Diego Corrales won the greatest boxing match I have ever seen. Now he's dead. The highlight-reel fighter died in a high-speed motorcycle accident last night. I feel ill upon seeing this terrible news. At just 29, he leaves behind a wife and six children (one yet to be born), and millions of awed fans. Anybody who saw Chico rise from two tenth-round knockdowns to knock Jose Luis Castillo senseless on his feet (not to mention the incredible nine rounds that preceeded it) will never forget it. I yelled at the television and jumped out of my chair in response to Corrales-Castillo in a way that I have never done to a sporting event before or since. Corrales notched other great victories over Acelino Frietas and Joel Cassamayor. Money problems, a fallout with his trainer, the cancellation of his rubber match with Castillo, and three successive defeats marked Corrales's last year or so in boxing. Having taken too many big shots, Corrales's story, like so many other boxers, seemed headed for an unhappy ending. None of us who saw it that way knew how unhappily, or how quickly, that ending would come. Diego Corrales, rest in peace.

Dan:

Just watched him today on an old HBO fight against
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and he took quite a beating.
Mayweather has to rate as one of the best. His only possible weakness is that he is not a deadly puncher. However when you can hit your opponent 2 or 3 to 1, then you can take him down eventually.

he had trouble with keeping his weight in check towards the end of his career. i believe he stepped up in class after the trilogy between he and castillo was missed and never was the same boxer after. one would think he never fully recovered from what I agree was the best boxing match i ever witnessed. Rip Diego Corrales