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If ever there were two boxers who don't like each other, it is Floyd Mayweather and Diego Corrales. The animosity between them nearly erupted into a brawl Tuesday at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles at a news conference designed to promote their fight Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden for Mayweather's World Boxing Council super featherweight championship.
Mayweather's manager, James Prince, looked at Corrales and said, "Diego, I have some advice for you. Save your money and invest it wisely because after this fight, you're going to jail."
That was in reference to felony charges of spousal abuse pending against Corrales.
But when Corrales got to the podium, he said, "If I'm going to jail, I'm following you there."
That prompted more trash talk and, at one point, Mayweather took off his sport coat but was intercepted by Top Rank promoter Bob Arum.
The boxers never got to each other, but bodyguards for both were jostling each other, prompting hotel security to enter to settle things.
Corrales laughed off the incident. "It was just a little added excitement, that's all," he said. "No big deal."
Arum said he was disappointed because the incident projects an image boxing does not need. "This isn't great for boxing, but I don't think you'll see a repeat" at Thursday's final news conference at the MGM, Arum said.The soap opera "All My Children" looks like a Shakespearean production compared to the turmoil surrounding the super featherweight fight that will take place Saturday at the MGM Grand between World Boxing Council champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Diego Corrales.
On the surface, it should be among the best fights of the last 10 years. It pits a pair of young, undefeated boxers in their primes. Mayweather is 24-0 with 18 knockouts, while Corrales, who held the International Boxing Federation junior lightweight title until voluntarily surrendering it, is 33-0 with 27 knockouts.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has compared the bout to the 1981 classic pitting Sugar Ray Leonard against Thomas Hearns.
But that fight, one of the all-time greats, did not involve any of the out-of-ring intrigue that Mayweather-Corrales does.
Each fighter has significant issues. Mayweather was being groomed by Top Rank to follow in Oscar De La Hoya's footsteps and become boxing's next superstar. After a spectacular performance against Carlos Gerena on Sept. 11, 1999, Mayweather seemed on the verge of taking the next step and becoming "The Man."
He was young, glib, friendly and oh so talented.
"No question, we were getting ready to make him another Sugar Ray Leonard," Arum said.
But shortly after the seventh-round stoppage of Gerena, things changed. Mayweather hired a new manager, rap music mogul James Prince, much to the displeasure of his father, Floyd Sr. The elder Mayweather had been serving as his son's manager and trainer.
Mayweather Jr. turned down a $12.5 million contract extension from HBO, terming it slave wages, setting off a feud with his father, which resulted in:
-- Floyd Sr. being dismissed from Floyd Jr.'s camp as manager and trainer.
-- Mayweather Jr. evicting his father from a Summerlin home he owned.
-- Mayweather Jr. repossessing a van from his father he had allowed his father to use.
-- Mayweather Jr. fighting only twice in the next 16 months.
The public view of Mayweather turned from that of a Prince Charming to a Darth Vader. His father, one of his most vocal critics, said he is praying for his son to win Saturday but is fearful of what a win will do to him.
"He may be trying to act nice to you guys (in the media) now because somebody told him he had better do that, but I'm afraid if he wins this fight, he'll become an even bigger monster," Mayweather Sr. said.
The younger Mayweather bristles at such talk, though, and wonders why the media often have portrayed him as a villain while making Corrales out to be the nice guy.
Corrales is soft-spoken and pleasant, almost to a fault, but he is facing felony charges of spousal abuse. Last summer, his 98-pound wife alleged he broke her jaw and her ribs and pulled a gun on her in a domestic dispute. Corrales vehemently has denied the charges.
But Corrales also is in a dispute with his managers, Barrett Silver and Cameron Dunkin, and has taken them to arbitration with the Nevada Athletic Commission in an effort to get out of his contract with them.
Mayweather points to those incidents, as well as others, and rips Corrales as well as the media.
"Say what you want about me, but it was my choice to turn down the (HBO) money, and that didn't hurt anybody else," he said. "I've never had anything against me like he does. Why would I be the bad guy?"
Mayweather went on to promise to defeat Corrales on behalf of the world's battered women. That comment enraged Corrales and is essentially what led to the fight being held.
Arum acknowledges that the fight is being held before its time, before the point when both fighters have had the opportunity to build their names and reputations. But because of the mutual dislike, it figures to be one of the best fights of any generation.
"A lot of things have been said," Corrales said. "I definitely have true resentment towards him. But to each his own. There comes a point in time when you got to go to work and answer up to all the talk."At nearly six feet, Corrales is an uncommonly tall lightweight, with polished skills and a taste for combat. He quickly ascended the ranks, winning his first 33 pro fights, all but six by knockout. He then returned to Sacramento and was eyeing a big money fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Life was good. Then Corrales's pride--this time horribly, indefensibly misguided--wreaked havoc. In July 2000 he received a phone call from his pregnant wife, Maria, that he interpreted as insulting. Corrales, who by way of explanation says that "alcohol was involved," returned home to assault the 98-pound Maria, leaving her with a broken collarbone and ribs and a bruised spine. Corrales was charged with felony domestic violence. Though the baby survived, the deputy district attorney called the beating "absolutely brutal."
As Corrales awaited trial, the fight went on as planned in January 2001. Mayweather, not surprisingly, trumpeted Corrales's arrest and vowed to "beat Corrales like a dog on behalf of all the battered women in the world." He also invited Maria, who had divorced Corrales, to sit in the front row and watch him pummel her ex-husband. She declined. Mayweather did give Corrales a beating, and against Corrales's protestations--foolish pride, again--his corner threw in the towel in the 10th round.
Worse punishment was to follow. In February '01, Corrales pleaded guilty to felony domestic violence and spent 14 months in a California state prison. "It's a different world in there," he says. "Guys getting sliced open, a guy trying to escape getting shot. I saw things there you wouldn't believe."Comment
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thanks for the linkI can't find any video links, just news links.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...19/2/index.htmComment
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why are you so big on this Floyd dissin stuff? I dont mind trash talk at all but there are certain things that cant be said. Its not like Floyd is perfect. Remember, he ripped into Chico but also had abuse charges against him by his baby momma. I dont think Pac is nearly the golden boy people make him out to be but I dont know if Floyd should go out of his way to say that unless they start throwing hard stones at you 1st. Then you bring out the big gunsComment
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