Comments Thread For: R. Mayweather: Floyd's Corrales Win is Best Performance

[Fidel456]

Wrong, that was the best hand picked apponent (2nd was gatti) of his career. It was the perfect time to fight Corrales cause he had built his name. Corrales style was easy for a boxer, even Robert Garcia was tagging him before getting KO'd. Floyd had even sparred with him before and said it was easy work. Not only that but Corrales had over grown that weight class he was eating sandwiches on fight night just to regain strength. Floyd's best performance was actually against chicanito Hernandez.

[spoonwars]

You a funny guy talking about weight when your boy is the master of weight manipulation on his opponents to gain an edge.

Like taking 2 lbs from Cotto? Giving 3 lbs to Margarito? I said around 10 lbs for Corrales.

[Oh you out son]

Idk if it was Floyd or what but I don't think Corrales looked his usual self in that fight. If you look at the fight vs Floyd and his fight vs Castillo, it makes you think, how the hell did Floyd drop him so easily?

I think he looked bad because of what Floyd was doing. Corrales was just stalking Floyd trying to land big punches. Floyd was sharp shooting Corrales chin with crazy fast and sharp left hooks mostly, Corrales didn't even see a lot of them and after enough of them he went down, you can only take so much (look at margo against Mosley, eventually he couldn't take it anymore)

[Mr. Philadel]

I agree with Unc!!

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

It was no joke, the poor stooge could have died. The Mayweathers waited until the "right time'. He'd gone up in weight, was going to gaol for 2 years, had lost his family, was desperate, over his head in debt and more. Carrales said "they made me an offer I couldn't refuse". Corrales had been having weight proble,s for a while. For this fight he spent 9 days plus the weigh-in morning in the sweat box, and still had to come back to the scales twice. When he made the weight, it was remarked by a well known writer that he was helped to the scales; "his skin was grey, and his bones were sticking out all over..I knew then that he had no chance"...

Merchant said he saw him just before the fight in his dressing room "scoffing down a huge hamburger sandwich". He rehydrated overnight 17 lbs. That's nearly 14% of his bodyweight. He was drained, and waterlogged. He was like a zombie. He knew he wouldn't win, but needed the money. His trainer said he couldn't get him to train, he just sat in his room playing a gameboy. It's fairly sure that his huge rehydration caused an electrolytic imbalance, making him sluggish and unco-ordinated. He never was like that before. The only thing that was unchanged was his fighting spirit.

Isn't it "priceless" that with Mayweather taunting him by dedicating the fight to all the battered women, (referring to Corrales' getting 2 years for assaulting his wife) that he himself would shortly after, be charged with woman-beating, the same woman he recently got sentenced for.

So that's the REAL story behind the great Mayweather victory over Corrales. it was really a victory for cunning and taking advantage in adversity, against a helpless opponent. I have a letter from the writer who witnessed the weigh-in. And....I've written all this many times before, but nobody seems to pay attention. Teh Maybugs never wiil, but maybe reasonable people... Well...one more time is no harm....

I was leaning more towards this myself. I think the weight problem had a lot to do with it. Corrales was definitely not himself and he was dropped way too easily IMO. I think his corner knew what was up therefore didn't hesitate to stop it.

[edgarg]

Corrales lost about 10 pounds the day of the weigh-in. You go in there like a fly, you gonna get swatted. Not only that, the fly was thinking of gonna get swatted in jail soon anyway.

Yes, I was informed by someone who knew, that he had to lose 9 lbs on the day of the weigh-in. I'm glad to see that so many people are dis*****g The Mayweather claim. I've been irritated for a long time over the lack of information about behind-the-scenes goings-on for that fight. Things are hardly ever what they seem unless they are really transparent... with step by step accessible info released.

Corrales obviously knew he had no chance but his fighting spirit kept him going. It was purely disgusting.

[champ_kw]

Yes, I was informed by someone who knew, that he had to lose 9 lbs on the day of the weigh-in. I'm glad to see that so many people are dis*****g The Mayweather claim. I've been irritated for a long time over the lack of information about behind-the-scenes goings-on for that fight. Things are hardly ever what they seem unless they are really transparent... with step by step accessible info released.

Corrales obviously knew he had no chance but his fighting spirit kept him going. It was purely disgusting.

Yeah the old "he was at the wrong weight" excuse, huh? The weight was so wrong for him that 3 years later he was winning a belt against Casamayor.....at 130! Just admit Floyd had a great performance that night. You hate so much that u discredit great nites of boxing to stick with ur bias agenda.

[el feo]

boxing insiders knew corrales was going through problems with his wife and did a lil jail time and didnt train properly for the mayweather fight..proper preperation prevents poor performance and fact of the matter is corrales was not prepared and his head wasnt on str8..so floy shouldnt flatter him self with that win cuz it wasnt corrales at his best

[ADP02]

You a funny guy talking about weight when your boy is the master of weight manipulation on his opponents to gain an edge.

Your Floyd and his fans have been bringing Cotto being drained by coming in 1lb less than his previous fight yet someone brings up the fact that Corrales was extremely drained and he needs to stay quiet? Cotto never said he was drained. Floyd said it!

Instead, Corrales's issues are well known by now. Everyone including his trainer many years later, when he was no longer Diego's trainer admitted to to him being extremely drained.

[charlieg]

Both Corrales and Castillo were vastly overrated fighters. If Corrales had not died tragically, he'd have gone on to lose a lot more fights. He'd lost 3 in a row when he died. He'd soon be beaten, knocked out by Casamayor, after he met Floyd.

Maybe it was Mayweather's best performance, but he's not the kind of bar setting opponent that is implied such a description.

Put another way, if Corrales and Castillo hadn't been in that mental fight, they'd be footnotes in history and barely known.

I'm more interested in how Mayweather performed against Hatton, De La Hoya, Mosley, Marquez, Hernandez, than some 0 defense guy like Corrales who was nothing if you took away his punching power. Any of those guys I'd have mentioned would have whooped Corrales at 135lbs. His only advantage was that he was a monster in size at 130lbs, but Mayweather was never a small 130lber himself.