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Article: HE HAS GOLDEN TOUCH BUSINESS IS BOOMING FOR DE LA HOYA

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November 19, 2003
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OSCAR DE LA HOYA HASN'T BEEN SUED YET BUT IF THINGS KEEP GOING THE WAY THEY HAVE, IT WON'T BE LONG. Not because De La Hoya has done anything wrong, but simply because he's beginning to have as much success promoting fights as he has had fighting them.

Last Saturday, De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions staged its first HBO Championship Boxing production in San Antonio, a card that headlined the best featherweight in the world, Marco Antonio Barrera, against top 122-pound challenger Manny Pacquiao. This weekend his company will run its first HBO pay-per-view show with World Boxing Council 122-pound titleholder Oscar Larios in against Thailand's

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