By Thomas Gerbasi - If there is an afterlife, wouldn’t it be something to know what Diego Corrales is thinking about Saturday’s fight between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley? Knowing Diego, he’d be rooting for his buddy Shane, but at the same time would still be able to appreciate the talent of Pacquiao, boxing’s current pound-for-pound king.
Deep inside though, he would probably wonder whether they would be able to live up to what he and Jose Luis Castillo did six years earlier on May 7, 2005, the night he made his legend in a bout dubbed the greatest fight ever by nearly everyone who saw it.
And that’s what it was – a fight. Despite the high-level skills owned by both lightweights, what they specialized in was proving that they could punch their opponents harder than they could get punched back. And when you’ve got that kind of attitude, there comes a time when the people you punch draw a line in the sand and say ‘I’m not going anywhere.’
What results is Corrales-Castillo I, a fight that can’t possibly be done justice with words, but one that showed just what intangibles like courage, will, and heart look like when dressed up with boxing trunks and gloves. The end result that night in Las Vegas reads Corrales TKO 10, but his journey to get there was nothing short of spectacular. [Click Here To Read More]
Deep inside though, he would probably wonder whether they would be able to live up to what he and Jose Luis Castillo did six years earlier on May 7, 2005, the night he made his legend in a bout dubbed the greatest fight ever by nearly everyone who saw it.
And that’s what it was – a fight. Despite the high-level skills owned by both lightweights, what they specialized in was proving that they could punch their opponents harder than they could get punched back. And when you’ve got that kind of attitude, there comes a time when the people you punch draw a line in the sand and say ‘I’m not going anywhere.’
What results is Corrales-Castillo I, a fight that can’t possibly be done justice with words, but one that showed just what intangibles like courage, will, and heart look like when dressed up with boxing trunks and gloves. The end result that night in Las Vegas reads Corrales TKO 10, but his journey to get there was nothing short of spectacular. [Click Here To Read More]
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