During Oscar de la Hoya's career, the fans have been treated to a chameleon like figure difficult to understand and even harder to predict. Despite a career in which his public image was almost perfectly orchestrated, there have been several leaks throughout the years which possibly define the true character of the Golden Boy.
Behind the smiling face and the sad story about his mother’s death and his subsequent Olympic glory, we find a very flawed and often malicious individual in Oscar de la Hoya. Although known as the Golden Boy to some, De La Hoya is also known by many to be racist, a sore loser, a deadbeat dad, and even an alleged rapist.
OSCAR THE RAPIST AND DEADBEAT DAD
This report may come as something new to some fans but hardcore fans are aware of previous allegations against Oscar de la Hoya throughout the years. Oscar de la Hoya was actually accused of rape several times during his career and even opted to pay an alleged victim a settlement out of court instead of attempting to clear his name.
One of the more shocking allegations was his possible rape of a 15-year-old girl in Mexico back in 1996. Other stars like Michael Jackson were declared guilty in the court of public opinion when they settled their rape cases with money instead of going before a jury.
Luckily for Oscar de la Hoya, his public image was guided almost perfectly by Bob Arum and the public was usually unaware of his shady activities. Ironically, after De La Hoya separated from Arum, he went on to make derogatory statements regarding Arum’s Jewish background.
Oscar de la Hoya’s statements against African Americans and Jews are also well documented. It has also been reported that the famed boxer has father many illegitimate children all over the nation without paying them a cent. However, in all fairness it has been reported that De La Hoya has been financially supporting the daughter he had with Shanna Moakler after having been hit with a $62.5 million dollar paternity suit.
OSCAR THE RACIST BULLY
As a high school student at Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California, Oscar de la Hoya was known for both his soft side and his vicious side. According to former classmates, De La Hoya once ran into a burning crack house in order to rescue his pet rat, Gonzalo.
A former high school girlfriend stated her name only as Maria and said the following:
“When his rat, Gonzalito, was still alive, Oscar was real affectionate. When it died because he couldn’t save it, things changed. It was crazy, he cried for like two weeks and started telling me that he was fighting for the rat. He started to hate the blacks because the crack house where the rat died was full of black crackheads. He buried Gonzalo in my backyard and swore to me that he would never lose to the blacks.”
According to some East LA locals, Oscar De La Hoya’s “Golden Boy” moniker has a double meaning unknown to the majority of the public. Some East Los Angeles residents have come forward and shared their knowledge regarding the sordid past of Oscar de la Hoya and his well-known nickname:
Julio An Contreras, East Los Angeles:
“I seen him a couple of times back in high school. He was one mean ese homes. He was always bragging about how he was this boxer and he could kick anyone’s ass in the school. He would always pick on the white kids. If he liked your girl, he would kick your ass in front of her. After he would beat up a kid, he would start pissing all over him. His piss was always really bright yellow and stunk because he took vitamins. Most of us here are Mexican and our parents did not have money for vitamins. Oscar would always brag and shit that he was better than other Mexicans because he took vitamins. After he beat up a few freshmen and peed on them, people started calling him “golden boy”, you know, like golden shower. I was glad when he left the school. He definitely wasn’t the nice guy he is now; he was mean to the core and didn’t give a fuck. Now he gives out turkeys and stuff on Thanksgiving but before he was different.”
Hector Montes de Vergasana, East Los Angeles:
“I never went to Garfield High but I am from East L.A and I have heard the stuff about Oscar beating kids up. Most people don’t know it but that ese was known as Golden Boy before he was even popular. He was a real gangster and would beat you up if he liked your girl. I heard he once beat up this skinny black guy from Crenshaw, called him a n***er and then started pissing all over him like R Kelly. I don’t know if his piss was bright yellow because I wasn’t there.”
OSCAR THE CROSSDRESSING CHEATER
Recently, golf star Tiger Woods was hammered in the media for cheating on his wife multiple times with multiple women. However, there are other celebrated athletes that have done far worse but were lucky enough to escape a lengthy media condemnation. Oscar de la Hoya is definitely one of the lucky few.
In De La Hoya we have an adored superstar that has fathered multiple children with multiple women and has proven to be unfaithful to each and every one of them. De La Hoya was even caught photographed wearing women’s lingerie and looking inebriated while frolicking around with a stripper.
Although De La Hoya chalked up the existence of these photos to being mere creations of “Photoshop”, boxing fans really don’t believe him but in reality don’t care either way. According to sources, there were even more graphic pictures that did not come to light. Some allegedly showing De La Hoya bent over while being worked over by the stripper as she wears a strap-on dildo. Luckily for De La Hoya, his legal team was able to pay off the stripper and halt the further spread of the pictures. If Tiger Woods had been caught in this manner, he would have had to fake his own death in order to live in peace.
THE NEW DON KING
In spite of De La Hoya’s alleged attempts to clean up boxing via his promotional company, he has demonstrated many of the abusive and underhanded tactics previously known to more vilified promoters.
Most recently, De La Hoya was largely responsible for the smearing of Manny Pacquiao as he helped Floyd Mayweather’s team spread the unfounded claims that Pacquiao was using illegal performance enhancing drugs. De La Hoya even went on to allude that he felt extra steroid enhanced strength in Pacquiao’s power although he had previously stated that Pacquiao did not hit very hard.
Instead of using his promotional vehicle to better the sport, De La Hoya used his influence to cast yet another dark cloud over the sport just because he lost in humiliating fashion to his opponent and saw the opportunity to damage his reputation. This was also subsequent to De La Hoya previously trying to steal Pacquiao from rival promoter Bob Arum by reportedly giving him a bag full of cash, a well documented old Don King tactic.
SHOULD OSCAR'S FLAWED CHARACTER BE IMPORTANT?
Ironically, if De La Hoya’s flaws would have been exposed all throughout his career, he might have been an even bigger star a la Mike Tyson. Hopefully, times will change and sports figures will cease to be role models deified by fans and public relations specialists.
Sports figures have been misclassified as role models when in reality they are not. What they do in their bedrooms should have no influence on their earning power.
Why should Tiger Woods be vilified for sleeping with several women just because he plays golf and gets endorsements? If anything, Woods is behaving like a normal man would in a similar situation. Why should he get on television teary eyed and apologize to the public? Is the general public that pious and holy that Woods has sinned in such an extraordinary manner so foreign to the average person?
Source: bleacherreport.com
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