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Article: DE LA HOYA SUCCEEDS IN NAME ONLY EASY VICTORY GAINS HIM TITLE IN FIFTH WEIGHT CLASS.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2001
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Byline: Michael Rosenthal Assistant Sports Editor
LAS VEGAS - Oscar De La Hoya won his championship in a record-tying fifth weight class. In every other sense, no one was a winner.
De La Hoya easily outpointed a pathetically overmatched Javier Castillejo to win the WBC junior middleweight title in front of 12,480 on Saturday at the MGM Grand but won no raves for a workmanlike performance unbecoming a great fighter. He couldn't have hurt Castillejo had the Spaniard had no arms.
Castillejo won no concessions that he even belonged in the ring with a fighter as talented as De La Hoya. He was tough but otherwise terrible.
And the biggest ...