Date | September 18, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Mandalay Bay Events Center, Paradise, Nevada, US | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title(s) on the line | WBC and IBF welterweight titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. [1]
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. [2]
After twelve tensely fought rounds, Trinidad was declared the winner by a majority decision. [3]
The bout set the pay-per-view record for a non-heavyweight fight with 1.4 million ($70 million) buys on HBO and $12.9 million in ticket sales, 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.
In 2014, both boxers were inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. [2] [4]