Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic Casa de Campo (Spanish for "Country House") is a Ponderosa-style tropical seaside resort in La Romana on the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic. It was developed in 1975 by Gulf+Western on of its Central Romana sugar mill's land. The first to enjoy the luxuries of this enclave were friends of Charles Bluhdorn, Gulf+Western's founder and CEO, who built the retreat. One of Bluhdorn's Dominican friends, Oscar de la Renta, was hired to do interior design for Casa De Campo. After Bluhdorn's death, the Cuban-American Fanjul family (the world's top sugar barons), bought Casa and
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad, billed as The Fight of the Millennium, was a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF's world Welterweight championships. After twelve tensely fought rounds, Trinidad was declared winner by a majority decision. Planned by promoters Bob Arum and Don King, it pitted WBC world champion Oscar de la Hoya, a Los Angeles native, versus Puerto Rican IBF world champion Félix Trinidad. It was the last of the so-called "superfights" of the 20th century. The opening 4