Greatest Fights: Corrales v Castillo with Joe Goossen
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo produced a contest for the ages back in 2005, featuring one of the most dramatic comebacks ever seen.
Joe Goossen was in Corrales' corner that night, and joins Mike and Steve to remember their game plan for the fight, the subtle tricks trainers and fighters can pull to gain an advantage, and the tragedy of Corrales' death two years later.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2003 in Birmingham. |
| 0:04.4 | Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here. |
| 0:07.1 | They were capable of murder. |
| 0:08.4 | Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies. |
| 0:15.6 | The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | We're going to be even more violent than you. |
| 0:19.6 | Before turning on each other. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.1 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:38.7 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:48.3 | It's the latest in our series of greatest fights on Five Live Boxing with Costello and Bunce and today we're traveling back 15 years to May 2005 and not for the first time in the series we're going to Las Vegas |
| 0:55.7 | and in this instance to the Mandalay Bay Event Center and across the series we featured some very special |
| 1:02.4 | contests but this is one Steve |
| 1:03.9 | that many have as their ultimate number one of all time. And if it's not the number one |
| 1:09.1 | fight of all time it involves one of the most amazing rounds of all time something that I think every single person can agree on and and what's really interesting about this one |
| 1:17.8 | Because it feels so fresh it feels so new and you can you get the sense watching it again which is something that you and I have to do |
| 1:25.4 | before we go on and record these fights all of this greatest fight series but as you're |
| 1:29.8 | watching it just like we had all those weeks ago with Sugar Ray Leonard. |
| 1:35.0 | You knew what was coming next, didn't you? You stopped it and you knew that that second, that was when Castillo did something. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, you knew that was the second when suddenly |
| 1:43.8 | corralis wobbled. You got that sense, you got that feeling. And that's what I |
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