Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad

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The Fight of the Millennium

Date	September 18, 1999
Venue	Mandalay Bay Events Center Paradise, Nevada
Title(s) on the line	WBC and IBF welterweight titles
Tale of the tape
Boxer Félix Trinidad Oscar De La Hoya Nickname Tito Golden Boy Hometown Cupey Alto, San Juan, Puerto Rico East Los Angeles, CA, United States Pre-fight record 35-0 (30 KO) 31-0 (25 KO) Recognition IBF welterweight champion The Ring pound-for-pound No. 4 ranked fighter WBC welterweight champion The Ring pound-for-pound No. 1 ranked fighter 4-division world champion
Result
Trinidad won via majority decision.

Félix Trinidad vs. Oscar De La Hoya, billed as The Fight of the Millennium, was a boxing match held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF welterweight championships.^[1]

After twelve tensely fought rounds, Trinidad was definitively declared the winner by a majority decision.

Planned by promoters Bob Arum and Don King, it pitted WBC world champion Oscar De La Hoya, a Mexican American, Los Angeles native, versus Puerto Rican IBF world champion Félix Trinidad. It was the last of the so-called superfights of the 20th century.

The bout set the pay-per-view record for a non-heavyweight fight with 1.4 million buys on HBO, until it was broken by De La Hoya-Mayweather on May 5, 2007. It set the record 2.4 million buys, the most in boxing history until that was surpassed by Mayweather-Pacquiao in 2015 with the record of 4.4 million buys.

See also[]

• Errol Spence Jr. versus Shawn Porter

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