This time, Oscar De La Hoya made sure there would be no excuses. De La Hoya beat and bloodied Julio Cesar Chavez once again Friday night before Chavez's corner signaled their fighter wanted no more while sitting on a stool after the eighth round of their WBC welterweight title fight. Chavez was bleeding from the mouth and nose and had cuts over both eyes. He had just taken a beating in the final minute of the eighth when his corner signaled referee Richard Steele that Chavez would fight no more. It was the second time De La Hoya stopped Chavez, but this time took twice as long as when they met two years ago for the junior welterweight title and Chavez was stopped on cuts in the fourth round. Chavez took the brunt of De La Hoya's punches throughout the fight and was well behind on all three scorecards. The fight was a brawl from the early rounds on. De La Hoya pressed for the knockout to gain the respect he said he didn't get from Chavez the first time. "You did it. You did it," Chavez told De La Hoya as the two embraced after the fight. De La Hoya was in control the entire fight, but the 36-year-old Chavez fought like a much younger man as he tried to get inside the taller champion and trade punches. De La Hoya wore down Chavez, and the exchanges between the fighters began getting more lopsided in the middle rounds. "I think he's getting tired now," De La Hoya told his trainer, Gil Glancy, after the fifth round. Chavez was successful at times, rocking De La Hoya with some lefts and rights, but he paid a terrible price. He was cut over the left eye in the second round and over the right eye in the seventh. "I beat the old Chavez, the best Chavez anybody has seen in the last five years," De La Hoya said. It was the eighth round that finally proved the undoing for Chavez as De La Hoya came out strong. From the middle of the round on, the boxers went toe to toe. Blood streamed down Chavez's face as he was rocked late in the round with a left hook, and De La Hoya moved in for the kill. De La Hoya landed a flurry as the bell sounded, and Chavez followed him in anger as he turned back to his corner, claiming the blows were late. A few seconds later, Chavez sat on his stool as his corner called the fight to an end. "It wasn't that he was strong. I just didn't have a smart game plan. That's why the fight seemed so tough," De La Hoya said. The crowd was chanting "Chavez! Chavez!" even while the undercard was on and it cheered wildly when Chavez made his entrance into the ring. The noise from the sellout crowd of 18,000 was even more deafening when De La Hoya climbed into the ring. De La Hoya was an 8-1 favorite. On the undercard, Yory Boy Campas kept his chances in line for a fight with De La Hoya by stopping an outclassed Larry Barnes to retain his junior middleweight title. The fight was stopped at the end of the third round after ring doctor Flip Homansky recommended that Barnes not be allowed to continue because of swelling around his left eye. Campas, a possible opponent for De La Hoya next spring, retained his International Boxing Federation title. In a second 12-round fight, Antonio Diaz battered Hector Quiroz in the later rounds before finally stopping him with a left uppercut at 1:05 of the 12th round. The win was a defense by Diaz of the super-lightweight championship of the International Boxing Association, a fringe organization.