Oscar De La Hoya believes there is just one fighter that would have been able to defeat him at his absolute best.
‘The Golden Boy’ began his professional career back in 1992, just a short while after he claimed a lightweight gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
De La Hoya would go on to capture world honours in six weight divisions during his tenure, proving himself to be one of the best active fighters on the planet in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
He produced a number of legacy-defining victories along the way, getting the better of the likes of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Hector Camacho, Pernell Whitaker and Fernando Vargas to name just a few.
In a feature with Mail Sport Boxing, De La Hoya was asked to predict a number of fantasy clashes between himself and a number of legendary fighters, as he claims there is just one man that would have got the better of him had they faced each other.
“Oh man, That’s a good one. I’m going to go with Sugar Ray Robinson.”
Robinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest fighters to have ever laced up a pair of boxing gloves, an opinion that is shared by many fans around the world.
The Georgia-native fought on no less than 201 occasions during his glittering professional career, producing an outstanding 174 victories between 1940 and 1965. He became a world champion at welterweight and middleweight, defeating the likes of Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta and Rocky Graziano.
