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Three-and-a-half pounds cost Jose Luis Castillo $120,000, ten percent of his purse, and deprived him of his chance to take Diego Corrales’ lightweight titles. It could have been worse. Before Saturday’s rematch of 2005’s Fight of the Year could commence, the debacle of Friday’s weigh-in had caused sanctions and implications.
Heavy negotiations between the numerous non-combatants led to an agreement on a second weigh-in for Castillo, to occur about five hours prior to ring entrances, with a maximum limit set at 147 pounds. For each extra sixteen ounces, Castillo would make Corrales $75,000 richer, adding on to the sixty grand that Chico had gleaned from the initial fine.
Castillo topped the scales at the welterweight limit and then readied himself for the night’s combat. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists pondered the possibility that the infraction was intentional, that a prideful warrior would shame himself by abstaining draining his body down to 135 pounds, so as to gain an advantage over his leaner, presumably more weakened foe. [details]
Heavy negotiations between the numerous non-combatants led to an agreement on a second weigh-in for Castillo, to occur about five hours prior to ring entrances, with a maximum limit set at 147 pounds. For each extra sixteen ounces, Castillo would make Corrales $75,000 richer, adding on to the sixty grand that Chico had gleaned from the initial fine.
Castillo topped the scales at the welterweight limit and then readied himself for the night’s combat. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists pondered the possibility that the infraction was intentional, that a prideful warrior would shame himself by abstaining draining his body down to 135 pounds, so as to gain an advantage over his leaner, presumably more weakened foe. [details]