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According to boxrec he beat two other fighters who'd never lost. They were in his first and fourth fights. The thing is, it was their FIRST fight.
I wouldn't. count the Corrales fight at all. If he'd fought Corrales a year before Coralles might have killed him. He waited until Corrales had gone up to lightweight, and was having trouble even making THAT weight, before he offered Corrales a large purse to fight at 130. Corrales spoke about it on TV BEFORE the fight.
When asked about his difficulty in making weight, he said " well it isn't easy, but they made me an offer I couldn't refuse".
The poor guy needed money to pay his lawyers, and he was already going to jail after the fight. So he was in a physical and psychological mess.
Read this.........
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. I can say that 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, when saying that is was VERY hard to make the weight, "they made me an offer I couldn't refuse".....
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 end.
Tom Stewart
I wouldn't. count the Corrales fight at all. If he'd fought Corrales a year before Coralles might have killed him. He waited until Corrales had gone up to lightweight, and was having trouble even making THAT weight, before he offered Corrales a large purse to fight at 130. Corrales spoke about it on TV BEFORE the fight.
When asked about his difficulty in making weight, he said " well it isn't easy, but they made me an offer I couldn't refuse".
The poor guy needed money to pay his lawyers, and he was already going to jail after the fight. So he was in a physical and psychological mess.
Read this.........
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. I can say that 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, when saying that is was VERY hard to make the weight, "they made me an offer I couldn't refuse".....
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 end.
Tom Stewart
Floyd stomps Corrales at any weight..give it a rest.
Diego didn't have the defense to beat Mayweather..nor does Cotto..
A fighter that gets hit alot ain't beating Floyd.
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