Spend enough time in boxing circles on social media and you will eventually hear it.

“Pernell Whitaker was robbed against Oscar De La Hoya.”

It is rarely presented as an opinion. People repeat it as settled fact. Whitaker supposedly gave Oscar a boxing lesson, only to lose because De La Hoya was younger, more marketable, and already being positioned as the sport’s next major attraction.

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