By Jason Kim: With only one win out of four huge PPV bouts, Oscar De La Hoya has been somewhat of a dismal failure on big PPV bouts with over 900,000 buys or more. For a fighter as popular as De La Hoya is, he probably should be a lot less popular than he is given his track record in huge PPV bouts. With lesses to Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley, he has frequently come up short in his biggest fights of his career in terms of the biggest PPV buys.
Naturally, some of that has to do with the high quality opposition that he’s faced in those bouts, but still, there’s no escaping from the fact that De La Hoya has failed in three out of his four biggest PPV bouts in his career, coming up short most of the time.
With a record like this, it seems as if De La Hoya doesn’t warrant the attention that he gets, because after all, past success should be the measuring stick for popularity in PPV fights, not failure. In De La Hoya’s case, he has struggled when taking on top level fighters in the past five years, and more often than not, had to settle for a loss in fights like this.
On Saturday, the boxing public will give him one more chance to try and redeem himself, albeit against Manny Pacquiao, a fighter several classes below him in weight.
Below is Oscar’s biggest PPV bouts, followed by the results:
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (5/07) 2.4 million buys = $120 million – De La Hoya loses by 12-round split decision.
Bernard Hopkins (9/04) 1 million buys = $56.0 million – De La Hoya is stopped in the 9th round.
Shane Mosley II (9/03) 950,000 buys = $48.4 million – De La Hoya loses by a 12-round unanimous decision.
Fernando Vargas (9/02) 935,000 buys = $47.8 million – De La Hoya stops Vargas in the 11th round.
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