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By Thomas Gerbasi - Once Michelle Corrales got the look, she knew everything was going to be all right.
Her husband, Diego, had just been knocked down for the second time in the tenth round by Jose Luis Castillo in their WBC / WBO lightweight title fight at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The date was May 7, 2005, nearly ten years ago, an anniversary that doesn’t feel real to Michelle.
“Absolutely not,” she laughs. “It does not feel like ten years whatsoever. I just got chills even thinking about those moments back then and how it seems more like yesterday than ten years ago.”
If you called the fight between Corrales and Castillo the best you ever saw, there might be other options, but no one would argue, at least not if they saw a bout that epitomized everything that is great about the sport of boxing, even if it didn’t feel like boxing, but like a war of attrition, a brutal dance in which neither fighter would give an inch to the other.
But in the tenth round, it appeared that Corrales had finally run out of miracles. Mexico’s Castillo had already put him down once, breaking open a close fight, and when “Chico” hit the deck a second time in the round, the only hope was that he wouldn’t get hurt before the fight got called. The fans were thrilled, but Michelle still had to watch the man she loved take punch after punch until he was knocked to the canvas. And knowing her husband, he wasn’t going to go away willingly. [Click Here To Read More]
Her husband, Diego, had just been knocked down for the second time in the tenth round by Jose Luis Castillo in their WBC / WBO lightweight title fight at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The date was May 7, 2005, nearly ten years ago, an anniversary that doesn’t feel real to Michelle.
“Absolutely not,” she laughs. “It does not feel like ten years whatsoever. I just got chills even thinking about those moments back then and how it seems more like yesterday than ten years ago.”
If you called the fight between Corrales and Castillo the best you ever saw, there might be other options, but no one would argue, at least not if they saw a bout that epitomized everything that is great about the sport of boxing, even if it didn’t feel like boxing, but like a war of attrition, a brutal dance in which neither fighter would give an inch to the other.
But in the tenth round, it appeared that Corrales had finally run out of miracles. Mexico’s Castillo had already put him down once, breaking open a close fight, and when “Chico” hit the deck a second time in the round, the only hope was that he wouldn’t get hurt before the fight got called. The fans were thrilled, but Michelle still had to watch the man she loved take punch after punch until he was knocked to the canvas. And knowing her husband, he wasn’t going to go away willingly. [Click Here To Read More]
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