Former IBF Lightweight Champion (8 title defenses, all by KO); former
WBC Welterweight Champion (3 title defenses, all by KO); former WBA
Light Middleweight Super Champion; former WBC Light Middleweight
Champion; former "The Ring" magazine Light Middleweight Champion;
former WBC Interim Welterweight Champion; and former WBA Welterweight
Super Champion. Has an overall record of 46-7-1 1NC.
At one point his fight record had one of the highest knockout percentages in all of boxing at 94%.
Chosen 1998 Fighter of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America.
Trained by his father since he began boxing. They split after the first fight with Winky Wright but have since reunited for the July 15th bout with Fernando Vargas and have worked together since then.
Is the only fighter to have defeated Oscar De La Hoya twice.