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It's obvious Haymon has been violating the Ali Act. I've been saying that on here for years. Now I do agree that GB's lawsuit has nothing to do with protecting fighters though, Oscar is salty he got all of his fighters stolen away from him while he was snorting lines off of hookers ass cheeks.
Oscar should be pissed at Schaefer, not Haymon. Schaefer is the guy he trusted to run his company and he fucked Oscar over big time. That was some cold ass shit. But that's Oscar's own fault for not being involved in his own company. As for Hopkins, he's trying to protect his own interests as he's part owner of GB.
Oscar should be pissed at Schaefer, not Haymon. Schaefer is the guy he trusted to run his company and he fucked Oscar over big time. That was some cold ass shit. But that's Oscar's own fault for not being involved in his own company. As for Hopkins, he's trying to protect his own interests as he's part owner of GB.
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on this day may 7 2005 this happen the best fight I ever seen
corrales vs castillo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzXSpTTeGc
corrales vs castillo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzXSpTTeGc
That's what sucks about this generation
Only a handfull of fighters are willing to fight each other
I get building fighters up but come on, how long can you keep a fighter protected?
Imagine all the fights we would have been able to seen right now if it wasn't for the promoters and fighters ducking each other.
Only a handfull of fighters are willing to fight each other
I get building fighters up but come on, how long can you keep a fighter protected?
Imagine all the fights we would have been able to seen right now if it wasn't for the promoters and fighters ducking each other.
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How is B Hop lying? Now, I do believe ODH is acting salty, but isn't Haymon doing the same and "harming" his fighters by not giving them better opportunities by fighting other big name fighters on HBO or other promotional companies? Some of his guys could have been PPV stars already but instead are okay with getting $1 mill paydays for now extremely competitive fights
DiBella Fires Bombs on Golden Boy Over Haymon Claims
Promoter Lou DiBella of DiBella Entertainment, has worked closely with Haymon for over a decade.
DiBella erupted when the read the statements, and allegations, that were made in Golden Boy's press release. He was very offended with Golden Boy labeling him as an "ineffective puppet" that Haymon controls.
"I want to address this in three different ways. The first is the part of me who is a Harvard educated lawyer who knows more about the Ali Act than they do and their lawyer does. I haven't even read the lawsuit. I just read the press release because the lawsuit is not my concern. The press release showed such a misunderstanding of the law - but also the incredible, unadulterated, ridiculous, over the top hypocrisy by De La Hoya, Hopkins, and Golden Boy to be suing on this basis. It's a friggin joke...it's the ultimate joke and I'm going to list the reasons why,' DiBella explained to BoxingScene.com.
"First of all, let me address the Ali Act. The Ali Act was designed to prevent the exploitation of fighters. The firewall that they are talking about is to stop managers from working for promoters or being controlled by promoters. And this is what writers don't get, what most fighters in boxing don't get, and even most managers and promoters - is the purpose of the act and why it exists. And its probably no accident on why there has been so few prosecutions or lawsuits under the Ali Act, because most people don't friggin understand it. Clearly Oscar, Bernard and their lawyers don't."
"The manager has a duty to the fighter, what they call a fiduciary duty. A promoter doesn't. A promoter just has a duty to negotiate with the fighter honestly and to make sure certain disclosures are made to the fighter. That's it. A manager has a duty to look out for the fighter, to maximize a fighter's money. A manager is not supposed to be controlled by a promoter or work for a promoter. There is nothing in the Ali Act that that says a manger can't hire a promoter on a case by case basis, nothing."
"Here is where the joke comes in - these clowns, clowns - Oscar and Golden Boy - they just got paid a huge settlement to release all of these fighters. So now they are going to save all of these fighters from being exploited - when [these fighters] are making more money and fighting in front of more people than they ever did with Golden Boy. What a joke."
DiBella says it was Golden Boy who worked closer with Haymon, for several years, than anybody else. Even some of DiBella's own fighters who were managed by Haymon, like Andre Berto, left his company to fight under the Golden Boy banner in order to face other fighters being promoted by Golden Boy. Berto's departure was obviously influenced by Haymon's close relationship at the time with Golden Boy.
The majority of the Golden Boy/Haymon relationship was handled under the rule of former Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, but after Schaefer's departure last June, Golden Boy continued to do business with Haymon and co-promote his fighters until the two sides reached their agreement to break their business ties in January.
The Golden Boy/Haymon relationship was very lucrative for all of the involved parties. Golden Boy's successful run was a deciding factor in extending Schaefer's contract as company CEO with a multi-year agreement in 2012. That very agreement was the basis for Golden Boy's lawsuit against Schaefer when he stepped away from the company two years later. That lawsuit was also settled in January.
"I'm asking you this question and I'm asking all your readers. Who was the first company that was the promoter for hire for Haymon? Golden Boy. So [De La Hoya is] now pissed off now because his company is not making the money. I'm promoting shows for PBC and I'm promoting shows with fighters managed by Haymon, but I'm not the only promoter doing it. There are a bunch of other promotional companies promoting shows [with Haymon fighters]. Algieri, who fights Khan, is with Star Boxing. Sampson Boxing has a kid fighting Edwin Rodriguez. Murphy's Boxing has Danny O'Connor who is fighting Malignaggi. Eddie Hearn has a few fighters [facing Haymon fighters]," DiBella said.
"When Oscar was the only game in town promoting for Haymon. Where was Oscar's complaining? Where was Oscar and Bernard complaining then? Where were these great saviors for the fighters? And now they are getting exploited because they are making more money and being shown to more people. How dare these clowns call me an ineffective puppet under Haymon's control. How dare they. If I'm ineffective then they must really be ineffective because I just promoted a show on April 11th that set a record for the gate at the Barclays Center, it set the record for number of people who bought tickets, it set the record a for the number of people at a boxing show in Brooklyn."
"And they had an exclusive with the Barclays Center for three years. An exclusive. They shut out every promoter in the United States and every promoter in New York couldn't promote at the Barclays Center because Golden Boy had an exclusive - but I guess that was okay for Bernard and Oscar - because they were the ones benefiting from it. And even with that giant advantage, that great promotional company never did a million dollar gate, never put more than 10,000 people in the arena. I did on my first try."
"And I got damaged, every promoter in the business got damaged, when HBO's budget was totally co-opted by Golden Boy because they had an output deal with HBO. But these holier than thou assh**es are suing everybody for non-competitive behavior and all of this other crap when they were the kings of it. And I'm not going to get into Oscar's personal life, but what's he going to claim that he was just screwed up and had no idea what was going on - or maybe he was just enjoying the money."
"They got millions of dollars to release these fighters. But now they send out this press release that they want to protect these fighters. They have never been out to protect anyone but themselves. The whole thing, there is line after line in here [in the press release] that is complete horse sh*t. And I'm not responding on behalf of PBC or on behalf of Haymon. I'm responding because they are going to make reference to ineffective puppets. I'm not controlled by anybody. I work for me. I'm not controlled by any network, any individual. And if I'm infective then they are totally incompetent."
"Maybe these holier than thou guys should be paying more attention to the Canelo Alvarez lawsuit, where you have a small promotional company [All Star Boxing] and they stole a fighter and now they are in court being sued [in Florida], and in my opinion they are probably going to have to ante up quite a bit of money...in my opinion. But I guess that's good competition, when you steal a fighter from other people. I think its fair competition when you sign an exclusive deal with the Barclays Center. I guess its fair competition when you have an output deal with HBO. The hypocrisy is mind blowing."
"No one stopped me, no one stopped Kathy [Duva], no one stopped Bob Arum and Top Rank, and certainly no one stopped Golden Boy from going out and buying time on TV networks. There is money raised and time buys being purchased on networks. Nobody is being exploited. Why doesn't Oscar produce the numbers if he wants to protect all of these guys that he released - which by the way, from what I read and I don't know this, Oscar got millions of dollars to release these fighters and now he files a lawsuit because he and Bernard are so troubled that they want to protect these fighters?"
"Show me numbers of what Oscar was giving them when they were promoted by Golden Boy compared to what they are getting now. There is nothing worse than hypocrisy combined with stupidity and this press release is a monument to hypocrisy combined with stupidity."
Promoter Lou DiBella of DiBella Entertainment, has worked closely with Haymon for over a decade.
DiBella erupted when the read the statements, and allegations, that were made in Golden Boy's press release. He was very offended with Golden Boy labeling him as an "ineffective puppet" that Haymon controls.
"I want to address this in three different ways. The first is the part of me who is a Harvard educated lawyer who knows more about the Ali Act than they do and their lawyer does. I haven't even read the lawsuit. I just read the press release because the lawsuit is not my concern. The press release showed such a misunderstanding of the law - but also the incredible, unadulterated, ridiculous, over the top hypocrisy by De La Hoya, Hopkins, and Golden Boy to be suing on this basis. It's a friggin joke...it's the ultimate joke and I'm going to list the reasons why,' DiBella explained to BoxingScene.com.
"First of all, let me address the Ali Act. The Ali Act was designed to prevent the exploitation of fighters. The firewall that they are talking about is to stop managers from working for promoters or being controlled by promoters. And this is what writers don't get, what most fighters in boxing don't get, and even most managers and promoters - is the purpose of the act and why it exists. And its probably no accident on why there has been so few prosecutions or lawsuits under the Ali Act, because most people don't friggin understand it. Clearly Oscar, Bernard and their lawyers don't."
"The manager has a duty to the fighter, what they call a fiduciary duty. A promoter doesn't. A promoter just has a duty to negotiate with the fighter honestly and to make sure certain disclosures are made to the fighter. That's it. A manager has a duty to look out for the fighter, to maximize a fighter's money. A manager is not supposed to be controlled by a promoter or work for a promoter. There is nothing in the Ali Act that that says a manger can't hire a promoter on a case by case basis, nothing."
"Here is where the joke comes in - these clowns, clowns - Oscar and Golden Boy - they just got paid a huge settlement to release all of these fighters. So now they are going to save all of these fighters from being exploited - when [these fighters] are making more money and fighting in front of more people than they ever did with Golden Boy. What a joke."
DiBella says it was Golden Boy who worked closer with Haymon, for several years, than anybody else. Even some of DiBella's own fighters who were managed by Haymon, like Andre Berto, left his company to fight under the Golden Boy banner in order to face other fighters being promoted by Golden Boy. Berto's departure was obviously influenced by Haymon's close relationship at the time with Golden Boy.
The majority of the Golden Boy/Haymon relationship was handled under the rule of former Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, but after Schaefer's departure last June, Golden Boy continued to do business with Haymon and co-promote his fighters until the two sides reached their agreement to break their business ties in January.
The Golden Boy/Haymon relationship was very lucrative for all of the involved parties. Golden Boy's successful run was a deciding factor in extending Schaefer's contract as company CEO with a multi-year agreement in 2012. That very agreement was the basis for Golden Boy's lawsuit against Schaefer when he stepped away from the company two years later. That lawsuit was also settled in January.
"I'm asking you this question and I'm asking all your readers. Who was the first company that was the promoter for hire for Haymon? Golden Boy. So [De La Hoya is] now pissed off now because his company is not making the money. I'm promoting shows for PBC and I'm promoting shows with fighters managed by Haymon, but I'm not the only promoter doing it. There are a bunch of other promotional companies promoting shows [with Haymon fighters]. Algieri, who fights Khan, is with Star Boxing. Sampson Boxing has a kid fighting Edwin Rodriguez. Murphy's Boxing has Danny O'Connor who is fighting Malignaggi. Eddie Hearn has a few fighters [facing Haymon fighters]," DiBella said.
"When Oscar was the only game in town promoting for Haymon. Where was Oscar's complaining? Where was Oscar and Bernard complaining then? Where were these great saviors for the fighters? And now they are getting exploited because they are making more money and being shown to more people. How dare these clowns call me an ineffective puppet under Haymon's control. How dare they. If I'm ineffective then they must really be ineffective because I just promoted a show on April 11th that set a record for the gate at the Barclays Center, it set the record for number of people who bought tickets, it set the record a for the number of people at a boxing show in Brooklyn."
"And they had an exclusive with the Barclays Center for three years. An exclusive. They shut out every promoter in the United States and every promoter in New York couldn't promote at the Barclays Center because Golden Boy had an exclusive - but I guess that was okay for Bernard and Oscar - because they were the ones benefiting from it. And even with that giant advantage, that great promotional company never did a million dollar gate, never put more than 10,000 people in the arena. I did on my first try."
"And I got damaged, every promoter in the business got damaged, when HBO's budget was totally co-opted by Golden Boy because they had an output deal with HBO. But these holier than thou assh**es are suing everybody for non-competitive behavior and all of this other crap when they were the kings of it. And I'm not going to get into Oscar's personal life, but what's he going to claim that he was just screwed up and had no idea what was going on - or maybe he was just enjoying the money."
"They got millions of dollars to release these fighters. But now they send out this press release that they want to protect these fighters. They have never been out to protect anyone but themselves. The whole thing, there is line after line in here [in the press release] that is complete horse sh*t. And I'm not responding on behalf of PBC or on behalf of Haymon. I'm responding because they are going to make reference to ineffective puppets. I'm not controlled by anybody. I work for me. I'm not controlled by any network, any individual. And if I'm infective then they are totally incompetent."
"Maybe these holier than thou guys should be paying more attention to the Canelo Alvarez lawsuit, where you have a small promotional company [All Star Boxing] and they stole a fighter and now they are in court being sued [in Florida], and in my opinion they are probably going to have to ante up quite a bit of money...in my opinion. But I guess that's good competition, when you steal a fighter from other people. I think its fair competition when you sign an exclusive deal with the Barclays Center. I guess its fair competition when you have an output deal with HBO. The hypocrisy is mind blowing."
"No one stopped me, no one stopped Kathy [Duva], no one stopped Bob Arum and Top Rank, and certainly no one stopped Golden Boy from going out and buying time on TV networks. There is money raised and time buys being purchased on networks. Nobody is being exploited. Why doesn't Oscar produce the numbers if he wants to protect all of these guys that he released - which by the way, from what I read and I don't know this, Oscar got millions of dollars to release these fighters and now he files a lawsuit because he and Bernard are so troubled that they want to protect these fighters?"
"Show me numbers of what Oscar was giving them when they were promoted by Golden Boy compared to what they are getting now. There is nothing worse than hypocrisy combined with stupidity and this press release is a monument to hypocrisy combined with stupidity."
Tapia: People Thought Kirkland KO Loss Ended My Career
NEWARK, N.J. – Glen Tapia’s knockout loss to James Kirkland is mostly remembered for its frightening ending, the way Kirkland connected with a crushing left hook as referee Steve Smoger slowly stepped in to protect a dangerously vulnerable Tapia against the ropes in the sixth round of a bout HBO broadcast.
An undeterred Tapia still took something positive from his lone professional defeat.
“I have a different mentality now,” Tapia said. “The Kirkland thing woke me up.”
If it hadn’t happened, Tapia (23-1, 15 KOs) wouldn’t have made the changes in his preparation that the Passaic, New Jersey, native eventually would’ve had to make. The 25-year-old Tapia thought he was training hard, yet wasn’t quite putting in the work required to give himself the best chance to reach the championship level.
Freddie Roach agreed to train Tapia after Kirkland knocked him out and immediately began trying to transform Tapia’s style. Roach reprogrammed Tapia to box more and brawl less and the results have been good thus far.
Tapia has stopped each of his three opponents since Roach began training him and should move closer to a junior middleweight world title shot if he defeats France’s Michel Soro (25-1-1, 15 KOs) in their 10-round main event Friday night at Newark’s Prudential Center. Tapia-Soro is scheduled to be the main event of a TruTV telecast that’ll begin at 10 p.m. ET and marks Tapia’s most difficult fight since Kirkland beat him. They’ll fight for Tapia’s NABO 154-pound title and the vacant USBA championship.
Tapia feels much better about his preparation for this fight than he did when he encountered Kirkland 17 months ago at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
“People were blaming [former trainer] Alex [Devia] and I was like, ‘What the [heck] are you blaming him for?’ ” Tapia said. “Fighters do that all the time, but [the loss] wasn’t his fault. He got a lot of bad press for not stopping it sooner, but he did that because he believed in me. He believed in what I could do. … But it’s on me. I [messed] up, but it woke me up.
“It made me realize it takes way more than what I was doing [in training] to make it where I want to go. I was kind of coasting. I was knocking guys out, beating all these guys. So I was like, ‘OK, that’s how you’ve got to train to be a world champ.’ I didn’t know what it really takes. Now I know it takes a whole different work ethic. Plus, being with Freddie has helped me so much more.”
Roach is hard on Tapia, but Tapia appreciates that he is being pushed by a perfectionist during training and sparring at Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California. Changing training regimens is the primary reason he has been able to overcome the Kirkland setback.
“Everybody counted me out after that,” Tapia said. “People thought I was never going to fight again. People said, ‘He’s done. His career is over.’ People aren’t supposed to believe in you. You’re supposed to prove them wrong.”
NEWARK, N.J. – Glen Tapia’s knockout loss to James Kirkland is mostly remembered for its frightening ending, the way Kirkland connected with a crushing left hook as referee Steve Smoger slowly stepped in to protect a dangerously vulnerable Tapia against the ropes in the sixth round of a bout HBO broadcast.
An undeterred Tapia still took something positive from his lone professional defeat.
“I have a different mentality now,” Tapia said. “The Kirkland thing woke me up.”
If it hadn’t happened, Tapia (23-1, 15 KOs) wouldn’t have made the changes in his preparation that the Passaic, New Jersey, native eventually would’ve had to make. The 25-year-old Tapia thought he was training hard, yet wasn’t quite putting in the work required to give himself the best chance to reach the championship level.
Freddie Roach agreed to train Tapia after Kirkland knocked him out and immediately began trying to transform Tapia’s style. Roach reprogrammed Tapia to box more and brawl less and the results have been good thus far.
Tapia has stopped each of his three opponents since Roach began training him and should move closer to a junior middleweight world title shot if he defeats France’s Michel Soro (25-1-1, 15 KOs) in their 10-round main event Friday night at Newark’s Prudential Center. Tapia-Soro is scheduled to be the main event of a TruTV telecast that’ll begin at 10 p.m. ET and marks Tapia’s most difficult fight since Kirkland beat him. They’ll fight for Tapia’s NABO 154-pound title and the vacant USBA championship.
Tapia feels much better about his preparation for this fight than he did when he encountered Kirkland 17 months ago at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
“People were blaming [former trainer] Alex [Devia] and I was like, ‘What the [heck] are you blaming him for?’ ” Tapia said. “Fighters do that all the time, but [the loss] wasn’t his fault. He got a lot of bad press for not stopping it sooner, but he did that because he believed in me. He believed in what I could do. … But it’s on me. I [messed] up, but it woke me up.
“It made me realize it takes way more than what I was doing [in training] to make it where I want to go. I was kind of coasting. I was knocking guys out, beating all these guys. So I was like, ‘OK, that’s how you’ve got to train to be a world champ.’ I didn’t know what it really takes. Now I know it takes a whole different work ethic. Plus, being with Freddie has helped me so much more.”
Roach is hard on Tapia, but Tapia appreciates that he is being pushed by a perfectionist during training and sparring at Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California. Changing training regimens is the primary reason he has been able to overcome the Kirkland setback.
“Everybody counted me out after that,” Tapia said. “People thought I was never going to fight again. People said, ‘He’s done. His career is over.’ People aren’t supposed to believe in you. You’re supposed to prove them wrong.”
Provodnikov Blasts Tim Bradley for Fighting Jessie Vargas
While Provodnikov's first priority is a rematch with Matthysse, he still covets a rematch with Tim Bradley, whom he lost a close decision to in 2013, in a battle that won Fight of the Year honors.
The fight definitely won't happen next as Bradley is locked in to face undefeated super lightweight champion Jessie Vargas who will be moving up to welterweight for the fight. The fight is scheduled to take place on June 27th and be broadcast by HBO.
"To be honest with you I don't know who is going to watch that fight. Who wants to see a fight like that?" Jabbed Provodnikov who clearly isn't impressed with the fight.
"In my opinion a fight with Vargas is the worst possible fight that Bradley
could have taken. I've always said I want a Bradley rematch but all he says is that I am the last guy that he will ever fight. That is very unfortunate. That has been my priority for a very long time to get that rematch," he continued.
Provodnikov was in Las Vegas for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao mega-fight and was mobbed by fans everywhere he went. The fighter known as the Siberian Rocky said they he is grateful for the support.
"It feels great to me that the fans love me for who I am and not because I'm a champion or not a champion. That is why I fight with my heart and leave it all in the ring because I fight for the fans and I want to make sure that I return the favor to the fans because they appreciate me for who I am," Provodnikov told BoxingScene.com.
While Provodnikov's first priority is a rematch with Matthysse, he still covets a rematch with Tim Bradley, whom he lost a close decision to in 2013, in a battle that won Fight of the Year honors.
The fight definitely won't happen next as Bradley is locked in to face undefeated super lightweight champion Jessie Vargas who will be moving up to welterweight for the fight. The fight is scheduled to take place on June 27th and be broadcast by HBO.
"To be honest with you I don't know who is going to watch that fight. Who wants to see a fight like that?" Jabbed Provodnikov who clearly isn't impressed with the fight.
"In my opinion a fight with Vargas is the worst possible fight that Bradley
could have taken. I've always said I want a Bradley rematch but all he says is that I am the last guy that he will ever fight. That is very unfortunate. That has been my priority for a very long time to get that rematch," he continued.
Provodnikov was in Las Vegas for the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao mega-fight and was mobbed by fans everywhere he went. The fighter known as the Siberian Rocky said they he is grateful for the support.
"It feels great to me that the fans love me for who I am and not because I'm a champion or not a champion. That is why I fight with my heart and leave it all in the ring because I fight for the fans and I want to make sure that I return the favor to the fans because they appreciate me for who I am," Provodnikov told BoxingScene.com.
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Best I’ve faced: Jose Luis Castillo
May 6, 2015
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It has been 10 years since Jose Luis Castillo battled Diego Corrales in their classic first encounter. The lightweight beltholders waged war, fighting each other to a standstill for 10 brutally frenetic rounds before the most dramatic of conclusions to a bout that is considered one of the greatest of all time.
Both Castillo and Corrales had aggressive boxing styles, were big for lightweights and known to have fight-ending power, so the fight was well received by the fight public. However, nobody knew just how well.
From the very beginning each went at the other. As the rounds passed the action ramped up to another level, and after a fantastic ninth innings, the legendary 10th took place. Midway through Round 10, Castillo broke through, dropping Corrales with a left hook in the center of the ring. The game Californian rose on unsteady legs as the end looked imminent. A second knockdown took place, this time “Chico” spat his gumshield out to buy precious time. Referee Tony Weeks took a point from Corrales but let the fight continue. Then, out of nowhere, Corrales landed a monster left hand that visibly moved Castillo towards the ropes.
He followed with a combination that had Castillo out on his feet, head rocked backwards, eyes rolling to the back of his head, forcing the referee jumped in to halt the bout. It was a fight ending akin to a real life Rocky movie.
Looking back on the fight, Castillo isn’t bitter. He’s proud to have been involved in a historic fight. “I made it an attractive fight and exciting fight with Corrales to please the people,” Castillo told RingTV.com through translator Abraham Darwish. “After that fight I was still satisfied even though I lost because I won a lot of fans after that fight.”
Promoter Bob Arum CEO of Top Rank, who has been around boxing since the 1960s, ranked it among the top three fights he’s seen along with the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier rubber match and Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns.
“People understand this is something special,” the hall of fame promoter said. “Books will be written about this one.”
The two met five months later, this time each struggled mercilessly to make the 135-pound limit, Corrales just made it but Castillo was two pounds over. He never made the weight. This time, Castillo exacted a measure of revenge stopping Corrales in four rounds. Neither fighter was ever to really the same following that brutal, fight of the ages in May 2005.
Castillo now 41, continues to fight, losing his most recent fight against Ruslan Provodnikov last November. Corrales tragically passed away in a motorbike accident two years to the day removed from the first meeting with Castillo.
Early in his career Castillo worked with his legendary countryman Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., learning how important it is to work hard. He says nobody worked harder than the Lion of Culiacan. That experience cleared served him well.
As Castillo made his way through the tough Mexican scene he lost on four occasions when he challenged for the national title. Undeterred, he continued his progress when in September 2000, as a rank outsider, he surprised Steve Johnston winning ta majority decision to claim the WBC 135-pound title. The victory earned him THE RING magazine ‘Upset of the Year’ award.
He went on to retain the title three times, including a draw with Johnston in the former champion’s hometown.
In April 2002, Castillo looked to defend his title against Floyd Mayweather Jr., who had risen to lightweight from junior lightweight. Many believed at the end of 12 rounds that Castillo had done enough to beat the unbeaten rising star. However, the judges all voted for Mayweather. The rematch took place eight months later, this time Mayweather had the better of things winning a clear decision.
The Mexicali native says his proudest moment was winning the world title and that his best win was when he regained his WBC lightweight title against Juan Lazcano on the undercard of Oscar De La Hoya-Felix Sturm in June 2004.
“During the press conference, he was talking a lot of s__t…and I really developed a hate feeling toward him and wanted to hurt him,” reminisced Castillo. “But Lazcano turned out to be a lot tougher than I expected. To win the fight and to become world champion was quite satisfying.”
Castillo bested Olympic gold medalist and two-weight world champion Joel Casamayor and stopped Julio Diaz in 10 rounds before the legendary fight with Corrales.
Castillo would lose to Ricky Hatton at junior welterweight in the summer of 2007 in what is viewed as his last significant fight at the top level. Castillo (66-13-1, 57 knockouts) graciously agreed to speak with RingTV.com about the best fighters he fought during his 80-fight career that has spanned 25 years.
BEST SKILLS
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.: The best skills were none other than Floyd Mayweather Jr. He kept me at distance so I really couldn’t get to him.
BEST JAB
Mayweather: Floyd again, his jab was long and it was fast.
BEST DEFENSE
Mayweather: I couldn’t hit Floyd clean… so he had the best defense also.
BEST CHIN
Mayweather: Floyd Mayweather Jr. had the best chin because I couldn’t hit him.
BEST PUNCHER
Juan Lazcano: Juan Lazcano had a very hard punch.
FASTEST HANDS
Mayweather: Floyd Mayweather Jr. had the fastest hands.
FASTEST FEET
Mayweather: Because he moved a lot during his fight with me… and really couldn’t set to punch away.
SMARTEST
Mayweather: Because he changed his style when he needed too.
STRONGEST
Lazcano: Juan Lazcano was the toughest fighter I ever faced. He was just a strong fighter.
BEST OVERALL
Mayweather: Floyd is best overall. For all the attributes I just mentioned.
Best I’ve faced: Jose Luis Castillo
May 6, 2015
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It has been 10 years since Jose Luis Castillo battled Diego Corrales in their classic first encounter. The lightweight beltholders waged war, fighting each other to a standstill for 10 brutally frenetic rounds before the most dramatic of conclusions to a bout that is considered one of the greatest of all time.
Both Castillo and Corrales had aggressive boxing styles, were big for lightweights and known to have fight-ending power, so the fight was well received by the fight public. However, nobody knew just how well.
From the very beginning each went at the other. As the rounds passed the action ramped up to another level, and after a fantastic ninth innings, the legendary 10th took place. Midway through Round 10, Castillo broke through, dropping Corrales with a left hook in the center of the ring. The game Californian rose on unsteady legs as the end looked imminent. A second knockdown took place, this time “Chico” spat his gumshield out to buy precious time. Referee Tony Weeks took a point from Corrales but let the fight continue. Then, out of nowhere, Corrales landed a monster left hand that visibly moved Castillo towards the ropes.
He followed with a combination that had Castillo out on his feet, head rocked backwards, eyes rolling to the back of his head, forcing the referee jumped in to halt the bout. It was a fight ending akin to a real life Rocky movie.
Looking back on the fight, Castillo isn’t bitter. He’s proud to have been involved in a historic fight. “I made it an attractive fight and exciting fight with Corrales to please the people,” Castillo told RingTV.com through translator Abraham Darwish. “After that fight I was still satisfied even though I lost because I won a lot of fans after that fight.”
Promoter Bob Arum CEO of Top Rank, who has been around boxing since the 1960s, ranked it among the top three fights he’s seen along with the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier rubber match and Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns.
“People understand this is something special,” the hall of fame promoter said. “Books will be written about this one.”
The two met five months later, this time each struggled mercilessly to make the 135-pound limit, Corrales just made it but Castillo was two pounds over. He never made the weight. This time, Castillo exacted a measure of revenge stopping Corrales in four rounds. Neither fighter was ever to really the same following that brutal, fight of the ages in May 2005.
Castillo now 41, continues to fight, losing his most recent fight against Ruslan Provodnikov last November. Corrales tragically passed away in a motorbike accident two years to the day removed from the first meeting with Castillo.
Early in his career Castillo worked with his legendary countryman Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., learning how important it is to work hard. He says nobody worked harder than the Lion of Culiacan. That experience cleared served him well.
As Castillo made his way through the tough Mexican scene he lost on four occasions when he challenged for the national title. Undeterred, he continued his progress when in September 2000, as a rank outsider, he surprised Steve Johnston winning ta majority decision to claim the WBC 135-pound title. The victory earned him THE RING magazine ‘Upset of the Year’ award.
He went on to retain the title three times, including a draw with Johnston in the former champion’s hometown.
In April 2002, Castillo looked to defend his title against Floyd Mayweather Jr., who had risen to lightweight from junior lightweight. Many believed at the end of 12 rounds that Castillo had done enough to beat the unbeaten rising star. However, the judges all voted for Mayweather. The rematch took place eight months later, this time Mayweather had the better of things winning a clear decision.
The Mexicali native says his proudest moment was winning the world title and that his best win was when he regained his WBC lightweight title against Juan Lazcano on the undercard of Oscar De La Hoya-Felix Sturm in June 2004.
“During the press conference, he was talking a lot of s__t…and I really developed a hate feeling toward him and wanted to hurt him,” reminisced Castillo. “But Lazcano turned out to be a lot tougher than I expected. To win the fight and to become world champion was quite satisfying.”
Castillo bested Olympic gold medalist and two-weight world champion Joel Casamayor and stopped Julio Diaz in 10 rounds before the legendary fight with Corrales.
Castillo would lose to Ricky Hatton at junior welterweight in the summer of 2007 in what is viewed as his last significant fight at the top level. Castillo (66-13-1, 57 knockouts) graciously agreed to speak with RingTV.com about the best fighters he fought during his 80-fight career that has spanned 25 years.
BEST SKILLS
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.: The best skills were none other than Floyd Mayweather Jr. He kept me at distance so I really couldn’t get to him.
BEST JAB
Mayweather: Floyd again, his jab was long and it was fast.
BEST DEFENSE
Mayweather: I couldn’t hit Floyd clean… so he had the best defense also.
BEST CHIN
Mayweather: Floyd Mayweather Jr. had the best chin because I couldn’t hit him.
BEST PUNCHER
Juan Lazcano: Juan Lazcano had a very hard punch.
FASTEST HANDS
Mayweather: Floyd Mayweather Jr. had the fastest hands.
FASTEST FEET
Mayweather: Because he moved a lot during his fight with me… and really couldn’t set to punch away.
SMARTEST
Mayweather: Because he changed his style when he needed too.
STRONGEST
Lazcano: Juan Lazcano was the toughest fighter I ever faced. He was just a strong fighter.
BEST OVERALL
Mayweather: Floyd is best overall. For all the attributes I just mentioned.
lmao
12 Things We Really Wish We Didn't Know About Mike Tyson's Sex Life
BY CHRIS YUSCAVAGE
Early last month, Mike Tyson made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and talked at length about why he lost to Buster Douglas in stunning fashion 25 years ago. But he didn't talk about it in technical boxing terms. In fact, he didn't talk about the match much at all. Instead, he blamed the loss on—get this—his inability to stop having sex with hotel maids in the days leading up to the fight.
"I had to hit all the maids," he said.
It was a funny moment. But after we got done laughing, it also made us think, "Why does it feel like we know so much about Mike Tyson's sex life?" Or better yet, "Why does Iron Mike seem to enjoy sharing so many details about his sex life?" Over the years, we've heard all about it from both Tyson himself and people who have known him in the past—with more strange, over-the-top sexcapades than we've been able to handle. So with that in mind, here are 12 Things We Really Wish We Didn't Know About Mike Tyson's Sex Life. TMI, Mike!
He routinely had sex with female visitors who came to see him while he was locked up in jail.
From April 1992 through March 1995, Tyson was incarcerated at the Indiana Youth Center in Indianapolis after being convicted on a rape charge stemming from an incident that took place in July 1991 (he has steadfastly maintained his innocence in that case). But strangely enough, he didn't let that stop him from seeing women. According to his autobiography, Undisputed Truth, he got plenty of action behind bars.
"I was having so much sex that I was too tired to even go to the gym and work out," he wrote. "I'd just stay in my cell all day."
He claimed that he had sex with a drug counselor in prison after paying $10,000 to have the roof of her house fixed.
In addition to having sex with random women who visited him while he was in jail from 1992 through 1995, Tyson also reportedly carried on an affair with his drug counselor. After he paid $10,000 to fix her roof, Tyson says the two began having sex and carried on a sexual affair while he was locked up.
He was sleeping with about 15 women every day before going to prison in 1992.
Want to know why Tyson needed to sleep with a ton of women during his time in prison? Look no further than this. At the height of his popularity, Tyson was sleeping with about 15 women per day prior to his prison stint. How is that even possible?
He allegedly used a Wizard pocket computer to keep track of the names and sexual preferences of the women he slept with in the early 1990s.
In August 1992, while Tyson was locked up, one of his former bodyguards Rudy Gonzalez did an interview with the New York Post and revealed that Tyson was meticulous when it came to keeping track of his sexual escapades. Gonzalez claimed that Tyson went as far as to keep the names of more than 1,300 women in a handheld computer alongside notes about each of their preferences in bed.
"A lot of them are women whose names you'd recognize," he said. "But the 1,300 doesn't count the one-night stands, the groupies."
He continued having sex with his ex-wife Robin Givens while they were going through a divorce—before eventually catching her in bed with Brad Pitt.
In 1989, less than two years after marrying Givens, Tyson parted ways with her. However, during an interview with Yahoo! Sports reporter Graham Bensinger in December 2012, he claimed that he was still having sex with her at that time. But he also revealed that she was sleeping with Pitt as well.
"I was getting a divorce, but…every day, before I would go to my lawyer's office to say, 'She's a pig and stealing,' I would go to her house to have sex with her," he said. "This particular day, someone beat me to the punch. And I guess Brad got there earlier than I did. I was mad as hell…You should have saw his face when he saw me."
He once had sex with Naomi Campbell inside of a bathroom at a party in New York City while his manager stood outside.
Tyson's volatile relationship with the model isn't exactly a secret. But in his book, Taming the Beast: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson, Tyson's former manager Rory Holloway claimed that Tyson and Campbell's relationship started with a romp in a restroom in the middle of a party.
"I was there to keep Mike out of trouble, doing my usual babysitting job, and when I looked over, he was talking to this girl," Holloway wrote. "I had to rub my eyes. It was Naomi Campbell. Mike says he's got to use the restroom. Next thing, Naomi's following him and I'm outside holding their drinks. Guests are walking up and I'm telling them, 'Bathroom's taken.'"
He used to have 24-hour security guards posted outside his hotel rooms before fights who were instructed to prevent him from having sex.
Tyson's former manager Rory Holloway expressed a real concern for the boxing champ during his time with him. He thought that Tyson suffered from sex addiction, so he tried to do whatever he could to limit Tyson's sexual activity. And before big fights, that included positioning security guards outside of his hotel rooms so that girls couldn't come in and Tyson couldn't go out.
He slept with a 50-something-year-old cashier that he met during a trip to Kmart in the middle of one particularly promiscuous period of his life.
By now, you've probably noticed that Tyson has slept with a lot of women. But it's worth noting that he didn't have many standards when it came to having sex by the late 1990s. He's even admitted that he once picked up a Kmart cashier simply because she was the closest woman to him at the time.
He confessed to sleeping with women while wearing his championship belts.
After becoming the youngest heavyweight boxing champion ever at the age of just 20, Tyson thought he could do whatever he wanted. So he slept with a lot of women and, at times, got out of control.
"In my mind, I had no peers," he wrote in his autobiography, Undisputed Truth. "I was the youngest heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. Sometimes, I'd get naked and put the championship belt on and have sex with a girl."
He once had a cocaine-fueled orgy interrupted by a surprise visit from his probation officer.
During a November 2013 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live (Tyson seems to enjoy telling all to Jimmy Kimmel, huh?), Tyson talked about the time that his probation officer caught him doing the dirty with drugs nearby.
"It wasn't good because cocaine was on the property," he said. "You never saw an erection [lost] so quickly."
He admitted to having nothing but orgies at one point in his life.
When you have it as much as Tyson was allegedly having it, regular sex gets boring. So in the mid-1990s, Tyson started to see a sex therapist because he found that he was engaging in nothing but group sex.
"At one point," he wrote in his autobiography, Undisputed Truth, "everything I did sexually consisted of orgies…It makes you feel like ****."
He beat up seven prostitutes in a hotel room while high on morphine and cocaine during his "lowest point."
Tyson has done a lot of incredibly crazy things in his life, but this is (probably) the craziest. In 2009, after receiving a morphine drip in his arm and using a large amount of cocaine, he started to feel paranoid (ya think?!). So he started to beat up a group of prostitutes that he had summoned to his room.
"That's when I realized it wasn't just demons—it was the devil himself," he told Las Vegas Weekly later. "It was the lowest point of a very low life, but it was my own knockout punch to clean up my life, get whole, get well—and I haven't done anything in three years now. I'm clean. I'm sober."
12 Things We Really Wish We Didn't Know About Mike Tyson's Sex Life
BY CHRIS YUSCAVAGE
Early last month, Mike Tyson made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and talked at length about why he lost to Buster Douglas in stunning fashion 25 years ago. But he didn't talk about it in technical boxing terms. In fact, he didn't talk about the match much at all. Instead, he blamed the loss on—get this—his inability to stop having sex with hotel maids in the days leading up to the fight.
"I had to hit all the maids," he said.
It was a funny moment. But after we got done laughing, it also made us think, "Why does it feel like we know so much about Mike Tyson's sex life?" Or better yet, "Why does Iron Mike seem to enjoy sharing so many details about his sex life?" Over the years, we've heard all about it from both Tyson himself and people who have known him in the past—with more strange, over-the-top sexcapades than we've been able to handle. So with that in mind, here are 12 Things We Really Wish We Didn't Know About Mike Tyson's Sex Life. TMI, Mike!
He routinely had sex with female visitors who came to see him while he was locked up in jail.
From April 1992 through March 1995, Tyson was incarcerated at the Indiana Youth Center in Indianapolis after being convicted on a rape charge stemming from an incident that took place in July 1991 (he has steadfastly maintained his innocence in that case). But strangely enough, he didn't let that stop him from seeing women. According to his autobiography, Undisputed Truth, he got plenty of action behind bars.
"I was having so much sex that I was too tired to even go to the gym and work out," he wrote. "I'd just stay in my cell all day."
He claimed that he had sex with a drug counselor in prison after paying $10,000 to have the roof of her house fixed.
In addition to having sex with random women who visited him while he was in jail from 1992 through 1995, Tyson also reportedly carried on an affair with his drug counselor. After he paid $10,000 to fix her roof, Tyson says the two began having sex and carried on a sexual affair while he was locked up.
He was sleeping with about 15 women every day before going to prison in 1992.
Want to know why Tyson needed to sleep with a ton of women during his time in prison? Look no further than this. At the height of his popularity, Tyson was sleeping with about 15 women per day prior to his prison stint. How is that even possible?
He allegedly used a Wizard pocket computer to keep track of the names and sexual preferences of the women he slept with in the early 1990s.
In August 1992, while Tyson was locked up, one of his former bodyguards Rudy Gonzalez did an interview with the New York Post and revealed that Tyson was meticulous when it came to keeping track of his sexual escapades. Gonzalez claimed that Tyson went as far as to keep the names of more than 1,300 women in a handheld computer alongside notes about each of their preferences in bed.
"A lot of them are women whose names you'd recognize," he said. "But the 1,300 doesn't count the one-night stands, the groupies."
He continued having sex with his ex-wife Robin Givens while they were going through a divorce—before eventually catching her in bed with Brad Pitt.
In 1989, less than two years after marrying Givens, Tyson parted ways with her. However, during an interview with Yahoo! Sports reporter Graham Bensinger in December 2012, he claimed that he was still having sex with her at that time. But he also revealed that she was sleeping with Pitt as well.
"I was getting a divorce, but…every day, before I would go to my lawyer's office to say, 'She's a pig and stealing,' I would go to her house to have sex with her," he said. "This particular day, someone beat me to the punch. And I guess Brad got there earlier than I did. I was mad as hell…You should have saw his face when he saw me."
He once had sex with Naomi Campbell inside of a bathroom at a party in New York City while his manager stood outside.
Tyson's volatile relationship with the model isn't exactly a secret. But in his book, Taming the Beast: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson, Tyson's former manager Rory Holloway claimed that Tyson and Campbell's relationship started with a romp in a restroom in the middle of a party.
"I was there to keep Mike out of trouble, doing my usual babysitting job, and when I looked over, he was talking to this girl," Holloway wrote. "I had to rub my eyes. It was Naomi Campbell. Mike says he's got to use the restroom. Next thing, Naomi's following him and I'm outside holding their drinks. Guests are walking up and I'm telling them, 'Bathroom's taken.'"
He used to have 24-hour security guards posted outside his hotel rooms before fights who were instructed to prevent him from having sex.
Tyson's former manager Rory Holloway expressed a real concern for the boxing champ during his time with him. He thought that Tyson suffered from sex addiction, so he tried to do whatever he could to limit Tyson's sexual activity. And before big fights, that included positioning security guards outside of his hotel rooms so that girls couldn't come in and Tyson couldn't go out.
He slept with a 50-something-year-old cashier that he met during a trip to Kmart in the middle of one particularly promiscuous period of his life.
By now, you've probably noticed that Tyson has slept with a lot of women. But it's worth noting that he didn't have many standards when it came to having sex by the late 1990s. He's even admitted that he once picked up a Kmart cashier simply because she was the closest woman to him at the time.
He confessed to sleeping with women while wearing his championship belts.
After becoming the youngest heavyweight boxing champion ever at the age of just 20, Tyson thought he could do whatever he wanted. So he slept with a lot of women and, at times, got out of control.
"In my mind, I had no peers," he wrote in his autobiography, Undisputed Truth. "I was the youngest heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. Sometimes, I'd get naked and put the championship belt on and have sex with a girl."
He once had a cocaine-fueled orgy interrupted by a surprise visit from his probation officer.
During a November 2013 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live (Tyson seems to enjoy telling all to Jimmy Kimmel, huh?), Tyson talked about the time that his probation officer caught him doing the dirty with drugs nearby.
"It wasn't good because cocaine was on the property," he said. "You never saw an erection [lost] so quickly."
He admitted to having nothing but orgies at one point in his life.
When you have it as much as Tyson was allegedly having it, regular sex gets boring. So in the mid-1990s, Tyson started to see a sex therapist because he found that he was engaging in nothing but group sex.
"At one point," he wrote in his autobiography, Undisputed Truth, "everything I did sexually consisted of orgies…It makes you feel like ****."
He beat up seven prostitutes in a hotel room while high on morphine and cocaine during his "lowest point."
Tyson has done a lot of incredibly crazy things in his life, but this is (probably) the craziest. In 2009, after receiving a morphine drip in his arm and using a large amount of cocaine, he started to feel paranoid (ya think?!). So he started to beat up a group of prostitutes that he had summoned to his room.
"That's when I realized it wasn't just demons—it was the devil himself," he told Las Vegas Weekly later. "It was the lowest point of a very low life, but it was my own knockout punch to clean up my life, get whole, get well—and I haven't done anything in three years now. I'm clean. I'm sober."
"When Oscar was the only game in town promoting for Haymon. Where was Oscar's complaining? Where was Oscar and Bernard complaining then? Where were these great saviors for the fighters? "
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Manny, Arum and Roach are tied for the P4P Liars title (along with BHOP and Oscar.) The man went in there and LIED to the world. Manny and his crew are a stain on boxing and I should have never defended the liar and hypocrite, manny. Tony was right, bigface was right, bay area was right, czar was right, T-RIP was right, trips was right and heyzel was right. The proof is in the pudding, these guys have been exposing Manny for years and now my eyes are finally opened.
"When Oscar was the only game in town promoting for Haymon. Where was Oscar's complaining? Where was Oscar and Bernard complaining then? Where were these great saviors for the fighters? "
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But to answer DiBella's question, where was Oscar? Like I said snorting lines off of strippers ass cheeks! He wasn't running his own company at the time so he has himself to blame for allowing a snake run the show. If he paid attention, if he would have just looked at ANY of the contracts (there were NONE!) he would have saw this coming.
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