Official Jose Luis Castillo vs. Diego Corrales Thread

[borikua]

Castillo by early KO.

[Azteca]

i do feel the fight depends more on corrales who if he's smart can use his jab and boxing abilities to make this a much less grueling fight. but, corrales never takes the smart route and it will probably end up being another brawl.

castillo is the strongest 135 pound fighter I have ever seen. amazing ability to grind his opponents down, break them down, wear them down and then knock them out. castillo has adapted to a wealth of opponents but has been stopped on his feet twice. he seems to be a late bloomer.

castillo by late stoppage but i wouldn't be suprised if we saw a storybook ending and corrales wins late.

[flipside]

im taking corrales on this one, if and a big IF they both make weight!LOL!

[moy22487]

im taking corrales on this one, if and a big IF they both make weight!LOL!

ill make you a bet i got castillo

[The Coagulator]

I agrre with most of this but......

JLC has Corrales figured out.

If you want to beat Castillo, you have to fight his fight and stop him like Corrales did in the first fight. Corrales knows this, and he is forced to get inside on Castillo and put together punches. In other words, he's really trying to beat Castillo up on the inside with really fast hooks and straight compact punches. The only problem is, Castillo knows this...so he takes about a step or two back, and waits for Corrales to miss and times the left hook or uppercutt. Corrales has yet to make the adjustment and throw the jab more frequently...and he's paying for it. He was floored twice in the tenth of the first fight after sustaining a calculated beating (in which both guys were beat pretty badly), and knocked out cold in the second fight. Some how, he's going to have to withstand the punches like he did in the first fight if he wants to win, and I don't think he has it left in him. He'll more than likely survive longer than he did in the last outing, but he'll eventually succomb to punishment and get knocked out late.

Castillo K.O. 8

You are so right about Castillo has Chico's #. So Chico needs to dial another one. Not only does he need to get inside like you say, he also needs to stop taking so many punches and have better defence on the inside, moving his head more, he didnt do that in either of their last fights. I think Chico knows this and he is going to eat less punches, go to the body alot more, then finish him in the later rounds...TKO/KO inside of 10 rounds Chico.

[King Koyle]

I was orginally going with Castillo on this one,but I think im changing my vote to a Corrales victory.Despite what Diego is saying,I think that he will fight a smarter fight.

[ROSEWOOD]

I'm going to go with JLC KO8 Corrales. Should be a great fight no matter who wins.

Castillo via KO in somewhere like the 3RD

[MetalVomit]

i did not expect this to be so lopsided.

[Left2body]

i did not expect this to be so lopsided.

Yeah, I didn't think it would've been this one sided either. I still have Corrales winning by KO or TKO between in round 9. Chico retains a lot of his power in the later rounds. I'm also not ****** and realize that Castillo winning is a very huge possibilty.

However this is my prediction for Saturday. Castillo dropping weight hurts him more than Corrales dropping weight. I believe the the effects (i.e. lossing sharpness in punches and fluidity of combinations) of sucking weight will begin to show at about round 6 with Corrales taking more and more control in rounds 6 and 7. Castillo valiantly trys to mount an offensive in round 8 and wins a close round. In round 9 with Castillo fading Corrales drops Castillo twice (first KD is from a left hook right uppercut combination). Upon Castillo staggering after the second KD the ref stops the fight.

........well I could be wrong but hey I figured I'd give prophetizing a shot.

JLC has Corrales figured out.

If you want to beat Castillo, you have to fight his fight and stop him like Corrales did in the first fight. Corrales knows this, and he is forced to get inside on Castillo and put together punches. In other words, he's really trying to beat Castillo up on the inside with really fast hooks and straight compact punches. The only problem is, Castillo knows this...so he takes about a step or two back, and waits for Corrales to miss and times the left hook or uppercutt. Corrales has yet to make the adjustment and throw the jab more frequently...and he's paying for it. He was floored twice in the tenth of the first fight after sustaining a calculated beating (in which both guys were beat pretty badly), and knocked out cold in the second fight. Some how, he's going to have to withstand the punches like he did in the first fight if he wants to win, and I don't think he has it left in him. He'll more than likely survive longer than he did in the last outing, but he'll eventually succomb to punishment and get knocked out late.

Castillo K.O. 8

Very intelligent commentary there - from Big Bummer and Godzhand too. Like the three of you, I see a stoppage around the 8-9th rounds. Keep pimpin'.