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Oscar Delahoya Oscar De La Hoya On February 4, 1973 Oscar De La Hoya was born to Joel and Cecilia De La Hoya. He lived in a nice house but the rest of the neighborhood down the road wasn’t the best place to raise a family. There were gangs, drugs, shooting, killings, and robberies every where. Oscar’s entire family enjoyed boxing, in fact his grandfather was an amateur back in the 1940’s and is father was a professional in the 1960’s (Pare). Now, Oscar is a professional and even though Oscar has lost a few fights’ he is still one of the best boxers today. When Oscar was a baby, one Christmas night his father brought home some boxing gloves; he brought two pair for the children and one pair for the adults. The children loved to pretend to box all the time and sometimes their father would play with them on the floor. He would show them certain move, like how to jab or so one two’s (Taylor). At the age of ten Oscar started training at the Resurrection Boy’s Club gym in Los Angeles. He loved to work out, in fact he worked out so much he and his family considered it his home away from home. When Oscar was oscar, delahoya, out, one, gold, time, home, fought, year, won, win, townsend, though, taylor, person, order, good, first, father, brought, boxing, when, years, two, rudolph, professional, pound, pair, olympic, much, mother, medal, match, make, loved, later