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Clearly.
I was just pointing you that money is the motive for fighters building up their status.
Look at Maywaether's early career... excellent competition. why? to make noise. Now cashing in. Cotto wants to unify so he can cash in later. It's normal and there is nothing wrong with it, we can cheer for our favorite fighter all our lives, diss the ones we dont like, and call them names if they dont fight who we want, we can do that when we are 80yo, if we dont feel ridiculous.
But at the end of the day boxers can fight olny until 35 or so, and after that, they are not going to be making much money (especially with the possible, likely in fact, injuries connected to boxing). Mayweather is not ******, but with all the time he spent training he is ignorant and surely did not learn any other job but boxing. The same goes for most fighters, surely for all those who started early like Cotto, Hatton, etc. Their careers basically pay the bills for the rest of their lives.Comment
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There's more to than just that for many Cotto supporters and Boxing observers. They sincerely feel that Miguel has a stylistic advantage that would give him a better chance than virtually anyone to beat Floyd. I guess they find the situation more frustrating than Miguel does. Alot of these same people think Cotto could lose to a lesser fighter because of styles. We'll have to see if it ever comes about, personally I don't see it happening.Comment
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Subject: Corrales and Mayweather fight
This is an brief account of the weigh-in for this fight by T K Stewart, who is a very well known boxing writer as well as a Barney Award winner. Corrales had given up the 130 class 6 months before and was campaigning as a lightweight, when Mayweather saw his opporunity to take advantage of him and, as Corrales said in a pre-fight TV interview, when saying that is was VERY hard to make the weight, "they made me an offer I couldn't refuse".....
Corrales actuakky needed the money to pay his lawyers, as he was facing Jail.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Diego Corrales, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 19, 2001 - The fighters are weighing in and Corrales misses making the 130-pound mark his first time. He comes back about an hour later and strips down to nothing. I'm standing beside HBO fight judge Harold Lederman, and he says, "I haven't weighed 130 since my Bar Mitzvah!" Corrales looks like a prisoner of war he is so skinny. 6'0" tall and 130 pounds. His skin is gray and dry and he looks like he's close to death with hollow cheeks and sunken eyes. He looks like one of those starving African kids you see on those UNICEF commercials as his head looks too big for his emaciated body. Only a few of us are there. Jose Sulaiman, Marc Ratner and a handful of others. If Corrales doesn't make the weight there is no fight...He steps on the scales and everybody takes a deep breath....130 it is! Miguel Diaz his trainer erupts in celebration. The fight will go on!
Hi Edgar,
It was an interesting fight for sure.
A few weeks before the fight, Corrales had a couple of his wisdom teeth
removed and this kept him from training for several days during a critical
point in his preparation. Diego was also dealing with the spousal abuse
charges that eventually sent him to jail for over a year not long after
this fight took place. His mind was elsewhere, and his trainer Miguel Diaz
told me it was all he could do to get Corrales to come out of his bedroom
from playing video games to train. They trained for this fight at the
Prince Ranch just outside the Las Vegas city limits.
Whatever the case, Corrales was actually a 5-4 favorite at the Vegas
sportsbooks when the first bell for this fight rang, so a majority of the
people actually thought he would win it. I believe he would have won as
well had his weight not been the real issue for him. I picked him to win,
but after I saw the weigh-in I knew he had no chance. The man was
emaciated and he was totally spent. He looked physically ill and he no
doubt was. His eyes were sunken in his head and his skin tone and color
was corps-like.
As for his performance in the fight? It was unusual. He had no pop on his
punches, there was no speed and he was always a step of two behind Floyd.
The shots that caused him to sink to the canvas weren't anything like he
withstood against Jose Luis Castillo Acelino Freitas or Joel Casamayor in
later fights. Your theory is the best explanation for his performance in
that fight.
That was a big fight and it was tainted by the weight problem. I would
have loved to see the two of them do it again at 135 or 140 but it doesn't
look like a rematch will ever happen now. Corrales is also damaged goods.
The first fight with Castillo probably ruined him and the struggles of
trying to make 130 and 135 over the years has also played havoc with him.
My guess is that Corrales is pretty much at his en
Let me add to the above that Larry Merchant has often said, that when he was passing Corrales' dressing room just before the fight, " I saw him stuffing a huge sandwich into his mouth, he was starving".Comment
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Edgarg's theory
My "theory" is that Corrales was, because of excessive re-hydration before the fight, suffering from hypo-naetraemia, which every years, somewhere causes death.Comment
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