The Great Brown Hope retires from boxing - Oscar de la Hoya

Considered one of the most successful and popular athletes in the sport of boxing Oscar de la Hoya retired on April 14 2009. After making over $600 million dollars in pay-per-view buys he is perhaps boxing most lucrative boxer. Following in the steps of other atheletes turned entrepeneurs, such as Magic Johnson, De la Hoya started his own boxing promotion company Golden Boy Promotions and has made notable purchases such as the the aqcuisition of the boxing publication RING Magazine and a 50% partial ownership of the MLS soccer team Houston Dynamo. He has definitely come along way from the rought streets of East Los Angeles.