http://www.yugloo.com/ Oscar De La Hoya was six years old when he first began to box. "My brother, Joel Jr., put a pair on me and the other pair on one of my cousins," Oscar recalled. " Then he yelled 'Time!' immediately, I covered my cheeks with the gloves." "The next thing I knew — wham — the first punch is a left jab that goes between my gloves and lands smack on my nose!" Oscar De La Hoya ran home, crying every step of the way. De La Hoya never pictured himself becoming a fighter. He was always found in the park playing baseball with the other kids. It was actually his older brother Joel Jr. who many believed had the potential to become a great fighter. Joel Jr. never pictured his younger brother as a fighter. "Oscar hated physical confrontations, he never had a street fight. He preferred to play with skateboards near the house and baseball in the park. Nothing violent." But boxing is in the De La Hoya tradition and blood. It goes back several generations when his grandfather, Vicente, a 126-pound amateur in the 1940s, and his father Joel, Sr., who fought as a lightweight in the professional ranks in the mid-1960s. Oscar was being pushed to go to the gym and learn to defend himself. He started going to the Eastside Boxing Gym in East L.A and began training and remembers that "every time I won a fight, my cousins, aunts and uncles would give me money. A dollar here, a quarter there, half a buck." It was there that this future world champion began his road to stardom. He quickly discovered the ingredient that would make him a devastating fighter, his powerful left hand. He began to train religiously. Oscar's first true test was at the 1992 Olympics. He waited anxiously and prepared his entire life for that moment. He promised his ailing mother, Cecilia, that he would bring back home the gold medal. There was no question in his mind that he would win it. He was going to win it for his mother! The road to the gold medal bout was not an easy one. As the Olympic tournament began he disposed of his first three opponents - knocking out the first. Then in his first medal round match, what should have been an easy victory became a close controversial decision. De La Hoya struggled against his opponent's awkward bull-rushing style, but Oscar would not be denied as he emerged with a tight one-point victory. De La Hoya was now in the gold medal bout. The very gold medal he promised his beloved mother and was eager to win since all the other U.S. boxers failed to bring home the gold. His final hurdle would come against Marco Rudolph, the fighter who had defeated Oscar one year earlier at the World Championships in Australia. It was De La Hoya's first loss as an amateur in four years. For Oscar, it would make the victory that much sweeter. De La Hoya, fighting at 132 pounds, dominated the fight from beginning to end. He controlled Rudolph for the entire three rounds. In the third round, he used his powerful left hand to knock down Rudolph. It was no contest and the referee stopped the fight. De La Hoya celebrated by dancing around the ring with a U.S. flag in one hand and a Mexican flag in the other. Oscar had accomplished his ultimate goal, he fulfilled his special promise to his mother -- one of the most emotional moments of the Olympic Games. During his amateur boxing career, De La Hoya's record was an outstanding 223-5 with 163 knockouts. After the Olympics, Oscar bought a big house in a nice neighborhood a few miles from East L.A. He wanted to share the success of winning the gold medal and the house with his mother, but she was already gone. His mother, Cecilia died of breast cancer. Oscar wanted to quit boxing because the pain of losing his mother was unbearable, but he realized that she wanted him to be a great fighter. So he continued and became a five-time world champion with explosive power and great boxing skills in the ring. Oscar has won world crowns at 130, 135, 140, 147 and 154 pounds beating some impressive boxers along the way. He stopped Wilfredo Rivera in eight rounds on the "Title Wave" championship card in Atlantic City, NJ and defeated a tough Hector Camacho in 1996 by unanimous decision. "He's a true champion," said Camacho. "He's the best I've ever fought and I've been in there with the best." De La Hoya's also fought against the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez in Chavez's 100th professional fight. Oscar defeated him soundly and cut Chavez's eye and broke his nose, but felt honored to be in the ring with such a true warrior and boxing legend. De La Hoya captured the welterweight title in his victory over six-time world champion Pernell Whitaker on April 12, 1997, in Las Vegas. It was a huge challenge for the Golden Boy who went up seven pounds (from 140 to 147) and took on a seasoned tricky southpaw who at times fought in a low crouch and fired from different angles.

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This is the official videoclip for Monsoon, the english version of Durch den Monsun. Brought to you by: TokioHotelFans.net -- This song will be available on Scream (release date: June 4th). The band is announced to be in England the last week of May 2007 for promotion purpose such as interviews, photoshoots and so on.

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Featured Cheater : YTWatchdog aka JimmyJimJimJoeBob aka Channel072 JimmyJimJimJoeBob Channel http://www.youtube.com/jimmyjimjimjoebob Channel072 Channel http://www.youtube.com/Channel072 This is in response to your "Featured Cheater" video you did on me. I told you not to expose me as Insult Alien until I took 100% control over URANUS or you would be sorry. Now you must pay, Dallas. To be continued... Sincerely, Trevwhore

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I makes his move. IChannel Theme: "Purpose" by Massey myspace.com/masseyatloophole www.loopholerecords.com

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HellionExciter Is FREE AT LAST!!! WINNER! ownageed bungeygirl (19 hours) StarbucksCoffeeBoy V.S. GreenTeaGirlie! Trevor EXPOSED GreenTeaGirlie as: 1. A CHEATER 2. A Product Viral Marketing Campaign! FREE TREVOR! FREE TREVOR! FREE TREVOR! EXTRA! EXTRA! Read All About It! Trevor Rieger Makes It Into Encyclopedia Dramatica! And unlike the other 6 times he was mentioned, this time he actually has his OWN PAGE! LULZ

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Although I'm not an expert at singing or playing guitar - I wanted to share my heart. This is who gives me true joy. Happy Easter! =D After reading these verses again and again, it inspired me to write the song. Ephesians 3:17-19 And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. For chords go to: http://www.happyslip.com/category/blog/ Lyrics: When I try to look elsewhere or in others I lose myself For my life is nothing without you My Creator You give me meaning You give me purpose I find my destiny in you oh God How wide How long How high and how deep Is your love oh Lord Unless the Lord builds this house I will build in vain I will sink in the sand But I choose to stand on you The Rock of my Salvation You give me meaning You give me purpose I find my destiny in you oh God For when I fall When I fail You pick me up And Hold me in your arms Oh Lord my God Reedemer and my Friend You're the Alpha, Omega The Great I am And I give my all to you How wide How long How high and how deep Is your love oh Lord I die to myself So that you might live in me oh Lord All the days of my life Shine through me Oh God of who I am Oh God of who I am

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I've never heard of someone actually renting TV ad space to propose - props to him!

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See Silverio's worst five minutes ever! This guy is supposed to be very famous in Mexico!

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Not only was it bad enough he missed his chair. The recovery effort where he makes it look like it was on purpose was even worse.

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I am asking myself the same question: Are they doing it on purpose or do they just suck at this?

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