The 16 Greatest Moments in Latino Sports History!

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Oscar de la Hoya wins Gold at the Olympics

A Mexican kid from East L.A. fights his way into the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, then faces down German fighter Marco Rudolph, who had defeated him a year earlier at the World Boxing Championships. De La Hoya dominated the bout, knocking out Rudolph in the third round and taking the gold medal—the only U.S. boxer to medal during the games. Perhaps more significantly, as he danced around the ring holding American and Mexican flags, he knew he’d kept a promise he’d made at his cancer-stricken mami’s deathbed to win the gold. It was one of those stories that tugs at your heart relentlessly and was the starting bell of Golden Boy’s great career.