Diego De La Hoya boxer

Diego de la Hoya Villegas (born August 13, 1994) is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBC-NABF and WBO-NABO super bantamweight titles between 2017 and 2019. As an amateur he represented Mexico, winning the 2011 Mexican National Championships and competing at the 2012 Youth World Championships. He is the cousin of former boxer Oscar De La Hoya.De la Hoya was born in the Mexican border town of Mexicali, in a boxing family, and was surrounded by boxing ever since he was born. He is said to have fallen in love with the sport of boxing at the age of 6, although he had been boxing even before that. As his interest in the sport grew, he decided to take up boxing full-time at the age of 15. Growing up he idolized Mexican boxing legends Julio Cesar Chavez, and his cousin Oscar De La Hoya. De la Hoya lives with his parents and loves playing soccer.Diego joined the Mexican National Boxing team in 2009. De la Hoya had over 250 amateur bouts and was a Mexican National Olympics silver medalist.Diego is signed to Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions. He made his professional debut on September 12, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada against Luis Cosme who had already had eleven professional fights. De La Hoya won the fight via technical knockout (TKO) at 1:53 min in the third round.The second fight was in the city of Indio, California on December 13, 2013. De La Hoya won the fight via TKO at 2:32 minutes in the first round against Abraham Rubio who had already had six professional fights.De La Hoya fought his third fight on March 14, 2014 and won in a first round stoppage, bringing his record to 3–0.