Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad

The Fight of the Millennium

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Date	September 18, 1999
Venue	Mandalay Bay Events Center, Paradise, Nevada, US
Title(s) on the line	WBC and IBF welterweight titles
Tale of the tape
Boxer Oscar De La Hoya Félix Trinidad Nickname The Golden Boy Tito Hometown East Los Angeles, CA, US Cupey Alto, San Juan, Puerto Rico Pre-fight record 31-0 (25 KO) 35-0 (30 KO) Height 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (179 cm) 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) Weight 147 lb (67 kg) 147 lb (67 kg) Style Orthodox Orthodox Recognition WBC welterweight champion The Ring pound-for-pound No. 1 ranked fighter 4-division world champion IBF welterweight champion The Ring pound-for-pound No. 4 ranked fighter
Result
Trinidad wins via 12–round majority decision (114–114, 115–114, 115–113)

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad, 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 welterweight championships.

After twelve tensely fought rounds, Trinidad was 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