Culture of the Dominican Republic the Dominican Republic's fashion week has become the most important event of its kind in all of the Caribbean and one of the fastest growing fashion events in the entire Latin American fashion world. The country boasts one of the ten most important design schools in the region, La Escuela de Diseño de Altos de Chavón, which is making the country a key player in the world of fashion and design. World famous fashion designer Oscar de la Renta was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932 and became a US citizen in 1971. He studied under the leading Spaniard
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Ricardo Mayorga Oscar De La Hoya vs. Ricardo Mayorga Oscar De La Hoya vs. Ricardo Mayorga, billed as "Danger Zone", was a professional boxing match contested on May 6, 2006 for the WBC light middleweight title. Oscar De La Hoya's previous fight had taken place on September 18, 2004. De La Hoya, then the WBO middleweight champion, met undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, who held the other three major middleweight titles of WBA, WBC and IBF and had not lost a fight in 11 years. Though De La Hoya - who was participating in only his second middleweight fight - held his