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| Date | September 18, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center Paradise, Nevada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Title(s) on the line | IBF and WBC welterweight titles | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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's world Welterweight championships.[1]
After twelve tensely fought rounds, Trinidad was controversially 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
References
- ^ Steve Springer (September 23, 1999). "Four days after his controversial loss to Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya sits down and watches the fight with the Times and says: 'I demand a rematch'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-02-24.