Editing Félix Trinidad (section)

====Trinidad vs. De La Hoya====
{{Main|Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad}}
In the spring of 1999 Don King and [[Oscar De la Hoya]]'s promoter, [[Bob Arum]], agreed to co-promote a mega-fight for the Lineal, [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] and [[International Boxing Federation|IBF]] welterweight championships on September 18, 1999, at the [[Mandalay Bay]] Hotel in Las Vegas. Early in the fight De la Hoya employed boxing to connect combinations while avoiding Trinidad's attacks.<ref name="De la Hoya">{{cite web| author=Luis Escobar| url=http://www.boxingtimes.com/analyses/1999/990918delahoya_trinidad.html| title="Tito" Triumphs| publisher=The Boxing Times| date=1999-09-18| access-date=2007-08-13 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070808094620/http://www.boxingtimes.com/analyses/1999/990918delahoya_trinidad.html |archive-date = August 8, 2007}}</ref> The second round began with both boxers trading punches but De la Hoya quickly returned to his previous tactic, which he employed in the third round.<ref name="De la Hoya"/> In the fourth round Trinidad pressured the offense while De la Hoya tried to avoid his punches by moving, both boxers eventually exchanged punches. In the fifth round Trinidad continued in the offensive while De la Hoya attempted to remain on the outside corners of the ring, Trinidad's eye was swollen following a trade of punches, and his nose was also bleeding. Trinidad was having a lot of problems finding De La Hoya and couldn't connect as flush as usual with his punches, although he scored at times, Oscar's movement was not letting him land in combination and it was proclaimed by many to have been a lackluster fight. In the eighth round the swelling on Trinidad's eye was worsening. Oscar was scoring on Trinidad but halfway through the tenth, De La Hoya stopped sticking and basically disengaged under instruction of his corner who thought the match was won. De La Hoya was to remain on his toes for the remainder of the bout, and Trinidad won the final 2 rounds. The judges controversially gave Trinidad a close, majority decision, with scores of 115–113, 115–114 and 114–114.<ref name="De la Hoya"/>