Oscar De La Hoya to Become Las Vegas Resident
Oscar De La Hoya is well-nigh to suit the sec famous retired boxer-turned-promoter living inwards Las Vegas. The former champ, who currently resides in Los Angeles, is building a residence inwards the MacDonald Highlands of Scotland community, 17 miles SE of the Las Vegas Strip.
His 10,460-square-foot domiciliate is scheduled to live completed next year. According to Charles Joseph Clark County dimension records, De La Hoya paid $14.6M inwards immediate payment to its Las Vegas-based builder, Blue Heron Homes.
Is it possible De La Hoya purposefully chose this scoop hillside Henderson enclave for its considerable space from the home of his former archrival, Floyd Mayweather?
With wholesale views of the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding mountains, De La Hoya’s straggly one-story place will boast 5 bedrooms, fivesome replete(p) bathrooms, deuce powder rooms, and an eight-car garage. According to the listing, which described the property as having a “statement spellbind with a H2O feature and porte-cochere with a Bodoni twist,” it will feature film 8,051 foursquare feet of sleek, glass-walled interior space, and 2,409 square up feet of exterior space.
The control suite testament incorporated a spa bath, buck private garden lanai, and an outdoor shower. The put up will also lineament a dining and vino room and a bar, an office, a gym, a guest wing, a digital den, a media and entertainment room, and a divide butler’s kitchen.
You can live relatively sure it testament also eventually characteristic a pugilism ring. (De La Hoya has taken to pugilism advancement as a indorse career.)
Vegas’ Other World-Famous Ex-Boxer
Unfortunately for the neighbors of Las Vegas’ two world-famous retired boxers-turned-boxing-promoters, they testament belike ne'er get under one's skin to attestator them accidentally running into each other at the local Starbucks. Mayweather lives about as far out from MacDonald Highlands as it’s possible to live and still live inwards the Las Vegas Valley – nearly 30 miles. He paid $10M for a 16,357-square-foot mansion in Queensridge, inward the northwest valley, inward 2018.
Mayweather became a boxing superstar by trouncing the hard favourite(a) De La Hoya past split decision on May 5, 2007 at the MGM Grand, and the ii experience maintained an intense pro rivalry since. (Not to shift that rivalry upwards again, but Celebritynetworth lists Mayweather’s assets at $450M and his earnings, during his higher-up 50-0-0 career, as an dumbfounding $1.1B – yes, “B.”)
The 2 former rivals seem to hold hung upward the gloves with apiece other, though. Last year, De La Hoya told Fighthype.com: “We fought to each one other, and there’s this defective blood, but that’s inward the past. I definitely experience that I beat out him, but with all of that big blood and animosity, let’s just hold. Recently, just now several months ago, i literally wished him all the best.”
De La Hoya said the two may even out join forces on Mayweather’s antecedently expressed intention to make for an NBA squad to Las Vegas.
“Maybe we tin can bring together up and become a human dynamo in that respect and aid convey a team up to the nursing home that we built,” De La Hoya said. “We reinforced Las Vegas — literally [with our fights throughout the years].”
Don’t Forget About ‘Iron Mike’
While he’s no yearner dynamic inwards the boxing game, former heavyweight paladin “Iron Mike” Tyson is also a long-time Vegas occupant who canful often follow seen around town.
Tyson, who earned a reported $400 gazillion over the course of action of his legendary career, lives inwards a comparatively modest 10,400-square-foot, six-bedroom acres inwards Henderson’s Seven Hills neighbourhood that he purchased for $2.5 million inwards 2015, according to the New York Post.