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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 fucking ready to implode.

My life was different.

You know, I grew up in a...

I grew up where, literally, I was...

I was the shit.

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 fuck 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 fuck is going on?

Huh?

I landed 120 more fucking 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! - Shit!

- That is some royal fucking... - 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 shit 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 rape

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 rape

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 bitch.

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, fuck.

"Let me just go back and focus on my one thing

"that makes me happy, and that's being in the ring

and fucking 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 fucking 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 war,

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 fucking balls.

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 bitch

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 ass.

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 ass. 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.

Fucking around, partying, drinking,

living the fucking 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.

Fucking 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 fuck?

My lawyer just said these people want $1,000,000

to make these pictures go away.

So I was like, "We gotta make this fucking disappear."

My lawyer and Richard Schaefer,

they caught a flight that night.

I was in the hotel room sweating bullets,

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 fucking bad.

Oh, this is bad.

My heart fucking 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... fuck.

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 kill 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 fuck 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, fuck.

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 assault.

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, shit,

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 fuck 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 fucking 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 fucking, you know, photoshopped this.

"It's bullshit.

"This fucking 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 fucking pain.

The pain that I caused, that killed 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 fucking 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.

"Fuck 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 bullet

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 assault.

I care for him. I love him so goddamn 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 ass,

you know, once in a while just to wake his ass 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 fucking 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 fucking 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 fucking 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!

All: Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! Oscar!