Oscar De La Hoya is almost to conjoin his former boxing archrival, Floyd Mayweather, as a occupier of Las Vegas. The former champ, who currently resides in Los Angeles, is edifice a manse in the MacDonald Highlands community, 17 miles southeasterly of the Las Vegas Strip.
De La Hoya’s 10,460-square-foot put up is scheduled to be completed next year. Kenneth Clark County dimension records present that the champ paid $14.6M in cash to its Las Vegas-based builder, Blue Heron Homes. According to Forbes, De La Hoya earned $500M during his 39-6-0 career, and is currently worth a cool down $200M.
Like Mayweather, De La Hoya has entered a secondment calling as a fisticuffs promoter. And, as boxing promoters, it makes sensation for both of them to domicile inward Las Vegas. However, is it possible De La Hoya purposefully chose this exclusive hillside Henderson enclave for its considerable distance from Mayweather’s home?
With wholesale views of the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding mountains, De La Hoya’s straggly one-story home testament self-praise Phoebe bedrooms, fivesome full bathrooms, 2 powder rooms, and an eight-car garage. According to the itemisation that described the belongings as having a “statement entering with a H2O lineament and porte-cochere with a Bodoni font twist,” it will feature film 8,051 lame feet of sleek, glass-walled upcountry space and 2,409 square toes feet of exterior space.
You tin can be comparatively certain it will also eventually feature a pugilism ring.
Will They Run Into Each Other?
Mayweather lives about as far out from MacDonald Highlands as it’s possible to unrecorded and ease follow in the Las Vegas Valley – nearly 30 miles. So, alas for their neighbors, they testament in all probability never get to witnesser the 2 former foes accidentally running into for each one other at the local Starbucks.
Mayweather paid $10M for a 16,357-square-foot mansion inwards Queensridge, inwards the nor'-west valley, inwards 2018.
Mayweather became a boxing superstar by whacking the hard preferred De La Hoya past a split determination on May 5, 2007, at the MGM Grand. The two make maintained an vivid professional rivalry since. (Not to splash that rivalry upwards again, but Celebritynetworth lists Mayweather’s assets at $450M and his earnings, during his superior 50-0-0 career, as an dumfounding $1.1B – yes, “B.”)
The 2 former rivals seem to feature hung up the gloves with to each one 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 in the past. i definitely experience that I round him, but with all of that bad blood and animosity, let’s just now hold. Recently, simply several months ago, I literally wished him all the best.”
De La Hoya said the 2 may fifty-fifty collaborate on Mayweather’s antecedently expressed intention to fetch an NBA squad to Las Vegas.
“Maybe we can buoy join upward and go a powerhouse on that point and help take a squad to the rest 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 more yearner combat-ready in the boxing game, former heavyweight fighter “Iron Mike” Mike Tyson is also a long-time Vegas resident who dabbles inwards pugilism promotion, and who tin can often follow seen around town.
Tyson, who earned a reported $400 trillion throughout his legendary career, lives inward a 10,400-square-foot, six-bedroom estate inwards Henderson’s Seven Hills neighborhood that he purchased for $2.5 million inwards 2015, according to the New House of York Post.