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By Robert Morales - Everyone always wants to know what it's like for a fighter to be involved in a Fight of the Year type of bout. But what about the trainers?
For example, we recall the morning of May 8, 2005. Driving back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, where the night before Diego Corrales had gotten up from two brutal 10th-round knockdowns to stop Jose Luis Castillo in the 10th of what many experts called one of the greatest comebacks in history, we put in a call to Corrales' trainer, Joe Goossen.
Basically, Goossen said he was still having a hard time believing his fighter did what he did in that lightweight title unification fight, that he was half-expecting to wake up and find it was all a dream.
The first fight between Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios and Mike Alvarado last Oct. 13 at Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. was not quite as incredible as that Corrales-Castillo fight. But it was a tremendous seven rounds that contained vicious non-stop punching between two ultimate ring warriors. Rios won via 7th-round TKO, but it was one of those situations where even the loser's stock rose because of his sheer courage.
Garcia was in Rios' corner, and will be again when the rematch takes place March 30 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas (on HBO). [Click Here To Read More]
For example, we recall the morning of May 8, 2005. Driving back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, where the night before Diego Corrales had gotten up from two brutal 10th-round knockdowns to stop Jose Luis Castillo in the 10th of what many experts called one of the greatest comebacks in history, we put in a call to Corrales' trainer, Joe Goossen.
Basically, Goossen said he was still having a hard time believing his fighter did what he did in that lightweight title unification fight, that he was half-expecting to wake up and find it was all a dream.
The first fight between Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios and Mike Alvarado last Oct. 13 at Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. was not quite as incredible as that Corrales-Castillo fight. But it was a tremendous seven rounds that contained vicious non-stop punching between two ultimate ring warriors. Rios won via 7th-round TKO, but it was one of those situations where even the loser's stock rose because of his sheer courage.
Garcia was in Rios' corner, and will be again when the rematch takes place March 30 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas (on HBO). [Click Here To Read More]
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