Diego Corrales - Jose Luis Castillo II ( Eng. Diego Corrales vs. José Luis Castillo II ) - a twelve-round boxing rematch that took place on October 8, 2005 at the in Las Vegas . WBC and WBO lightweight world titles , which belonged to Corrales, were supposed to be at stake, but due to the fact that Castillo was unable to invest in the weight category limit (up to 61, 235 kg), the titles were automatically retained by the current champion.
| Diego Corrales - Jose Luis Castillo II | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| date | October 8, 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| A place | , Las Vegas , Nevada , USA | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Judge |  Joe Cortez is the referee; Clark Sammartino - side referee; Jerry Roth - side referee; Nobuaki Uratani is a side judge. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Result | Castillo win by round 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jose Luis Castillo v Diego Corrales BoxRec . Date of appeal April 21, 2019. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This fight was the second between the boxers. Earlier, on May 7, 2005, Corrales and Castillo had their first fight . The battle was held with varying success. Both boxers worked at short and medium range. During the fight, they managed to shake each other several times. The most striking was the tenth round, during which Korrales twice knocked down, during knockdowns Korrales twice spat out a mouth guard to use the time given to rinse the mouth guard for recovery. Seconds after the second knockdown, Corrales attacked Castillo and shocked him with several punctuated punches, after which the referee of the fight - Tony Weeks intervened and stopped the fight. The victory by TKO in the 10th round was awarded to Corrales.
The second fight took place with Castillo advantage and ended with his victory by knockout in the 4th round. At the time of the knockout, the following notes were on the referee's notes - 30:27, 30:27 and 29:27 in favor of Castillo. After that, Corrales held two more fights in which he was defeated, and Castillo continued to perform regularly until 2014. Exactly two years after the first fight between Corrales and Castillo, on May 7, 2007 Diego Corrales died.
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Background
The first match between Corrales and Castillo took place on May 7, 2005 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and went with varying success. Both boxers worked at short and medium range. During the fight, they managed to shake each other several times. The brightest was the tenth round, during which Korrales twice knocked down. During both knockdowns, Corrales spit out the mouthpiece to use the time given to flush it for recovery. Seconds after the second knockdown, Corrales attacked Castillo and shocked him with several punctuated punches, after which the referee of the fight - Tony Weeks intervened and stopped the fight. A technical knockout victory in the 10th round was awarded to Corrales [1] [2] . Summing up the results of 2005, the authoritative American boxing magazine “The Ring” awarded the first fight of Corrales – Castillo with the “Fight of the Year” award , and the 10th round received the “Round of the Year” award [3] .
Due to the extremely unexpected outcome of the first match, the rematch looked attractive from a financial point of view. Ticket prices for the fight at the box office reached 17.5 thousand US dollars , and the number of paid views on the Showtime TV channel could reach half a million [4] .
The world lightweight champion titles (up to 61, 2 kg) according to the WBC and WBO versions, which belonged to Diego Corrales, were supposed to be at stake, but Jose Luis Castillo exceeded the weight category limit by a little less than a kilogram. After that, Castillo got 75 minutes to drive off the excess weight, but on repeated weighing, he again exceeded the category limit by 1.7 kg. After that, the WBC and WBO reported that the titles of their organizations would not be played in this fight. In the end, Corrales agreed to hold the fight as part of the welterweight (up to 66.7 kg), but on the condition that on the day of the battle additional weighting will be carried out and for every 453 grams over the limit of the Castillo category, he will be fined $ 75,000 for each passing round of the fight. On the additional weighing procedure, Castillo managed to keep within the limit of the weight category, and Corrales weighed 67.6 kg [5] .
Especially for this fight, the rule was introduced that if during the fight one of the boxers intentionally spits a mouth guard out of his mouth, then two points will be removed from him. It was also written in the rule that the seconds should have spare caps so that if necessary it could be replaced as quickly as possible and thereby avoid unjustified delays, as was the case in the first battle [6] .
Match Progress
The duel in its style resembled the first fight between boxers and took place at close range with virtually no direct strikes. Sporting journalists noted that it would be more convenient for Corrales to box long-distance, using his advantages in height and arm span, but because this could deprive the fight of entertainment, Corrales did not use these advantages [8] .
The first round began with an exchange of punctuated punches. Castillo worked mainly with short hooks (side kicks) on the body and short uppercuts (kicks below) on the Corrales jaw. Corrales, besides the advantage in anthropometry, had an advantage in the speed of his hands and worked mainly with crosses (cross strikes), which he punched at the moment when Castillo retreated. In the middle of the round, Diego Corrales managed to get an accented uppercut on the opponent's jaw. But the first round was left to the Mexican [9] .
In the second round, Castillo continued to work with blows from below, which increasingly reached the target, but they did not cause significant damage to Corrales. Corrales worked as jabs (direct punches), which also did not reach the goal. At the end of the round, Castillo hit Corrales with an accented left hook, and forced him to stop attacking for a while. This round was equal, but the Mexican had a slight advantage [10] .
In the third round, the pace of confrontation continued. Corrales tried to push his opponent to the ropes, but Castillo changed the style of combat and began to work as the second number - retreating and counterattacking. Both boxers also continued to punch each other's hull. Then Corrales managed to break through the accented blow from below, thanks to which Castillo was in the middle distance and immediately struck the left hook and right jab, due to which Corrales was almost knocked down . Corrales recovered in a few seconds and attacked an opponent who began to clinch [11] .
In the fourth round, Corrales threw an unaccented left hook, and immediately after that he lowered his hand to the level of the belt to strike again, but at that moment Castillo worked ahead of time and struck the left half-hook-semi-uppercut, which fell into the chin of the American. After this blow, Corrales was on the floor of the ring and rose to the score of 10, but could not stand firmly on his feet, and in the 47th second of the 4th round the fight was stopped [11] .
The victory with the wording KO4 ( knockout in the 4th round) was awarded to Jose Luis Castillo [12] .
| Score of referee notes at the time of the bout [12] | |||||
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| Clark Sammartino | Jerry Roth | Nobuaki Uratani | |||
| Diego Corrales | Jose Luis Castillo | Diego Corrales | Jose Luis Castillo | Diego Corrales | Jose Luis Castillo |
| 27 | thirty | 27 | thirty | 27 | 29th |
Undercard
The table lists the results of all boxer fights. Each line indicates the result of the match. Additionally, the number of the match is indicated by a color that indicates the outcome of the match. Decoding of symbols and colors is presented in the table below.
| Example | Decryption |
|---|---|
| Victory | |
| Draw | |
| Defeat | |
| Planned fight | |
| The duel is declared invalid | |
| KO | Knockout |
| TKO | TKO |
| UD, PTS | Judges Unanimous Decision |
| MD | Decision of the majority of judges |
| SD | Judges Separate Decision |
| RTD | Refusal to continue the battle |
| Dq | Disqualification |
| NC | The duel is declared invalid |
| Boxer | Battle result | Boxer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diego Corrales (40-2) | KO4 (12) | Jose Luis Castillo (52-7-1) | |
| Jorge Arce (40-3-1) | TKO2 (2) | Hussein Hussein (28-2) | Fight for WBC Flyweight Interim World Champion Title |
| Bobby Pacquiao (27-11-3) | SD10 (10) | Carlos Hernandez (41-5-1) | |
| Rolando Reyes (25-3-2) | SD10 (10) | Ivan Cabrera (12-5-1) | |
| Ameriko Santos (22-0) | KO1 (8) | Jeremy Yelton (17-2) | |
| Vanes Martirosyan (4-0) | TKO1 (6) | Tony Morales (5-2) | |
| Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (22-0) | TKO5 (6) | Jeremy Stiers (9-4) | |
| Juan Manuel Buendia (10-0) | TKO4 (6) | Bernardo Gerecha (14-5-1) | |
| Mario Santiago (11-0) | KO3 (6) | Filiberto Young (5-0-1) |
After the battle
On June 3, 2006, the third fight between Castillo and Corrales was to take place [14] , but the Mexican counterpart failed to invest in the weight category limit and the fight was canceled [15] . After losing to Castillo, Corrales held two more fights in which he lost - on October 7, 2006, he lost by separate decision to Hoel Casamayor (33-3-1) and lost the WBC world title and on April 4, 2007 lost by unanimous decision by Joshua Clottey (30-2) [16] . Castillo, after which he spent more than 20 fights and in 2014 ended his sports career [17] .
Exactly two years after his first fight against Jose Luis Castillo, on May 7, 2007, Diego Corrales crashed to death on his motorcycle [18] .
Notes
- ↑ Diego Corrales - Jose Luis Castillo on YouTube . Comments by Vladimir Gendlin Sr. The Big Ring show
- ↑ The Ring, No. 6, 2005 , p. 43-44.
- ↑ Past winners of the Ring's year-end awards . The Ring (February 24, 2012). Date of treatment March 11, 2012. Archived January 29, 2013.
- ↑ The Ring, No. 10, 2005 , p. 62.
- ↑ The Ring, No. 11, 2005 , p. 44-45.
- ↑ The Ring, No. 11, 2005 , p. 45-46.
- ↑ Diego Corrales - Jose Luis Castillo II on YouTube . Comments by Vladimir Gendlin Sr. The Big Ring show
- ↑ The Ring, No. 11, 2005 , p. 47.
- ↑ The Ring, No. 11, 2005 , p. 46-47.
- ↑ The Ring, No. 11, 2005 , p. 47-48.
- ↑ 1 2 “Ring”, No. 11, 2005 , p. 48.
- ↑ 1 2 Jose Luis Castillo v Diego Corrales . BoxRec . Date of appeal April 21, 2019.
- ↑ Saturday 8, October 2005 . BoxRec . Date of appeal April 24, 2019.
- ↑ Pilipenko E. The last fight, he is the hardest // // “Ring”: magazine. - 2005. - May ( No. 5 ). - S. 56-58 . - ISSN 1810-7338 .
- ↑ Pilipenko E. The unbearable burden of being Castillo // “Ring”: magazine. - 2006. - July-August ( No. 7-8 (51) ). - S. 28-29 . - ISSN 1810-7338 .
- ↑ Diego Corrales - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec
- ↑ Jose Luis Castillo (English) - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec
- ↑ The Ring, No. 5 (62), 2007 , p. 59.
Literature
- Lobodin K. On top of Olympus, even two lightweights are crowded together ... // “Ring”: magazine. - 2005. - May ( No. 5 ). - S. 50-51 . - ISSN 1810-7338 .
- Lobodin K. The persistent tin soldier Diego Corrales, or a fairy tale with a happy ending // “Ring”: magazine. - 2005. - June ( No. 6 ). - S. 38-44 . - ISSN 1810-7338 .
- Lobodin K. Corrales — Castillo II: Forget about compromises // Ring: Journal. - 2005. - October ( No. 10 ). - S. 54-59 . - ISSN 1810-7338 .
- Pilipenko E. ! Uno mas! // “Ring”: magazine. - 2005. - November ( No. 11 ). - S. 42-50 . - ISSN 1810-7338 .
- Lobodin K. Last knockdown of Diego Corrales // “Ring”: magazine. - 2007. - June ( No. 6 (62) ). - S. 54-59 . - ISSN 1810-7338 .