1 00:00:12,663 --> 00:00:18,499 - I've never told anybody about my life, 2 00:00:18,569 --> 00:00:24,272 about my emotions, about the reality 3 00:00:24,341 --> 00:00:27,309 of what really happened, what has happened 4 00:00:27,378 --> 00:00:29,844 in my life, how I feel. 5 00:00:29,913 --> 00:00:33,415 These are my true emotions. These are my feelings. 6 00:00:33,484 --> 00:00:36,651 There's no fucking sugarcoating anything. 7 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,121 I'm just tired of it, so I have to speak. 8 00:00:39,190 --> 00:00:43,660 I have to say it out loud to free myself. 9 00:00:43,729 --> 00:00:45,561 That's the only way. 10 00:00:45,630 --> 00:00:51,200 That's the only fucking way because the last 45 years 11 00:00:51,269 --> 00:00:55,070 have been pretty dark. 12 00:00:57,775 --> 00:01:00,309 - That's Oscar De La Hoya, from East Los Angeles, 13 00:01:00,378 --> 00:01:04,446 at 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and just 19 years old. 14 00:01:04,515 --> 00:01:08,450 He comes here without his most ardent supporter. 15 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:13,255 Mom Cecilia died two years ago from cancer at age 38. 16 00:01:13,324 --> 00:01:15,223 - Before my mother passed away, 17 00:01:15,292 --> 00:01:17,192 she told me she wanted the gold medal. 18 00:01:17,261 --> 00:01:19,527 - This is the gold medal fight. 19 00:01:19,596 --> 00:01:21,696 I think everyone, certainly in the U.S., 20 00:01:21,765 --> 00:01:24,099 knows the emotion that Oscar De La Hoya 21 00:01:24,168 --> 00:01:26,068 carries into the ring. 22 00:01:27,738 --> 00:01:29,704 - I wanted to trick people into believing 23 00:01:29,773 --> 00:01:32,711 that I'm the perfect fucking individual. 24 00:01:33,377 --> 00:01:35,677 - The death of his mother, promise made, 25 00:01:35,746 --> 00:01:38,684 heck of a burden on just a 19-year-old kid. 26 00:01:40,184 --> 00:01:42,985 - The media created this person, 27 00:01:43,054 --> 00:01:45,821 but I didn't know who I was. 28 00:01:45,890 --> 00:01:47,889 - This is a family fight. 29 00:01:47,958 --> 00:01:51,459 The entire De La Hoya family, even back in East Los Angeles, 30 00:01:51,528 --> 00:01:55,030 grandfather from Mexico is there watching. 31 00:01:55,099 --> 00:01:57,967 - He knows it's on the line. 32 00:01:58,036 --> 00:01:59,835 - Oh! 33 00:01:59,904 --> 00:02:02,738 Huge left hand. 34 00:02:02,807 --> 00:02:04,940 - I'm different. 35 00:02:05,009 --> 00:02:08,277 I'm not like you. 36 00:02:08,346 --> 00:02:11,013 I'm not like a lot of people. 37 00:02:12,450 --> 00:02:15,217 - East Los Angeles is now on the edge 38 00:02:15,286 --> 00:02:17,785 of their collective chairs. 39 00:02:17,854 --> 00:02:22,691 Oscar De La Hoya has kept the promise to his mother. 40 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,295 - Oscar De La Hoya, he not only brought home the gold, 41 00:02:26,364 --> 00:02:29,999 he brought honor to his mom's memory. 42 00:02:30,068 --> 00:02:32,268 - Everyone thought they knew me. 43 00:02:32,337 --> 00:02:35,971 It was just all a lie because that's what I do. 44 00:02:41,579 --> 00:02:44,614 But the truth always comes out. 45 00:03:13,177 --> 00:03:16,178 I grew up in an apartment. 46 00:03:16,247 --> 00:03:20,549 About 4:00 in the morning, my father would kick the door. 47 00:03:20,618 --> 00:03:23,185 And that was my call. That's my call. 48 00:03:23,254 --> 00:03:25,655 You got to wake up. Time to run. 49 00:03:28,259 --> 00:03:32,561 At ten years old, I was on a mission. 50 00:03:32,630 --> 00:03:36,132 I've already been programmed to be a fighter. 51 00:03:38,936 --> 00:03:43,805 Running through the streets of East LA was dangerous. 52 00:03:43,874 --> 00:03:46,708 First of all, you don't have the right shoes on, 53 00:03:46,777 --> 00:03:50,712 so you can hear the pavement just pounding. 54 00:03:50,781 --> 00:03:53,448 You're in the neighborhood where people are still up, 55 00:03:53,517 --> 00:03:55,312 partying, and there's gangs. 56 00:03:55,381 --> 00:03:57,585 And you're hoping that somebody doesn't run out 57 00:03:57,654 --> 00:04:01,189 and grab you, or punch you, or hit you. 58 00:04:01,258 --> 00:04:04,593 One time, I see these dogs. 59 00:04:04,662 --> 00:04:06,728 And all of a sudden, one barks. 60 00:04:06,797 --> 00:04:09,865 And then all of them just come straight at me, 61 00:04:09,934 --> 00:04:13,269 and I climbed the cemetery fence. 62 00:04:13,338 --> 00:04:15,704 So I remember just hanging on, 63 00:04:15,773 --> 00:04:17,873 with my hands just being bloody. 64 00:04:21,645 --> 00:04:24,613 Walking up the block back to my house, 65 00:04:24,682 --> 00:04:26,915 I would hear this angelic voice. 66 00:04:33,191 --> 00:04:35,190 - It was my mother singing. 67 00:04:38,596 --> 00:04:41,798 - She would be cooking for me and singing Spanish songs. 68 00:04:41,867 --> 00:04:44,834 She used to sing with a lot of passion. 69 00:04:44,903 --> 00:04:47,302 It's almost like if you're crying. 70 00:04:51,509 --> 00:04:55,977 - Listening to my mother sing, I always felt safe. 71 00:04:56,046 --> 00:04:59,314 It's a beautiful thing to listen to when you're a kid 72 00:04:59,383 --> 00:05:02,417 and all you want is a hug. 73 00:05:12,729 --> 00:05:15,397 - We were friends, but when we got together, 74 00:05:15,466 --> 00:05:17,733 we never really talked about the boxing. 75 00:05:17,802 --> 00:05:20,535 We just talked about having fun. 76 00:05:20,604 --> 00:05:22,605 We talked about, you know, "Hey, I have a dollar. 77 00:05:22,674 --> 00:05:24,506 Let's go to the store." 78 00:05:24,575 --> 00:05:25,975 Because we were always starving, 79 00:05:26,044 --> 00:05:28,244 and we were always broke. 80 00:05:28,313 --> 00:05:31,413 My very first experience with boxing 81 00:05:31,482 --> 00:05:34,549 was watching the Olympics, 1984. 82 00:05:34,618 --> 00:05:37,385 Paul Gonzales, boxer from East LA, 83 00:05:37,454 --> 00:05:39,354 was competing for the gold medal. 84 00:05:39,423 --> 00:05:41,890 - Paul Gonzales won the gold medal. 85 00:05:41,959 --> 00:05:45,260 And so I thought to myself, I want to be that hero 86 00:05:45,329 --> 00:05:48,463 for my city, for East LA. 87 00:05:48,532 --> 00:05:51,566 I had an Olympic poster of the little mascot 88 00:05:51,635 --> 00:05:54,937 holding little boxing gloves, and I signed it, 89 00:05:55,006 --> 00:05:58,072 "Oscar De La Hoya, Olympic Champion." 90 00:05:58,141 --> 00:06:02,411 My first autograph that I had ever given was to myself. 91 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,680 That's when I knew, OK, you know, 92 00:06:04,749 --> 00:06:06,176 I'm fighting for something. 93 00:06:06,245 --> 00:06:09,619 You know, I have a goal. I have a vision. 94 00:06:12,824 --> 00:06:14,490 - We were in the sixth grade, 95 00:06:14,559 --> 00:06:16,692 and our teacher gave us an assignment, 96 00:06:16,761 --> 00:06:18,928 what you want to be when you grow up? 97 00:06:18,997 --> 00:06:20,929 Kids went up. "I want to be a doctor." 98 00:06:20,998 --> 00:06:23,598 Another one went up and said, "I want to be a dentist." 99 00:06:23,667 --> 00:06:26,635 So then Oscar went up, and he said that he wanted 100 00:06:26,704 --> 00:06:30,640 to be an Olympian, and he was going to win 101 00:06:30,709 --> 00:06:32,607 the gold medal as a boxer. 102 00:06:32,676 --> 00:06:35,378 And he was going to be champion of the world. 103 00:06:35,447 --> 00:06:37,480 We laughed out loud. 104 00:06:40,986 --> 00:06:44,156 - All the kids just started laughing. 105 00:06:45,389 --> 00:06:48,458 I'm this shy kid. 106 00:06:48,527 --> 00:06:50,726 It devastated me. 107 00:06:50,795 --> 00:06:52,961 What are you laughing at? 108 00:06:53,030 --> 00:06:57,232 But the person who laughed the most was my teacher. 109 00:06:59,404 --> 00:07:02,238 I'm being serious. 110 00:07:02,307 --> 00:07:05,140 This is my dream. 111 00:07:05,209 --> 00:07:09,078 But it became a nightmare. 112 00:07:10,982 --> 00:07:15,352 I told myself, I'm gonna show you. 113 00:07:17,221 --> 00:07:19,717 You're gonna respect me. 114 00:07:22,426 --> 00:07:26,061 - The teacher kept him after class. 115 00:07:26,130 --> 00:07:30,032 And I went back, peered through the window. 116 00:07:32,003 --> 00:07:33,903 He was crying. 117 00:07:42,913 --> 00:07:44,946 - Ladies and gentlemen, as we start our descent 118 00:07:45,015 --> 00:07:47,095 into Los Angeles, please make sure your seat backs... 119 00:08:10,474 --> 00:08:14,143 - When we landed, they opened the doors to the airplane. 120 00:08:14,212 --> 00:08:16,612 There's people everywhere. 121 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,547 And I'm looking at the stewardess like, 122 00:08:18,616 --> 00:08:21,017 oh, my God, who are they here for? 123 00:08:21,086 --> 00:08:24,086 And she's like, "They're here for you." 124 00:08:31,662 --> 00:08:34,129 People asking for autographs, taking pictures. 125 00:08:34,198 --> 00:08:36,398 Girls are screaming. 126 00:08:36,467 --> 00:08:38,500 My life just changed completely, 127 00:08:38,569 --> 00:08:40,798 right there in that moment. 128 00:08:42,974 --> 00:08:46,376 The world fell in love with my story. 129 00:08:46,445 --> 00:08:49,311 And I felt it. 130 00:08:49,380 --> 00:08:52,749 I felt like a celebrity. 131 00:08:52,818 --> 00:08:54,517 I felt like a star. 132 00:08:58,422 --> 00:09:02,991 - When he came back from the Olympics, I was ten. 133 00:09:03,060 --> 00:09:05,060 I was just overwhelmed because there was 134 00:09:05,129 --> 00:09:08,330 so much media and people cheering for him. 135 00:09:08,399 --> 00:09:10,933 And at one point, I was just like, what's going on? 136 00:09:11,002 --> 00:09:13,939 Like, why is everybody cheering for my brother? 137 00:09:15,372 --> 00:09:21,371 - There's a caravan of cars going back to East LA, 138 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,146 the News, Channel 7, Channel 4. 139 00:09:29,986 --> 00:09:32,222 People were waiting for me outside of my house. 140 00:09:36,527 --> 00:09:38,660 And I wasn't that shy boy anymore. 141 00:09:38,729 --> 00:09:42,464 I wasn't that kid that is gonna turn red. 142 00:09:42,533 --> 00:09:44,867 I instantly played the part. 143 00:09:44,936 --> 00:09:46,569 I'm representing East Los Angeles. 144 00:09:46,638 --> 00:09:47,936 - Yeah! 145 00:09:48,005 --> 00:09:49,404 - I'm representing Latin Americans, 146 00:09:49,473 --> 00:09:51,173 and I'm representing Mexicans. 147 00:09:51,242 --> 00:09:52,174 - Yeah. 148 00:09:52,243 --> 00:09:54,310 - The best part of East LA, Oscar De La Hoya! 149 00:09:58,916 --> 00:10:01,050 - Everybody loved me. 150 00:10:28,479 --> 00:10:32,382 - When I got home, all I can think about was my mother. 151 00:10:34,919 --> 00:10:37,653 And I wanted to have a moment to just... 152 00:10:37,722 --> 00:10:40,356 To feel it all, you know? 153 00:10:40,425 --> 00:10:42,991 But I couldn't. 154 00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:45,006 - He's won our hearts recently when he fulfilled a promise 155 00:10:45,030 --> 00:10:47,062 to his mom to win the Olympic gold medal. 156 00:10:47,131 --> 00:10:48,864 Please welcome Oscar De La Hoya. 157 00:11:12,891 --> 00:11:15,261 Good to see you. 158 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,593 Good to see you. 159 00:11:18,662 --> 00:11:20,228 Congratulations on the gold medal there. 160 00:11:20,297 --> 00:11:21,997 Boy, that's... can I... - Sure, of course. 161 00:11:22,066 --> 00:11:23,376 - That's my second one there I've touched. 162 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,812 We had Mark on the other day. Boy, that's... 163 00:11:24,836 --> 00:11:26,002 - Yeah, kind of heavy. 164 00:11:26,071 --> 00:11:27,447 - Oh, yeah, you get back trouble if you 165 00:11:27,471 --> 00:11:28,937 wear that too long, yeah. 166 00:11:29,006 --> 00:11:31,084 And you were... you went to the White House yesterday, right? 167 00:11:31,108 --> 00:11:32,474 - Yes, we went to the White House 168 00:11:32,543 --> 00:11:33,709 and had a great time there. 169 00:11:33,778 --> 00:11:35,177 - Oh, yeah? 170 00:11:35,246 --> 00:11:37,146 - I went to the restroom, and it was like... 171 00:11:37,215 --> 00:11:41,451 I mean, to be seated on the seat where George Bush sits... 172 00:11:42,954 --> 00:11:45,121 - He was an excellent guest. 173 00:11:45,190 --> 00:11:46,616 He was human. 174 00:11:46,685 --> 00:11:48,591 And you know, that connection with his mom 175 00:11:48,660 --> 00:11:50,793 gave him a real empathy. 176 00:11:50,862 --> 00:11:54,864 It made him vulnerable but tougher. 177 00:11:57,768 --> 00:12:01,770 - It was instant celebrity, instant pride from everyone. 178 00:12:01,839 --> 00:12:05,707 He belonged to East LA. He did it for us. 179 00:12:05,776 --> 00:12:08,244 - Now I'm like a local celebrity, 180 00:12:08,313 --> 00:12:10,346 and I'm in shock. 181 00:12:10,415 --> 00:12:12,682 I was walking around with my gold medal around my neck 182 00:12:12,751 --> 00:12:14,850 everywhere I went. 183 00:12:14,919 --> 00:12:16,729 People would recognize me, and they would ask me, 184 00:12:16,753 --> 00:12:17,965 oh, my God, where's your gold medal? 185 00:12:17,989 --> 00:12:20,323 And I would just pull it out. It's right here. 186 00:12:23,161 --> 00:12:25,928 My mother was my... Is my biggest boxing fan. 187 00:12:25,997 --> 00:12:28,865 And I mean, unfortunately, she passed away. 188 00:12:28,934 --> 00:12:32,000 And the way we made the promise together 189 00:12:32,069 --> 00:12:35,805 about me winning the gold medal years before... 190 00:12:35,874 --> 00:12:37,139 I mean, when I started boxing, 191 00:12:37,208 --> 00:12:39,107 she used to cheer me on all the time. 192 00:12:39,176 --> 00:12:41,477 And now the promise I made, I fulfilled my dreams, 193 00:12:41,546 --> 00:12:44,381 and I really can't have anything more in life. 194 00:12:44,450 --> 00:12:45,647 - Oh, that's great. 195 00:12:45,716 --> 00:12:49,284 - For a few days after getting back from Barcelona, 196 00:12:49,353 --> 00:12:53,489 I finally went to her grave to talk to her. 197 00:13:01,265 --> 00:13:04,701 I accomplished my mom's dream. I have my gold medal. 198 00:13:06,971 --> 00:13:11,506 But now I have promoters calling our home, 199 00:13:11,575 --> 00:13:14,410 managers putting pressure. 200 00:13:14,479 --> 00:13:16,846 I felt that burden. 201 00:13:16,915 --> 00:13:18,246 And I was like, I don't know. 202 00:13:18,315 --> 00:13:20,116 I don't know if I want to do this. 203 00:13:22,553 --> 00:13:25,955 I want to live this lifestyle that I have in East LA, 204 00:13:26,024 --> 00:13:28,524 little celebrity. 205 00:13:28,593 --> 00:13:30,826 But at the same time, 206 00:13:30,895 --> 00:13:34,266 I did not want to disappoint my father. 207 00:13:44,342 --> 00:13:46,808 - I didn't know how to talk to my father 208 00:13:46,877 --> 00:13:50,545 to tell him how I felt, and keep in mind, 209 00:13:50,614 --> 00:13:53,783 it was supposed to be my brother, not me. 210 00:13:55,353 --> 00:13:57,420 - I used to use him as a Guinea pig. 211 00:13:57,489 --> 00:13:58,854 You know? 212 00:13:58,923 --> 00:14:01,056 I used to love playing baseball. 213 00:14:01,125 --> 00:14:03,625 And I used to use him as a catcher. 214 00:14:03,694 --> 00:14:05,227 You know, he hated it, but I used 215 00:14:05,296 --> 00:14:07,229 to drag him out into the driveway behind the gate 216 00:14:07,298 --> 00:14:12,501 and make him catch tennis balls or whatever we had. 217 00:14:12,570 --> 00:14:14,770 I used to make him cry because he didn't want to do it, 218 00:14:14,839 --> 00:14:16,906 but I had to practice, right? 219 00:14:16,975 --> 00:14:20,443 I was kind of like the bully around the block. 220 00:14:20,512 --> 00:14:22,210 - Joel was a cool guy. 221 00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:24,146 He started getting into punk rock music. 222 00:14:24,215 --> 00:14:27,216 He started buying all these shirts with bands on them. 223 00:14:27,285 --> 00:14:30,753 So Oscar thought it was cool to wait 224 00:14:30,822 --> 00:14:32,655 till his brother went to school, 225 00:14:32,724 --> 00:14:34,156 and then we would get his shirts. 226 00:14:34,225 --> 00:14:36,258 Hey, yo, wear this one. This one's cool. 227 00:14:36,327 --> 00:14:41,063 - And all of a sudden, I fucking feel a big hit 228 00:14:41,132 --> 00:14:42,998 right in my leg, like a Charley horse. 229 00:14:43,067 --> 00:14:45,034 Boom. Oh, shit. 230 00:14:45,103 --> 00:14:46,463 And it's my brother, and he's like, 231 00:14:46,504 --> 00:14:49,171 "Take that fucking shirt off. That's my shirt." 232 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:54,243 And my buddy, Eric, he just like took off running. 233 00:14:54,312 --> 00:14:56,846 I wanted to be like my older brother. 234 00:14:56,915 --> 00:14:58,614 - I started boxing before he did, 235 00:14:58,683 --> 00:15:01,250 and he started following me. 236 00:15:01,319 --> 00:15:03,820 - I would be curious, like, where is he going? 237 00:15:03,889 --> 00:15:06,356 He was going to a boxing gym. 238 00:15:10,128 --> 00:15:13,296 And he was good, like really good. 239 00:15:15,232 --> 00:15:20,168 I'm thinking, wow, my dad's so into him. 240 00:15:20,237 --> 00:15:22,004 - I loved being in the gym. 241 00:15:22,073 --> 00:15:24,106 I loved chingasos, beating the shit out of someone. 242 00:15:24,175 --> 00:15:26,208 But I was hot and cold. 243 00:15:26,277 --> 00:15:28,210 I was off and on with the sport. 244 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:29,979 One of my uncles gave me a motorcycle, 245 00:15:30,048 --> 00:15:32,882 bought me a motorcycle, a small Yamaha 80 246 00:15:32,951 --> 00:15:35,178 because I was threatening to quit. 247 00:15:35,247 --> 00:15:39,989 He really thought I was going to become this great boxer, 248 00:15:40,058 --> 00:15:41,823 but I just hated running in the mornings. 249 00:15:41,892 --> 00:15:45,360 My dad used to give me crap about that all the time. 250 00:15:45,429 --> 00:15:47,529 - When my father was a kid, 251 00:15:47,598 --> 00:15:51,200 his father tied him up to a tree with chains 252 00:15:51,269 --> 00:15:53,502 and would whip him if they didn't want to go up 253 00:15:53,571 --> 00:15:56,575 and herd the cows at 12:00 midnight. 254 00:16:32,510 --> 00:16:34,576 - By all means, he was gonna try to get me 255 00:16:34,645 --> 00:16:38,147 to do what he thought I was excellent at. 256 00:16:38,216 --> 00:16:40,286 I didn't have the heart for it. 257 00:16:43,950 --> 00:16:45,287 - One day I come home from school, 258 00:16:45,356 --> 00:16:47,957 and that motorcycle, it's gone. 259 00:16:48,026 --> 00:16:49,528 My dad sold it. 260 00:16:54,431 --> 00:16:58,604 - So I was my dad's last resort. 261 00:17:12,984 --> 00:17:15,250 - Every time we would congregate, 262 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:16,818 you know, the uncles would have beers, 263 00:17:16,887 --> 00:17:20,689 and they would get drunk, and out come the gloves. 264 00:17:20,758 --> 00:17:24,093 When they call my name, I'm just frozen. 265 00:17:24,162 --> 00:17:26,696 Like, I have to fight? Like, what is this? 266 00:17:26,765 --> 00:17:28,096 And then... 267 00:17:28,165 --> 00:17:32,367 Punched in the face, then I start crying. 268 00:17:32,436 --> 00:17:35,938 Instinctively, I run to my father. 269 00:17:36,007 --> 00:17:39,678 But my father told me, be tough. 270 00:17:45,716 --> 00:17:48,450 - And then he tells everybody, "You watch. 271 00:17:48,519 --> 00:17:52,521 "In a few months, I'm gonna take him to a boxing gym. 272 00:17:52,590 --> 00:17:54,156 "And just give me a few months. 273 00:17:54,225 --> 00:17:56,726 "We'll be back right here at the same place, 274 00:17:56,795 --> 00:17:58,661 and he's gonna get revenge." 275 00:18:00,798 --> 00:18:03,465 I remember walking into the boxing gym, 276 00:18:03,534 --> 00:18:06,368 but with a new perspective. 277 00:18:06,437 --> 00:18:10,438 And I'm thinking to myself, this is my chance. 278 00:18:10,507 --> 00:18:15,939 My first trainer asked me to get in a boxing stance. 279 00:18:16,008 --> 00:18:18,213 Since I was left-handed, my instinct 280 00:18:18,282 --> 00:18:23,246 was to stand like this. 281 00:18:23,315 --> 00:18:26,488 But it was too difficult for him to train me that way, 282 00:18:26,557 --> 00:18:29,826 so he said, "Why don't we just switch you over?" 283 00:18:31,729 --> 00:18:38,200 So now my power punch is the leader. 284 00:18:38,269 --> 00:18:42,371 Converting myself into a regular stance 285 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,277 changed my destiny. 286 00:18:46,477 --> 00:18:50,045 At six years old, I had my first amateur fight. 287 00:18:50,114 --> 00:18:52,114 I had no gear, no nothing, 288 00:18:52,183 --> 00:18:54,483 so I put on my brother's shoes, 289 00:18:54,552 --> 00:18:56,484 which were like four sizes bigger. 290 00:18:56,553 --> 00:18:58,420 The boots would flap up on the tip. 291 00:18:58,489 --> 00:19:01,023 I had huge tube socks. 292 00:19:01,092 --> 00:19:03,859 The shorts looked like a skirt. 293 00:19:03,928 --> 00:19:07,062 The gloves were so big. 294 00:19:07,131 --> 00:19:10,165 I mean, I looked like a little clown. 295 00:19:10,234 --> 00:19:12,702 But now I'm a fighter. 296 00:19:18,475 --> 00:19:21,510 I win my fight, and I get out of the ring, 297 00:19:21,579 --> 00:19:24,646 and one of my uncles hands me over like 50 cents. 298 00:19:24,715 --> 00:19:27,850 And I'm like, whoa, what is this? 299 00:19:29,887 --> 00:19:33,255 50 cents, like, now I can fucking buy whatever I want. 300 00:19:33,324 --> 00:19:35,002 Get me a pack of Starburst, and you feel like 301 00:19:35,026 --> 00:19:37,225 you're on top of the world. 302 00:19:37,294 --> 00:19:39,327 If I keep winning, I can be the cool kid 303 00:19:39,396 --> 00:19:41,164 with a few quarters in my pocket. 304 00:19:41,233 --> 00:19:43,794 Huh. 305 00:19:43,863 --> 00:19:46,234 Started knocking kids out. 306 00:19:46,303 --> 00:19:48,537 And for the first time in my life, 307 00:19:48,606 --> 00:19:50,605 people were telling me, "You did good, mijo. 308 00:19:50,674 --> 00:19:52,386 You did good. You know, we're proud of you." 309 00:19:52,410 --> 00:19:54,076 - Number one! East Side! 310 00:19:54,145 --> 00:19:56,913 - Wow, OK. 311 00:19:56,982 --> 00:19:58,913 I love this feeling. 312 00:19:58,982 --> 00:20:03,152 - Ladies and gentlemen, your winner is Oscar De La Hoya. 313 00:20:09,827 --> 00:20:14,264 - But my father would always expect me to do better. 314 00:20:18,602 --> 00:20:20,402 My father, when I get home from training, 315 00:20:20,471 --> 00:20:21,703 he tells me what I did wrong, 316 00:20:21,772 --> 00:20:24,439 and how I should throw right hands for more power, 317 00:20:24,508 --> 00:20:26,208 and the left hook for more power. 318 00:20:26,277 --> 00:20:27,643 It's also in the family. 319 00:20:27,712 --> 00:20:30,312 My grandfather boxed, and my father also boxed. 320 00:20:30,381 --> 00:20:33,281 So I guess it's my turn to do the job. 321 00:20:33,350 --> 00:20:36,018 I was innocent, naive. 322 00:20:36,087 --> 00:20:40,355 I wasn't exposed yet to the dark side of boxing. 323 00:20:40,424 --> 00:20:43,158 My father, he was orchestrating everything, 324 00:20:43,227 --> 00:20:46,932 and managers and promoters would have to go through him. 325 00:21:00,945 --> 00:21:03,678 - They promised me a million dollars, 326 00:21:03,747 --> 00:21:08,017 a brand-new car, a brand-new home. 327 00:21:08,086 --> 00:21:13,155 But then my father told them, we need Bob Arum. 328 00:21:13,224 --> 00:21:15,657 He was the messiah of boxing. 329 00:21:15,726 --> 00:21:17,960 This man promoted Muhammad Ali. 330 00:21:18,029 --> 00:21:21,263 - Pay-per-view will be the coming force in boxing, 331 00:21:21,332 --> 00:21:22,865 not network television. 332 00:21:22,934 --> 00:21:24,666 That's gonna be a thing of the past. 333 00:21:24,735 --> 00:21:27,636 - He knows everything there is to know 334 00:21:27,705 --> 00:21:31,340 about making a world champion, making him popular, 335 00:21:31,409 --> 00:21:33,910 making him a lot of money. 336 00:21:36,647 --> 00:21:39,581 - I was at my home on the beach. 337 00:21:39,650 --> 00:21:44,120 These two fellows that I knew in boxing, 338 00:21:44,189 --> 00:21:45,821 fringe sort of guys, 339 00:21:45,890 --> 00:21:48,557 Steve Nelson and Robert Mittleman, 340 00:21:48,626 --> 00:21:50,692 asked to come to see me. 341 00:21:50,761 --> 00:21:53,028 They were about to sign an agreement 342 00:21:53,097 --> 00:21:55,631 to manage Oscar De La Hoya. 343 00:21:55,700 --> 00:22:00,269 But Oscar's father, Joel, told these two fellas 344 00:22:00,338 --> 00:22:02,871 he wouldn't allow them to be managers 345 00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:08,778 unless Top Rank, my company, agreed to promote Oscar 346 00:22:08,847 --> 00:22:12,681 because I had promoted the four kings, 347 00:22:12,750 --> 00:22:16,052 Hagler, and Leonard, and Tommy Hearns, 348 00:22:16,121 --> 00:22:17,686 and Roberto Duran. 349 00:22:17,755 --> 00:22:23,458 So Oscar really did not resonate with us, 350 00:22:23,527 --> 00:22:26,628 other than the fact that it was a good story, 351 00:22:26,697 --> 00:22:28,630 the fact that his mother had died, 352 00:22:28,699 --> 00:22:32,468 that he had dedicated the gold medal to her. 353 00:22:32,537 --> 00:22:36,705 And I told them that I was prepared to do it. 354 00:22:36,774 --> 00:22:40,809 Mittleman was so excited, with all his clothes, 355 00:22:40,878 --> 00:22:44,450 he ran and jumped into the water. 356 00:23:09,675 --> 00:23:12,875 - I was a contract publicist, 357 00:23:12,944 --> 00:23:16,612 and I worked for entertainment clients. 358 00:23:16,681 --> 00:23:18,547 I got a call from Bob Arum. 359 00:23:18,616 --> 00:23:20,327 And he said, "Hey, I'm meeting with this fighter." 360 00:23:20,351 --> 00:23:22,550 I said, "Oh, Oscar De La Hoya." 361 00:23:22,619 --> 00:23:25,054 Everybody knew Oscar because he just won the gold. 362 00:23:25,123 --> 00:23:27,789 He came back to Los Angeles. This is where he was from. 363 00:23:27,858 --> 00:23:30,826 So I said, "Absolutely. I know sports PR." 364 00:23:30,895 --> 00:23:33,362 Well, that was a lie. I didn't know any sports. 365 00:23:33,431 --> 00:23:36,632 But he had a great look to him. 366 00:23:36,701 --> 00:23:39,401 He had something golden. 367 00:23:39,470 --> 00:23:42,404 - I always get nervous. 368 00:23:42,473 --> 00:23:46,574 - My job was to create his public image. 369 00:23:46,643 --> 00:23:49,745 Make sure you smile. Make sure you sit upright. 370 00:23:49,814 --> 00:23:52,748 Because you want to embrace the public. 371 00:23:52,817 --> 00:23:54,216 He was a natural, though. 372 00:23:54,285 --> 00:23:57,585 I said, well, Oscar, we need to get a biography for you. 373 00:23:57,654 --> 00:24:00,589 So we're gonna go do a photo shoot. 374 00:24:00,658 --> 00:24:04,759 A week later, we did a spread in "Harper's Bazaar." 375 00:24:04,828 --> 00:24:07,062 When I told Bob Arum, "You are not gonna believe this. 376 00:24:07,131 --> 00:24:09,864 Oscar's going to be in 'Harper's Bazaar, '" 377 00:24:09,933 --> 00:24:12,734 Bob looked at me, and he was like, "Are you kidding? 378 00:24:12,803 --> 00:24:16,005 I don't want 'Harper's Bazaar.' I want 'Sports Illustrated.'" 379 00:24:16,074 --> 00:24:19,641 I was like, seriously? This is "Harper's Bazaar." 380 00:24:19,710 --> 00:24:23,445 Women saw Oscar in a fashion magazine. 381 00:24:23,514 --> 00:24:26,916 That moment is when I realized 382 00:24:26,985 --> 00:24:30,019 that Oscar was not just a sports figure, 383 00:24:30,088 --> 00:24:33,723 but he was going to be more than that. 384 00:24:33,792 --> 00:24:35,657 - In the beginning of my career, 385 00:24:35,726 --> 00:24:37,964 my team was my brother and my father. 386 00:24:42,166 --> 00:24:43,733 - I started working with him 387 00:24:43,802 --> 00:24:46,869 as a camp manager, assistant coach. 388 00:24:46,938 --> 00:24:48,971 - My trainer was Robert Alcazar, 389 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,841 who was my dad's friend from work. 390 00:24:51,910 --> 00:24:54,611 Nelson and Mittleman were my managers, 391 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,614 and Bob Arum was my promoter. 392 00:24:57,683 --> 00:25:00,415 And that was Team De La Hoya. 393 00:25:00,484 --> 00:25:02,817 They laid out a plan for me. 394 00:25:02,886 --> 00:25:05,853 We had press conferences in several cities. 395 00:25:05,922 --> 00:25:09,957 I'm gonna train in Big Bear, fight every month. 396 00:25:10,026 --> 00:25:14,529 We had one missing piece, and that was my nickname. 397 00:25:14,598 --> 00:25:16,631 - Fighting out of the red corner, 398 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:19,267 he is making his professional debut... 399 00:25:19,336 --> 00:25:20,837 - I had the golden looks... 400 00:25:20,906 --> 00:25:23,405 - Really needing no introduction to you... 401 00:25:23,474 --> 00:25:24,707 - The golden left hook... 402 00:25:24,776 --> 00:25:27,276 - The pride of East LA... 403 00:25:27,345 --> 00:25:28,844 - The golden story, 404 00:25:28,913 --> 00:25:31,280 and the gold medal around my neck. 405 00:25:31,349 --> 00:25:35,517 We all thought, wow, that's it. 406 00:25:35,586 --> 00:25:39,921 - Welcome to the ring, the Golden Boy! 407 00:25:39,990 --> 00:25:42,036 - You want me as a golden boy? All right, here you go. 408 00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:43,425 Let's go. 409 00:25:43,494 --> 00:25:45,260 - The Golden Boy opens up 410 00:25:45,329 --> 00:25:48,531 in dramatic fashion! 411 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,532 - It was really loud, 412 00:25:50,601 --> 00:25:53,602 but the screaming was a higher pitch. 413 00:25:53,671 --> 00:25:56,406 It was tons, and tons, and tons of women. 414 00:25:58,676 --> 00:26:03,712 And people had signs, "I love you, Oscar," with big hearts. 415 00:26:03,781 --> 00:26:08,317 That's not a boxing match. That's like a concert. 416 00:26:08,386 --> 00:26:10,352 - He knocked out... - Oh! 417 00:26:10,421 --> 00:26:12,199 - Right there is a left hand right on the buzzer. 418 00:26:12,223 --> 00:26:13,621 It's all over! 419 00:26:13,690 --> 00:26:16,025 They stop the fight in the first round. 420 00:26:16,094 --> 00:26:19,561 - He attracted people who were not into sports. 421 00:26:19,630 --> 00:26:22,364 - Oscar De La Hoya has the potential 422 00:26:22,433 --> 00:26:27,469 of being the most popular fighter since Muhammad Ali. 423 00:26:27,538 --> 00:26:30,072 When I saw the reaction of women, 424 00:26:30,141 --> 00:26:35,277 it then rang a bell what a tremendous fan base there was. 425 00:26:35,346 --> 00:26:39,916 So we arranged thousands of women going crazy, 426 00:26:39,985 --> 00:26:43,118 holding up signs, "Marry me, Oscar." 427 00:26:43,187 --> 00:26:46,288 Once you're able to start that little fire, 428 00:26:46,357 --> 00:26:51,493 and it catches on, it's like, boom, and it goes by itself. 429 00:26:51,562 --> 00:26:53,128 It was great for business. 430 00:26:53,197 --> 00:26:55,931 - Hicks is wobbly. Down from a right hand. 431 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,699 - They're gonna be short for a while 432 00:26:57,768 --> 00:26:59,448 because Oscar De La Hoya is gonna whack out 433 00:26:59,503 --> 00:27:00,969 these guys in the beginning. 434 00:27:01,038 --> 00:27:03,205 - If De La Hoya is as good as he thinks he is, 435 00:27:03,274 --> 00:27:05,841 show us, and show us against good fighters, 436 00:27:05,910 --> 00:27:08,977 not just tomato cans and old men. 437 00:27:09,046 --> 00:27:11,013 - After ten fights, my team thought 438 00:27:11,082 --> 00:27:13,476 I was ready for a world title. 439 00:27:13,545 --> 00:27:15,551 So I fought for my first world title 440 00:27:15,620 --> 00:27:17,520 at the Olympic Auditorium. 441 00:27:17,589 --> 00:27:19,488 My father fought there, 442 00:27:19,557 --> 00:27:21,824 and my grandfather fought there. 443 00:27:21,893 --> 00:27:23,559 - The Golden Boy is on the verge 444 00:27:23,628 --> 00:27:25,595 of becoming a household name. 445 00:27:25,664 --> 00:27:27,563 Oscar De La Hoya has a chance 446 00:27:27,632 --> 00:27:30,327 to win his first world championship. 447 00:27:30,396 --> 00:27:33,301 - People expect a lot from me. 448 00:27:33,370 --> 00:27:36,005 The pressure is on from my family and everybody else. 449 00:27:36,074 --> 00:27:38,774 - And the doctor here says, enough. 450 00:27:40,712 --> 00:27:43,445 - So Oscar gets his TKO. 451 00:27:43,514 --> 00:27:47,816 - De La Hoya is a young man with tremendous ambition. 452 00:27:47,885 --> 00:27:49,985 - Of course, my father was always pushing me, 453 00:27:50,054 --> 00:27:53,388 but the person who's really pushing me hard 454 00:27:53,457 --> 00:27:56,625 inside of me is my mom. 455 00:27:56,694 --> 00:28:00,728 When I step inside the ring and the referee calls us, 456 00:28:00,797 --> 00:28:03,565 I try not to look at my opponent's eyes. 457 00:28:03,634 --> 00:28:05,528 What I do is look up in the sky 458 00:28:05,597 --> 00:28:08,070 because it's as if I can feel her, 459 00:28:08,139 --> 00:28:10,167 and she's looking at me, and my mother's 460 00:28:10,236 --> 00:28:12,174 taking care of me. 461 00:28:14,211 --> 00:28:17,880 My mom, she lived a tough life. 462 00:28:17,949 --> 00:28:22,218 She had to cross the border at 14 years old 463 00:28:22,287 --> 00:28:26,088 by herself because she wants to sing. 464 00:28:26,157 --> 00:28:31,159 And then she ends up working at a zipper factory. 465 00:28:31,228 --> 00:28:34,796 Talk about the American dream, huh? 466 00:28:34,865 --> 00:28:38,633 - In Mexican society, because being Mexican 467 00:28:38,702 --> 00:28:42,537 is so intertwined with Catholicism, 468 00:28:42,606 --> 00:28:44,706 women are not allowed to be full 469 00:28:44,775 --> 00:28:47,343 and real human beings or real women. 470 00:28:47,412 --> 00:28:49,211 There were only three types of women. 471 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,314 You were either the virgencita, the virgin, 472 00:28:52,383 --> 00:28:55,717 and then you got married, and then you became a mother. 473 00:28:55,786 --> 00:28:58,587 And if you weren't a virgin and a mother, 474 00:28:58,656 --> 00:28:59,956 then you were a whore. 475 00:29:00,025 --> 00:29:01,168 You don't want to be known as a whore 476 00:29:01,192 --> 00:29:03,104 because if you're a whore, then no man's gonna marry you 477 00:29:03,128 --> 00:29:04,993 because men need to marry virgins 478 00:29:05,062 --> 00:29:07,007 because if you're not a virgin, then you can't get married 479 00:29:07,031 --> 00:29:09,031 and become a mother, which is your ultimate goal. 480 00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:12,902 And it's a very rigid way that women are controlled 481 00:29:12,971 --> 00:29:15,504 by Catholicism, by society, by the patriarchy. 482 00:29:15,573 --> 00:29:18,106 So when you tell your parents, no, I'm a writer, 483 00:29:18,175 --> 00:29:20,510 or I'm a singer, I'm a dancer, they're like, 484 00:29:20,579 --> 00:29:22,848 what's the value in that? 485 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,455 - When immigrant parents abandon their dreams, 486 00:31:13,524 --> 00:31:15,368 the expectation is, you're going to do better than us, 487 00:31:15,392 --> 00:31:17,093 and you have to do better than us 488 00:31:17,162 --> 00:31:20,863 because otherwise, why all the sacrifice? 489 00:31:20,932 --> 00:31:24,066 - Since I was a kid, I never felt like 490 00:31:24,135 --> 00:31:27,803 people loved me for who I really am inside. 491 00:31:27,872 --> 00:31:31,408 I was Oscar the commodity. 492 00:31:49,493 --> 00:31:52,161 - Family members would buy me boxing equipment. 493 00:31:52,230 --> 00:31:55,230 "Hey, do you need gloves? I'll buy them for you. 494 00:31:55,299 --> 00:31:58,133 "You're gonna be the one, dude. 495 00:31:58,202 --> 00:32:01,036 "You're gonna take us out of this lifestyle. 496 00:32:01,105 --> 00:32:02,905 You're the one." 497 00:32:02,974 --> 00:32:04,874 It's a lot of pressure. 498 00:32:10,448 --> 00:32:13,515 There came a point where I was missing a lot of school 499 00:32:13,584 --> 00:32:16,352 because I was training for the Olympics. 500 00:32:16,421 --> 00:32:19,288 But there was this one class. 501 00:32:19,357 --> 00:32:22,290 I just loved painting and art. 502 00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:25,597 Plus, the teacher was like my best friend. 503 00:32:26,998 --> 00:32:30,465 He would take the time to just talk to me, 504 00:32:30,534 --> 00:32:34,271 and encourage me, and bring out whatever passion I had. 505 00:32:36,207 --> 00:32:38,340 Anybody who tried to encourage me 506 00:32:38,409 --> 00:32:42,712 or just put a little effort, I would like cling onto. 507 00:32:42,781 --> 00:32:44,847 Turn around like that. 508 00:32:44,916 --> 00:32:47,415 A little bit more. 509 00:32:47,484 --> 00:32:50,386 It relaxes me. It relaxes the mind. 510 00:32:50,455 --> 00:32:53,322 It takes me away from all the pressure from boxing 511 00:32:53,391 --> 00:32:55,457 and from everybody around me. 512 00:32:55,526 --> 00:32:57,793 - Oscar, I think you should stick to boxing. 513 00:33:02,366 --> 00:33:06,634 - The beginning of my career, I was selling out arenas. 514 00:33:06,703 --> 00:33:08,704 - And De La Hoya comes out with a strong right 515 00:33:08,773 --> 00:33:10,105 to start things off. 516 00:33:10,174 --> 00:33:11,773 De La Hoya really getting that jab. 517 00:33:11,842 --> 00:33:14,509 - Another left hook knockdown for De La Hoya. 518 00:33:14,578 --> 00:33:16,746 - I was winning these major fights. 519 00:33:16,815 --> 00:33:19,614 - Five, six, seven! 520 00:33:19,683 --> 00:33:21,250 - I would make him a favorite right now 521 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,019 against just about any other lightweight in the world. 522 00:33:29,627 --> 00:33:33,395 - So I'm in Vegas after a fight, 523 00:33:33,464 --> 00:33:37,066 and I'm looking for a motel that my managers had arranged. 524 00:33:37,135 --> 00:33:40,502 And it's like two miles away from the strip. 525 00:33:40,571 --> 00:33:43,575 It was not a good site, that's for sure. 526 00:33:44,908 --> 00:33:48,610 The manager of the motel recognizes me and tells me, 527 00:33:48,679 --> 00:33:53,283 "What are you doing here? This is like a shithole." 528 00:33:53,352 --> 00:33:55,818 Wow. 529 00:33:55,887 --> 00:33:58,487 Hmm. 530 00:33:58,556 --> 00:34:00,188 Very first contract I signed, 531 00:34:00,257 --> 00:34:02,058 I didn't receive the million dollars. 532 00:34:02,127 --> 00:34:04,426 I was supposed to receive a brand-new car. 533 00:34:04,495 --> 00:34:07,362 I got like a... I don't know, beat up something. 534 00:34:07,431 --> 00:34:10,365 I don't know what the hell it was. 535 00:34:10,434 --> 00:34:14,436 The home that they promised me on contract was leased. 536 00:34:14,505 --> 00:34:17,205 I went to the bank, and I asked, like, 537 00:34:17,274 --> 00:34:19,607 "How much do I have in the bank?" 538 00:34:19,676 --> 00:34:24,813 "Oh, Mr De La Hoya, you have roughly $12,000 to your name." 539 00:34:24,882 --> 00:34:28,883 $12,000? Ooh, shit, OK. 540 00:34:28,952 --> 00:34:31,253 Let's fucking... let's take the bull by the horns now, 541 00:34:31,322 --> 00:34:34,226 and let's make some changes. 542 00:34:46,570 --> 00:34:52,207 - Oscar's father, Joel, arranged to fire the managers. 543 00:34:52,276 --> 00:34:55,144 And as Oscar's promoter, 544 00:34:55,213 --> 00:34:57,646 I thought that was a great decision. 545 00:34:57,715 --> 00:34:59,947 - You know, once we got rid of the managers, 546 00:35:00,016 --> 00:35:02,985 my father told me, like, yeah, go to this local Chevrolet 547 00:35:03,054 --> 00:35:05,754 in Montebello called Camino Real 548 00:35:05,823 --> 00:35:09,091 and meet this man who was an owner of a car dealership. 549 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,360 He was like a friend of the family. 550 00:35:11,429 --> 00:35:14,463 My father knew him. He was very business savvy. 551 00:35:14,532 --> 00:35:16,431 And he started asking questions like, 552 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:18,600 "Hey, do you have representation? 553 00:35:18,669 --> 00:35:20,469 "Do you have somebody looking out for you? 554 00:35:20,538 --> 00:35:22,416 And, oh, by the way, I just got rid of some people." 555 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,406 That were trying to fuck me over. 556 00:35:24,475 --> 00:35:27,009 And typical car salesman, 557 00:35:27,078 --> 00:35:29,211 he convinced me to be my manager, 558 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,247 telling me, "I don't believe in contracts 559 00:35:31,316 --> 00:35:34,383 because my word is everything, you know?" 560 00:35:34,452 --> 00:35:36,751 I'm like, oh, shit, this guy seems kind of cool. 561 00:35:36,820 --> 00:35:38,954 And all of a sudden, money was just coming in. 562 00:35:39,023 --> 00:35:41,456 I would go straight to the bank, get it on cash. 563 00:35:41,525 --> 00:35:42,835 And they would try to convince me, 564 00:35:42,859 --> 00:35:44,693 "No, don't have it in cash. Keep it in here." 565 00:35:44,762 --> 00:35:47,629 You know, the money will grow, and the rates are, like, 566 00:35:47,698 --> 00:35:49,699 super high right now, and this and that. 567 00:35:49,768 --> 00:35:50,665 I didn't care. 568 00:35:50,734 --> 00:35:52,179 I'm like, what the fuck is that, you know? 569 00:35:52,203 --> 00:35:53,702 Just give me my cash. 570 00:35:53,771 --> 00:35:57,940 - Once Hernandez came in, he turned everything around 571 00:35:58,009 --> 00:36:01,611 as far as Oscar's personal finances 572 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,913 and put him on the right track. 573 00:36:04,982 --> 00:36:09,651 - Money changes everything. Money changes everybody. 574 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,455 I thought that, as long as I keep winning, 575 00:36:12,524 --> 00:36:14,224 you can't tell me no. 576 00:36:17,496 --> 00:36:18,928 You can't deny me. 577 00:36:18,997 --> 00:36:20,995 If I want to get inside a club or restaurant, 578 00:36:21,064 --> 00:36:23,800 whatever, it's like, I'm Oscar De La Hoya, the Golden Boy, 579 00:36:23,869 --> 00:36:25,696 and I have money. 580 00:36:25,765 --> 00:36:27,469 - Another left hook. 581 00:36:27,538 --> 00:36:30,306 - For the first time, everybody around me 582 00:36:30,375 --> 00:36:33,109 had no choice but to say yes. 583 00:36:33,178 --> 00:36:36,111 I'm not gonna lie to you. Oh, yeah, the money's nice. 584 00:36:36,180 --> 00:36:38,213 No, it was fricking great. 585 00:36:38,282 --> 00:36:40,548 As a kid, like, I want more. 586 00:36:40,617 --> 00:36:42,384 I'm feeling like I deserve more. 587 00:36:42,453 --> 00:36:45,788 I'm freaking greedy now. 588 00:36:45,857 --> 00:36:47,689 And I go back to Vegas. 589 00:36:47,758 --> 00:36:51,327 Now we're staying in a major hotel, 590 00:36:51,396 --> 00:36:55,497 double glass windows, and looking out the Strip. 591 00:36:55,566 --> 00:36:57,667 I'm thinking, this is where I belong. 592 00:37:03,435 --> 00:37:06,542 - Why would he take a fight against a tough champion 593 00:37:06,611 --> 00:37:08,443 like John John Molina at this stage? 594 00:37:08,512 --> 00:37:11,347 - For the million bucks or more he's getting tonight, 595 00:37:11,416 --> 00:37:15,684 he had to finally fight a big-time opponent. 596 00:37:16,787 --> 00:37:19,254 - Molina has succeeded in changing the style 597 00:37:19,323 --> 00:37:21,357 of the fight to a brawl 598 00:37:21,426 --> 00:37:23,392 and has given De La Hoya everything 599 00:37:23,461 --> 00:37:26,561 he can handle for the past five or six rounds. 600 00:37:26,630 --> 00:37:29,631 - The John John Molina fight was probably the first fight 601 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:32,469 where my trainer was over his head. 602 00:37:36,941 --> 00:37:39,274 - The instructions he would give me were just... 603 00:37:39,343 --> 00:37:41,509 I couldn't understand. 604 00:37:41,578 --> 00:37:42,945 - What do you think, George? 605 00:37:43,014 --> 00:37:44,525 Is Oscar gonna listen to those instructions 606 00:37:44,549 --> 00:37:45,981 from Robert Alcazar? 607 00:37:46,050 --> 00:37:47,595 - Every time you cross tie the motherfucker, 608 00:37:47,619 --> 00:37:49,385 you win the fight already, OK? 609 00:37:49,454 --> 00:37:52,787 - He's babbling, and I'm waiting for instructions. 610 00:37:52,856 --> 00:37:55,390 - Well, use the experience. Use the experience. 611 00:37:55,459 --> 00:37:57,492 - I realize, everybody has their limits 612 00:37:57,561 --> 00:37:59,529 of how much you can teach me. 613 00:37:59,598 --> 00:38:01,230 - Oscar De La Hoya's first 614 00:38:01,299 --> 00:38:03,131 12-round route-going performance. 615 00:38:06,972 --> 00:38:09,938 - Alcazar was a good amateur trainer, 616 00:38:10,007 --> 00:38:15,777 but he didn't have the gravitas that certain trainers had. 617 00:38:15,846 --> 00:38:17,724 - I know what I can do. I know what I can accomplish. 618 00:38:17,748 --> 00:38:20,983 But I fought a very unintelligent fight. 619 00:38:21,052 --> 00:38:24,856 I needed somebody else to take me to another level. 620 00:39:30,355 --> 00:39:33,155 - Chávez was a Mexican icon. 621 00:39:33,224 --> 00:39:34,656 He had a great personality. 622 00:39:34,725 --> 00:39:39,028 And in boxing, a guy has to have a personality 623 00:39:39,097 --> 00:39:41,130 as well as ability. 624 00:39:41,199 --> 00:39:45,668 - Presenting the three-time World Champion, 625 00:39:45,737 --> 00:39:51,843 Julio César Chávez! 626 00:40:33,818 --> 00:40:35,585 - I am the official trainer. 627 00:40:35,654 --> 00:40:38,120 Mr. Roberto, he's my assistant. 628 00:40:38,189 --> 00:40:39,787 - Roberto just detested him. 629 00:40:39,856 --> 00:40:41,890 He just didn't want anything to do with Jesus. 630 00:40:41,959 --> 00:40:45,361 As a matter of fact, they were asking Roberto, 631 00:40:45,430 --> 00:40:47,495 "No, who's... what's he doing here?" 632 00:40:47,564 --> 00:40:49,635 "Oh, he's just sweeping the gym." 633 00:40:55,706 --> 00:40:57,266 - Then it could be an interesting fight. 634 00:40:57,308 --> 00:40:59,388 But I don't think he will. I hope... oh, there he is. 635 00:40:59,443 --> 00:41:02,410 - There he goes. A great left hook. 636 00:41:02,479 --> 00:41:04,579 - You're looking at a world of talent 637 00:41:04,648 --> 00:41:06,649 for a world champion right there. 638 00:41:06,718 --> 00:41:08,287 It all happened fast. 639 00:41:24,535 --> 00:41:26,736 - And we just connected instantly. 640 00:41:26,805 --> 00:41:28,937 He would teach me about life, 641 00:41:29,006 --> 00:41:32,040 and philosophy, and classical music. 642 00:41:32,109 --> 00:41:38,017 He would teach me about wines, Shakespeare, and passion. 643 00:41:54,899 --> 00:41:57,166 - We got along great. We would talk. 644 00:41:57,235 --> 00:41:58,734 We'd have these great conversations 645 00:41:58,803 --> 00:42:00,669 about religion or lack thereof. 646 00:42:00,738 --> 00:42:03,506 He was an atheist. 647 00:42:03,575 --> 00:42:05,574 My dad's very religious.. 648 00:42:05,643 --> 00:42:08,010 My dad was thinking that, you know, 649 00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:11,180 he was putting stuff into Oscar's head. 650 00:42:11,249 --> 00:42:13,115 - The problem with Rivera, 651 00:42:13,184 --> 00:42:16,384 he was just a dyed-in-the-wool communist. 652 00:42:16,453 --> 00:42:20,523 He was like you had Karl Marx in the training camp. 653 00:42:27,464 --> 00:42:31,633 The camps went on for like two months before a fight, 654 00:42:31,702 --> 00:42:35,137 and they were all living in the same place. 655 00:42:35,206 --> 00:42:40,009 The father couldn't tolerate somebody constantly talking 656 00:42:40,078 --> 00:42:42,578 against religion, against God. 657 00:42:42,647 --> 00:42:44,750 For me, it was hilarious. 658 00:43:06,871 --> 00:43:09,004 - I felt I became a different person. 659 00:43:09,073 --> 00:43:12,574 I felt I grew. I felt I was becoming better. 660 00:43:12,643 --> 00:43:16,015 I felt I was becoming bigger, like up here. 661 00:43:26,252 --> 00:43:27,689 - There's De La Hoya. 662 00:43:27,758 --> 00:43:29,758 You see him up on his toes more than we've 663 00:43:29,827 --> 00:43:33,529 seen him before, with a little bit more movement. 664 00:43:33,598 --> 00:43:36,599 - Something just clicked. 665 00:43:36,668 --> 00:43:38,400 He made me think more. 666 00:43:38,469 --> 00:43:41,603 - De La Hoya making himself an elusive target. 667 00:43:41,672 --> 00:43:44,773 - He changed me to be a beautiful fighter. 668 00:43:44,842 --> 00:43:47,610 - Right hand uppercut. 669 00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:49,678 Hernandez is wobbled. 670 00:43:49,747 --> 00:43:52,447 - Somebody just has to give me some attention, 671 00:43:52,516 --> 00:43:56,584 give me some confidence, give me that encouragement, 672 00:43:56,653 --> 00:43:58,720 and I will do whatever it takes. 673 00:43:58,789 --> 00:44:00,923 - Right hand to the body, sets up the flurry. 674 00:44:00,992 --> 00:44:02,924 De La Hoya landing on the ropes. 675 00:44:02,993 --> 00:44:04,872 - The best thing that can ever happen to my career 676 00:44:04,896 --> 00:44:08,430 was hiring the Professor. 677 00:44:08,499 --> 00:44:12,134 And then we'd announce that I was gonna fight Chávez. 678 00:44:12,203 --> 00:44:15,170 - You list him as one of your idols. 679 00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,741 Has it hit you yet that you're really close to fighting him? 680 00:44:18,810 --> 00:44:20,342 And what does it mean to you? 681 00:44:20,411 --> 00:44:23,178 - Well, I knew it all along that maybe one day, 682 00:44:23,247 --> 00:44:26,515 we can go at it, Julio César Chávez and myself. 683 00:44:26,584 --> 00:44:28,478 I've always dreamed about that fight, 684 00:44:28,547 --> 00:44:30,219 and now my dream is gonna become true, 685 00:44:30,288 --> 00:44:32,615 fighting the legend, fighting the great champion, 686 00:44:32,684 --> 00:44:34,724 fighting the people's idol, and I can't wait. 687 00:44:34,793 --> 00:44:36,191 I'm looking forward to it. 688 00:44:36,260 --> 00:44:39,395 Chávez, he's just like a badass son of a bitch. 689 00:44:42,067 --> 00:44:45,468 But I mean, shit, he was so brutal. 690 00:44:49,006 --> 00:44:51,474 The guy can take a punch. 691 00:44:54,779 --> 00:44:56,712 When he fought Meldrick Taylor, 692 00:44:56,781 --> 00:44:58,680 he was getting pummeled on. 693 00:44:58,749 --> 00:45:01,551 He was getting beat up the whole fight. 694 00:45:04,022 --> 00:45:06,821 But there's no quit in Chávez. 695 00:45:06,890 --> 00:45:09,158 And he knocks him out in the last ten seconds 696 00:45:09,227 --> 00:45:13,365 of the last round to win the fight. 697 00:45:14,931 --> 00:45:17,936 That's who Chávez was. Like, he never gave up. 698 00:45:41,559 --> 00:45:48,067 - One can say that Chávez was more authentic than Oscar. 699 00:45:50,001 --> 00:45:55,103 But Chávez had a crude side to him. 700 00:45:55,172 --> 00:45:59,174 We cautioned Oscar against the crudeness 701 00:45:59,243 --> 00:46:03,712 because we wanted Oscar to appeal 702 00:46:03,781 --> 00:46:08,717 to the greater American Anglo audience. 703 00:46:08,786 --> 00:46:11,153 - I respect the Mexican culture. 704 00:46:11,222 --> 00:46:15,758 My parents are Mexican. All my family is Mexican. 705 00:46:15,827 --> 00:46:19,995 And I'm proud of having Mexican blood. 706 00:46:20,064 --> 00:46:24,233 But I'm proud that I was born here in the U.S. of A, 707 00:46:24,302 --> 00:46:28,237 you know, the land of opportunities. 708 00:46:30,541 --> 00:46:33,108 So I take up golf, and now Mexican Americans 709 00:46:33,177 --> 00:46:35,277 are talking about, well, you're not one of us 710 00:46:35,346 --> 00:46:36,979 because you were born here in the U.S., 711 00:46:37,048 --> 00:46:38,826 and you're playing golf, and you're hanging out 712 00:46:38,850 --> 00:46:41,353 with the white folks. 713 00:46:42,754 --> 00:46:44,654 Your skin's lighter. 714 00:46:44,723 --> 00:46:46,989 You're pretty. 715 00:46:47,058 --> 00:46:48,556 Look at the way you're trying to talk. 716 00:46:48,625 --> 00:46:51,421 I'm just here, taking it easy, having a good time. 717 00:46:51,490 --> 00:46:53,396 You're not Mexican enough. 718 00:46:56,061 --> 00:46:59,201 - He's very palatable and accessible to white people. 719 00:46:59,270 --> 00:47:01,036 He's a nonthreatening Mexican, right? 720 00:47:01,105 --> 00:47:03,673 Right, so Oscar De La Hoya fits this role of like, 721 00:47:03,742 --> 00:47:05,341 oh, you're not a scary Mexican. 722 00:47:05,410 --> 00:47:07,120 You're not like an Indigenous-looking Mexican 723 00:47:07,144 --> 00:47:08,811 that I see at Home Depot. 724 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,281 - Latino men have to be tough. 725 00:47:12,350 --> 00:47:16,418 They have to have a certain demeanor, 726 00:47:16,487 --> 00:47:19,922 that macho type of guy. 727 00:47:19,991 --> 00:47:22,090 You wear your sombrero, and you have 728 00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:24,660 to act as tough as you can. 729 00:47:24,729 --> 00:47:27,963 You have to have that image of macho. 730 00:47:28,032 --> 00:47:29,398 You know, most of the fans felt 731 00:47:29,467 --> 00:47:32,435 that I didn't have that machismo. 732 00:47:34,838 --> 00:47:39,575 - As we're starting to really promote that Chávez fight, 733 00:47:39,644 --> 00:47:41,711 we started a press tour. 734 00:47:41,780 --> 00:47:43,178 We had two planes. 735 00:47:43,247 --> 00:47:46,548 Oscar was on one, and Chávez was on the other. 736 00:47:46,617 --> 00:47:50,587 26 cities in about 15 days, we had one day off. 737 00:47:52,523 --> 00:47:54,189 We'd do a press conference in the morning. 738 00:47:54,258 --> 00:47:57,392 We'd fly to another city. 739 00:47:57,461 --> 00:47:58,927 We'd do a press conference there. 740 00:47:58,996 --> 00:48:00,529 Sometimes it was on the tarmac. 741 00:48:00,598 --> 00:48:03,032 We'd fly to another city, sleep over, 742 00:48:03,101 --> 00:48:06,301 get up the next morning, and do the press conference. 743 00:48:06,370 --> 00:48:08,204 And it was like that the entire time. 744 00:48:08,273 --> 00:48:11,273 So sometimes, we'd do three in a day. 745 00:48:11,342 --> 00:48:13,342 - Wherever I would go, people are telling me, 746 00:48:13,411 --> 00:48:15,731 oh, he's gonna kick your ass, and you're not ready for him. 747 00:48:20,485 --> 00:48:24,315 - I had to prove something to a whole culture, 748 00:48:24,384 --> 00:48:26,989 to our people. 749 00:48:27,058 --> 00:48:30,997 I mean, I've never been so focused in my life. 750 00:48:33,497 --> 00:48:37,166 Everything was calculated, my food intake, the calories, 751 00:48:37,235 --> 00:48:40,002 lights out at 8:00 p.m., no matter what, 752 00:48:40,071 --> 00:48:43,539 lights back on at 4:00 a.m. to go run. 753 00:48:43,608 --> 00:48:46,208 And Chávez, he would just be stumbling in 754 00:48:46,277 --> 00:48:48,177 from partying or something. 755 00:48:48,246 --> 00:48:52,048 And I was like, wow, I might have an advantage here. 756 00:48:55,053 --> 00:48:58,054 Once we get to Vegas, we see Chávez 757 00:48:58,123 --> 00:48:59,622 brought out the horde of fans. 758 00:48:59,691 --> 00:49:00,823 I mean, it was crazy. 759 00:49:00,892 --> 00:49:02,420 - Chávez number one. - Chávez. 760 00:49:02,489 --> 00:49:05,094 - Chávez! - Chávez. 761 00:49:05,163 --> 00:49:06,763 - Numero uno. 762 00:49:11,236 --> 00:49:15,871 - Being booed makes you want to just prove 763 00:49:15,940 --> 00:49:18,775 that you can rise to the occasion. 764 00:49:21,312 --> 00:49:23,145 - What about looking out 765 00:49:23,214 --> 00:49:26,448 through this enormously cruel Chávez crowd? 766 00:49:26,517 --> 00:49:30,286 Could that have an effect on young De La Hoya? 767 00:49:30,355 --> 00:49:33,556 - I get up on the ring, and I see him. 768 00:49:33,625 --> 00:49:36,328 And I said, holy shit. 769 00:49:37,829 --> 00:49:40,062 I'm really fighting Chávez. 770 00:49:42,333 --> 00:49:44,867 - Chávez's fans trying to rally him, 771 00:49:44,936 --> 00:49:47,903 chanting México, México, México. 772 00:49:47,972 --> 00:49:51,406 - I kind of like shook it off, like, you have to do your job. 773 00:49:51,475 --> 00:49:55,647 I felt something happen in me that was like tunnel vision. 774 00:49:56,981 --> 00:49:59,314 - De La Hoya says he's in the best shape of his life. 775 00:49:59,383 --> 00:50:00,949 Chávez says he's in the best shape 776 00:50:01,018 --> 00:50:05,421 since his dramatic comeback win over Meldrick Taylor. 777 00:50:05,490 --> 00:50:08,323 - I thought, this is my moment to make sure 778 00:50:08,392 --> 00:50:11,594 that people know who I really am. 779 00:50:11,663 --> 00:50:13,361 My jab was lethal. 780 00:50:13,430 --> 00:50:16,966 And I remember hitting him. 781 00:50:17,035 --> 00:50:19,267 And I cut him open. 782 00:50:19,336 --> 00:50:21,003 There was so much blood. 783 00:50:23,307 --> 00:50:25,608 After that, my confidence grew. 784 00:50:25,677 --> 00:50:27,744 I was pushing him back. 785 00:50:30,447 --> 00:50:33,311 I felt I was getting into the rhythm. 786 00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,659 And just gliding and moving, 787 00:50:44,728 --> 00:50:47,464 I felt I was floating in the ring. 788 00:50:49,466 --> 00:50:52,067 You can hit me with a sledgehammer, 789 00:50:52,136 --> 00:50:54,770 and you cannot take me down. 790 00:50:56,507 --> 00:50:59,107 - Chávez getting in a left hook in close. 791 00:50:59,176 --> 00:51:01,243 And he brings the crowd out of their seats 792 00:51:01,312 --> 00:51:03,178 as he tries to mount the attack. 793 00:51:03,247 --> 00:51:04,947 - I was showing you that I can take it. 794 00:51:05,016 --> 00:51:06,582 I was showing you that I'm macho. 795 00:51:06,651 --> 00:51:10,286 I was showing you that I can be a man up there. 796 00:51:10,355 --> 00:51:12,388 - Good short left hook by De La Hoya. 797 00:51:12,457 --> 00:51:16,158 And he comes back with a right hand. 798 00:51:16,227 --> 00:51:18,426 And the blood bothering Julio, 799 00:51:18,495 --> 00:51:21,130 as De La Hoya lands a vicious left hook. 800 00:51:21,199 --> 00:51:23,332 Now his nose is bleeding too. 801 00:51:23,401 --> 00:51:26,301 It's been all Oscar De La Hoya. 802 00:51:26,370 --> 00:51:28,170 - I'm starting to think, wow, this can be like 803 00:51:28,206 --> 00:51:30,640 the changing of the guard. 804 00:51:32,409 --> 00:51:35,444 - Cortez takes Chávez to Flip Homansky. 805 00:51:35,513 --> 00:51:37,012 - The fight... - That's it. 806 00:51:37,081 --> 00:51:38,714 - The fight is over. 807 00:51:38,783 --> 00:51:41,683 - The winner, by technical knockout, 808 00:51:41,752 --> 00:51:44,420 winning his fourth world title belt, 809 00:51:44,489 --> 00:51:48,557 and new WBC Super Lightweight 810 00:51:48,626 --> 00:51:53,696 Champion of the World, the Golden Boy, 811 00:51:53,765 --> 00:51:59,702 Oscar De La Hoya! 812 00:52:39,743 --> 00:52:42,645 - Nobody gave me the credit that I deserved, 813 00:52:42,714 --> 00:52:45,047 the respect. 814 00:52:45,116 --> 00:52:47,486 It haunted me. 815 00:53:09,340 --> 00:53:12,508 - Sponsorships, press conferences, 816 00:53:12,577 --> 00:53:15,344 tours everywhere, interviews, 817 00:53:15,413 --> 00:53:18,180 magazines, commercial shoots. 818 00:53:18,249 --> 00:53:19,714 - Call Cablevision today. 819 00:53:19,783 --> 00:53:21,449 - The fights were easy to promote. 820 00:53:21,518 --> 00:53:22,896 - Save up your dollars and dimes, so you can 821 00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,731 buy pay-per-view because it's gonna be a good one. 822 00:53:24,755 --> 00:53:27,889 - He would be on a talk show and plug himself. 823 00:53:27,958 --> 00:53:32,494 "You know what, you can watch me on pay-per-view." 824 00:53:32,563 --> 00:53:36,731 - He spoke beautifully both in English and in Spanish. 825 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,069 - I'd like to introduce to you, the Golden Boy. 826 00:53:42,107 --> 00:53:43,940 - Women went crazy about him. 827 00:53:48,980 --> 00:53:50,578 - He took care of us. 828 00:53:50,647 --> 00:53:52,985 He bought our first house in Montebello. 829 00:53:55,987 --> 00:53:58,687 - Yay. - Shut up. 830 00:53:58,756 --> 00:54:02,491 After our mom passing, we grew a lot closer. 831 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:03,958 I was like his wingman. 832 00:54:04,027 --> 00:54:06,562 Like, I was always with him, like, when he goes on dates, 833 00:54:06,631 --> 00:54:08,230 or he's just going out. 834 00:54:08,299 --> 00:54:10,132 He'll take me shopping. 835 00:54:10,201 --> 00:54:12,300 I felt so close to him. 836 00:54:12,369 --> 00:54:14,636 I felt like, oh, my God, like, we're doing it. 837 00:54:14,705 --> 00:54:18,107 Like, we're gonna build a relationship here. 838 00:54:18,176 --> 00:54:20,009 Until he moved into Bel Air. 839 00:54:24,581 --> 00:54:28,183 - As an adult, I realize everything 840 00:54:28,252 --> 00:54:33,222 that I did miss out on as a kid. 841 00:54:33,291 --> 00:54:35,758 Like, there's no childhood whatsoever. 842 00:54:35,827 --> 00:54:37,593 What childhood? 843 00:54:37,662 --> 00:54:39,694 And now that I have time to realize it, 844 00:54:39,763 --> 00:54:44,266 it's like, OK, let me act out on it right now. 845 00:54:44,335 --> 00:54:49,171 That sense of power, it was such a rush. 846 00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:53,575 Once you head down that road, it's really difficult 847 00:54:53,644 --> 00:54:55,311 to make a U-turn because you're just 848 00:54:55,380 --> 00:54:59,681 so immersed in that chaos. 849 00:54:59,750 --> 00:55:02,517 - What everybody is seeing was still the Golden Boy image. 850 00:55:02,586 --> 00:55:04,952 - Even though I have this money, and the fame, 851 00:55:05,021 --> 00:55:07,590 and glory, you know, I'm always gonna be the same person. 852 00:55:07,659 --> 00:55:10,125 - But that's not reality. 853 00:55:14,565 --> 00:55:16,633 - No, keep going. No, no. 854 00:55:16,702 --> 00:55:20,168 - Whoo! 855 00:55:20,237 --> 00:55:22,670 - No, no, no, no, no, go. 856 00:55:22,739 --> 00:55:25,340 - You know, things that were happening were maybe not OK. 857 00:55:25,409 --> 00:55:27,276 He would make me a nervous heart attack. 858 00:55:27,345 --> 00:55:28,611 - No. - Let's invite a few in. 859 00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:31,648 - No, no, no, no, no. 860 00:55:34,519 --> 00:55:36,886 - I was in high school, 861 00:55:36,955 --> 00:55:38,753 and he asked me to stay with him. 862 00:55:38,822 --> 00:55:41,389 He's like, oh, you know, come spend some time with me. 863 00:55:41,458 --> 00:55:46,828 But I hardly saw Oscar. 864 00:55:46,897 --> 00:55:51,333 He was just always out and about or partying. 865 00:55:51,402 --> 00:55:56,142 He was this different person that I've never saw before. 866 00:55:57,208 --> 00:56:00,609 The day I left, I don't even think he was there. 867 00:56:00,678 --> 00:56:04,479 So I remember writing a letter to him. 868 00:56:04,548 --> 00:56:06,982 I just spilled everything on that letter, you know, 869 00:56:07,051 --> 00:56:09,686 how I was feeling, 870 00:56:09,755 --> 00:56:12,287 the depression I was going through, 871 00:56:12,356 --> 00:56:15,056 and how I wish we were closer. 872 00:56:15,125 --> 00:56:19,529 And I remember handing off that letter to one of his friends. 873 00:56:19,598 --> 00:56:22,732 I doubt he gave it to him. 874 00:56:22,801 --> 00:56:26,405 And I was so crushed and so hurt. 875 00:56:27,371 --> 00:56:32,375 I had so much love for him, but I felt like I lost him. 876 00:56:44,955 --> 00:56:48,457 - I said to myself, everything is gonna be OK 877 00:56:48,526 --> 00:56:50,426 as long as I keep winning. 878 00:56:50,495 --> 00:56:52,828 - Let's get it on! 879 00:56:52,897 --> 00:56:55,397 - Pernell Whitaker was the best fighter pound for pound 880 00:56:55,466 --> 00:56:57,467 in the world at the time. 881 00:57:00,638 --> 00:57:02,438 - That could have been scored a knockdown. 882 00:57:02,507 --> 00:57:03,850 - That is a knockdown. That is a knockdown. 883 00:57:03,874 --> 00:57:05,741 - It is a knockdown. - It's a knockdown. 884 00:57:05,810 --> 00:57:08,311 - Sure enough, a left hook just clocked me. 885 00:57:11,715 --> 00:57:15,484 - Great flurry by De La Hoya to end the tenth. 886 00:57:15,553 --> 00:57:18,120 - I barely won the fight. 887 00:57:21,024 --> 00:57:24,960 - You were unable to really do what you do best against him, 888 00:57:25,029 --> 00:57:27,863 and really to impose your youth and strength on him. 889 00:57:27,932 --> 00:57:31,032 You feel it wasn't an Oscar De La Hoya performance? 890 00:57:31,101 --> 00:57:34,906 - Well, I'm frustrated because I know I can do much better. 891 00:57:44,782 --> 00:57:47,482 - Within two weeks, the man whom Oscar called 892 00:57:47,551 --> 00:57:49,518 the Professor was let go. 893 00:57:49,587 --> 00:57:52,254 But is Oscar dodging the blame when he doesn't 894 00:57:52,323 --> 00:57:53,925 have a golden performance? 895 00:58:23,687 --> 00:58:26,122 - He was the best trainer that I've had, 896 00:58:26,191 --> 00:58:29,519 but I always trusted everybody in my circle. 897 00:58:29,588 --> 00:58:32,528 I should have been more involved in my business, 898 00:58:32,597 --> 00:58:36,098 in my livelihood, in my life. 899 00:58:36,167 --> 00:58:38,333 - De La Hoya trying to throw a left hook, 900 00:58:38,402 --> 00:58:39,967 and missing with it. 901 00:58:40,036 --> 00:58:43,172 But he lands a left hook and momentarily stuns Camacho. 902 00:58:43,241 --> 00:58:44,439 De La Hoya sends... 903 00:58:44,508 --> 00:58:48,110 - I didn't have the capability at the time to realize, 904 00:58:48,179 --> 00:58:52,810 to recognize that family is important... 905 00:58:55,552 --> 00:58:58,320 That close friends are important, 906 00:58:58,389 --> 00:58:59,566 that loved ones are important. 907 00:58:59,590 --> 00:59:02,023 - Right hand lands for De La Hoya. 908 00:59:02,092 --> 00:59:06,895 - I didn't want to see anything that was good for me. 909 00:59:06,964 --> 00:59:09,297 - And that's thunder. That is big stuff. 910 00:59:09,366 --> 00:59:12,801 - I distanced myself from the ones I most love. 911 00:59:12,870 --> 00:59:15,037 - Left uppercut. - Great combination. 912 00:59:15,106 --> 00:59:17,839 - I was in my own world, where, you know, 913 00:59:17,908 --> 00:59:19,776 I'm gonna have a good time, I'm gonna win, 914 00:59:19,845 --> 00:59:22,410 I'm gonna train hard, I'm gonna fight, 915 00:59:22,479 --> 00:59:24,613 but this is my world. 916 00:59:24,682 --> 00:59:25,881 - Time to get out of there. 917 00:59:25,950 --> 00:59:27,717 - Yeah, that's what he's gonna do. 918 00:59:27,786 --> 00:59:32,588 - Fighting, that was my escape 919 00:59:32,657 --> 00:59:34,857 from the pain... 920 00:59:34,926 --> 00:59:37,226 - Uppercut slams into Camacho. 921 00:59:37,295 --> 00:59:39,896 - Ever since I was a kid. 922 00:59:49,435 --> 00:59:52,575 My first thoughts of my childhood 923 00:59:52,644 --> 00:59:55,377 are just being afraid... 924 00:59:55,446 --> 01:00:00,450 Of being afraid and pain, 925 01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:06,258 crying, anger. 926 01:00:09,588 --> 01:00:14,363 I remember we were playing stickball, 927 01:00:14,432 --> 01:00:16,732 and sometimes, the ball would go into the street. 928 01:00:16,801 --> 01:00:18,968 So one time, I swung and missed, 929 01:00:19,037 --> 01:00:21,537 and I just instinctively ran out, 930 01:00:21,606 --> 01:00:23,772 not looking both ways, not thinking. 931 01:00:23,841 --> 01:00:26,942 And a car is coming so fast. 932 01:00:27,011 --> 01:00:29,646 It just screeches to a halt. 933 01:00:32,083 --> 01:00:35,050 And I end up in the bottom of the fucking car. 934 01:00:35,119 --> 01:00:37,653 And everybody is like, "Oh, my gosh, he's dead. 935 01:00:37,722 --> 01:00:39,821 Oh, my, little Oscar." 936 01:00:39,890 --> 01:00:43,960 For some miraculous reason, I was untouched. 937 01:00:44,029 --> 01:00:47,429 I can see my mom running down the street. 938 01:00:47,498 --> 01:00:51,000 I'm waiting for my mother to, like, give me a hug. 939 01:00:51,069 --> 01:00:54,403 And I mean, first thing she does is just, 940 01:00:54,472 --> 01:00:58,574 you know, hits me, 941 01:00:58,643 --> 01:01:01,211 beats the crap out of me. 942 01:01:05,183 --> 01:01:09,318 I remember times when I would cry, 943 01:01:09,387 --> 01:01:12,221 and then she would tell me, "Well, you really want to cry?" 944 01:01:12,290 --> 01:01:14,123 Then, boom, here you go. 945 01:01:14,192 --> 01:01:17,192 I'm gonna give you something to cry about. 946 01:01:17,261 --> 01:01:20,196 I never saw my mother hit my brother or my sister. 947 01:01:20,265 --> 01:01:23,365 It was me who would always get hit. 948 01:01:23,434 --> 01:01:27,769 She was hitting me so much, she started crying. 949 01:01:27,838 --> 01:01:29,739 And she was angry, and she started crying 950 01:01:29,808 --> 01:01:32,241 because I wasn't reacting to it. 951 01:01:32,310 --> 01:01:36,211 I was just numb at that point. Nothing hurt me anymore. 952 01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,414 I was just like, OK, you're gonna hit me, go ahead. 953 01:01:39,483 --> 01:01:40,783 It's not hurting me anymore. 954 01:01:40,852 --> 01:01:43,822 My soul is out of my fucking body. 955 01:01:46,885 --> 01:01:50,125 But I hated it when she hit me. I fucking hated it. 956 01:01:50,194 --> 01:01:55,301 It was the worst. It was the worst. 957 01:02:04,475 --> 01:02:06,942 But I had an outlet. 958 01:02:07,011 --> 01:02:09,712 When I would step inside the ring, 959 01:02:09,781 --> 01:02:13,348 I remember picturing my mom's face 960 01:02:13,417 --> 01:02:17,014 on my opponent and just unleashing. 961 01:02:20,591 --> 01:02:23,759 - When you were a child, if you had an abusive mother, 962 01:02:23,828 --> 01:02:27,796 you have to play this game in order to survive. 963 01:02:27,865 --> 01:02:30,065 And then as an adult, you think, oh, it's over. 964 01:02:30,134 --> 01:02:32,201 But if you've had to survive that way, 965 01:02:32,270 --> 01:02:36,105 it's very hard to give up your survival strategies. 966 01:02:36,174 --> 01:02:39,107 And there's outlets that people use to deal 967 01:02:39,176 --> 01:02:41,276 with their pain and suffering. 968 01:02:41,345 --> 01:02:43,011 Nobody wants to get punched in the face. 969 01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:44,992 Like, nobody wants to have their nose broken three times. 970 01:02:45,016 --> 01:02:46,515 Like, nobody wants that unless you're 971 01:02:46,584 --> 01:02:49,885 fighting something spiritually or emotionally, 972 01:02:49,954 --> 01:02:53,822 a ghost inside your mind. 973 01:02:53,891 --> 01:02:56,759 - I started to enjoy it. 974 01:02:56,828 --> 01:02:58,961 That's the scary part. 975 01:02:59,030 --> 01:03:02,031 I loved getting hit in the face now 976 01:03:02,100 --> 01:03:04,666 because I loved the buildup of the retaliation. 977 01:03:04,735 --> 01:03:06,703 I loved the buildup of the anger. 978 01:03:09,174 --> 01:03:13,343 It's pain that I want to give back. 979 01:03:15,179 --> 01:03:17,480 So once that first bell rings... 980 01:03:18,950 --> 01:03:21,651 It's game on. 981 01:03:23,921 --> 01:03:28,724 And when I get hit, it doesn't hurt. 982 01:03:28,793 --> 01:03:34,264 But now I have an excuse to get angry. 983 01:03:38,602 --> 01:03:41,671 And guess what, I'm gonna beat the living shit out of you. 984 01:03:43,641 --> 01:03:45,207 I don't care what happens to me. 985 01:03:45,276 --> 01:03:50,249 I'm gonna go out there and just let it all out. 986 01:03:51,716 --> 01:03:55,121 And then you get into a trance. 987 01:03:56,353 --> 01:04:00,256 Your soul comes out of your body. 988 01:04:00,325 --> 01:04:03,693 - And Oscar wants this so badly, he can taste it. 989 01:04:07,799 --> 01:04:09,965 - You're in your own world. 990 01:04:10,034 --> 01:04:12,934 Nothing else matters. 991 01:04:13,003 --> 01:04:16,673 Everything is just landing that perfect punch. 992 01:04:30,922 --> 01:04:33,889 It's distorted my lifestyle. 993 01:04:33,958 --> 01:04:35,858 It's distorted my thinking. 994 01:04:35,927 --> 01:04:39,262 It's kind of fucked with my psyche. 995 01:04:45,203 --> 01:04:47,802 - There's a lot more intimacy that men crave 996 01:04:47,871 --> 01:04:51,473 that they're only allowed to get through sex and sports. 997 01:04:51,542 --> 01:04:54,477 Men need to be able to cry, and to be embraced, 998 01:04:54,546 --> 01:04:55,911 and to be hugged. 999 01:04:55,980 --> 01:04:57,479 And it's sad that the little boys, 1000 01:04:57,548 --> 01:05:00,049 especially Mexican boys, are told, 1001 01:05:00,118 --> 01:05:01,717 as soon as they start crying, 1002 01:05:01,786 --> 01:05:03,886 that they're not allowed to cry. 1003 01:05:07,391 --> 01:05:09,559 - You see my eyes. You see my face. 1004 01:05:09,628 --> 01:05:11,160 I'm numb. 1005 01:05:11,229 --> 01:05:14,096 I'm just... I'm not even focused at my... 1006 01:05:14,165 --> 01:05:17,467 I'm focused at something else. 1007 01:05:17,536 --> 01:05:21,837 Like, my eyes are... 1008 01:05:21,906 --> 01:05:24,807 My eyes are not even there. 1009 01:05:24,876 --> 01:05:28,014 I'm focused at... 1010 01:05:34,351 --> 01:05:40,322 Yeah, I can see myself fighting. 1011 01:05:40,391 --> 01:05:44,663 And I don't even know why I'm fighting. 1012 01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:01,010 I just wanted to win, wanted to be loved. 1013 01:06:01,079 --> 01:06:02,945 That's it. 1014 01:06:06,851 --> 01:06:11,120 - Finally, we have arrived, as we get set for the main event. 1015 01:06:11,189 --> 01:06:14,322 Oscar De La Hoya takes on Julio César Chávez. 1016 01:06:14,391 --> 01:06:17,725 It's an ultimate revenge in the rematch. 1017 01:06:17,794 --> 01:06:20,395 - Oscar, you say this is a personal fight for you. 1018 01:06:20,464 --> 01:06:23,032 It's about respect, isn't it, and the lack of respect 1019 01:06:23,101 --> 01:06:24,545 that he showed you after the first fight? 1020 01:06:24,569 --> 01:06:26,513 - Well, I'm not crying about it or nothing like that 1021 01:06:26,537 --> 01:06:28,804 because I don't cry about things. 1022 01:06:28,873 --> 01:06:30,205 I'm a real man. 1023 01:06:30,274 --> 01:06:34,844 I just want respect that fighters deserve. 1024 01:06:42,586 --> 01:06:46,989 - I used to bully Oscar as a kid. 1025 01:06:47,058 --> 01:06:50,593 I remember a specific moment in time. 1026 01:06:52,396 --> 01:06:55,297 He was about 11 years old. 1027 01:06:55,366 --> 01:06:58,868 I used to mess with him, and he got fed up one day. 1028 01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:06,475 So I go into the kitchen, and he kind of pushes me. 1029 01:07:06,544 --> 01:07:09,411 I'm all... I'm not gonna let that happen. 1030 01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:13,882 I turn around to kind of just know scare him off a bit. 1031 01:07:13,951 --> 01:07:17,086 But he stood his ground. 1032 01:07:25,830 --> 01:07:27,529 And I saw that look. 1033 01:07:27,598 --> 01:07:31,133 - And De La Hoya staring daggers at Chávez. 1034 01:07:31,202 --> 01:07:34,737 - There was this raging animal inside of him. 1035 01:07:41,913 --> 01:07:44,516 And he socks me in the stomach. 1036 01:07:47,618 --> 01:07:50,117 I go down to my knees, and I can't breathe. 1037 01:07:56,127 --> 01:07:57,921 And I finally get up, and I see him, 1038 01:07:57,990 --> 01:08:00,166 and he's, like, looking at me like... 1039 01:08:04,135 --> 01:08:06,869 - Chávez won't come out. 1040 01:08:06,938 --> 01:08:08,738 He has refused to come out. 1041 01:08:08,807 --> 01:08:11,239 And I am shocked! 1042 01:08:11,308 --> 01:08:14,380 - Kid finally did it. 1043 01:08:16,281 --> 01:08:18,681 And that was the last time I messed with him. 1044 01:08:18,750 --> 01:08:20,683 OK, that's it. I'm done. 1045 01:08:27,058 --> 01:08:29,156 It was out of respect. 1046 01:08:30,894 --> 01:08:33,195 - What did he say to you? - He told me, you know what? 1047 01:08:33,264 --> 01:08:35,393 You beat me. 1048 01:08:38,536 --> 01:08:42,471 You made the great warrior quit on his stool. 1049 01:08:42,540 --> 01:08:44,306 - Thank you. Thank you very much. 1050 01:08:44,375 --> 01:08:47,109 And this fight here meant a lot to me. 1051 01:08:47,178 --> 01:08:49,044 There was just one focus on my mind today, 1052 01:08:49,113 --> 01:08:50,412 of course, to get a victory, 1053 01:08:50,481 --> 01:08:53,550 but this fight here is dedicated to my mother. 1054 01:08:53,619 --> 01:08:55,585 This is for you. 1055 01:09:02,260 --> 01:09:08,030 When I was 16 years old, I walk into the house. 1056 01:09:08,099 --> 01:09:09,664 My mom tells me, crying, like, 1057 01:09:09,733 --> 01:09:13,469 "Son, can you put this cream on my back?" 1058 01:09:13,538 --> 01:09:16,842 We've never had that type of contact. 1059 01:09:18,476 --> 01:09:21,777 And she lifted up her shirt, and I saw the burns. 1060 01:09:21,846 --> 01:09:24,512 I was in shock. 1061 01:09:24,581 --> 01:09:27,282 And then she's just crying. 1062 01:09:27,351 --> 01:09:29,752 "I have cancer." 1063 01:09:32,423 --> 01:09:36,223 What is cancer? What's going on? 1064 01:09:37,462 --> 01:09:40,799 "I have stage four cancer. I'm gonna die." 1065 01:09:42,300 --> 01:09:44,767 I just couldn't believe it. I had no words. 1066 01:09:44,836 --> 01:09:47,602 I couldn't cry. I couldn't hug her. 1067 01:09:47,671 --> 01:09:49,967 I couldn't comfort her. I couldn't do anything. 1068 01:09:50,036 --> 01:09:53,509 You know? I was just in shock. 1069 01:09:53,578 --> 01:09:57,812 The last fight she went to, it was the Goodwill Games. 1070 01:09:57,881 --> 01:10:04,253 I see this lady waving the American and Mexican flag. 1071 01:10:04,322 --> 01:10:06,856 Oh, my God, that's my mom. 1072 01:10:09,727 --> 01:10:14,933 She missed her chemotherapy to attend that last fight. 1073 01:10:25,176 --> 01:10:29,611 - We'd be in the waiting room, and she'd be in such pain 1074 01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:33,148 that you could just hear her moaning. 1075 01:10:33,217 --> 01:10:36,718 I'd hold her hand and talk to her. 1076 01:10:36,787 --> 01:10:39,221 - I went up to her. "Mom, you know, how are you? 1077 01:10:39,290 --> 01:10:41,323 Are you OK today?" 1078 01:10:41,392 --> 01:10:44,730 And she looked at me like, who are you? 1079 01:10:46,330 --> 01:10:50,702 That one hit me good. 1080 01:10:52,836 --> 01:10:59,645 I remember going home and just crying, just crying. 1081 01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:20,462 - She held my hand, and, you know, she told me, 1082 01:11:20,531 --> 01:11:23,498 "Te quiero. I love you, te amo." 1083 01:11:23,567 --> 01:11:27,135 And I made a promise to her that I would 1084 01:11:27,204 --> 01:11:31,807 be the best brother I could be, the best son to my dad. 1085 01:11:31,876 --> 01:11:33,775 And I told her how much I loved her. 1086 01:11:33,844 --> 01:11:36,178 And I think first time I ever told her that, 1087 01:11:36,247 --> 01:11:40,578 I heard her breathe her last breath. 1088 01:11:43,454 --> 01:11:45,921 - Coming back to the hospital, 1089 01:11:45,990 --> 01:11:49,158 I wanted to like rip the elevator open 1090 01:11:49,227 --> 01:11:50,792 and just run straight to her, 1091 01:11:50,861 --> 01:11:54,831 and maybe there's a chance that she can see me. 1092 01:11:54,900 --> 01:11:57,234 But she was gone. 1093 01:11:59,437 --> 01:12:05,945 Never had the courage to tell her I love her. 1094 01:12:08,847 --> 01:12:12,315 I wish I did, you know? I wish I did. 1095 01:12:24,329 --> 01:12:29,993 - There was never a singular moment 1096 01:12:30,062 --> 01:12:34,837 where we kind of, as a family, 1097 01:12:34,906 --> 01:12:38,340 with our father, and, you know, Oscar, 1098 01:12:38,409 --> 01:12:43,078 my sister, and myself, where we sat down, 1099 01:12:43,147 --> 01:12:44,547 we reminisced, we talked. 1100 01:12:44,616 --> 01:12:46,682 It was like, well, she passed. 1101 01:12:46,751 --> 01:12:49,050 OK, let's kind of like move on. You know? 1102 01:12:49,119 --> 01:12:53,054 Which just sounds pretty shitty when you look at it that way. 1103 01:12:53,123 --> 01:12:57,459 But I mean, it's just something that we weren't accustomed to, 1104 01:12:57,528 --> 01:13:01,664 I guess, sitting down and having 1105 01:13:01,733 --> 01:13:05,734 those hard conversations. 1106 01:13:05,803 --> 01:13:08,937 - Dad, him being, of course, being the tough dad, 1107 01:13:09,006 --> 01:13:11,173 being the tough love kind of dad, like, 1108 01:13:11,242 --> 01:13:14,242 I think he really wanted us to, like, just deal with it 1109 01:13:14,311 --> 01:13:16,411 and toughen up, you know? 1110 01:13:16,480 --> 01:13:18,280 But it was really difficult. 1111 01:13:18,349 --> 01:13:19,748 It was always just like, OK, 1112 01:13:19,817 --> 01:13:22,021 let's just all deal with it on our own. 1113 01:13:33,764 --> 01:13:38,234 - It was just a strange relationship that we had. 1114 01:13:38,303 --> 01:13:42,771 We love each other, but we can't express ourselves. 1115 01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:46,408 We can't show any compassion. 1116 01:13:46,477 --> 01:13:51,647 We can't really say anything to each other, 1117 01:13:51,716 --> 01:13:54,149 express our feelings. 1118 01:13:54,218 --> 01:13:56,485 But I can do it in the media. 1119 01:13:56,554 --> 01:14:00,389 I can do it with a stranger. 1120 01:14:00,458 --> 01:14:03,759 That was... to me, that was my therapy. 1121 01:14:03,828 --> 01:14:06,328 That was the way I can cope. 1122 01:14:06,397 --> 01:14:09,797 That was the way I can go on with my life, 1123 01:14:09,866 --> 01:14:14,169 and stay focused, and stay focused on the prize at hand, 1124 01:14:14,238 --> 01:14:15,404 and that was the gold medal. 1125 01:14:15,473 --> 01:14:18,073 Everything was about the gold medal because it was for her. 1126 01:14:18,142 --> 01:14:22,544 She wanted to wear that gold medal around her neck in '92, 1127 01:14:22,613 --> 01:14:26,281 and she told me to just get it for her. 1128 01:14:26,350 --> 01:14:28,117 And that's what I'm gonna do. 1129 01:14:28,186 --> 01:14:33,122 I was gonna win that gold medal no matter what, 1130 01:14:33,191 --> 01:14:36,091 but I was driven by a lie. 1131 01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:39,728 In one interview, I had said, my mother did tell me, 1132 01:14:39,797 --> 01:14:42,631 while she's dying, "Win the gold medal for me." 1133 01:14:42,700 --> 01:14:44,466 Before my mother passed away, 1134 01:14:44,535 --> 01:14:46,336 she told me she wanted the gold medal. 1135 01:14:46,405 --> 01:14:48,170 But it was a lie. 1136 01:14:48,239 --> 01:14:50,039 It just happened. 1137 01:14:50,108 --> 01:14:55,811 Emotion took over me, and it just caught fire. 1138 01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:57,913 - He brought honor to his mom's memory. 1139 01:14:57,982 --> 01:14:59,793 - Won our hearts recently when he fulfilled a promise 1140 01:14:59,817 --> 01:15:01,984 to his mom to win the Olympic gold medal. 1141 01:15:02,053 --> 01:15:05,754 - I embraced it. I held onto it. 1142 01:15:05,823 --> 01:15:09,257 And in a way, it was like... It was like me finally, 1143 01:15:09,326 --> 01:15:13,728 for the first time, feeling like we're connected, 1144 01:15:13,797 --> 01:15:18,634 like we have a relationship after she passed away. 1145 01:15:18,703 --> 01:15:24,140 Being driven by that lie didn't seem wrong for me. 1146 01:15:24,209 --> 01:15:26,908 It didn't seem like I was doing anything wrong. 1147 01:15:26,977 --> 01:15:31,580 I was just happy that the story was about my mom, 1148 01:15:31,649 --> 01:15:34,249 and that she asked me, she told me to win 1149 01:15:34,318 --> 01:15:35,685 that gold medal for her. 1150 01:15:35,754 --> 01:15:37,585 That was my drive, 1151 01:15:37,654 --> 01:15:39,489 my green light to go and do it, 1152 01:15:39,558 --> 01:15:41,790 my motivation. 1153 01:15:41,859 --> 01:15:44,726 But yeah, it was a lie. 1154 01:15:44,795 --> 01:15:49,098 But when you're lying, you're caught up in this web, 1155 01:15:49,167 --> 01:15:55,007 and you have to lie more because I'm the Golden Boy. 1156 01:15:55,973 --> 01:15:57,906 They put me on the pedestal, and it's like, 1157 01:15:57,975 --> 01:16:00,042 "Oh, you can't do anything wrong. 1158 01:16:00,111 --> 01:16:03,879 He's the Golden Boy. You know, he's an angel." 1159 01:16:03,948 --> 01:16:06,148 Well, guess what, I'm not a fucking angel. 1160 01:16:08,286 --> 01:16:11,414 - Regarding the allegations, all we want is the truth. 1161 01:16:11,483 --> 01:16:13,688 - I was told by De La Hoya's attorney 1162 01:16:13,757 --> 01:16:15,324 that he didn't remember the event, 1163 01:16:15,393 --> 01:16:18,295 and he had actually slept with about 500 women since then. 1164 01:16:20,264 --> 01:16:22,998 - Oscar De La Hoya being an alcoholic, a dope fiend... 1165 01:16:23,067 --> 01:16:26,335 - We want to see a fight, right? 1166 01:16:26,404 --> 01:16:28,738 - No, no, no. They're not... no.