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Superlatives like “amazing” and “incredible,” occasionally used without merit, are instead truly accurate when it comes to describing Saturday’s lightweight unification bout between Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo. For ten rounds, these two warriors overwhelmingly outdid March’s Manny Pacquiao/Erik Morales battle, taking the lead in the “Fight of the Year” category. In this week’s edition of Fighting Words, we will rave about the feeling and fever that Corrales and Castillo instilled in viewers, answer a couple emails and wrap things up with The Ten Count.
Fever and Fury, Fight of the Year
After Diego Corrales knocked out Jose Luis Castillo in the tenth round at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, boxing writers no doubt hustled to their computers to hammer out a piece that would properly encapsulate precisely what they had just seen.
Ringtalk.com’s Cliff Rold emailed me his piece, “Corrales Scores KO in Best Lightweight Title Fight Ever,” while I was in the process of editing my own words before sending them out. I was just as eager to send out my take, returning Cliff the favor with my opus, and adding my father, a couple friends and Maxboxing’s Jason Probst to the list.
A fight like Corrales/Castillo should be seen by everyone, and for sportswriters, our form of water cooler discussion is one of the highest compliments that can be paid to pugilists. I’m not sure if press row stood up and cheered, like they did after the twelfth round of the third fight in the Erik Morales/Marco Antonio Barrera trilogy, but the atmosphere where I was sitting was absolutely electric. [details]
Fever and Fury, Fight of the Year
After Diego Corrales knocked out Jose Luis Castillo in the tenth round at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, boxing writers no doubt hustled to their computers to hammer out a piece that would properly encapsulate precisely what they had just seen.
Ringtalk.com’s Cliff Rold emailed me his piece, “Corrales Scores KO in Best Lightweight Title Fight Ever,” while I was in the process of editing my own words before sending them out. I was just as eager to send out my take, returning Cliff the favor with my opus, and adding my father, a couple friends and Maxboxing’s Jason Probst to the list.
A fight like Corrales/Castillo should be seen by everyone, and for sportswriters, our form of water cooler discussion is one of the highest compliments that can be paid to pugilists. I’m not sure if press row stood up and cheered, like they did after the twelfth round of the third fight in the Erik Morales/Marco Antonio Barrera trilogy, but the atmosphere where I was sitting was absolutely electric. [details]
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