Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Diego Corrales - HBO 1-20-2001 - video Dailymotion

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WBC Super Featherweight Champion undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr battles former IBF Champion and also undefeated Diego Corrales on HBO Boxing

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00:00:0035 they'll have him as a serious obstacle if not a wall to run into all right well let's get ready

00:00:07now for the 130 pound fight which is of course the main event of the evening as we told you at

00:00:12the beginning of the evening a grudge match between two fighters who've known each other

00:00:17since their amateur days who sparred a little bit as amateurs who had entirely different kinds of

00:00:21experiences coming out of the amateurs floyd mayweather the pedigreed olympian diego corrales

00:00:27the tough former gang kid up from the streets of sacramento floyd mayweather nurtured as a fighter

00:00:34and trained by both his father and by his uncle in two different styles

00:00:44oh what a right hand shot by floyd mayweather

00:00:49and freddie in trouble as mayweather pounds away

00:00:53believe me this guy is something special there is your fighter of the year for 98

00:01:00floyd mayweather jr i couldn't believe i was world champion i dropped to my knees and just gave thanks

00:01:05to god because he made my dream come true boxing has always run deep in the mayweather family bloodline

00:01:11his uncle former junior welterweight champion roger and his father one-time welterweight contender

00:01:16floyd senior indoctrinated little floyd into the family business at an early age

00:01:21he lived in the gym he's been in the gym all his life so i knew my son was gonna be a champ pretty much

00:01:29pretty much since he's been born he's been fighting since he's been born while his training and

00:01:32upbringing have prepared floyd for what to expect inside the ring it's what's happened outside the

00:01:37ring that wouldn't have been predicted the once rock solid father-son foundation that brought the

00:01:42fighter to stardom in 1998 soon developed a crack and the relationship disintegrated just one year later

00:01:49me and my dad came to an agreement that uh he was going to move on and train some other fighters

00:01:54and i said that i was going to move on and work back with my uncle because i feel a lot more

00:01:58comfortable i want to get it straight while he left people be telling him oh your daddy uh too strict

00:02:04your dad do this your dad do that why do you think you got to be pound for pound best in the world

00:02:09somebody tell him how to do that unless somebody was me beforehand it was it was just like i was in

00:02:16like a boot camp just never boxing and go to the room now i feel a lot more comfortable because i get

00:02:23a chance to even though i'm training i get a chance to still live my life when he off the ring that's his

00:02:28business when he comes in here then i'm controlling him i'm controlling what he do what he should do

00:02:34or how he should do and how he should make this approach and what makes the fight easier for him

00:02:39with uncle roger now in his corner the emphasis is no longer on the defensive skills stressed by

00:02:43floyd senior these days little floyd has a much more aggressive approach mayweather more active than

00:02:50we normally see him but he's probably out to put on a show well with our office you can't win the fight

00:02:55either i beat the opponent you by unanimous decision or i slowly break my opponent down and stop him

00:03:02it ain't about being aggressive right now he got to fight a smart defensive fight you don't win

00:03:09fights being defensive you win you win fight by punches landing ollie was defensive he still had the

00:03:16second highest knuckle ratio in heavyweight history after an eight-month layoff floyd junior defeated

00:03:21emmanuel burton in his first bout since parting ways with his father but this fight took a

00:03:25heavy toll on the face of the pretty boy what would you have liked to see floyd do you like to

00:03:31see him fight like he fought corgill rogers or would you like to see what you just seen i think

00:03:36what the fans like about little floyd is how he is now it was an exciting fight and that's what the

00:03:42fans and the people want but the main thing is floyd mayweather still won the fight they finally got

00:03:47a chance to see pretty boy bleed profusely from the nose tell me out of the 10 11 fights he fought

00:03:54from uh fought with his father well with any blood well with any knots he needed some defense that night

00:04:01while young mayweather's strategy may be questioned he's banking on his new more entertaining brand of

00:04:06boxing to change his identity in the eyes of fight fans when i go into this fight i know i'm gonna be

00:04:10feeling good i'm going to go out there and put on a superb show and showing that you know flamboyant

00:04:14floyd from nowhere i'm still flashing i'm still doing my thing

00:04:21all right george the difference in philosophies could not be more graphically presented and now

00:04:25trained by uncle roger the offense advocate floyd gets ready to face a big puncher in diego corrales

00:04:31would that be the right style for him to choose tonight both father and uncle are profound in their

00:04:37teaching so you can believe they made an impact on this guy's amateur and professional career so he's

00:04:42probably a student of both doctrine and so i think we're going to see it all but it's all inside of

00:04:47him now they don't need to talk to him much these days and the fact is he's skilled enough to do either

00:04:51he's got it all because they put it into him they've done an excellent job brilliantly trained young

00:04:56fighter uh meanwhile larry merchant uh there's tremendous bad blood between these two guys

00:05:01and they have publicly expressed it over and over going into the fight what's the source

00:05:06of all the bad feeling floyd mayweather jr is a brilliant young lion who put thorns into his own

00:05:15paws while he was sorting out all of his problems outside of the ring fighting only once in a little

00:05:23bit more than a year corrales filled that space with some rousing ko's mayweather came back found that his

00:05:33popularity and his prestige had declined and suddenly he decided that he was no longer going to be the

00:05:40pretty boy floyd he was going to be a snarling floyd he was going to be eminem rather than britney

00:05:49he was going to win with and attract people with controversy and he admits this openly so he says he's

00:05:56going to win this fight for all the battered women out there and corrales is countered by saying he'll win

00:06:02the fight for all the battered fathers out there this is as bad as bad blood gets in our blood sport

00:06:12and that's not necessarily a bad thing blood is good blood is emotion blood is a story a drama

00:06:21blood is what we want to see in terms of passion what we want is a bloody good fight tonight this

00:06:29from the man who did a story on cockfighting for hbo's real sports well it's hard to imagine any fighter

00:06:35going into his biggest fight with bigger distractions than diego corrales who fights tonight to try to rise

00:06:42to the top of the boxing world 12 days from now goes into court to face charges that he beat up his pregnant

00:06:49wife and eventually the baby will be born but here he is

00:07:06the process of losing weight is pretty strenuous it's an all-day job um starting off around seven

00:07:14in the morning you've got your physical endurance or weight training depending on what day

00:07:18it is after having trouble making the 130 pound weight limit in three previous fights diego

00:07:25corrales was prepared to move up to 135 but he left the 130 pound door open for just one fight

00:07:33anytime i'm ready and willing junior lightweight lightweight i don't care after the manfredi fight

00:07:38when they brought it up he just said i'll fight him 130 135 wherever anytime any place anywhere

00:07:44and mayweather thought that it was to his advantage to take advantage of that and say okay i'll fight

00:07:50you at 130. nutritionist alex ariza has been brought into corrales's camp to help make the transition back

00:07:55to 130 but still corrales's body can be less than cooperative diego's 6'1 and he's 23 years old

00:08:03so his body's ready to grow into that and for this fight it's becoming a little bit more difficult so we

00:08:09really have to watch him daily and be real meticulous with his nutrition it's not that bad you just you

00:08:15just have to monitor what you're doing yeah it's perfect because it's a professional i don't think

00:08:21all fighters have to go through this unfortunately for corrales he's also experiencing another syndrome

00:08:27common to boxers lives trouble with the law on february 1 just two weeks after the mayweather fight

00:08:34corrales is scheduled in court to face charges that he beat up his pregnant wife judge me

00:08:41on what you see not on what you hear and what you read only what you've seen in me you can't judge me

00:08:49off what you hear and what you read because not everything you read is a fact with the trial date

00:08:54looming ahead of him corrales has focused even more of his energies inside the ring the ring has been a

00:09:02good place for me because you get a chance to work out to work through all your frustrations

00:09:08all things that eat at you

00:09:13corrales has shown his focus between the ropes while destroying everyone who has come between him and

00:09:18mayweather are you watching floyd mayweather jr

00:09:25i've been waiting for about uh five years since floyd came out of the olympic games

00:09:31since then he's had nothing but bad things to say about me and i've been waiting for quite a while to

00:09:37get my chance to to stop all this noise and get to shut it all up floyd have said things in the past

00:09:44that irritated diego he said it would take diego five years to be able to hit him and when diego

00:09:51got in trouble in sacramento he went on to say that some things that he should have said we're going to

00:09:56see what he's going to do when he feels the pain and the pressure's on him when he has to rise up off

00:10:03that gun if making weight was a challenge waiting for the fight has been even harder now the waiting is over

00:10:11and we bring it back to ringside at the mtm grand casino and hotel and live in the locker room of

00:10:21floyd mayweather jr and we've told you about the situation of estrangement and dispute between floyd

00:10:28and his father but all is well this afternoon as floyd senior joins floyd jr in floyd's dressing room

00:10:36along with floyd jr's young daughter so a three generation mayweather portrait there all smiles

00:10:43and let's hope that it remains that way between father and son meanwhile diego corrales once again

00:10:51had difficulty making 130 he required more than an hour of extra time yesterday to weigh in just a half

00:11:00hour before the commission's deadline for making weight and enters the ring as you can see 16 pounds

00:11:07over the level at which he weighed in yesterday afternoon partially the product of course of the

00:11:12half peanut butter sandwich and half turkey club that we saw him eating earlier four inch height

00:11:16advantage for corrales one inch reach advantage the weigh-in weights were official tonight's weights

00:11:23are unofficial punch that numbers larry here's a look at their activity corrales being the aggressor

00:11:30is a more active fighter

00:11:37but in jabs you can see they're about equal the jab is a more important weapon for mayweather than it is

00:11:42for corrales

00:11:46rules of the bout with our unofficial ringside scorer harold letterman the floyd mayweather jr

00:11:51diego corrales fight is scheduled for 12 rounds using the unified rules of the association of boxing

00:11:57commissions there is no standing eight count no three knockdown rule only the referee can stop the

00:12:03fight and you cannot be saved by the bell in any round including the 12th and final round jim

00:12:10thank you harold and as you watch the fight tonight you can also log on to hbo.com slash boxing vote on who

00:12:16you think was the fighter of the year for the year 2000 was it in alphabetical order roy

00:12:21jones lennox lewis shane mosley or tito trinidad also vote on fight of the year was it morales

00:12:27barrera the war that took place last february here in las vegas was it delaware mosley shane mosley

00:12:34sizzling upset of oscar in los angeles in june or was it trinidad vargas december 2 with fireworks

00:12:42from start to finish vote now with results to be given at the end of this evening's edition of world

00:12:48championship boxing on hbo

00:12:54and now diego corrales makes his entry into the ring at the most tumultuous period of what has

00:13:02already been a life filled with ups and downs the issue for corrales jim is whether he can be one

00:13:12of those rare fighters like a chavez who could walk through any fire to get to his opponent eventually

00:13:22because he's going to have a lot of fire to deal with tonight indeed as he said to us the simple

00:13:31question is can i find a way to make floyd stop and fight if i get him to stop and fight i think i'm

00:13:37going to beat him by about six to five odds most people think that he won't be able to but it's

00:13:45getting closer in the late betting there's the record for corrales 33 0 and 0 with 27 ko's pound for

00:13:53pound one of the hardest punchers in the sport

00:14:01and that's an area in which he has improved over the course of the past year in his championship run

00:14:07his prominence run since he came out of obscurity to rise to the top of the 130 pound division then give

00:14:14up his 130 pound title headed north to 135 only to reverse himself and come back to this weight

00:14:21level he says for this fight and this fight only yo yo he's training the dirtiest gyms about to hurt

00:14:31him corrales his curtains straight head jerking 10 miles a day running before lloyd mayweather jr

00:14:37has gotten involved in the rap music business with the help of his manager successful rap

00:14:43entrepreneur james prince and uh the rapper you see here is affiliated with floyd in his new

00:14:51music venture you know sometimes these fighters come in with these hard-edged rapper lyrics

00:14:59and then they and then they fight like the sound of music or britney spears

00:15:04the title of mayweather's record label filthy rich reminds us and as we told you at the beginning of

00:15:13the evening the winner of this bout faces we are told the promise of a multi-fight multi-million dollar

00:15:22contract from hbo even the loser is guaranteed at least one more appearance on hbo so neither fighter

00:15:30stands to lose his place in line as an hbo attraction but one of them moves to the head of the class

00:15:38pretty boy has a pretty smile

00:15:40but his popularity

00:15:50plunged after he was perceived as something of a spoiled brat a couple of years ago and there are really it's

00:16:01really a modest crowd here tonight perhaps so 6 500 7 000 people tops so he's going to have to regain

00:16:13the public's approval the hard way not with a smile but in the ring by fighting fights like this

00:16:22and more of them

00:16:36That's what he's doing right here.

00:16:38Hey!

00:16:48Waiting game.

00:16:50Make him wait.

00:16:54The old champion used to do.

00:16:58For his part, Corrales said to us yesterday,

00:17:01yeah, there's been a lot of talk,

00:17:03there's emotion, there's bad blood,

00:17:05but he's not going to come to the ring.

00:17:07That doesn't mean anything.

00:17:08This is a professional assignment.

00:17:09My assignment is to find him,

00:17:11make him stop and fight.

00:17:13Mayweather said, in effect, the same thing.

00:17:15Hey, a lot of that controversy

00:17:17was good for selling the fight, said young Floyd.

00:17:22Yeah, well, maybe if you can fight like Ali

00:17:25or the way Tyson used to, it's good.

00:17:29I don't know if you can fight the way he does

00:17:31and make people come in to see you as a controversial figure.

00:17:35But he fought differently in his last outing

00:17:37against Emanuel Burton.

00:17:38Well...

00:17:39Maybe he's planning to come in

00:17:40and be more aggressive tonight.

00:17:42I think his father is there to remind him not to.

00:17:45I'm sure his father would like to remind him not to.

00:17:48His father feels strongly about the style

00:17:50that pretty boy Floyd should portray,

00:17:53and it's the one that would keep him pretty.

00:17:5624 wins, no losses, no draws, 18 KOs.

00:17:59He's been brilliant in title fights, as has his opponent.

00:18:08Now let's go to ring announcer Michael Buffer

00:18:11for the official introduction.

00:18:14Ladies and gentlemen, from the MGM Grand Hotel

00:18:17and Casino of Las Vegas,

00:18:19Mr. Bob Arum and his top rank incorporated,

00:18:22along with the undisputed, undefeated king of beer, Budweiser,

00:18:27always proud to be your Bud,

00:18:29present The War.

00:18:31Two undefeated champions,

00:18:34two men who were recognized without dispute

00:18:36as the very best in their division,

00:18:39will face each other for the WBC

00:18:42Super Featherweight Championship of the World.

00:18:46Sanctioned by the Nevada State Athletic Commission,

00:18:50the three judges assigned to ringside

00:18:52scoring this bout on the 10-point bus system are

00:18:55Anik Hongtongkam,

00:18:57John Keen,

00:18:58and Jerry Roth.

00:19:00And when the bell rings,

00:19:01your referee in charge of the action,

00:19:03working for the 167th time in a world title bout

00:19:07for Richard Steele.

00:19:09And now for the thousands in attendance here

00:19:12at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas,

00:19:14and the millions watching around the world,

00:19:17somebody's O must go.

00:19:20Ladies and gentlemen,

00:19:22let's get ready to rumble!

00:19:32Introducing first,

00:19:33fighting out of the blue corner,

00:19:35wearing the camouflage trunks,

00:19:37and weighing in at an even 130 pounds.

00:19:40His professional record stands

00:19:42at a perfect 33 bounce.

00:19:4433 victories,

00:19:46including 27 knockouts,

00:19:48and he has captured two world titles.

00:19:50Tonight, he challenges for number three.

00:19:53From Sacramento, California,

00:19:56here is the undefeated former IDF,

00:20:00IBA,

00:20:01junior lightweight champion of the world,

00:20:05Diego Chico Corrales!

00:20:18And his opponent across the ring,

00:20:20fighting out of the red corner,

00:20:22wearing black trimmed with white,

00:20:24and also weighing in at an even 130 pounds.

00:20:27He comes to the ring also with

00:20:29a perfect professional record

00:20:31consisting of 24 bouts,

00:20:3324 victories,

00:20:35including 18 knockouts.

00:20:37Ladies and gentlemen,

00:20:39presenting the reigning and defending

00:20:42undefeated WBC Super Featherweight Champion

00:20:47of the world,

00:20:48pretty boy,

00:20:50Floyd Mayweather!

00:21:04Oh well,

00:21:09Do you feel good.

00:21:14OKAY, I SPOKE TO BOTH FIGHTERS IN THE DRESS ROOM.

00:21:23I'M CROSSING AGAIN, OBEY MY COMMANDS AT ALL TIME.

00:21:26SHAKE ANS, GOOD LUCK.

00:21:29THIS IS QUICKER AND SLICKER AGAINST BIGGER AND STRONGER.

00:21:35CORRALES HAS TO DO SOME DAMAGE IN THE EARLY ROUNDS

00:21:38IF HE HOPES TO BE ABLE TO GET TO MAYWEATHER

00:21:43IN THE LATER ROUNDS, MAYWEATHER HAS TO TRY TO DISCOURAGE

00:21:48HIS RELENTLESS AGGRESSION IN THESE EARLY ROUNDS.

00:21:51SO, GEORGE, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

00:21:52ONE FIGHTER GAINS A HALF DOZEN POUNDS SINCE WEIGHING IN,

00:21:57AND THE OTHER ONE GAINED 16 POUNDS.

00:22:00ADVANTAGE TO THE MUCH BIGGER CORRALES,

00:22:03OR ADVANTAGE TO THE SMALLER, QUICKER MAYWEATHER?

00:22:05IF YOU'VE GOT AN ADVANTAGE IN A RING,

00:22:06ANY ONE AND ALL ARE GOOD FOR YOU.

00:22:08IF YOU'RE BIGGER, THAT'S YOUR ADVANTAGE,

00:22:10MAKE SURE YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE AND USE YOUR ADVANTAGES.

00:22:13THE SMALLER FELLA, HE'S SMALLER, HE BETTER STAY SMALLER.

00:22:16MOVE YOUR WHOLE BODY OUT OF THE WAY.

00:22:18DON'T JUST MOVE YOUR HEAD.

00:22:20DON'T MOVE YOUR WEIGHTS. MOVE EVERYTHING.

00:22:22DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING THERE FOR THE CHAMPION TO HIT ON.

00:22:24CORRALES SAID TO US, ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE,

00:22:27I'LL BE GIVING THE FIRST THREE ROUNDS AWAY.

00:22:30HE ASSUMES THAT HE'LL LOSE THE FIRST THREE ROUNDS,

00:22:33BUT HE SAID DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME,

00:22:35I WANT TO BE BANGING ON HIS ARMS.

00:22:36I WANT TO BE HITTING HIM ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD.

00:22:38I WANT TO HIT HIM ON THE SHOULDER.

00:22:39I WANT TO CRACK HIM ON THE ELBOW.

00:22:41I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO WEAR HIM DOWN FOR THE LATE GOING.

00:22:45I THINK IF YOU BETTER TRY TO HIT THAT BIG BODY IN THE HEAD

00:22:48AS A BIGGER TARGET, IF YOU CAN'T HIT THOSE,

00:22:50YOU'LL NOT BE ABLE TO HIT HIS HAND, HIS ARMS.

00:22:54CORRALES ADJUSTING HIS TRUNKS,

00:22:55AND MAYWEATHER TOOK ADVANTAGE TO ATTACK.

00:22:58CORRALES LOOKING AT MAYWEATHER AS IF TO SAY,

00:23:00CAN'T YOU SEE I'M ADJUSTING MY TRUNKS?

00:23:03CORRALES IS BENDING DOWN.

00:23:05HE'S LOOKING DOWN AND IS UP TO MAYWEATHER TO MAKE SURE THAT HE THROWS HIS SHOT AND LOOPING

00:23:09TO CATCH HIM UP LIKE THAT.

00:23:10THERE YOU GO, THERE'S ONE.

00:23:12THIS IS THE TIME WHEN YOU LOOP.

00:23:17CORRALES SAID, MY JOB IS TO KEEP MY BODY LOW AND MY HANDS HIGH.

00:23:22THAT WAY I CAN TRY TO LIMIT THE TARGET FOR FLOYD.

00:23:25HE SAID, BUT I DON'T DELUDE MYSELF TO THINK THAT FLOYD WON'T SCORE.

00:23:28HE'S TOO QUICK.

00:23:29HE'S GONNA HIT ME A LOT.

00:23:31MAYWEATHER'S VERY SMART.

00:23:33HE JABS RIGHT IN THE PIT OF CORRALES' STOMACH.

00:23:37CORRALES SHOULDN'T ALLOW HIM TO BE HIT IN THE BODY THIS EARLY.

00:23:40CORRALES DEFLECTING FLOYD MAYWEATHER'S LEFT JAB ATTEMPT WITH HIS GLOVES.

00:23:46MAYWEATHER RESORTING TO HOOKS AND RIGHT-HAND LEADS.

00:23:49AND THERE'S THE JAB AGAIN TO THE PIT OF THE STOMACH, AS GEORGE POINTED OUT.

00:23:54IT'S LIKE A SYRINGE.

00:23:55IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, IF THE FIGHT GOES ON, SOMEBODY'S SUCKING EVERY JUICE FROM YOUR BODY,

00:24:00ESPECIALLY PUNCHERS.

00:24:02AND IF HE MOVES THAT JAB UP TO THE CHEST, IT'S EVEN BETTER.

00:24:06THEY SPARRED SEVERAL YEARS AGO AS AMATERS ON ONE OCCASION.

00:24:10MAYWEATHER SAID, OH, THAT WAS EASY WORK.

00:24:13IT WAS LIKE A CAKEWALK IN THE PARK.

00:24:14CORRALES SAID, HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY REMEMBER THAT?

00:24:17I DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT I DID IN SPARRING YESTERDAY, MUCH LESS SEVERAL YEARS AGO.

00:24:24THAT'S THE ONE THING PUNCHERS HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL OF.

00:24:30DON'T BECOME OVERCONFIDENT THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BOX SOME YOURSELF.

00:24:38BODY SHOTS FROM CORRALES, AND A RIGHT HAND UP STAIRS LANDS.

00:24:44YOU GOT THAT MUCH WEIGHT OF CORRALES HAS, HE IS PROBABLY 100% STRONGER THAN MAYWEATHER.

00:24:49YOU GOTTA USE YOUR SCRINT, THOUGH.

00:24:51YOU CAN'T USE IT JUST STANDING IN FRONT OF THE GUYS.

00:24:56THERE WERE MOMENTS FOR BOTH FIGHTERS IN ROUND ONE.

00:24:59DON'T GET ON THE ROPE.

00:25:00DON'T GET ON THE ROPE, BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED TO BE ON THE ROPE.

00:25:03ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS KEEP IN THE ROPE.

00:25:04YEAH, YOU WINNING.

00:25:05KEEP THE JAG WORKING.

00:25:06HE GOTTA KEEP COMING ANYWAY.

00:25:08ALL RIGHT.

00:25:09TAKE YOUR TIME.

00:25:10LET IT GO RUN IN.

00:25:11DON'T WORRY.

00:25:12I GOT EVERYTHING.

00:25:13CLOUD YOUR EYES, BOY.

00:25:14DEEP UP.

00:25:15STROID YOU KNOW.

00:25:16AND WHEN HE'S LOOPING WITH THE RIGHT HAND, YOU'RE LEFT GOOD.

00:25:21OKAY?

00:25:22WORKING BEHIND YOUR JAG, BABY.

00:25:23WORKING BEHIND TO KEEP THAT PRESSURE ON HIM.

00:25:26OKAY.

00:25:27HE COMING TO YOU.

00:25:28OKAY.

00:25:29HE GOT A KNEEK ALREADY.

00:25:31HE GOT A KNEEK ALREADY.

00:25:32BUT YOU GOTTA KEEP WORKING.

00:25:34YOU GOTTA KEEP WORKING.

00:25:35KEEP WORKING.

00:25:38KEEP WORKING.

00:25:40MICHAEL DIAZ, WHO WAS IN THE corner of every previous Mayweather fight,

00:25:56SAID THAT MAYWEATHER HAS A KNICK SOMEWHERE.

00:25:59I DON'T SEE IT, AS YET.

00:26:02looking for Corrales tonight

00:26:04because Corrales offered him a co-trainer job

00:26:06and therefore a 5% share of his purse.

00:26:09He said that Floyd Mayweather would have paid him

00:26:112% of his purse if he'd worked there.

00:26:13But he also said that Floyd was a total gentleman

00:26:15about the situation. This is business.

00:26:17When Miguel went to Floyd and explained what was going on,

00:26:20Floyd said, Miguel, you gotta go work for Diego

00:26:23under those circumstances. That's where the money is.

00:26:26You see, Corrales is trying to load up for one big shot.

00:26:29You gotta be careful. Three minutes,

00:26:31it's almost not a long time to be able to accumulate points.

00:26:35Corrales only 3.23 punches in the first round,

00:26:38and that doesn't fit the profile he established for us

00:26:41of wanting to be active early

00:26:43and put a little hurt on Mayweather.

00:26:45But he did land the one big right hand

00:26:47toward the end of the round.

00:26:49He's got the power, and he can turn it on anytime he wants.

00:26:51Now you know his corner told him

00:26:53to keep moving his head from side to side.

00:26:55He has to move his head down

00:26:57to Mayweather's size

00:26:59to move his head from side to side.

00:27:01He has to move his head down to side.

00:27:03He has to move his head down to side.

00:27:05He has to move his head down to side.

00:27:07He has to move his head down to side.

00:27:09There's no way that Mayweather can hit him

00:27:11if he stands up and keeps his hands up.

00:27:15But he wants to engage Mayweather,

00:27:17and as he tries to engage him,

00:27:19he'll get lower and give Floyd

00:27:21more of a chance to get at him.

00:27:23That's the best point made.

00:27:25And there's the right hand by Mayweather,

00:27:27the right hand lead partially blocked

00:27:29by Diego Corrales.

00:27:31Second round similar to the first

00:27:33in that Floyd is more active,

00:27:35and Corrales, as George pointed out,

00:27:37searching to land the one big shot.

00:27:39Good little poke with the left by Mayweather.

00:27:41He backs away and repeats the action.

00:27:43Just because a guy is smaller than you

00:27:45does not mean he can't hit.

00:27:47Now, all of Mayweather's opponents

00:27:49tend to say afterward,

00:27:51he hits harder than you think he does.

00:27:55Mayweather's very careful to throw his shots

00:27:57and get out of the way.

00:27:59He's not trying to mix it up.

00:28:03Good left hook by Floyd Mayweather.

00:28:05Well set up.

00:28:11Corrales reaching and missing with the left.

00:28:13All right, great.

00:28:15Step back.

00:28:17It's gonna be important for Corrales

00:28:19not to get frustrated

00:28:21as he searches and searches

00:28:23to try to find the elusive Mayweather Jr.

00:28:27You can't try to hit him with one shot.

00:28:29Throw three or four shots,

00:28:31and you'll land one.

00:28:33Corrales is trying to get one shot in.

00:28:37Round two has been an excellent round

00:28:39for Floyd Mayweather Jr.

00:28:41Don't hold him. Don't hold him.

00:28:42Don't hold him.

00:28:43Are you holding him down?

00:28:44Corrales to tempo at which he can score effectively.

00:28:52We haven't seen one left jab from the taller opponent yet.

00:28:56Good round for Mayweather.

00:28:58Corrales searching too hard and too long

00:29:02for the one big power shot.

00:29:04Floyd Mayweather Sr. was trying to offer some instruction

00:29:06across the top rope in the first round,

00:29:08but Uncle Roger and Floyd Jr.

00:29:10didn't get him any attention.

00:29:12Tell Little Floyd to keep doing what he's doing.

00:29:14Tell Little Floyd to keep doing what he's doing.

00:29:16Tell Little Floyd to keep doing what he's doing.

00:29:187th, 8th, 9th round, he'll be ready to go.

00:29:20Little Floyd!

00:29:22Keep doing what you're doing, Floyd.

00:29:24Keep doing what you're doing.

00:29:26Keep your hands up good.

00:29:287th, 8th, 9th round, he's ready to go.

00:29:30All right, now they do pay attention to him.

00:29:327th, 9th, 8th, he's ready to go.

00:29:34Both Roger and Floyd turning the list

00:29:36to what Floyd Sr. had to say.

00:29:38Keep your head moving.

00:29:40Don't go back to the rope.

00:29:42Okay.

00:29:44Keep him in the ring.

00:29:46Keep him in the ring.

00:29:48In round two by CompuBox Numbers,

00:29:54a wipeout for Mayweather.

00:29:5618 out of 40 for 45%.

00:29:58Corrales landing only three of 20 punches

00:30:01in the second round.

00:30:03So, Diego Corrales is gonna have to step up

00:30:05his activity level and find more ways

00:30:08to get at Floyd Mayweather.

00:30:11Corrales gets close,

00:30:13does not even throw one punch.

00:30:15Trying to land one big one.

00:30:17A guy like Mayweather, you get his confidence going,

00:30:19and you're gonna have trouble.

00:30:21Mayweather is working it now.

00:30:23As I said in the second round,

00:30:25he's developed a tempo at which he can score.

00:30:27He's moving in and out side to side,

00:30:29taking advantage of his opportunities

00:30:31when they're there,

00:30:32and Corrales can scarcely find a moment

00:30:34to throw a punch.

00:30:36I think you can give away

00:30:37too many rounds Corrales is doing right now.

00:30:39He's moving in and out side to side,

00:30:41taking advantage of his opportunities

00:30:42when they're there,

00:30:43and Corrales can scarcely find a moment

00:30:44to throw a punch.

00:30:45That's the only two-minute rounds

00:30:46Corrales is doing right now.

00:30:47You don't want to give away

00:30:48all of your rounds

00:30:49and then try to...

00:30:50and must have a knockout.

00:30:52Especially when you're in with a boxer.

00:30:55That's a good enough hook by Corrales.

00:30:58Probably the best punch

00:30:59of both fighters tonight.

00:31:06Corrales manages to stalk Mayweather

00:31:08into the corner.

00:31:09Protect yourself.

00:31:10Richard Steele calls in the pot.

00:31:13Steele told him to protect yourself

00:31:15at all times.

00:31:16That's what you're supposed to do.

00:31:22Corrales is trying to hit him back afterwards.

00:31:25You got to be first.

00:31:28Corrales dunking the left jab

00:31:30and missing with the left hook.

00:31:32Turns to look at the big screen

00:31:34as he goes back to the middle of the rim.

00:31:35Punting it out!

00:31:36Punting it out!

00:31:37Punting it out!

00:31:38Don't hold it!

00:31:39Step back!

00:31:40Step back!

00:31:41Corrales again looks up at the big screen.

00:31:44Not sure what he's trying to see up there.

00:31:50Once Mayweather established the left jab,

00:31:52he can do anything he want.

00:31:54Right now, he hasn't gotten it good yet.

00:31:56He has to withdraw it real quick and retreat.

00:32:03Good right hand.

00:32:04It was grazing,

00:32:05but it was almost way that Mayweather's head.

00:32:07And it's bothered Diego Corrales' left eye.

00:32:10He put the gloves up to touch the left eye

00:32:12and seems to be blinking for the moment.

00:32:15And incidentally,

00:32:16there's a clock on the big screen,

00:32:18so when Corrales looks at it,

00:32:20he's checking to see how much time is left in the round.

00:32:23Mayweather's on his toes.

00:32:27That's what you gotta do.

00:32:28You can't...

00:32:29Only time you rest is when you sit on that stool.

00:32:31Gotta keep your feet moving at all times.

00:32:33If Mayweather can do this at this rate for 12 rounds,

00:32:36it's gonna be awfully difficult

00:32:38for Diego Corrales to find a way to score.

00:32:44His back is against the road,

00:32:46as Adair told him not to.

00:32:47Now you see what the challenge facing Corrales is.

00:32:49Hard body shot with the right hand.

00:32:51And he said,

00:32:52I have to find a way to make him stop and fight.

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00:33:50Well, Corrales said he would have to give away

00:34:00the early rounds.

00:34:02But as you say, George,

00:34:04you can't give away too many of them.

00:34:06He's gonna have to get something done here soon.

00:34:08Like that.

00:34:10Corrales opened up with his left jab.

00:34:12This is the first time he was able to land one.

00:34:14He's only thrown 11 jabs in the first three rounds

00:34:16by CompuBox numbers.

00:34:18Harold, how'd you score him?

00:34:19Okay, Jim, 30 to 27,

00:34:21three rounds to nothing

00:34:22in favor of the champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.

00:34:25Jim, you call this ring generalship.

00:34:27He goes side to side,

00:34:28works that jab up and down,

00:34:30comes over the top with the right hand,

00:34:32fighting a beautiful fight so far,

00:34:33keeping Diego Corrales off balance.

00:34:35Diego just can't get off.

00:34:37Floyd landed all the clean, hard shots.

00:34:39So a shout-out for Mayweather so far.

00:34:43Corrales stalking and stalking.

00:34:45Mayweather moving and boxing.

00:34:48What you do when you're in there with a puncher,

00:34:50you let him throw two or three hard shots,

00:34:52then you get closer and start hitting,

00:34:54but wait because he has to collect his breathing first.

00:34:57And that's what Mayweather is doing.

00:34:59It's the old okey-doke.

00:35:02Mayweather landing the right hand, jabbing twice.

00:35:06Corrales trying to set up and get off.

00:35:08Mayweather firing and then moving.

00:35:11Back to the jab,

00:35:12to the body with that jab again,

00:35:13Mayweather does.

00:35:15Now he's gonna allow Corrales

00:35:17to throw the big shots,

00:35:18four or five,

00:35:19and then he's gonna get right back on him.

00:35:22Well-executed fight plan so far

00:35:24for Floyd Mayweather Jr.

00:35:26Floyd, stop it!

00:35:27Corrales may have to simply throw

00:35:29a little more cost into the wind

00:35:30and be more aggressive.

00:35:32Gotta use his jab.

00:35:33He's the taller guy,

00:35:34and he hasn't thrown any jab.

00:35:36Now he uses a jab to set up a right and a left.

00:35:40Left hand landed to the body.

00:35:45Mayweather comes back,

00:35:46sticking his own jab,

00:35:48and stopping Corrales' momentum.

00:35:52You can see now a combination of defense

00:35:54and offense by Floyd Mayweather.

00:35:56Looks like his dad and his uncle

00:35:57both made an impression tonight.

00:35:58Absolutely right.

00:35:59He's been brilliant both ways.

00:36:01You can't stop like that.

00:36:02Good left to the body by Corrales,

00:36:03right hand over the top.

00:36:04Mayweather comes back

00:36:05with an angry right hand of his own

00:36:06over the top.

00:36:07Good left hook to the body by Floyd.

00:36:09Corrales smiles at him,

00:36:10usually a sign that he's been a little shocked.

00:36:13Mayweather doesn't want to get

00:36:14into these big exchanges with Corrales.

00:36:16He's gonna get the best every time.

00:36:18Now he's getting right back on him,

00:36:19because he's expelled a lot of energy

00:36:21throwing those big shots.

00:36:22Mayweather can get him now.

00:36:24There you go.

00:36:25Good left hook and a right cross by Mayweather.

00:36:27Another sticking right lands upstairs.

00:36:28You always wait until the punch

00:36:29and throws four or five big shots.

00:36:31He loses his oxygen,

00:36:32and then you get back on him.

00:36:34Corrales going back to the body.

00:36:37If there's one thing Diego Corrales

00:36:39has gotten better at in round four,

00:36:41it is that he got to Mayweather's body

00:36:43a couple of times.

00:36:44But Lloyd Mayweather is still piling up the points.

00:36:47Yeah.

00:37:04I'm right.

00:37:07Match better this round.

00:37:09Match.

00:37:15Okay, pick it up a little bit more.

00:37:16Pick it up a little bit more.

00:37:17Okay, let's come on with the jab now.

00:37:18Okay, give me some combinations.

00:37:19Punches and bunches.

00:37:20Okay, you need to stay with your hands.

00:37:21Don't pull out from the punches like you've been doing.

00:37:22You're getting hit.

00:37:23Stay with your hands.

00:37:24Yeah.

00:37:25Okay.

00:37:26Just stay with it.

00:37:27Stay with it.

00:37:28Give me the right hand that we always talk about, this way and that way.

00:37:31Would you?

00:37:32Yeah.

00:37:33Okay.

00:37:34All right.

00:37:35All right.

00:37:36All right, come on.

00:37:37Let's go.

00:37:38Let's go to work, baby.

00:37:39So far, this fight resembles the Whitaker-Chavez fight.

00:37:42You need to stay with your hands.

00:37:43Don't pull out from the punches like you've been doing.

00:37:44You're getting hit.

00:37:45Stay with your hands.

00:37:46Yeah.

00:37:47Okay.

00:37:48Stay with your hands.

00:37:49Yeah.

00:37:50Okay.

00:37:51Yeah.

00:37:52Yeah.

00:37:53Yeah.

00:37:54Yeah.

00:37:55Yeah.

00:37:56Yeah.

00:37:57Yeah.

00:37:58Yeah.

00:37:59Yeah.

00:38:00Yeah.

00:38:01Yeah.

00:38:03Yeah.

00:38:04Yeah.

00:38:05Yeah.

00:38:06Yeah.

00:38:07Yeah.

00:38:08Yeah.

00:38:09It's not the Shavez fight in which the boxer is simply frustrating the banger.

00:38:15Corrales corner told him to start jabbing now.

00:38:17Use combinations.

00:38:18You just can't walk into this guy.

00:38:20He can hit also.

00:38:21Well, in round four by CompuBox numbers, Mayweather outlanded Corrales, 22-7.

00:38:27Diego's only averaging throwing 22 punches a round.

00:38:30And you heard his father-slash-trainer Ray Woods

00:38:34saying, step it up.

00:38:35You've got to start building the tempo

00:38:37to a higher level than it's been so far.

00:38:40Brilliantly executed fight plan by Floyd Mayweather.

00:38:43His quickness, speed, versatility,

00:38:47big differences in the bout so far.

00:38:50Here's a guy like Mayweather

00:38:51who's spent a lot of years in the gym with bigger guys,

00:38:54middleweights, light heavyweights.

00:38:55He's not intimidated with this big size.

00:38:57Corrales has got to put the hard power on him,

00:39:00hit him in his chest, bring in the combination,

00:39:03stop trying to throw one shot at a time.

00:39:08When he's able to put his punches together,

00:39:10Corrales' power is explosive.

00:39:13But when a man is as quick and elusive as Floyd Mayweather Jr.,

00:39:16it's extremely difficult to hit him

00:39:18with more than one shot at a time.

00:39:20And there's a one-two to the body.

00:39:21One-two to the body is not there.

00:39:22Those are good body shots by Corrales.

00:39:24That's where the business can be done.

00:39:25I don't know if he's going to do it.

00:39:27Mayweather goes right back to the body.

00:39:31If you're able to land two or three jabs

00:39:33to the stomach of your opponent,

00:39:36you can easily come back upstairs with a left hook

00:39:37because his body is...

00:39:39Right hand automatically goes down for protection.

00:39:43Hunter, get out!

00:39:45Right, step back, step back!

00:39:47Right, look!

00:39:48Go back, yes!

00:39:51Floyd Patterson would go down, go down to the body,

00:39:53and then fake like he's going and come back up to the head.

00:39:56Castell Amato steps in.

00:39:59What's up?

00:40:01What's up?

00:40:02Corrales missing big twice upstairs.

00:40:06Corrales is starting to pick up the speed a little bit

00:40:09because Mayweather's slowing up as far as output.

00:40:11He's not throwing shots at him or he's moving his body,

00:40:14but he's not throwing punches.

00:40:15Frank, step back!

00:40:17Those body shots around the side

00:40:18can accumulate and do some damage.

00:40:23If you're going to tie a guy up, you tie him up completely

00:40:25so he can't even touch you on the side.

00:40:27Hard right hand by Mayweather.

00:40:31Now Mayweather started to hit and move again.

00:40:35Corrales doesn't seem to be bothered so far

00:40:37by Mayweather's punching power,

00:40:38but if you hit a guy enough times,

00:40:41the punishment builds up.

00:40:44Mayweather hasn't tried to sit down on any shot yet.

00:40:49Everything is hit and move.

00:40:50And you heard even defensively minded Floyd Sr. saying,

00:40:53if you keep this up, you'll be ready to go

00:40:55by the seventh, eighth, and ninth rounds.

00:40:59Whoa!

00:41:01A little spin move.

00:41:02A little swelling around the right eye

00:41:05of Diego Corrales, and a happy night so far

00:41:08for the Mayweather family.

00:41:11Close your eyes when he put a boy in your face.

00:41:13You shut him down, you're looking real smart.

00:41:15Keep doing this.

00:41:1710th round, we're going to go whooping his ass for real.

00:41:21Keep fighting smart.

00:41:22This ain't nothing but the gym, OK?

00:41:23OK.

00:41:24You got to feel your legs good?

00:41:26You feel good.

00:41:26All right, let's keep working then.

00:41:28Shutting him out, baby.

00:41:29Keep the head moving.

00:41:31Keep the head moving.

00:41:32Keep the head moving, keep the jab rotating.

00:41:35Keep the head moving.

00:41:38Keep the head moving.

00:41:39Keep the head moving.

00:41:40Keep the head moving.

00:41:41Go ahead.

00:41:42You ain't around, you're working good.

00:41:43Working good.

00:41:44Don't worry about what you did over there.

00:41:45We're going to do some more of that.

00:41:46Don't worry about that.

00:41:47Take focus on the man.

00:41:48And if I put so much water on the man,

00:41:50don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't,

00:41:51don't, don't, don't, don't, don't move.

00:41:53No thanks, man.

00:41:54You're going to move forward in his mouth.

00:41:55Go ahead.

00:41:56That takes a lot of, out of a puncher to miss like that.

00:42:00Joe Lewis famously said, you can run, but you can't hide.

00:42:05Mayweather is running, hiding, and hitting.

00:42:11Body shot by Corrales.

00:42:12Those right hands to the body can really pay some dividends

00:42:15if this fight goes beyond 10 rounds.

00:42:18In five rounds in the fight, Chico Corrales

00:42:20still averaging only 25 punches thrown per round.

00:42:23It's pretty hard to find the target.

00:42:26Mayweather landing close to half of his shots,

00:42:28working at a measured tempo that works for him.

00:42:32Now Corrales begins to get more active

00:42:34as Mayweather's feet start to move just a little less.

00:42:39Hard left hook upstairs by Floyd Mayweather.

00:42:41Hunter, get out!

00:42:42So quick on the triggers.

00:42:45This is the, this is the Uncle Roger part of Mayweather.

00:42:51He's also really brave.

00:42:53I wouldn't be that brave in there

00:42:54with a puncher like Corrales.

00:42:56Well, he's so quick that he feels he has the advantage

00:43:00outside or inside, and that sometimes he can't stand

00:43:03and deliver, George.

00:43:10Diego being bothered by his right eye.

00:43:12You see him pawing it with the glove from moment to moment.

00:43:17Here when you see a fighter's in good shape,

00:43:19and he takes his feet all around the ring like that

00:43:22and moves his whole body.

00:43:23Body shot by Corrales.

00:43:26For Corrales' crowd got excited, Mayweather moved away.

00:43:31Mayweather goes right, right, and then he goes left, left.

00:43:34It's a rhythm that throws his opponent out.

00:43:35See the left?

00:43:38Floyd still landing two or three,

00:43:41where every one punch landed by Corrales.

00:43:44This is an exciting fight when you see

00:43:46two different kinds of boxers

00:43:48executing perfectly with one out to do,

00:43:50but the other puncher's just not using his left jab.

00:43:54Big left hook to the body by Mayweather.

00:43:57Stunned Corrales.

00:43:59Stop.

00:44:09Mayweather keeps his eyes,

00:44:10the whole body of Corrales.

00:44:12Shoulders, head.

00:44:15That's why he's able to just run out of the way.

00:44:17He see it coming.

00:44:22Yeah, Corrales...

00:44:23Corrales thought for a moment that he had him,

00:44:25And then, boom, just like that, Mayweather was gone,

00:44:28and he stepped back in to land,

00:44:30three punches, and move away again.

00:44:32Remember, it's always after Corellas has thrown

00:44:34some hard shots to take the wind out of him himself.

00:44:40While he's trying to regroup himself, you jump on him,

00:44:43and that's what Mayweather's doing.

00:44:46Pretty boy Floyd is pretty strong tonight.

00:44:51And he whacks Diego Corralas on the chin with a left hook.

00:44:55Well, now, you got to be careful about following a guy

00:44:57who has knockouts on his records also.

00:44:59You got to follow him with punches.

00:45:01Everybody who faces him says that Mayweather

00:45:04is a deceptive puncher.

00:45:10Filthy wrist!

00:45:12Now come out, Durkin!

00:45:14Durkin, filthy wrist!

00:45:16Durkin, you ain't giving no thing yet!

00:45:17How you feel?

00:45:25Good?

00:45:26Deep breath?

00:45:27I keep doing it.

00:45:28Swatching over.

00:45:29Keep going to the bottom.

00:45:30You're hurting a good jab, and you keep checking with the hook.

00:45:32That's what I'm talking about.

00:45:33Throw in the right hand.

00:45:35Now I want you to frame a little more.

00:45:36Frame a little more.

00:45:37Just drop your right hand to the bottom.

00:45:39It's time to go, baby.

00:45:40It's time to go.

00:45:41It's time to go.

00:45:50Mayweather fights in a tradition of boxing and quick-handedness

00:45:58that goes back in Michigan all the way to fighters like Figueroa Robinson.

00:46:08Oh!

00:46:11Well, there's a brilliant start to round seven.

00:46:15Six, seven, eight, eight.

00:46:17The super-quickness of Floyd Mayweather produces a knockdown

00:46:20to begin the seventh round.

00:46:24And if Corrales had any thought whatsoever

00:46:27of trying to come back and win a decision,

00:46:29that should put him into that.

00:46:30He's lost the first six rounds.

00:46:32Now he's facing a two-point round in the seventh.

00:46:39Mayweather now stops to recollect himself now.

00:46:42That's what you want to do with a puncher.

00:46:44He gets back on his feet.

00:46:45He's gonna hurt you.

00:46:46Get your legs back under you.

00:46:48Take a deep breath,

00:46:49and do all over again what you did first.

00:46:52He's gonna hurt you.

00:46:54He's gonna hurt you.

00:46:55He's gonna hurt you.

00:46:56He's gonna hurt you.

00:46:57Corrales bends down and just goes right into the...

00:46:58to the left hook of Mayweather.

00:47:00He knew coming in that Mayweather had a quickness advantage.

00:47:03I'm just not sure how many of us expected it to be this dramatic

00:47:06and this graphic.

00:47:07I mean, this has been a wipeout,

00:47:09and a brilliant performance by Floyd.

00:47:12You wonder if Corrales,

00:47:14in getting back down to 130 pounds...

00:47:15Oh, no. Oh, no.

00:47:17There's been a masterful job here.

00:47:19This has been a job of pure boxing, pure boxing.

00:47:23So it doesn't matter which conviction anybody's in.

00:47:26I agree with George.

00:47:27As much as it is a disadvantage

00:47:30for Corrales to have to come down to 130,

00:47:34it doesn't look the way this fight is going.

00:47:36It would make any difference at 135 or 140.

00:47:41I think I have to agree with that.

00:47:44At any of these weights,

00:47:45Mayweather would be quicker and more skillful.

00:47:49He's got to do it.

00:47:50Right.

00:47:51Corrales still has the power.

00:47:54So we won't count him out yet.

00:47:56No, no.

00:47:57All you got to do is get Mayweather too overconfident,

00:48:00start trying to mix it up with this puncher,

00:48:02and Mayweather can be getting off the canvas himself.

00:48:06And he's got to find a way to apply the power

00:48:08if he's going to change the course of the fight,

00:48:10and he hasn't gotten anywhere near it,

00:48:12throwing an average of less than 25 punches per round.

00:48:16And he said, if you want to be a good fighter,

00:48:18forget about the left jab.

00:48:19If you want to be a great fighter,

00:48:21that's the best punch in boxing.

00:48:24Corrales has not used a jab all night.

00:48:26And the second knockdown of the round for Mayweather.

00:48:29And the accumulated punishment by Corrales has left,

00:48:33or by Mayweather, has left Corrales.

00:48:35There is no three-knockdown rule.

00:48:38There is no three-knockdown rule.

00:48:41There are 20 seconds left in the round.

00:48:44And there's the third knockdown of the round.

00:48:49And there's the third knockdown of the round.

00:48:54Four, five, six, seven, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight.

00:48:59And you cannot be saved by the bell,

00:49:00but it looks as though Corrales will have a chance

00:49:01to at least make it out of the round.

00:49:06Three knockdowns in the seventh round

00:49:09by Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

00:49:11Richard Steele did a great job that round.

00:49:15Oh, I bet you did a jab.

00:49:16Corrales, you want to fight,

00:49:17or you don't want to fight?

00:49:18How you doing, Diego?

00:49:20I'm fine.

00:49:21Are you all right?

00:49:21I'm fine.

00:49:22Okay.

00:49:23That's the state-commissioned doctor

00:49:25who asked Corrales how he was doing,

00:49:26and if he wanted to keep fighting.

00:49:27Yeah.

00:49:28That's your last round.

00:49:29I'm going to let you come out

00:49:30if you don't throw punches.

00:49:31I'm going to start the fight myself.

00:49:32Me and your daddy,

00:49:33we already decided to start the fight.

00:49:35Oh, you fight, oh, we start the fight.

00:49:37Okay?

00:49:38You got it?

00:49:39You are with us or not?

00:49:40You are with us?

00:49:41Here are the knockdowns, Larry.

00:49:42The first one was right at the bell of the first round,

00:49:45caught him by surprise.

00:49:47But the later ones,

00:49:48the first one was right at the bell of the first round,

00:49:51caught him by surprise.

00:49:53But the later ones, it appeared that Corrales was okay

00:49:57and aware of everything going on.

00:50:00But he's in a position now in this fight

00:50:02where he has to start going from being relentless

00:50:05to being reckless.

00:50:07And against a sharp shooter like Mayweather,

00:50:10that may not be the best way to fight.

00:50:13Come on.

00:50:14And doesn't look like Corrales has a lot of legs left.

00:50:16You heard Diego, or I should say Miguel Diaz,

00:50:19you heard Miguel Diaz saying,

00:50:21you're gonna stop the fight

00:50:23if you don't start throwing some punches.

00:50:25So he throws punches,

00:50:27but takes punches in return.

00:50:30Always gotta be careful with that puncher.

00:50:32Corrales, if he can't do anything else, he can punch.

00:50:35And here he is, coming off three knockdowns

00:50:38in the last round, and he's still coming forward.

00:50:40And he's still coming forward.

00:50:42And he's still coming forward.

00:50:44And there's a quick left hook by Corrales

00:50:47that momentarily sends Mayweather back to him.

00:50:50He follows Mayweather around not doing anything,

00:50:53just walking straight into him

00:50:54without throwing a punch.

00:50:56You've gotta throw a punch.

00:50:59Mayweather with a little smile on his face.

00:51:01Break! Break! Break!

00:51:02Keep him in front, okay?

00:51:03It's been easy work so far, that's for sure.

00:51:05Corrales has been embarrassed here,

00:51:08and it was on that embarrassment

00:51:11that Miguel Diaz tried to play when he said,

00:51:13your dad and I are gonna stop this fight.

00:51:16Every time Mayweather throws his left hook,

00:51:18Corrales drops his right hand.

00:51:20Drops both hands.

00:51:21I've never seen anything like that.

00:51:23You go down, you take your hands with you.

00:51:27And now Corrales gets in a shot.

00:51:30Showing his determination.

00:51:32His corner told him, fight or we're gonna throw in the towel.

00:51:39So far, this counts as a hell of a rally

00:51:43by Corrales coming off that last round.

00:51:46Can't question his courage.

00:51:47That's for sure.

00:51:49You drop your hand.

00:51:50You drop your hand.

00:51:55Another laser on his hand.

00:51:56It's so close, okay, Corrales.

00:51:58Dropped it right here, this is George.

00:51:59Never seen anything like it.

00:52:01You drop your hand.

00:52:02Keep your hands up.

00:52:03He's got his hands-up.

00:52:11Morales adjusting his trunks,

00:52:13his hands down on his legs.

00:52:15Mayweather elected not to fire at that moment.

00:52:19Larry, how good is he, Mayweather?

00:52:22Well, he seems to be almost, you know,

00:52:25a nine-second sprinter

00:52:27fighting against ten-second sprinters

00:52:31in all of his fights.

00:52:33He just has a side,

00:52:35quite a side from his skill level.

00:52:38It's his quickness level

00:52:40that puts him into a different dimension.

00:52:45The most optimistic comparisons

00:52:48are between Mayweather Jr. and Ray Leonard

00:52:51because of the combination of speed and power.

00:52:54These detractors compare him more to Brunell Whitaker.

00:52:58He has the left jab now.

00:53:00He's knocking his head back with a left jab,

00:53:02and he's the shoulder opponent.

00:53:04You know, in a fight that this has been compared

00:53:07to Leonard and Hearns,

00:53:09at this point in the fight,

00:53:11Hearns started to box and use his reach.

00:53:14Corrales either can't or won't do that.

00:53:17Match where does he run?

00:53:18Match where does he run?

00:53:19Match where does he run?

00:53:20You see, you can do it.

00:53:22You can do it if you want.

00:53:23You can do it if you want it.

00:53:24He caught him with some punches that round.

00:53:26But if you follow, follow, follow,

00:53:28you don't do nothing.

00:53:29It's very hard for you.

00:53:30You got to throw your punches, chico.

00:53:32Okay?

00:53:33Take a deep breath.

00:53:34Put the end jab and double up on your hook.

00:53:36Okay.

00:53:37All right?

00:53:38Sometimes throw your right hand

00:53:39and let me show you to the hook.

00:53:41Okay?

00:53:42You're fighting real smart.

00:53:44Smart boxing.

00:53:45You're desperate.

00:53:46All you do is desperate,

00:53:48so keep your eyes focused, okay?

00:53:49Okay.

00:53:50Off the jab.

00:53:51Off the jab.

00:53:52Don't do nothing like the jab.

00:53:53Okay?

00:53:54Okay, let's fight.

00:53:55Off the jab.

00:53:56Corrales is achieving an embarrassing CompuBox distinction.

00:54:01According to CompuBox numbers,

00:54:02he's landed in single digits in all eight rounds.

00:54:05He'll set a record at this rate.

00:54:07Reggie Johnson against Roy Jones landed in single digits

00:54:09in seven of 12 rounds.

00:54:10Holyfield versus Lennox Lewis in their first fight

00:54:12did the same thing.

00:54:13He did the same.

00:54:14He did the same.

00:54:15He did the same.

00:54:16He did the same.

00:54:17He did the same.

00:54:18He did the same.

00:54:19He did the same.

00:54:20He did the same.

00:54:21He did the same.

00:54:22He did the same.

00:54:23He did the same.

00:54:24And the same.

00:54:25And the same guy,

00:54:27John and Alex Lewis in their first fight,

00:54:28did so in six of 12 rounds.

00:54:29Harold, how do you have it through eight?

00:54:30Okay, Jim.

00:54:3180 to 70.

00:54:32Eight rounds to nothing Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

00:54:33Jim, I gotta tell you,

00:54:34I'm terribly impressed.

00:54:35I don't think I've seen an exhibition of boxing

00:54:36like this since Willie Pep.

00:54:37This kid is unbelievable.

00:54:38Great legs, great speed,

00:54:39unbelievable ring generalship.

00:54:40I mean, he's got tremendous presence in that ring.

00:54:42Floyd Mayweather knows where he is every minute

00:54:43of this fight,

00:54:44and he's murdering Diego Corrales

00:54:46There's no jabs and overhand rights.

00:54:48And by the way, Jim, the free knockdown round,

00:54:51I went 10-7.

00:54:52Most judges will not go below 10-7

00:54:55because it puts the other guy too far out of the fight.

00:55:00He rocked him again with that left hook.

00:55:03Yep.

00:55:04Larry Merchant has seen more championship great fighters

00:55:09than anyone at this table.

00:55:11And for him to say Willie Peltz, what do you think?

00:55:13Well, he's gonna judge, too.

00:55:16You know, it's difficult to make comparisons

00:55:20because you have to talk over a long career.

00:55:24We're seeing him as a young man.

00:55:27And right now, he just has otherworldly quickness.

00:55:31And the difference between athletes

00:55:34is usually in their degree of quickness and speed.

00:55:40This is almost like a Tiger Woods kind of performance

00:55:44against the field.

00:55:50This is a guy who knows what he's talking about.

00:55:52He's seen it.

00:55:55You can't get lazy.

00:55:56Mayweather better beware.

00:55:58Let him lose a round, George.

00:56:00Stop being so nervous about him.

00:56:01But he'd lose a round.

00:56:03He could lose the fight with this powerful guy.

00:56:05Oh, but that left jab rocked his head back.

00:56:10He could lose the last four rounds on two-point rounds,

00:56:14and he'd still win the fight by Harold's scorecard.

00:56:17So I think he's pretty well in control of this.

00:56:21Here's a guy that's been knocked down more than once.

00:56:24He continuously follows this guy around the ring.

00:56:26And after throwing enough punches

00:56:28to satisfy Miguel Diaz and Ray Woods in the eighth round,

00:56:31Corrales goes back in the ninth round

00:56:33to walking around and looking at Mayweather.

00:56:36He hasn't been able to get off.

00:56:38Can't seem to zero in and get his antenna set.

00:56:44That was what Mayweather doesn't want to do.

00:56:48You want to keep your feet moving, not your shoulders.

00:56:50Good body shot by Corrales.

00:57:00Ten seconds to go in the ninth.

00:57:02Nine minutes left in the fight after this.

00:57:04Time running out on Diego Corrales

00:57:07as he desperately tries to find...

00:57:09Something that will work

00:57:11against the super-brilliant Floyd Mayweather Jr.

00:57:15You see, when you're using the jab,

00:57:21when you're using the jab first,

00:57:23it's much easier for you.

00:57:24I'm giving you all of this.

00:57:26Okay, baby.

00:57:27Jab, jab, right hand, like who,

00:57:29and jab again, and jab.

00:57:30Okay?

00:57:43The streak continues for Corrales.

00:57:45You see, Corrales, single digits landed

00:57:46in every one of the nine rounds.

00:57:48I know we do.

00:57:49We need to stop him.

00:57:50We need to stop him.

00:57:51Yeah.

00:57:52So move your hands.

00:57:53I'm doing it right.

00:57:55Pull your eyes.

00:57:56You don't like it downstairs.

00:57:57Keep going downstairs.

00:57:59And after throwing only 25 punches in the ninth round,

00:58:03you heard Corrales say to his corner,

00:58:06I'm giving you guys everything I've got.

00:58:10That's frustration.

00:58:15So Floyd Mayweather has, in all likelihood,

00:58:20won every round.

00:58:21Most rounds he's dominated.

00:58:22He knocked Diego Corrales down three times in the seventh round.

00:58:26The most important punch for Mayweather's been that left jab

00:58:31right in the pit of the stomach.

00:58:36Makes his taller opponent bend down more and more to his left.

00:58:40The odds were close.

00:58:42Green side experts were probably pretty close to evenly divided

00:58:46as to who is going to win the fight.

00:58:47And Mayweather's just walking away with it

00:58:49as he pushes Diego down.

00:58:53And Richard Steele says, don't push.

00:59:03Mayweather has a tendency occasionally to use his elbows.

00:59:07Richard Steele caught on to it instantly.

00:59:09Said, no, no, no, no, no forewarn.

00:59:11That's a good one.

00:59:13That's a good one.

00:59:14That's a good one.

00:59:15That's a good one.

00:59:16That's a good one.

00:59:17That's a good one.

00:59:18That's a good one.

00:59:19Quick left hook and a walk away by Mayweather

00:59:22as Corrales tried to close in.

00:59:24You can't, you've got to throw punches

00:59:26if you're going to walk forward.

00:59:27Just throw, just let the jab just fly out.

00:59:29Even if you miss him, just throw it.

00:59:35Another little left hook.

00:59:37Didn't even seem like that big a punch.

00:59:39Corrales' legs are just shot.

00:59:40From the multiple punches he's taken.

00:59:43Five, six, seven, eight.

00:59:45And Diego pulls himself up by the ropes.

00:59:47He doesn't look like he has much left, Jim.

00:59:50No, he's...

00:59:52If he went down on that punch,

00:59:53I think he has very little left.

00:59:57That's the fourth knockdown of the fight.

01:00:03Corrales with the right hand to the ribcage.

01:00:08It's like playing with a cobra.

01:00:10You can be in control, but all he takes is one or two good shots.

01:00:15That's it.

01:00:18Right hand, another knockdown.

01:00:19Fifth knockdown of the fight.

01:00:20Three, four, five, five, five, six, one.

01:00:21Fifth knockdown of Corrales' career.

01:00:23Another mark of what a performance it's been.

01:00:25Ray Woods is up on the apron.

01:00:27That's going to be the end of the fight.

01:00:28And Corrales goes over and nearly accosts his dad

01:00:33for having stopped the fight.

01:00:35Corrales can come back with 130 of them.

01:00:38And Alfred Steele is holding Kiko Corrales

01:00:41to try to keep him away from his own corner man,

01:00:44because Diego is so upset that his trainer and father,

01:00:49Ray Woods, elected to stop the fight.

01:00:51He can come back at 140 without all his strength

01:00:54and be a better fighter, and it takes a father to know that.

01:00:57Don't lose it all this time.

01:00:59For what?

01:01:00You've done your best.

01:01:01This guy's too quick.

01:01:03Catch him 10 years from the day when he's slow,

01:01:05when his legs are slow.

01:01:07You see the volatility of the young man,

01:01:11and somewhat irrationally, he argues.

01:01:13It's another one. It's another one.

01:01:15And look at Floyd Jr.

01:01:17as the peacemaker for once.

01:01:19Well, Floyd Sr. had it right,

01:01:23but he jumped up after the first round

01:01:25and said, you'll get him in the ninth or tenth.

01:01:27Yeah, he sure did, didn't he?

01:01:29Floyd Sr. called it perfectly.

01:01:32Cash is green.

01:01:33Mayweather's cut man yelling at Corrales,

01:01:35that's your daddy.

01:01:41These guys faced extraordinary pressures

01:01:43coming into this fight.

01:01:45And for the way Floyd Jr. handled everything

01:01:48that's surrounded him in the past several months

01:01:50and handled himself in there tonight,

01:01:51he deserves nothing but the highest compliment.

01:01:54We know how you feel.

01:01:55You got to give it to them.

01:01:56The guy used the ring,

01:01:58just as Harold Letterman would always say,

01:02:00ring generalship.

01:02:02I've never seen it like that in a young fighter

01:02:04with so few fights.

01:02:05Never seen it.

01:02:06Extremely disappointed, Diego Corrales.

01:02:09And there's the scene.

01:02:12There have been so many differences

01:02:13between the two of them.

01:02:15When, uh, but there's the love.

01:02:17When Cassius Clay, who became Muhammad Ali,

01:02:20out pointed Sonny Liston in the same fashion

01:02:22with so few professional fights,

01:02:23people said, can't be.

01:02:26Okay, man.

01:02:27A young man with courage can do a lot of things.

01:02:29Let's get, let's get, let's get,

01:02:30let's get with a lot of this stuff, man.

01:02:31And you get to hear, do it right, man, okay?

01:02:34That is Floyd Mayweather Sr. on the right.

01:02:36Floyd Mayweather Jr. on the left.

01:02:38You got to have private things going for you, man.

01:02:39Their differences extremely well publicized.

01:02:43Less credit is paid to the truth of this.

01:02:46My man.

01:02:47Get that belt, baby.

01:02:48Get this belt right here, Chad.

01:02:49Get this belt right here, Chad.

01:02:51Okay.

01:02:52This was the best fight.

01:02:53Let's go back and take a little bit more of a look

01:03:01at what happened in the 10th round.

01:03:04There's the little left hook that put Corrales down

01:03:06for the first of the two knockdowns in the 10th.

01:03:10Then right hand landed flush on the cheek.

01:03:13Corrales again unable to keep his feet.

01:03:15And it was at this moment that Corrales' father

01:03:18and trainer Ray Woods stepped up on the apron.

01:03:20You see Diego trying to tell his trainer father, Ray Woods,

01:03:24not to be on the apron, and then reacting angrily

01:03:27as Ray Woods makes it clear that he wants the fight stopped

01:03:30at that moment.

01:03:30It takes a father to have that kind of courage

01:03:32to get up there and do that.

01:03:35You can lose your job.

01:03:36He gets up, but he's hurt.

01:03:38You can lose your job, but you can't lose your fathership.

01:03:40I say father.

01:03:41If you want to get totally technical about it,

01:03:43Ray Woods is his stepfather, but Diego says,

01:03:45that's my dad.

01:03:47That's the dad I've known.

01:03:48And so, in reality, that's their relationship.

01:03:50There's no such thing as a stepfather when you love him.

01:03:52In reality, they're father and son.

01:03:53They're father and son.

01:03:54He loves it.

01:03:56We all need a dad like that.

01:03:59Let's go to ring announcer Michael Buffer

01:04:00for the official particulars on a brilliant performance.

01:04:03Ladies and gentlemen, referee Richard Steele

01:04:05calls a halt to the bout.

01:04:07The official time, two minutes and 19 seconds

01:04:10of round number 10.

01:04:12The winner and still the reigning undefeated

01:04:16WBC super featherweight champion of the world,

01:04:20pretty boy Floyd Mayweather.

01:04:24Final CompuBox numbers, this may be maybe the biggest CompuBox landslide we've covered,

01:04:45certainly in a hotly anticipated championship fight.

01:04:48Total punches landed, Mayweather landing 160 more, throwing 209 more,

01:04:55and landing at a connect percentage, more than half of his punches.

01:05:01Jabs.

01:05:02Well, Diego Corrales only threw 47 of them and landed seven, and if there was a deficiency in his fight plan, there it is.

01:05:10George Foreman pointing out over and over that as the taller man and the bigger puncher, it was incumbent on Corrales to try to set up his power stuff with his jab, and he just didn't do it.

01:05:20Let's go to Larry Merchant in the ring with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

01:05:27All right, thank you, Jim.

01:05:28Congratulations on a great fight.

01:05:29Floyd, what didn't you do that you wanted to do in this fight?

01:05:34Well, first of all, I want to thank God for this victory, and like I said before, I just listened to my corner, listened to my trainer, Roger Mayweather.

01:05:40My dad, he also had a lot of input on it, of course.

01:05:43He was my trainer also.

01:05:43What part of you was your father, and what part of you was Roger in there tonight?

01:05:47I probably was using defense like my dad and using my jab like my Uncle Roger, but you know what I'm saying?

01:05:51It's just a good feeling to be where I'm at today.

01:05:54Did he give you any problems at all?

01:05:57Diego Corrales, he's a great fighter, and I think he can be champion if he move up.

01:06:01He got a lot of potential, but, you know, tonight just was my night to shine.

01:06:05I told people, you know what I'm saying, Floyd Mayweather's ranked number one pound for pound.

01:06:09What did all of the bad blood between the two of you have to do in this fight?

01:06:15Just to show the world who's the best 130-pounder in the world.

01:06:17He said he's the best, I say I'm the best.

01:06:20It got pretty personal, though.

01:06:22It got a little personal, but, you know what I'm saying, this is a business.

01:06:24I'm here to sell myself.

01:06:25This is pretty boy Floyd.

01:06:26I want to show the world that I'm the best out there pound for pound.

01:06:28I'm the best 130-pounder, so, you know, he said he's the best.

01:06:31I said I'm the best, so we come together and see who's the best.

01:06:33Was he clearly vulnerable to your left hook?

01:06:37Is that what you saw that you could get him with?

01:06:39He's not.

01:06:40It was just my night.

01:06:41You know what I'm saying?

01:06:42I took my time.

01:06:42Well, most nights are your night, but why, in particular, in this fight, was your left

01:06:48hook so effective, as we saw there?

01:06:50Because, I mean, this is a shot I've been working on in camp, in training.

01:06:53I'm working on this shot.

01:06:53I'm knocking everybody out in camp with that same shot.

01:06:55So, do you feel, as you get older, that you're getting bolder?

01:07:02No, I told you before, I can punch.

01:07:03I'm a big puncher, but, you know, I like to just take my time.

01:07:06If the knockout comes, it comes, but I'd like to win the best way I know how, and that's

01:07:09to listen.

01:07:09Are you determined to stay at 130, where there are other high-profile fighters, or

01:07:16do you want to move up in weight to challenge some of the 135-pounders?

01:07:20Well, you know, I would like to fight Prince Nassim.

01:07:22Hopefully, we can meet at 128, or he can come up to 130.

01:07:26We can fight, or I can fight the winner of Castamayor.

01:07:29Prince Nassim isn't going to fight.

01:07:30Well, everybody might want to see that fight.

01:07:31After he saw this, it ain't going to happen.

01:07:33No, I really want to fight Prince Nassim, but I know you don't want to fight.

01:07:36But hopefully, I can fight the winner of Castamayor and Free Test.

01:07:38What did you talk to about with Diego and the father after the fight?

01:07:46I told Diego, you know what I'm saying, let the trash talk and all that garbage we went

01:07:50through.

01:07:50When we leave that in the past, I respect you as a fighter, and hopefully, you respect

01:07:54me, and let's go on with our careers.

01:07:55Do you think his father did the right thing by stopping it when he did?

01:07:59I think so, because this is a deadly sport.

01:08:03This is boxing.

01:08:03This is a brutal sport, and he wanted to be around to fight again, so his father done the

01:08:07right thing.

01:08:08Thank you very much, Floyd.

01:08:09Again, congratulations.

01:08:10Thank you, Mark.

01:08:11Thank you, Mark.

01:08:12All right.

01:08:13Thank you, Larry.

01:08:14And one final look at the touching scene as the Mayweathers of Grand Rapids, Michigan,

01:08:20now of Las Vegas, demonstrate that their reconciliation is complete.

01:08:26Well, George Foreman, Harold Letterman compared Floyd Mayweather Jr. to Willie Pepp and other

01:08:33boxing critics.

01:08:34Some writers have compared him to Ray Leonard, Brunell Whitaker.

01:08:39You mentioned Muhammad Ali's performance against Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

01:08:43Everybody thought it had to be a robbery.

01:08:45It had to be a fake.

01:08:46But he outboxed him because he was brave and he was quick.

01:08:49He moved feet and head, not just head.

01:08:51But it's Larry Merchant who can really judge, because this guy's seen more world title matches

01:08:55than, I guess, the two of us together.

01:08:58Let us, when he comes in, ask him the same.

01:08:59How can you compare him with the best ones?

01:09:01Floyd Jr. talks about pound for pound.

01:09:03The pound for pound race centers around Shane Mosley, Felix Trinidad, Roy Jones.

01:09:08Is Floyd on that level now?

01:09:10Well, there's a guy by the name of Page in the boxing ring until they beat him in that

01:09:14147 class.

01:09:15Nobody's pound for pound until they fight Page.

01:09:17All right.

01:09:18James Page.

01:09:19George throws that into the mix as well.

01:09:21Let's go back up to Larry in the ring with Diego Corrales.

01:09:23Again, thank you, Jim.

01:09:27Chico, just not your night.

01:09:30Tell us about it.

01:09:32I mean, for what he came out, he fought a good fight.

01:09:34You know, he hands down, he did what he was supposed to do.

01:09:38He boxed very intelligently.

01:09:41You know, was he just too quick for you?

01:09:47I mean, I don't know if he was too quick.

01:09:48I mean, he just, you know, he fought a smart fight.

01:09:51The guy did what he was supposed to do.

01:09:52He caught me coming in.

01:09:55He waited for me to get off and then waited until his combination was going.

01:09:58That was a smart fight.

01:09:59Was there anything you did that you thought might present an opening?

01:10:04Any time you felt that something happened at the end of your punches?

01:10:08No, you know, I just kept, all I knew was keep on trucking, don't get frustrated, keep going,

01:10:13keep coming forward.

01:10:14That's what I did, you know.

01:10:16Never thought about it.

01:10:17You were extremely angry at your father for stopping the fight at that moment.

01:10:24Yeah.

01:10:24He's thinking not only of tonight, but of the rest of your career.

01:10:27How do you feel now with a few minutes under your belt?

01:10:31I'm still angry.

01:10:32I feel like I'm a champion that deserves to finish out a fight on his feet or on his back.

01:10:38And, you know, that's the way I wanted to go out.

01:10:40I don't feel anybody has a right to stop the fight as long as I'm getting up, as long as

01:10:44I am still sitting.

01:10:46Tell us what you're seeing here at the end of the fight.

01:10:48I got hit with a clean shot.

01:10:51You see, I'm still coherent.

01:10:53I mean, I look at him and, you know, I let him know I'm okay.

01:10:56I mean, I'm all the way coherent.

01:10:57I just, uh...

01:10:58Was it a point of pride for you to finish the fight?

01:11:04You know, uh...

01:11:05I just feel I'm better than being stopped.

01:11:08You know, I work damn hard, um...

01:11:12All the way around.

01:11:13There's no way I should be stopped.

01:11:15I get up.

01:11:16I was the first time I'm ever being down.

01:11:17I got back up.

01:11:18I kept getting back up.

01:11:20I was clear every time I got back to my feet, um...

01:11:23Nobody had the right to stop the fight.

01:11:25Nobody.

01:11:26I don't care, you know, what the concern is.

01:11:28I am on my feet.

01:11:29I'm up every time.

01:11:30I kept getting back to my feet.

01:11:31I should not have been stopped.

01:11:33I don't know why they stopped the fight.

01:11:34You know, let me go do what I do.

01:11:35There were two more rounds after this fight.

01:11:38Um...

01:11:39I can make it through two more rounds.

01:11:41You're plainly devastated by what happened tonight.

01:11:44Yeah, uh...

01:11:45Will you come back from this?

01:11:48You know, I don't know.

01:11:49I don't know.

01:11:52I don't know what I'm gonna do.

01:11:53You know, I never, uh...

01:11:54Planned...

01:11:55After a loss.

01:11:56So...

01:11:57I guess I just take time and go back to drawing board

01:12:01and see what happens.

01:12:01Because I think that I never planned for a loss.

01:12:02If you move up to 135, 140,

01:12:05you're not gonna find quick guys.

01:12:07You're gonna find guys

01:12:08on your speed level.

01:12:10Will you do better in those weight divisions, do you think?

01:12:14I don't know.

01:12:16I don't know.

01:12:17Maybe, maybe not.

01:12:18I don't know.

01:12:19You know,

01:12:20I think the first loss is hard to rebound from.

01:12:22And, uh...

01:12:22You see a lot of fighters have a hard time rebounding

01:12:24from the first loss.

01:12:25If I...

01:12:26If I decide to come on back,

01:12:27we'll see how well I rebound.

01:12:29Thank you very much, Diego.

01:12:33All right.

01:12:33Just these final words.

01:12:37The final words are,

01:12:38back to you, Jim.

01:12:41All right.

01:12:42And those are great words.

01:12:44Uh...

01:12:44Well, earlier this evening,

01:12:45on our HBO website,

01:12:47hbo.com slash boxing,

01:12:50we gave you the opportunity to vote

01:12:51in two categories.

01:12:52All of you with the chance to vote on

01:12:54who was the fighter of the year

01:12:56in the year 2000.

01:12:57And you can see that

01:12:58you voted overwhelmingly

01:13:00for Felix Trinidad

01:13:02to, uh...

01:13:03be the recipient in that category.

01:13:05And I endorse that choice entirely.

01:13:07Felix Trinidad had an amazing year

01:13:10and was the fighter of the year in 2000.

01:13:12You can see much smaller numbers

01:13:14for the other three candidates there.

01:13:16Fight of the year.

01:13:16Pretty tough choice.

01:13:18Barrera Morales gets only 15%.

01:13:20Deloia Mosley gets 20%.

01:13:22Trinidad Vargas,

01:13:23which everybody remembers much better

01:13:25because it was just last month,

01:13:27that fight gets 65% of the vote

01:13:30and becomes, in your eyes,

01:13:31the fight of the year.

01:13:32Trinidad Vargas.

01:13:33Well, it was a great fight

01:13:35with a lot of fireworks,

01:13:36but the other two were

01:13:37brilliant boxing matches as well.

01:13:39Larry, your final thoughts

01:13:40on the demise of Diego Corrales

01:13:42and the rise of Floyd Mayweather Jr. tonight.

01:13:46Well, we've talked about

01:13:47how high the stakes were in this fight,

01:13:49not just in terms of the future,

01:13:53but in terms of two young men

01:13:56who had serious disagreements

01:13:58out of the ring.

01:14:01And this is one sport where

01:14:03if you don't like another guy,

01:14:05you can go in the ring

01:14:06and try to beat him up.

01:14:08And Floyd Mayweather did the beating.

01:14:10Once upon a time,

01:14:12he was pretty boy Floyd.

01:14:15He's going to now have to battle

01:14:17into the public's appreciation

01:14:20in a different manner now.

01:14:23Diego Corrales is still a good fighter.

01:14:25How good, we'll find out down the road.

01:14:29Remember, Tommy Hearns was a great fighter,

01:14:31even though he didn't win that fight

01:14:32with Sugar Ray Leonard the first time.

01:14:34They're both 23 years old.

01:14:36And so it goes.

01:14:39And so it goes.

01:14:40And there's much more to come

01:14:42as this spring continues on HBO.

01:14:44So we'll have a final word

01:14:45on what happened here in a moment.

01:14:47Let's look ahead

01:14:47to some upcoming programs here.

01:14:49On the next Real Sports,

01:14:52tennis great Martina Hingis

01:14:53attracts a lot of attention on the court,

01:14:55but it's not all good.

01:14:57I can do it with her.

01:14:58She can do it with me.

01:14:58How far is too far

01:15:00when it comes to a fan's obsession?

01:15:02Bernie Goldberg serves up

01:15:03an exclusive report

01:15:04on the man accused

01:15:05of stalking Martina Hingis.

01:15:07Plus, their dreams of playing

01:15:09in the NFL all came true.

01:15:11It's just their bodies

01:15:12that were broken.

01:15:13Super Bowl veteran Mark Schlereth

01:15:14has had 28 operations.

01:15:16Lost the ability

01:15:17to do a lot of things.

01:15:18Jim Lampley talks to him

01:15:20and others

01:15:20about how the game

01:15:21comes before the pain.

01:15:23Real Sports with Brian Gumbel

01:15:25premieres Monday night

01:15:26at 10 on HBO.

01:15:28Nothing is out of bounds.

01:15:31Where were you

01:15:32when the world

01:15:33was spinning out of control?

01:15:35It is a crisis

01:15:36that strikes at the very heart

01:15:37and soul and spirit

01:15:38of our national world.

01:15:40Nobody felt good.

01:15:41Nobody felt proud.

01:15:42And we come along.

01:15:44Where were you

01:15:45when 20 American kids

01:15:47turned an impossible dream

01:15:48into the greatest sports moment

01:15:50of the 20th century?

01:15:52It was a miracle.

01:15:53Do you believe in miracles?

01:15:55The story of the 1980 U.S. hockey team

01:15:58premieres Monday, February 5th.

01:16:01January 27th, HBO's boxing series

01:16:04KO Nation returns

01:16:05at a new late night start time

01:16:07of 11.45 p.m.

01:16:08on the card of five Olympians

01:16:09making their professional debuts

01:16:11including silver medalist

01:16:12Ricardo Williams

01:16:13and heavyweight Michael Bennett.

01:16:15The next week,

01:16:15KO Nation is back

01:16:16with Mucho Macho.

01:16:18Hector Camacho Jr.

01:16:19takes on Rocky Martinez

01:16:20and on the same show,

01:16:21his father,

01:16:22the former world champ,

01:16:23fights Troy Lowry.

01:16:24And on February 24th,

01:16:25another junior,

01:16:26Roy Jones in the ring

01:16:26to fight Derek Harmon.

01:16:27Roy under scrutiny

01:16:29on two fronts

01:16:29defending the light heavyweight title

01:16:31looking down the road

01:16:32and down the scale

01:16:33toward a possible future date

01:16:34with Felix Trinidad.

01:16:35HBO,

01:16:36the heart and soul of boxing.

01:16:38Once again,

01:16:39earlier this evening

01:16:40here at the MGM,

01:16:42you saw

01:16:42an entertaining

01:16:43lightweight championship fight

01:16:45between fellow Mexican fighters

01:16:46Jose Luis Castillo

01:16:47and Cesar Bazan.

01:16:49A TKO for Castillo

01:16:50as he got inside

01:16:51of Bazan's long arms,

01:16:53hammered him with left hooks,

01:16:54and won the fight

01:16:56to retain his version

01:16:57of the lightweight title.

01:16:58And then,

01:16:59for world supremacy

01:17:00at 130 pounds,

01:17:01Floyd Mayweather Jr.

01:17:03with a brilliant performance

01:17:04as he totally one-sidedly

01:17:07defeated the excellent

01:17:09Diego Corrales

01:17:10and sent Corrales off

01:17:11on some other course

01:17:12for his career.

01:17:13Floyd's father said to him,

01:17:15let's settle all our differences.

01:17:17Let's get your career

01:17:18back on track.

01:17:19Certainly it couldn't

01:17:20have looked better

01:17:20than it did tonight.

01:17:22Coming up immediately

01:17:22following our show,

01:17:23stay tuned for Curb Your Enthusiasm,

01:17:25followed by Oz

01:17:26on the East Coast

01:17:27and the premiere

01:17:28of My Dog Skip

01:17:29on the West Coast.

01:17:30It's a great one.

01:17:30Check it out.

01:17:31For the entire HBO crew,

01:17:32I'm Jim Lampley

01:17:33saying so long

01:17:34from Las Vegas, Nevada.

01:17:37The executive producer

01:17:38of HBO Sports

01:17:39is Rick Bernstein.

01:17:40Tonight's edition

01:17:41of World Championship Boxing

01:17:42was produced by Dave Harmon

01:17:43and directed by Mark Pink.

01:17:46Feature producers

01:17:46were Andy Hahn

01:17:47and Stephen Pougan.

01:17:48Associate directors

01:17:49John Crystal

01:17:50and Rick Bozanski.

01:17:51Assistant to the producer

01:17:52to George Jakovic,

01:17:53production manager

01:17:54John McCallie,

01:17:55technical supervisor

01:17:56Bob Hunter,

01:17:57and the technical director

01:17:58was Doug Getz.

01:18:00We'll see you next time.

01:18:03We'll see you next time.

01:18:24on The addressing

01:18:28This has been a presentation of HBO Sports,

01:18:47the network of champions.

01:18:50The middle aspect of boxing is much like that of a chess game.

01:18:54Every move you make should be very profound,

01:18:56but it should be decisive because you can't take it back once you do it.

01:19:00I really don't care about pain.

01:19:01Once I get hurt, my mind has to bear down and start to work harder.

01:19:05I can't get frustrated. I can't see fear.

01:19:07I can't worry about how bad it hurt.

01:19:09I just have to make sure it doesn't happen again.

01:19:11The element of surprise is what usually knocks guys out.

01:19:14Boom!

01:19:15There you go.

01:19:16What happened? Roy was there.

01:19:19Don't miss the return of Roy Jones Jr.

01:19:21Live Saturday, February 24th on HBO.

Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Diego Corrales - HBO 1-20-2001

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