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Article: De La Hoya risks more than titles 'Golden Boy' puts career on line tonight against Mosley
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 13, 2003
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LAS VEGAS -- Oscar De La Hoya was sitting in his 29th-floor suite
overlooking the Las Vegas Strip, cuddling his Yorkshire terrier on
his lap.
"Kind of a wussy dog," someone said.
"Just like her owner," De La Hoya replied, laughing.
There was a time when some boxing fans might have agreed,
particularly after De La Hoya danced around the last three rounds to
give away a fight to Felix Trinidad four years ago.
To many, he was perceived as a pretty boy, someone more concerned
with keeping his facial features intact than in punishing opponents.
Not any more. When De La Hoya fights a rematch tonight with Shane
Mosley, he'll enter the ring with a nastiness that never was part of
the Golden Boy ...