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For Corrales, it meant making the dreaded 130-pound limit one last time; one final episode of long days with only a grapefruit to eat, of jogging in rubber suits and of endless steam baths to get down to the limit. One more time, and he’d be off to the 135-pound lightweights and living fat, never having to take off those terrible final pounds again.
He walked up to the scale, and the fight was, in a sense, lost right there. For all his efforts in the steam bath that morning, shedding 8 pounds, he was still 132--two pounds overweight. He went back and sucked the 2 pounds off in time for the weigh-in. A day later, his body both starved and waterlogged from his ensuing rehydration, he entered the ring--146 pounds at fight time--and the results were a disaster.
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=14761
So you see folks, the history of weight draining was started by Floyd himself as early as 2001, months before Pac even had his first fight in the states.:biggthump
i dont think so thats like pac giving a rematch to david daiz
Nope, it CERTAINLY isn't!:rolleyes: Hot dame you got there btw. Diaz is miles behind Corrales in resume and overall rating.
LARRY MERCHANT said: "I was going past Corrales' dressing room, just before the fight, and I saw him sitting there stuffing a big Hamburger (or sandwich) into his face(or mouth)....."
He had already announced that he was moving up in weight, and in fact shortly beofr eht e fight there was a TV sit-down interview where this was brought up. Corrales said "well it isn't easy", and then said "they made e an offer I couldn't refuse".
At that time he was going to jail, was broke and his life was in a shambles. Mayweather's
Brains Trust" as they were called, figured that this was the time to get at him.
TK Stewart, the well known writer, emailed me about this fight, and particularly described the weigh-in. He said that ;
"Corrales looked very bad, his skin was grey, his bones were sticking out, and he almost had to be helped to the scales. He was still overweight although he'd spent the whole morning in the sweat box, and had had nothing to eat for weeks. Although he was the favourite, I knew right there that he had no chance".
Yes you are correct. The commentators were discussing how Castillo looked, and their conclusion was that he definitely could NOT make 130 but was flabby and slow at 135, it could be seen that he had not yet adjusted. One of these guys who falls between the cracks. I believe one of them also inrweviewed him.
When Corrales came out of gaol, he was very fat, but lost it quickly. He was going to take a fight at 147, then 140, but didn't. Had a couple of fights at around 135. I remember one of them was a guy named St' Kitts (?). He actually eventually got down to 128 1/2. I recall the report of it and it was said that he'd lost a lot of muscle in gaol, with no training etc.
this seems to be burned into your memory.
You're right.. He was asked the question by Merchant after that fight.. But what do you expect him to say, it was a bad cut. Its not like its an excuse. It was indeed a bad cut..
But in the interview, its the cut AND the gloves.
EG http://www.youtube.com/v/h1h4o0P97Z4
You're right.. He was asked the question by Merchant after that fight.. But what do you expect him to say, it was a bad cut. Its not like its an excuse. It was indeed a bad cut..
Ok, but which excuse? Gloves? Cut? Socks? Blood testing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1h4o0P97Z4
Nahh, its the Morales fight, as Merchant mentions his name and they show clips from the fight.
You're right.. He was asked the question by Merchant after that fight.. But what do you expect him to say, it was a bad cut. Its not like its an excuse. It was indeed a bad cut..
That interview was in the Velasquez fight. An interim fight for the rematch..
And as far as the gloves, they were complaining about the gloves even before the Morales-Pac fight...
Nahh, its the Morales fight, as Merchant mentions his name and they show clips from the fight.
So to prove to everybody that the first victory was not a case of Corrales being drained, if nothing. And because Corrales asked for one. He was entitled to a rematch I think, dont you?
i dont think so thats like pac giving a rematch to david daiz
In the post fight interview, he said and I quote
Larry Merchant :Do you think, if you had been given the punchers gloves that you normally wear, Reyes gloves, that you would've had a better chance to do damage?
Pac: I think if we are using clitoris(huh??) gloves, I think I knock him out.
He also blamed the cut. Later it was the the blood taken b4 the fight.
That interview was in the Velasquez fight. An interim fight for the rematch..
And as far as the gloves, they were complaining about the gloves even before the Morales-Pac fight...
That was a month after the fight. He didnt say it in a post fight interview.
In the post fight interview, he said and I quote
Larry Merchant: Do you think, if you had been given the punchers gloves that you normally wear, Reyes gloves, that you would've had a better chance to do damage?
Pac: I think if we are using clitoris(huh??) gloves, I think I knock him out.
He also blamed the cut. Later it was the the blood taken b4 the fight.
that might be true but fighter do make excuses immediately after a they lose.
Go tell that to your fellow flomo cashcow. And it was not immediate. Immediate is after the fight (post-fight interview).
That was a month after the fight. He didnt say it in a post fight interview.
that might be true but fighter do make excuses immediately after a they lose.
dude...what are you talking about? are you :439:
You change the subject to make a whole new argument without even settling your first one.. If you agree with me then we can go argue about new stuff.
You ask me for a quote and a link. And I provided you one. Then you tell me you had an evidence which I said is useless arguing about Oscar's reaction after the fight as example..
So now you are want a different argument because you lose the first one. Keep it within the premise...
Oscar never gave an excuse in the post fight interview with Pac either.. He came out months after with an excuse. It doesnt prove sh!t... Fighters wont make up excuses immediately after a convincing lose because they will end up looking more like sore losers.The fact is Chico gave an interview detailing his struggles.
Hmmm, didn't Pac have lots of excused in his post fight interview for losing to Morales?
wait...Oscar didnt fight for a long time b4 he fought Pac...he didnt fight at 147lbs in 9 years :lol1:
Corrales was undefeadted, in his prime and was the champ@130lbs, he fought 3 times in 2000 & fought Angel Manfredy 4 months before he fought Mayweather....all those fights were @130lbs:?!:....so he was weight drained between the 4 month span of September 2000 and Jan 2001?::scared:
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damn son this is too easy
So you agree with me because you totally changed the argument now..What happened to your argument of the validity of the text and the quote that I gave you..
I read the article the first time..its BULL****....why didnt Corrales or his team use that excuse after the fight....
Look at the video of Merchant interviewing Chico in the ring after the fight man.....:footinmou
are you telling me that your article 2 years after the fight is more credible than the Post fight interview is??:thumbsdow
reply # 143.
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yes i seen it...but the evidence I have is much much better....and that evidence is right after the fight, after he was beat up and TKO'ed.......he NEVER uses weight as an excuse....how convenient to do so 2 years after the fact:thumbsdow
Oscar never gave an excuse in the post fight interview with Pac either.. He came out months after with an excuse. It doesnt prove sh!t... Fighters wont make up excuses immediately after a convincing lose because they will end up looking more like sore losers.The fact is Chico gave an interview detailing his struggles.