we had a hotel room
directly next to each other.
I was in my hotel room
and my brother
knocked on my door.
And it was just like,
"Hey. Hey, brother."
And we just hugged it out.
I've developed a
close relationship
with my younger brother
Devon and Atiana.
Looking at it now,
we've all kind of been
struggling with the same things,
which is something
that we can relate on.
We all grew up
really differently.
I guess what I didn't expect
was how similar we all are.
We're the same three people.
We tell each other all the time
how much we love each other.
We, more than our dad,
look out for each other.
I was a coward.
I kept on giving myself excuses.
But the bottom line is,
I wasn't there for them.
I wasn't a father.
I would think about my
mother all the time,
hoping and wishing
she was here to help,
hoping and wishing that
I can have some guidance.
She would have reminded me,
"Son, that kid is
your priority now.
"f*ck boxing.
"Jacob, Devon, and Atiana,
"these are your
championship belts.
"These are your gold medals.
This is priority."
It would have been different
if she was here, you know?
He offered me a
job at Golden Boy.
Of course, I accepted.
The relationship
has gotten better.
It's not, you know, the easiest.
Nobody's perfect.
He was on Instagram Live
late at night, drunk.
We talked to him
about, you know,
"You're kind of embarrassing us.
"People are seeing this.
You know, it's all
over the news."
There's no one in his life
that's going to say no to him.
We are the only people
that can do that.
He was like, "You know what?
I'm glad you told me
because I needed it."
And then the dinner was
kind of awkward after that.
And then our
relationship kind of got
a little bit rocky.
At that point, do you
just bite the b*llet
and just take the
drinking at 3:00 a.m.
and have a good
relationship with him,
or tell him to stop,
and then, you know,
he doesn't talk to
you for a few months?
He's asked for forgiveness
and he's also made it clear
that he's going to
try to do better.
It's the best thing that
someone can ask for, you know?
He and I actually went to
dinner not that long ago.
He said, "You know, you
didn't deserve that.
"I'm truly, truly sorry
for humiliating you
and hurting you."
And... you know,
and it was sincere.
And it was like, I had, like,
that glimmer of my friend back,
and I hadn't seen
that, you know,
since he had left
me in that car.
But I still think he's
a work in progress.
As a family, I think we've
managed, along the way,
to carry the name with
honor and respect.
But again, there's been these,
you know, moments where...
You know, these dark moments.
Boxing legend Oscar
De La Hoya is facing
allegations of multiple
sexual as*ault.
I care for him. I love
him so g*dd*mn much
that, you know, it hurts.
You know, I just...
I just, you know, feel
like getting him...
Like, giving him a
swift kick in the a*s,
you know, once in a while
just to wake his a*s up.
De La Hoya released a statement
denying the allegations.
You're gonna be 50
years old, Oscar.
Is this where you want to be?
Is this where you imagined
yourself to be at 50?
Still having lawsuits,
still having problems.
Now that I'm running
the company for him,
it makes it very,
very difficult.
Because you're the one that
fields the phone calls.
It's very frustrating.
It makes you want to run.
But then, you know, look,
it's a family member.
You have to have compassion.
He falls down ten times,
you lift him up ten times.
And you keep helping him.
And eventually, you're
gonna get it right.
But deep down, I know
it's probably never
gonna be smooth sailing.
You're always trying to
get to that smooth sailing.
It's probably
never gonna happen.
And I think the reason why he's
doing this film, in many ways,
is because he's
trying to transform.
He's trying to cleanse himself.
He's got so many things
stored inside, secrets,
things that he wants to get out.
It's liberating.
There's nothing more powerful,
nothing more powerful
than telling the truth.
I always thought that money
takes care of everything.
Fighting out of the blue corner,
a young man who captured
Olympic gold in 1992...
And now most of my relationships
are transactional.
Former junior lightweight,
former lightweight,
former super lightweight,
former two-time...
Being famous is a
double-edged sword.
Being loved by
complete strangers,
you start to ask yourself,
"This is all fake.
Nobody really loves me. I'm
just a f*cking commodity."
But then again, it's
like, when I'm at home
and I'm alone, I miss it.
Former two-time
junior middleweight
and former middleweight
champion of the world!
I've done a lot of
f*cking work on myself.
All the pain I caused,
I just regret it.
I'm grateful my kids still
want a relationship with me.
I sometimes think about,
"Man, if I could have
done things differently," but,
you know, the past is the past.
The past I can't change.
The Golden Boy from East LA,
Oscar De La Hoya!
The Golden Boy.
It's all f*cking bullshit,
and that's all it is.
I'm done running.
It's time. It's time to live.
It's time to live in reality.
Yeah.
Go!
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01x02 - Episode 2
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It peels back the layers of Oscar de la Hoya while celebrating this complicated and controversial figure.
It peels back the layers of Oscar de la Hoya while celebrating this complicated and controversial figure.