In California, boxing was a favorite sport among Hispanics. Art Aragon was a very famous Chicano boxer, from whom Oscar De La Hoya would later inherit the nickname "The Golden Boy". Manuel Ortiz, a world Bantamweight champion of the 1940s, held the world record for most defenses in that division for more than fifty years. Meanwhile, in Mexico, boxers like "Kid Azteca", (one of Mexico's first national boxing idols), and, later on, Chucho Castillo and Rubén Olivares, flourished. The Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, under the auspices of Aileen Eaton, became a mecca of sorts for Mexican-American and Mexican fighters alike. Many of the earliest fights between Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, already split by the issues that concerned each side, took place there.