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00:00Bill Hicks' Revelations premieres Friday, September 10th on HBO.
00:05And find out what the hell he's doing on this horse.
00:12Next on HBO, a boxing doubleheader.
00:15Oscar De La Hoya, unbeaten, closing in on a title shot.
00:19And Roy Jones, also unbeaten, already a champion.
00:23De La Hoya versus Carter.
00:26And Jones versus Malinga, next.
00:29This is the year HBO breaks the network's hold on Emmy Malinga.
00:34Next on HBO.
00:38The crowd is jammed.
00:39That's comedy jammed!
00:43The crowd.
00:44It could only happen here, tonight on HBO.
00:47The following is a special presentation of HBO.
01:18Celebrating 20 years of world championship boxing.
01:26Once upon a time, boxing offered an abundance of exciting fighters who transcended the sport.
01:48Myron Harris-Hagler.
01:55Hagler punishing Hearns now.
01:57Sugar Ray Leonard.
02:00How do you like it? How do you like it?
02:04Durant, Hearns, Hagler and Leonard, those guys were something else.
02:08But now there's two new kids on the block, guaranteed to be just as exciting.
02:13Hey Oscar, this show almost really happened.
02:18Let's go!
02:32Coming up, two of boxing's most promising and talked about fighters.
02:36Oscar De La Hoya and Roy Jones Jr.
02:38Set to put their talents on display against two formidable opponents.
02:42So don't leave your set.
02:44Because this might not last long.
02:46The future of boxing begins now.
02:49Tonight, live from Casino Magic in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
03:19HBO Sports presents a boxing doubleheader.
03:22First, you'll see 1992 Olympic gold medalist Oscar De La Hoya
03:26as he takes on Ronaldo Little Red Carter in a ten round junior lightweight bout.
03:31Then the IBF middleweight champion Roy Jones moves up in weight
03:35and takes on tough South African Tulani Malinga, never before knocked out
03:39in a super middleweight bout also scheduled for ten rounds.
03:44Casino gambling recently ordained here on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
03:49This particular casino, Casino Magic, using boxing to expand its image,
03:54scores a big event tonight as both Jones and De La Hoya
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04:02Hello again everybody, I'm Jim Lampley.
04:04Welcome back to HBO's World Championship Boxing.
04:06Several firsts for us tonight.
04:08Our first trip to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi
04:11to show you Oscar De La Hoya on HBO for the very first time.
04:14Our first look at Roy Jones since he won the middleweight championship
04:18on the undercard of Bo Ferguson in Washington, D.C. earlier this spring.
04:22Working with me as always, HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant.
04:25Larry, we're excited about watching Roy Jones and Oscar De La Hoya.
04:29What is at stake for the two young American stars tonight?
04:32Well, this is one of those opportunities, as Norman Mailer once wrote,
04:36to appraise the talent in the room.
04:38Which is another way of saying they are expected to win.
04:41The question is, how do they win?
04:44I said talent in the room.
04:46The fact that the room is a jam-packed tent in Mississippi
04:51is a whole other story.
04:53But talent, wherever you find it or display it, is talent.
04:57And Jones and De La Hoya are talent.
05:00However, in winning the middleweight title in his last fight,
05:05Jones was exposed somewhat as a slightly flawed talent
05:10by his own admission.
05:12He has explained that outside of the ring.
05:14He has to start explaining it inside the ring tonight.
05:18De La Hoya is young and undefeated.
05:21And all things seem possible for him now.
05:24Perhaps because he hasn't faced that really tough opponent yet.
05:28Or perhaps he's that rare star who seems bigger than the sky itself.
05:33You point out that the opposition has been relatively lackluster.
05:36Therefore, there have been few questions for De La Hoya
05:39earlier in his career.
05:40But now there is one question.
05:42Can he overcome the first significant injury of his career?
05:45An injury to the left hand, which caused this postponement.
05:48And then the cancellation of a scheduled date in Las Vegas on July 17.
05:52He's been under the treatment of Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon
05:55Tony Daly, who gave De La Hoya a series of rehabilitative exercises.
06:00No surgery.
06:01Oscar essentially has a sprain of where the hand bone meets the wrist bone.
06:07And it's very common in boxers.
06:09It's not career threatening.
06:11And it's not going to cause him any trouble over the long term.
06:13Right now, I have no pain at all.
06:16Mentally and physically, I'm just ready to go.
06:19Sometimes fighters are kind of bothered by it mentally
06:24after it's well physically.
06:26But with me, I'm hitting harder.
06:31I'm just working harder in the gym because I've been doing weights on it.
06:35And it's just gotten much stronger than it was before.
06:39Larry Merchant, what's your take on how the hand bone will meet the wrist bone
06:43in Oscar De La Hoya's left jab and left hook?
06:45Well, the real point is how he deals with this.
06:48The fight game ain't as easy as he's made it look so far.
06:52I don't think.
06:54Right now, he's like a two-year-old horse
06:58that's been named the horse of the year.
07:01Sometimes those horses go on to win the Kentucky Derby,
07:04and sometimes they don't even get there.
07:06And as is the case with so many Olympic gold medalists,
07:09what's at stake for De La Hoya is big stardom.
07:12And as a result of one critical difference between De La Hoya
07:15and other Latin stars like Roberto Duran and Julio Cesar Chavez,
07:19he has the chance to rise to unprecedented heights.
07:28In a sport not known for its good-guy images,
07:31it takes a special fighter with special qualities
07:34to rise above the politics and confusion.
07:37That fighter may be Oscar De La Hoya,
07:39an undefeated lightweight who is making people take notice
07:42for all the right reasons.
07:45But you can see De La Hoya side to side.
07:48Look at him spin off the ropes. I'm into the middle.
07:51Here's a kid that's in so far, I can't find any flaw with him at all.
07:54He seems to have it all.
07:57People like a fighter who doesn't have a bad image or a bad name
08:01and a fighter who is a good role model,
08:04and probably that's why they picked me.
08:08That quest for stardom skyrocketed
08:10when De La Hoya won the United States Olympic boxing team's
08:13only gold medal at Barcelona last year.
08:16While fulfilling the dream of his deceased mother,
08:18Oscar also fulfilled his own, holding up two flags,
08:22demonstrating to the world his American citizenship
08:25and his Mexican ancestry.
08:27Whether the golden boy knew it or not,
08:29corporate America was already watching
08:31and preparing to jump on the De La Hoya bandwagon.
08:36When you take a look at his smile and his charisma
08:40and the magnetic attraction he has around the ring,
08:44people just gravitate to him.
08:46And that gives us a marketing opportunity
08:49that we think might be very, very useful
08:54and potentially explosive for all of us, including him.
08:57What makes De La Hoya's rise to celebrity even more amazing
09:01is that he's had only eight professional bouts,
09:04participating in a sport advertisers usually shy away from.
09:08He becomes the first Hispanic fighter to cross the one barrier
09:11that hindered even the public careers of Roberto Duran,
09:15Hector Camacho, and Julio Cesar Chavez.
09:19It's probably because I didn't speak English pretty well.
09:22You have to have that charisma, I guess,
09:24where people always talk about charisma.
09:26I don't even know what it is.
09:28But you have to have that charisma.
09:30The charisma.
09:33Sugar Ray had it.
09:35Muhammad Ali had it.
09:37But, I mean, again, they didn't know how to speak Spanish,
09:40so, I mean, I guess that advantage that I have
09:43is speaking Spanish and English.
09:45Especially when they give me all these boxing tips,
09:48and they're free.
09:51Bueno.
09:58Put education first,
10:00and please stay away from drugs and gang violence.
10:03From his dad's Monte Carlo to his brother's Camaro to Oscar's Corvette.
10:06When you have a dream, anything's possible.
10:10Aside from MCI and Chevrolet,
10:13De La Hoya signed a multi-year, six-figure deal with Champion Footwear,
10:17which even designed and created its first set of boxing shoes,
10:20just for Oscar.
10:22But his biggest endorsement to date is with Bum Equipment.
10:25As part of a long-term, six-figure deal,
10:27De La Hoya's face will be seen on over 30,000 billboards
10:31across the country this fall, promoting the company's apparel.
10:34Bum's also designed the new ring wardrobe
10:37for De La Hoya's corner tonight.
10:39And come September, he'll have his own clothing line
10:42with his official logo and signature.
10:45We're gonna have sweatpants and jeans and things like that,
10:49so it's really gonna be a clothes line
10:53that, I guess, college kids and high school kids
10:57and even grown-ups can use.
10:59So everybody's gonna hopefully be happy with it
11:02and buy the merchandise.
11:05But with endorsements and notoriety come more time constraints
11:09and the demand of juggling all the pieces in the puzzle,
11:12Oscar, being the 20-year-old, is only learning to cope with.
11:15I'm not afraid of burning myself out or nothing like that,
11:18but it's just that I sometimes get frustrated
11:21because I have no more time for myself.
11:24But I realize that after a while, it's gonna get better.
11:27There's no question Oscar De La Hoya
11:29is a heavyweight outside the ring.
11:31Boxing now waits to see if he can live up
11:34to all these expectations with his fists.
11:38Back live at ringside in Bay St. Louis,
11:41Mississippi, Casino Magic coming up immediately.
11:44Oscar De La Hoya in a ten-round fight
11:47against Ronaldo Little Red Carter out of Detroit,
11:49probably the toughest opponent for De La Hoya so far
11:53in his early professional career.
11:55And here now is a look at Ronaldo Carter.
11:58He won the first twenty fights of his career,
12:02then floundered for a while after his previous manager,
12:06Johnny Ace, was gunned down in a Detroit gun battle.
12:10Carter has shifted around in weight class,
12:13fighting several times at 135 pounds and up at 140 pounds.
12:17He comes back down in weight a little bit
12:20for this match against Oscar De La Hoya.
12:23Maybe that's something that De La Hoya's handlers think
12:26will be an advantage for them this evening, Larry.
12:29That's true, but one of the disadvantages
12:32of being a young fighter like De La Hoya
12:35is that his reputation already is so great
12:39that he becomes a target,
12:41so that an opponent like this
12:44knows that this is an opportunity,
12:48and he may get himself back to where he was
12:51when he was 20-0
12:53and feel like this can revive his career.
12:56Ronaldo Little Red Carter has won three of his last four fights
13:00in getting to 27-4 and won the one loss,
13:03a hotly disputed split decision against José Vidal
13:06on April 22.
13:08He comes out of a hotbed of fighters,
13:10the tough streets of Detroit, Michigan,
13:13and early in his career looked like a title shot prospect.
13:16He may still have a chance at a title shot,
13:18but if and only if he wins tonight
13:20against the star of the 1992 American Olympic team
13:25and now the golden boy of American boxing,
13:28Oscar De La Hoya,
13:30surrounded by managers and family members
13:32as he leaves his dressing room to enter the ring.
13:36You know, there's a practice today
13:39of signing young, bright prospects
13:43very, very early in their careers,
13:45from Jennifer Capriati to Shaq O'Neal
13:48and to Oscar De La Hoya.
13:50It disturbs you a little bit,
13:53but the great athlete
13:55turns that pressure into a great opportunity.
13:59He doesn't let it hold him back.
14:01In his early professional career,
14:03he's been, if anything, Larry,
14:05I think better than most people thought he would be
14:07coming out of the Olympics.
14:08There were some skeptics at that time.
14:11I don't think there are any now.
14:15De La Hoya carrying American and Mexican flags
14:19as he enters the ring,
14:21a tribute to his dual heritage.
14:25He comes, of course, from East Los Angeles,
14:28an almost entirely Mexican-American neighborhood
14:31where he is quite logically beloved.
14:34Eight wins so far in his career,
14:36seven by knockout. The most recent,
14:38a first-round destruction of former world champion
14:41and former world kickboxing champion Troy Dorsey
14:44on the undercard of Foreman Morrison in Las Vegas.
14:59He'll be fighting tonight at 132 pounds plus.
15:03Oscar's apparent target early in his career
15:06is a 130-pound world championship.
15:08Curious, because in his professional career,
15:10he's never been down to 130 yet.
15:12As an amateur, he fought at 132,
15:14and many people believe, Larry, yourself included,
15:17that it would be better to just go
15:18for a 135-pound lightweight championship.
15:20Yeah, I don't get the point of weakening himself
15:23to fight a good fighter
15:24who a champion presumably would be.
15:27Punch that numbers, Larry.
15:29And here are the numbers.
15:30You can see they are similar,
15:32a little bit more accuracy for De La Hoya.
15:37Jabs also similar.
15:40Rules of the bout with our unofficial ringside scorer,
15:43Harold Lederman.
15:44Oscar De La Hoya and Reynaldo Carter
15:46will box tonight using the rules
15:48of the Mississippi State Athletic Commission.
15:50Ten rounds.
15:51The standing eight count is in effect.
15:53The three knockdown rule is in effect
15:55Only the referee can stop the fight.
15:57You can be saved by the belt in the last round only.
16:00And in case a cut is caused by an accidental headbutt,
16:03and that cut causes the fight to be stopped,
16:05we go to the scorecards
16:06after three rounds have been completed.
16:08Before that, it's a technical draw.
16:10Jim.
16:11Thank you, Harold.
16:12Right now, let's go up to ring announcer Michael Buffer
16:14for the pre-fight introductions.
16:18Ladies and gentlemen, good evening,
16:20and welcome to Casino Magic
16:22Casino Magic here in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi,
16:26where tonight Bob Barham and Top Rank Incorporated
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16:38All the bouts tonight are sanctioned
16:40by the Mississippi State Athletic Commission,
16:42Chairman Mr. Billy Lyons,
16:44commissioners in attendance,
16:45Jim Fagan and Fred Angeles,
16:48ringside physician Dr. James Crittenden,
16:50the timekeeper is Lanny Taylor.
16:52Counting for the knockdowns, Jerry Taylor.
16:55The scoring for this bout
16:56will be done on a 10-point must system,
16:58and the officials assigned at ringside as judges
17:01will be Elmo Adolph,
17:03Martin Casino,
17:05and Freddy Steinwinder.
17:07And when the bell rings,
17:08the official in charge of the action,
17:10referee Chester Como.
17:13And now, ladies and gentlemen,
17:15from Casino Magic here in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi,
17:19man your battle stations,
17:21ten rounds of boxing
17:23in the junior lightweight division.
17:26Introducing first,
17:27fighting out of the blue corner,
17:29wearing the blue trunks with red trim,
17:31weighing in at 132 pounds even,
17:34he comes to us tonight
17:35from the Motor City of Detroit, Michigan.
17:38His professional record,
17:3927 victories with 15 KOs,
17:42only four defeats and one draw,
17:44ladies and gentlemen,
17:46Rinaldo Little Red Carter!
17:55And his opponent across the ring,
17:56fighting out of the red corner,
17:58wearing the white trunks with green trim,
18:00weighing in at 132 and one-quarter pounds,
18:03this 1992 Olympic gold medal champion
18:06is now undefeated with eight consecutive victories,
18:09seven by KO.
18:11He's already ranked as high as number eight in the world.
18:14Ladies and gentlemen,
18:15the pride of East L.A.,
18:17the golden boy,
18:20Austin De La Hoya!
18:28Okay, man.
18:30Un-ring, man.
18:32Okay, man.
18:33You were given your instructions earlier this afternoon.
18:37I want you to give me a good, clean fight.
18:39If you have any questions.
18:42Okay, come on, fight.
18:49This is one of the few times
18:50when I feel I ought to be climbing into the ring
18:53before the first bell rings, Jim.
18:55In other words,
18:56you're anticipating a possible first-round knockout?
18:58Well, it is possible,
19:00but on the other hand, you know,
19:02Carter is a streetwise kid from Detroit,
19:05and maybe he's got something we don't know about.
19:09In case you're interested in which fighter
19:11appears to be more warmed up,
19:13it is Carter who is dry.
19:15Oscar De La Hoya, who has broken a sweat early
19:18as they go into round number one.
19:20De La Hoya is regarded as an outstanding combination puncher
19:24who does not waste many shots.
19:26So far, he uses the jab more as a range finder
19:29than as a weapon.
19:31Ronaldo Carter sees himself
19:33as a man of the ring.
19:36Ronaldo Carter sees himself
19:38as a tough counterpuncher who can go at De La Hoya,
19:41particularly with the left hand.
19:51Left to the body a little bit low by Carter.
19:55No warning from referee Chester Como.
20:06Let's go.
20:13So far, it is Carter who's the aggressor.
20:15De La Hoya starting slowly,
20:18picking his spots, you might say,
20:20though he hasn't picked many of them so far.
20:27Right hand over the top lands for De La Hoya.
20:29Carter counters with a right of his own.
20:33Neither fighter very busy,
20:35but Carter is the busier of the two
20:37as we reach the midway point of round one.
20:45De La Hoya again led with the right over the top.
20:48And again.
20:51Stood still and allowed Carter to get him to the body,
20:54but obviously Oscar believes he's going to land
20:56that right hand effectively over the top.
21:00Carter is a little quicker than De La Hoya may have expected.
21:04Good head movement, posing a problem right now.
21:17Carter moving mostly to his left,
21:19apparently to stay away from the De La Hoya left hook.
21:22Right hand lands for Little Red Carter.
21:26Oscar leaving his hands down after he throws,
21:29maybe not prepared for Carter's countering offense.
21:39That right hand landed flush.
21:43But it didn't stun Carter,
21:45and Ronaldo comes back with two combinations of his own.
21:48Little Red has already reddened De La Hoya's face.
21:53Figuratively or literally.
21:56Left hook lands for De La Hoya,
21:58and there you see the De La Hoya power
22:00as it momentarily pinned Carter to the ropes.
22:08And as we go to the De La Hoya corner,
22:11we introduce you to our interpreter
22:13working with us for the first time tonight,
22:15Hector Garcia.
22:24Come on.
22:26Come on, come on.
22:30Keep working.
22:41Start with your right and finish with your left.
22:54There's the high right,
22:56and the uppercut with the left by De La Hoya.
23:01He seems a little impatient between rounds
23:04because he didn't do enough business in that first round.
23:08The first round, according to punch stat numbers,
23:11a miss-a-thon. Carter threw fifty-five,
23:13landed only eleven. De La Hoya threw thirty-nine,
23:16landed only nine. So both fighters a little bit tentative
23:19as they try to find their way around each other
23:21in round number one.
23:22Now the second chapter begins.
23:31Short right hand landed inside for De La Hoya,
23:33not a lot of sock behind it.
23:37Carter remains the busier of the two
23:40at the outset of round two.
23:42Right hand was blocked.
23:44Solid right by De La Hoya momentarily stuns Carter.
23:49Carter comes back the way he knows how with offense
23:52and leaves himself open, but Oscar doesn't go back in.
23:55There's the left hook. Just missed.
24:03Another right hand lands over the top for De La Hoya.
24:07There's a danger as he lands that lead right hand
24:10that Oscar will fall to headhunting,
24:12but you saw the power in the left hook.
24:15And there again the left hook lands.
24:17Carter backs up and backs away.
24:19He has stopped throwing as De La Hoya begins to throw
24:23the lead right hand over and over again.
24:30He does that a few more times and will tend to slow up
24:33Carter's jab.
24:36Carter's defense down.
24:38That time De La Hoya landing the combination
24:41and Oscar is beginning to penetrate
24:44what little defense there is in Ronaldo Carter's fight plan.
24:49Particularly Larry with the lead right hand,
24:51and you're right, he's bringing it right over the top
24:53of Carter's jab and now Carter has begun to jab
24:56considerably less frequently.
24:58Another right hand over the top.
25:01No need for body punching right now
25:03as De La Hoya tries to target Ronaldo Carter.
25:15Referee Chester Como, refereed on a card here Thursday night,
25:18was very slow to stop fights.
25:21So you may see Little Red take some punishment
25:23if Oscar gets it going.
25:27Right hand landed in the corner.
25:29De La Hoya increasingly accurate with these combinations.
25:41Well, this is a tough opponent on paper,
25:43but it's rapidly becoming target practice
25:46as Ronaldo Carter is getting closer and closer
25:49to the end of the fight.
25:51This is a tough opponent on paper,
25:53but it's rapidly becoming target practice
25:56as round two comes to a close
25:58and Carter goes down as much from exhaustion
26:01as from any punching at that moment.
26:06Referee didn't bother with the count.
26:09And round two comes to a close.
26:13That was an impressive round for De La Hoya.
26:16The way he pursues an opponent
26:19with his kind of boxing skills is very uncommon
26:22at this stage of a fighter's career.
26:43Carter gave him some problems in the first round.
26:46De La Hoya keeps coming,
26:48looking for the answers, finding them.
26:54The voice you hear in Ronaldo Carter's corner
26:57is that of veteran Detroit trainer Taylor Smith.
26:59And you heard him telling him between rounds,
27:01you can't give the man that much room.
27:03He's taller than you are.
27:05So obviously Taylor Smith believes
27:07that Carter must go inside somehow.
27:10De La Hoya in the second round
27:12landed 55% of the punches he threw.
27:1436 out of 66.
27:16And now Carter's face is beginning to show the results
27:19of that kind of De La Hoya tattoo.
27:22Carter trying to find his way inside early in round three.
27:25Well, he's a good listener.
27:37He's gonna have to punch his way in.
27:39He won't be able to get there by lunging.
27:43De La Hoya is gonna go back
27:45to the lead right hand over the top.
27:48Carter trying to land his own right hand.
27:51Comes to the head and the body.
27:54Left hook to the head.
27:56De La Hoya landing, landing, landing.
27:59Short punches, not a lot of power behind them.
28:02But they are bothering Carter
28:04because he seems to have no defense
28:06for De La Hoya's hand quickness.
28:13The two right hands had mustard on them.
28:21De La Hoya goes to the body for the first time
28:24and it sets up a right hand that wobbles Carter.
28:29A minute and 40 seconds of target practice coming up.
28:32Rinaldo Carter wobbles to the corner.
28:36De La Hoya back to the body again with the left hand.
28:40Oscar has discovered that if he brings the left hook to the body
28:44the right hand will be open over the top.
28:52Again De La Hoya cracks to the body with the left hand
28:55and Carter backs up all the way across the ring.
29:05Straight right hand again landed for De La Hoya.
29:08Carter showing his toughness.
29:10He's taking a lot of punishment.
29:12Knee down.
29:18And this time referee Chester Como does allow himself
29:21to pick up the ringside count.
29:25It looked like a right hand.
29:27I'm not sure if it landed flush or if it had to.
29:31Well, it's been such an accumulation of blows
29:33to this point, Larry, that
29:35Carter is vulnerable to just about anything
29:37that lands quickly and directly.
29:40Another straight right hand right on the chin.
29:47Oscar forgetting the body for just a moment
29:49maybe because he lands the right hand over the top so easily.
29:53Now he goes back with the left hook to the body
29:55and again Carter has nothing in return.
29:59Carter has to take some chances and try to hurt De La Hoya.
30:03He has to land a big punch somewhere in here
30:05to get De La Hoya to back up.
30:09Carter tries to taunt De La Hoya at the end of round 3
30:12but it was a round in which Ronaldo took a fearsome beating.
30:16Carter tries to taunt De La Hoya at the end of round 3
30:19but it was a round in which Ronaldo took a fearsome beating.
30:45De La Hoya is a boxer-puncher in the truest sense of the term.
30:49He uses his boxing ability to set up his punches.
30:55He's trying to make things happen with his boxing ability
30:59so that he can get to his opponent in a very positive way.
31:10And that last was the knockdown.
31:12Now, Carter has been down twice.
31:14I'm not sure that the trip to the canvas in round 2
31:18was officially scored a knockdown
31:20because referee Chester Como never picked up the count.
31:22No, it wasn't. It wasn't, Jim. It was declared a slip.
31:26Well, I think that was a bad call.
31:28To me, that one looked to be even more the direct product of punching
31:31than what happened in round 3.
31:33But at any rate, call it one official knockdown so far.
31:37Incidentally, the ring ropes are very loose.
31:41So when Carter goes back into those ropes
31:43he's not going to find stiff support.
31:45There's every chance he could go right through and out of the ring.
32:03De La Hoya focusing now with more concentration
32:06on getting the left hand to the body.
32:09And when he does, it sets up the open right hand shot over the top.
32:25Right cross wobbles Carter again.
32:33At this point, Carter knows what's coming.
32:35He knows that the right hand lead is going to be there.
32:37Oscar just delivers it so quickly
32:39that he's unable to defend himself.
32:46Left to the body, right and left to the head.
32:48Carter counters with a left
32:50and then tries a right cross but misses.
32:52That time he lands the right cross on the shoulder.
32:57There is a look in the eyes of De La Hoya
32:59of a young man with tremendous ambition.
33:02Tremendously focused.
33:15And quick.
33:17In his amateur days, it was impossible to see
33:20if there was a mean streak to go with all that talent.
33:23But I think, Larry, we are beginning to see it.
33:27When he cut Troy Dorsey in round one
33:29in Vegas a couple months ago,
33:31he told us that he began targeting the eyes immediately
33:33and looked for more blood.
33:35Now he has Ronaldo Carter in more trouble
33:37with 30 seconds to go in round four.
33:52I think that ambition in boxing
33:54implies a mean streak.
33:56You can't play this game if you don't have it.
34:04Well, he seems to all the world
34:06such a gentle, sweet kid
34:09that you wonder if it's there in his character.
34:11But certainly in the ring he is becoming
34:13more and more the assassin with each outing.
34:18And still to come tonight,
34:20a look at Roy Jones Jr.
34:22Star of the 1988 American Olympic team,
34:25just as De La Hoya was the star
34:27of the 1992 Olympic team.
34:29Jones against Tulane Sugarboy Malinga
34:33of South Africa in a ten-round
34:35super middleweight bout
34:37immediately following De La Hoya Carter.
34:40That was Roy live in his dressing room.
34:42He has been exceptionally relaxed
34:45here in what we might call his neighborhood.
34:47He's got a lot of experience.
34:49Just a short drive up the coast
34:51from Roy Jones' home in Pensacola.
34:56There's that very quick right hand
35:00that De La Hoya sometimes uses
35:02as a sort of heavy jab.
35:11Round five begins
35:13and Carter has done pretty well to get this far
35:15because after a slow start
35:17it has been a three-round reign of terror
35:19for Oscar De La Hoya,
35:21who has now landed 53% of his 242 attempted punches
35:25in the fight, a lot of them power punches.
35:34Harold Lederman, very quickly,
35:36how do you have the fight scored
35:37through the first four?
35:38Jim, three rounds to one,
35:3939-36, Oscar De La Hoya.
35:42Give him an extra point in the third round
35:44for the knockdown.
35:46My sentiment is exactly Harold.
35:59A little bit slower for Oscar De La Hoya
36:01in the first minute of round five.
36:04He has been the eighth round distance
36:08in his career.
36:09He's never gone past the eighth round.
36:11The one fight in which he did not score a knockout
36:15was an eight-round tour against Mike Grable
36:18on April 6th of this year.
36:33Carter goes down under a hail of De La Hoya punches.
36:37Carter goes down under a hail of De La Hoya punches.
36:41No one blow responsible for the knockdown.
36:46And he had the attitude in that knockdown,
36:48I think I've had enough of this kid.
36:50He's proved it to me.
36:56Solid right over the top.
36:58Carter in trouble in the middle of the ring,
37:00tries to fight back wildly,
37:02leaving himself open.
37:04De La Hoya intelligently goes back to the body
37:06with the left hook,
37:07and then comes upstairs with the left hook and lands.
37:14One of the toughest things for young fighters
37:16at the developmental stage of an Oscar De La Hoya
37:18is learning how to finish.
37:22He certainly shows that he has the patience.
37:24Does he have the punching power
37:26to make himself effective in these situations
37:28where his opponent is in trouble
37:30and might be finished off?
37:35He definitely is not a one-punch knockout type of fighter
37:39from what I can see,
37:41but he is fighting a tough kid
37:43who is quite experienced
37:46and is a good opponent for this stage of his career.
37:55He asked some questions of De La Hoya in the first round
37:58that perhaps De La Hoya hadn't been asked before.
38:01De La Hoya has answered them
38:03the way you would want him to.
38:05Reynaldo Carter has been knocked out twice in his career,
38:08both of them technical knockouts,
38:10one at the hands of Daniel Garcia,
38:12the other, Hector Lizarraga.
38:14They were years ago.
38:16It's been more than three years now
38:18since Carter's been knocked out.
38:22Real deep.
38:24I ain't tired, my lady.
38:26He's tired. He's tired.
38:28He's tired. He's tired. Good luck.
38:31I don't care what it is, you got to go.
38:33You can't give up.
38:36This guy's dead tired.
38:38Did you see the throw-up punches that round?
38:40Did you see that?
38:41All right, then make him pay for it.
38:46That's Joey Barriello, veteran trainer,
38:48working with Taylor Smith as a cut man tonight.
38:54There you see...
38:57There you see Carter going down,
38:59maybe from that fatigue that he was discussing
39:01with his corner,
39:03because he wasn't hit with anything
39:05that looked hard enough to knock him down.
39:10A few little white lies in the corner
39:12of a man who's having a hard time.
39:15Nothing wrong with that, is there, Jim?
39:17I think Taylor Smith was correct
39:19in suggesting that De La Hoya had tired
39:21a little bit at the end of round five.
39:23Let's see if Oscar can regain his energy
39:25in round six now.
39:28Carter's commitment to the bout clearly waning.
39:31What can De La Hoya do to accelerate
39:33that particular mental process?
39:42Now, as was the case in round one,
39:44Little Red Carter comes out the busier fighter
39:46to begin round six.
39:48Missing, but throwing.
39:56De La Hoya savage to the body
39:58with the left hook.
40:07Oscar looks and looks and looks,
40:09and then either throws the left hook to the body
40:11or the right cross across the top,
40:13depending on which way Carter goes with his defense.
40:16De La Hoya told us in our meeting with him
40:19that he would chop Carter down,
40:21body first, head second.
40:26No sign so far that the left hand
40:29is bothering De La Hoya.
40:31When he has committed to the left hook to the body,
40:33he's gone ahead and thrown it with vigor.
40:42Right hands again, landing across the top.
40:46Carter's showing some courage and commitment
40:48by hanging in here.
40:50He's here as an opponent.
40:52He is expected to go down, and he goes down again.
41:01There's a minute to go.
41:03I don't know if he has the energy to go down.
41:05He's got a lot of momentum.
41:07He's got a lot of momentum.
41:09He's got a lot of momentum.
41:11He's got a lot of momentum.
41:13There's a minute to go.
41:14I don't know if he has a minute left in him.
41:16Third knockdown of the bout.
41:18Carter looking for another place to fall on the canvas
41:21as De La Hoya attacks again.
41:23This should be stopped.
41:25This should be stopped, and it will be.
41:28Oscar De La Hoya
41:30with an impressive sixth round technical knockout
41:33in his debut appearance on HBO.
41:37Impressive, Jim, because of the way he went about it.
41:42He had a difficult first round.
41:45Didn't let it bother him.
41:47Did what he does best and was very patient about it.
41:52Very positive, very patient.
41:54Let the knockout happen.
41:56Didn't overextend himself to make it happen.
41:59It took him two or three rounds, Larry,
42:01to remember to go to the body,
42:03but once he did go to the body with the left hook,
42:05he was utterly dominant from that point on.
42:08Well, he was fighting a little guy,
42:10and sometimes I guess the tendency is,
42:12how do I get down there?
42:14This guy is so little, and it's going to...
42:16But he straightened Carter up, I think,
42:18as the fight went on,
42:20and made Carter vulnerable.
42:22And the very fact that he went to the body
42:25tells you something about
42:27how many rounds this kid has fought,
42:29if not as a professional,
42:31in the gym since he's turned professional,
42:33and in all of those many years he fought as an amateur.
42:38Let's take a look at the first knockdown now in round 6.
42:49And now the same knockdown from another angle.
42:52The right hand is what did it,
42:54but it took Carter a few seconds to figure it out.
42:58And there was a little left hook
43:00that landed before the right hand
43:02that set up that right cross across the top.
43:04And now here, the point at which
43:06the referee finally to stop the fight.
43:12And at that point, Larry Carter
43:14was simply trying to get away,
43:16and clearly had no commitment
43:18to trying to continue the process.
43:20Oscar De La Hoya waited
43:22for referee Chester Como to stop the bout
43:24before he began the celebration
43:26of his 9th professional victory.
43:28Now let's go up to ring announcer Michael Buffer
43:31for the official particulars
43:33on victory number 9 for De La Hoya.
43:35Chester Como calls a halt to the bout.
43:37The official time, 2 minutes and 10 seconds
43:40of round number 6.
43:42The winner by TKO victory,
43:44his record now 9-0.
43:468 KOs.
43:48The still undefeated pride of East L.A.,
43:51the Golden Boy,
43:53Oscar De La Hoya.
44:02So there you have it.
44:0410 seconds of round number 6.
44:06De La Hoya dominated the last 5 rounds
44:08of the bout after a relatively tentative
44:10round number 1.
44:11Final punch stat numbers
44:13from Logan Hobson and Bob Canovia.
44:15Total punches.
44:17191 landed for De La Hoya,
44:19more than 3 times as many
44:21as Ronaldo Little Red Carter was able to land.
44:23De La Hoya threw 71 more punches
44:26than Carter, and you see the connect percentage
44:28of 53% when a fighter
44:30of De La Hoya's punching power
44:33lands that way.
44:34He is ultimately going to put his opponent away,
44:36and that's exactly what he did.
44:38Let's go to Larry Merchant with Oscar right now.
44:40All right, Oscar, congratulations.
44:42First round, not an easy round.
44:44What were your thoughts at that moment?
44:46You seemed a little impatient and unhappy
44:48with yourself after that first round.
44:50Well, what happened was we didn't have much time
44:52to put on the rest because the commission
44:54kind of took one off and we had to start it all over again.
44:56I didn't have no time to warm up.
44:58So I kind of wanted to use the first 2 rounds
45:00to warm up and then go after
45:02the guy, Little Red Carter,
45:04and it worked. I mean, we have 10 rounds to box
45:06and 5 rounds is not too bad.
45:08All right, let's take a look
45:10at some
45:12of the knockdowns here
45:14in a moment as soon as we can roll
45:16them up, Oscar.
45:20Tell us, in your words, what's happening here.
45:22Well, my right hands were working pretty good.
45:24I was trying to throw my right hands with my left hooks
45:26and we were working.
45:28We were working a lot with the right hands,
45:30throwing it to the chin, working the body
45:32and our game plan just came out perfectly.
45:34He seemed to go down as much
45:36from exhaustion as from your punches.
45:38What we were trying to do was
45:40wear out my opponents in the later rounds.
45:42I've studied a lot of tapes
45:44of the great fighters like Julio Cesar Chavez
45:46and great fighters like Leonard
45:48and fighters like that and what they try to do
45:50is wear out their opponents,
45:52use the pressure, throw punches, make them miss a lot
45:54and we try to work on that and it works
45:56very good.
45:58You seem obsessed with winning a 130 pound
46:00championship even though
46:02you have had some difficulty
46:04even at getting to 132.
46:06You fought as an amateur, 132.
46:08Why would you want to
46:10weaken yourself and go back to 130?
46:12Ah, just one week ago I came in at
46:14129, two days in a row.
46:16So making 130 is no problem for myself.
46:18A lot of people think that it's a problem but
46:20I feel very strong. I weighed in at 132 for this fight.
46:22Three pounds will not hurt at all.
46:24Thank you very much, Oscar.
46:26And so the beat
46:28and the beatings of Oscar De La Hoya
46:30keep on keeping on.
46:32Jim?
46:34Alright, thanks a lot Larry.
46:36Keep on keeping on.
46:38Jim?
46:40Alright, thanks a lot Larry. Keep on keeping on indeed.
46:42And coming up here on HBO
46:44immediately following
46:46the main event this evening,
46:48a 166 pound battle,
46:50super middleweight level between
46:52IBF middleweight champion
46:54Roy Jones looking to move up in weight
46:56perhaps very shortly down the road
46:58against Tulane Sugarboy
47:00Malinga of South Africa.
47:02Tulane Malinga has never
47:04been knocked out in 43
47:06fights. A relatively tough
47:08opponent. Well, as Larry
47:10has pointed out to you, the apparent ambition of
47:12Oscar De La Hoya who is going to be fighting again
47:14as soon as 13 days
47:16from now in this early
47:18heavy period of activity in his career
47:20is to zero in on a 130
47:22pound championship. Apparently De La Hoya
47:24wants to win the 130 pound title
47:26before moving up to 135 somewhere
47:28down the road. Most people expect him to
47:30wind up as a welterweight
47:32or perhaps even a middleweight later on
47:34in his career. The three reigning
47:36130 pound champions are
47:38Gennaro Hernandez, WBA,
47:40Azuma Nelson and John
47:42John Molina for the other two world governing
47:44bodies. The De La Hoya people
47:46will not say which of the three they are targeting
47:48at this moment, Larry Merchant, although
47:50the suspicion is they're looking for a
47:52fight against Gennaro Hernandez
47:54a little bit later on this fall. That would be a
47:56tough assignment. Oscar, at least off of
47:58what he did tonight, appears to be up to it.
48:00Well, I'm not sure. That's
48:02a different level of opposition.
48:06I'm not sure how good Hernandez is
48:08but I understand that he's
48:10undefeated. He was very impressive
48:12in his last fight. I don't
48:14know still what the rush is
48:16with De La Hoya.
48:18He's still 20 years old.
48:20Nine professional fights.
48:22Perhaps all the amateur fights he has
48:24really means he has had much
48:26more experience than a man with nine
48:28professional fights. My own view
48:30is to let him grow into his body
48:32and fight it lightweight
48:34but he's their
48:36man and they haven't
48:38done anything wrong yet.
48:40The blue sky feeling is
48:42that because of the sparkling personality
48:44the style in the ring
48:46the Latino American appeal
48:48the ability to appeal to two cultures
48:50that in terms of stardom, the sky is the limit.
48:52Do you agree?
48:54Well, the sky probably is the limit for him
48:56but I would remind him that
48:58there have been many great fighters who have
49:00just been great in one division.
49:02You don't have to win five titles
49:04to be a great fighter
49:06and that seems to be some
49:08spur to his ambition.
49:10The idea of winning a whole lot
49:12of titles even if
49:14in my view anything between 130
49:16and 140 is lightweight.
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