Title Wave: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Wilfredo Rivera

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Oscar De La Hoya successfully defends the WBC Welterweight title by overwhelming challenger Wilfredo Rivera over eight rounds. De La Hoya opens a bad cut over Rivera's eye with a left hook in the second round and puts him on the seat of his pants with a right hand in the fourth. With seconds to go in the eighth round, the ringside doctor decides that the cut is too dangerous to allow Rivera to continue.