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Article: De La Hoya still the Golden Boy
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- March 3, 2006
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JOHN ROWE
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-03-2006
De La Hoya still the Golden Boy
JOHN ROWE
Date: 03-03-2006, Friday
Section: SPORTS
Edtion: All Editions
Column: ON BOXING
NEW YORK — As the self-proclaimed Golden Boy of boxing, Oscar De La Hoya has always held himself to a higher standard than others in his profession.
Thank goodness.
Otherwise, the promotional tour for his return to the ring against Ricardo Mayorga on May 6 in Las Vegas would have turned into a bigger fiasco than it was.
If that's possible.
The De La Hoya-Mayorga sideshow made its final stop here Thursday, after starting in Los Angeles on Tuesday and stopping in Houston and Chicago on Wednesday. Mayorga's act, as much as ...