LAS VEGAS (AP) _ A memorial service for boxer Diego (Chico) Corrales will be held Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Corrales, a former lightweight and super featherweight champion, died Monday in a high-speed motorcycle crash near his Las Vegas home. He was 29.
A public viewing will be followed by a funeral Tuesday at Palm Green Valley Mortuary in Las Vegas, according to Fred Sternberg, spokesman for Corrales' promoter.
Corrales died ...
Diego Corrales couldn't beat Joel Casamayor or
the scales.
Casamayor won the WBC lightweight title Saturday night with a
split decision win over Corrales, who was forced to give up the belt
a day earlier when he failed to make the 135-pound weight limit.
In a fight that almost didn't happen because Corrales couldn't
make the weight, Casamayor scored the cleaner punches and more of
them to win both the vacated title and the rubber match between ...
Diego Corrales turned the tables on himself.
Robbed of a big payday when his last opponent couldn't make
weight, Corrales vowed never to disgrace the sport by not being at
the proper weight himself.
So what happened on Friday? Corrales weighed in a whopping five
pounds over the weight limit for his WBC 135-pound title defence
against Joel Casamayor.
``It's terribly ironic,'' promoter Gary Shaw said. ``I'm shocked.
I don't know what to say.''
The fight was in doubt ...
Diego Corrales considers himself a throwback to another era.
He's willing to fight anyone, at any time. No running, no fancy boxing. Lots of big punching.
All he asks is that it's a fair fight.
Jose Luis Castillo wouldn't give him one when the two were supposed to meet for a third time in June. When Castillo failed to make weight for the second straight time, Corrales walked away from ...
