In the mid-to-late 1990s, Top Rank produced a series of pay-per-view events headlined by Oscar De La Hoya that included on the undercards the modern-day equivalent of Logan and Jake Paul. We saw it on Sept. 18, 1999, during the so-called “Fight of the Millennium” between De La Hoya and Felix Trinidad. We saw it a few months earlier, on Feb. 13, 1999, on UNLV’s campus, for De La Hoya’s stirring victory over Ike Quartey at the Thomas & Mack Center. And, of course, we saw it on Sept. 18,… Source link
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