Oscar De La Hoya was as serious as it got when he dominated boxing from 1992 to 2008, winning 11 world titles in six different weight classes. And he’s as serious as it gets now when it comes to promoting some of the most exciting bouts around, including this week’s super welterweight match between Vergil Ortiz Jr., left, and Serhii Bohachuk, who will battle for Bohachuk’s WBC interim world championship title.
The event, presented by De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, promises plenty of fireworks. Ortiz, from Grand Prairie, Texas, has a 100% knockout ratio, with 20 KOs since his professional debut in 2016. Meanwhile, Bohachuk, from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, has 23 KOs in 24 fights, his only loss coming against against Brandon Adams in March of 2021.
“There’s a lot of good fighters coming up,” said De La Hoya in an interview with Las Vegas Magazine earlier this year. “YouTubers are shedding a bright light on the sport as well, like Jake Paul. Fighters like that who can bring attention to the sport and sort of make it bigger. It’s my job as a promoter to continue to build the next generation of fighters. It’s very important to me personally to make Las Vegas the Fight Capitol of the World again.”
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