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LIKE his
ward, Freddie Roach is disappointed with the result. But
Roach is just as dissatisfied with what he saw in Oscar
de la Hoya.
Roach
said in an interview over dzSR Sports Radio that he felt
de la Hoya didn’t finish the fight the way they had
planned it.
“Oscar
is really disappointed with the decision. I thought we
did enough in the early rounds to get the edge,” Roach
said on the morning radio show In the Zone. “Oscar came
back very well in the 12th round. But one judge gave it
to Mayweather, if it hadn’t been that way [the match]
would’ve been Oscar’s.”
“I was a
little disappointed in the result, but Oscar, I think,
didn’t fight his best fight,” Roach added. “He kind of
subdued his jab in the later rounds and that was his
best weapon.”
Roach
said he and de la Hoya were prepared to meet whatever
Mayweather was going to bring to their Saturday
blockbuster face-off.
“It’s a
pretty close fight. Mayweather was moving, running all
night long. And we did expect that,” he said.
“Oscar
was handling it well in the early rounds. But for some
reason in the later rounds, he got down to Mayweather’s
height and crouched a little bit and Oscar took his jab
away from himself.”
“I don’t
know why he did that but I guess he was just looking for
the home-run shot,” Roach went on.
Trying
to impress on the judges before the bout would go to the
scorecards, de la Hoya came out smoking in the 12th, a
round that belonged to him. But Jerry Roth scored in
favor of Mayweather and instead of a draw, the match was
ruled a split decision.
 Roach
had positive reviews, however, for AJ Banal and
Rey “Boom-Boom” Bautista.
Banal
cracked a tough nut in Juan Alberto Rosas of Mexico to
come out victorious via unanimous decision (UD) in an
eight-rounder, while Bautista held his own against
Sergio Manuel Medina of Argentina—his toughest
assignment to date—and win via UD as well.
“AJ’s
first fight in
America,
he did very well,” Roach raved. “It’s kind of a new
territory for him. It was his first time there and he
showed some great experience, and it was a good fight
for him.”
“Boom-Boom” is excited in this fight,” Roach said. “He
got hit with really hard shot [in the seventh] and
recovered from that pretty well and weathered that storm
and came back very well.”
Corrales, R.I.P.
FORMER
world champion boxer Diego Corrales was killed in a
motorcycle accident Monday night in Las Vegas.
A Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Department source confirmed
Corrales was killed in the evening crash and was
“traveling at a high rate of speed” before impact. The
spokesman said at least one other vehicle was involved
and that one person in an automobile at the scene had
sustained minor injuries.
Boxing
trainer Joe Goossen and Jin Mosley, a close friend of
the boxer, said the victim was Corrales, 29.
“It’s
confirmed, he’s dead,” said Mosley, the wife of Pomona
boxer Shane Mosley. “Details are sketchy. We were told
he was going over 100 mph. We’re in absolute shock, this
is tragic. He has a baby on the way.”
Corrales
(40-5, with 33 knockouts), a former International Boxing
Federation super-featherweight and World Boxing Council
lightweight champion, reached what Goossen called “the
pinnacle” of his career in 2005, when he rallied from
two 10th-round knockdowns to knock out Jose Luis
Castillo. |
