who won the chavez de la hoya fight
De La Hoya
title: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio César Chávez II text: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio César Chávez II Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio César Chávez II, billed as "Ultimate Revenge", was a professional boxing match contested on September 18, 1998 for the WBC and lineal welterweight championships. De La Hoya and Chavez had previously fought each other over two years earlier on June 7, 1996 for Chavez's WBC super lightweight title. In a highly–anticipated matchup, De La Hoya dominated the aging champion, winning the first three rounds on all three judge's scorecards before the fight was stopped in the fourth round due to a large gash Chavez had title: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio César Chávez II text: De La Hoya would defeat Whitaker to capture the title and then go on to successfully defend it three times before a rematch with Chavez was announced in April 1998. The bout was contingent on both De La Hoya and Chavez winning their tune–up fights against Patrick Charpentier and Ken Sigurani respectively, which both men did, officially putting their rematch on. De La Hoya would ultimately defeat Chavez once again after Chavez's corner opted to end the fight between the eighth and ninth rounds, officially giving De La Hoya the victory by referee technical knockout at 3:00 of the eighth title: Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar De La Hoya text: offense, De La Hoya took control of the latter stages of the round and brutalized Chavez with a series of hard combinations and broke Chavez' nose with a left hook. As the cut around his eye had deteriorated even further, Cortez halted the fight once again and sent him to ringside physician Flip Homansky. Homansky then informed Cortez that Chavez could not continue due to the multiple lacerations to his face and De La Hoya was awarded with the TKO victory at 2:37 of the fourth round Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar De La Hoya Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar title: Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar De La Hoya text: Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar De La Hoya Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar De La Hoya, billed as "Ultimate Glory", was a professional boxing match contested on June 7, 1996 for the WBC and lineal super lightweight championship. After both Julio César Chávez and Oscar De La Hoya defeated their opponents (Scott Walker and Darryl Tyson respectively) in tune-up bouts on February 9, 1996, the two fighters agreed to face one another in a "dream match" set for June of that year. The undefeated De La Hoya had already won world titles in two divisions and was looking to capture title: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Julio César Chávez II text: round. Unlike the first fight in which Chavez was injured early in the first round and was unable to keep up with the younger and faster De La Hoya, Chavez was much more competitive this time around. The two fighters fought several close rounds though at the time of the stoppage De La Hoya had the clear advantage as one judge had him ahead by the score of 79–73 (seven rounds to one) while the other two judges scored the fight 78–75 (five rounds to two, one even). De La Hoya opened up a small cut above Chavez's left eye,