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Last Friday’s weigh-in fiasco involving Diego Corrales – paralleling the poundage problems Jose Luis Castillo had preceding his second and third fights with Corrales – was not the lone incidence of déjà vu in Las Vegas.
From Corrales’ weight drain to Joel Casamayor’s waiting game, the rubber match in their trilogy followed the early blueprint of Corrales’ loss to Floyd Mayweather.
Prior to their 2001 bout, Corrales failed to make the junior lightweight limit on his first attempt and was forced to sweat the extra body mass off of his already-lean six-foot frame.
Not only was Corrales drained and distracted by legal problems, but in Mayweather he was facing a faster master boxer capable of dissecting and destroying him. The result could have been preordained, as Mayweather floored Corrales five times before Corrales’ corner surrendered for their fighter.
Half a decade later, Corrales was again faced with a crafty boxer fully able to exploit his tendency to take punishment – and he was once more feeling his body rebelling as a consequence of years of massive, rapid weight loss.
“I’ve been trying so hard to drop the weight, I was almost at the point of passing out this morning,” Corrales said after ending up at 139 pounds at Friday’s weigh-in. “When I was at the 147 area a few weeks ago, I knew it might be tough to get down. I got down a bit and thought I might get there, but I just couldn’t crack 142 pounds.
“Every day, I trained, ate salad and still weighed 142 pounds…. I just got done working out for two hours and only lost half a pound. That pretty much sums it up. I pretty much killed myself to be here at this fight,” he said. [details]
From Corrales’ weight drain to Joel Casamayor’s waiting game, the rubber match in their trilogy followed the early blueprint of Corrales’ loss to Floyd Mayweather.
Prior to their 2001 bout, Corrales failed to make the junior lightweight limit on his first attempt and was forced to sweat the extra body mass off of his already-lean six-foot frame.
Not only was Corrales drained and distracted by legal problems, but in Mayweather he was facing a faster master boxer capable of dissecting and destroying him. The result could have been preordained, as Mayweather floored Corrales five times before Corrales’ corner surrendered for their fighter.
Half a decade later, Corrales was again faced with a crafty boxer fully able to exploit his tendency to take punishment – and he was once more feeling his body rebelling as a consequence of years of massive, rapid weight loss.
“I’ve been trying so hard to drop the weight, I was almost at the point of passing out this morning,” Corrales said after ending up at 139 pounds at Friday’s weigh-in. “When I was at the 147 area a few weeks ago, I knew it might be tough to get down. I got down a bit and thought I might get there, but I just couldn’t crack 142 pounds.
“Every day, I trained, ate salad and still weighed 142 pounds…. I just got done working out for two hours and only lost half a pound. That pretty much sums it up. I pretty much killed myself to be here at this fight,” he said. [details]