Crime in Sports - #148 - Keep The Punching In The Ring - The Heedlessness of Diego "Chico" Corrales

Episode Date: February 5, 2019

This week, we stroll down a dangerous path, with a dangerous guy. He came from some very tough circumstances to achieve wealth, fame, and champion status. The problem was, he just couldn't keep his fighting inside the ring. His violent tendencies at home, mixed with his reckless nature out in the world, leads to a life of constant issues, and eventually leads to one of the craziest episode endings in CIS history!! Steal cigarettes from strangers while you're still in diapers, never take a prank phone call lightly, and only drive motorcycles that are way too fast for you to handle with Diego "Chico" Corrales!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!! Contact us on... twitter.com/[e-mail]/Crimeinsportsinstagram.com/smalltownmurder  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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or name their kids junior after them so it's it's ridiculous it really is it's disturbing it's crazy we do another podcast with all sorts of people in it not this many people named junior by any stretch of imagination and much more serious crimes too something about athlete something about having athletics and and and ego and i don't know what it is mixes with something that makes you commit crimes after you go to sports i don't understand it's above the law we don't know but diego corral is junior he's a boxer and a pretty famous boxer here in the late 90s and early 2000s. He was on HBO, Showtime, all those channels constantly. No, he was a lighter weight.

He started at 130 for a long time. Had a big fight with Floyd Mayweather that we'll talk about. Ended up upping his weight. He's a tall guy. We'll talk about him here in a second. He's a tall guy and a lightweight. We'll talk about it. He's born August 25, i'm sorry august 25th 1977

okay uh in columbia south carolina but doesn't last long in south carolina they end up going to california he grows up in sacramento oh um yeah he grows up in a not a great not a great situation and we'll get some some real specifics about it from his mom here. He has a brother also named Esteban. Esteban Corrales, who sounds like he sings beautifully. He does. Doesn't that sound... Esteban Corrales? Singer of guitar.

Not even a guitar. He sounds like an opera singer. He's like some... That's the Spanish opera. He's the star of all of Spain. How much of a piece of shit am I? I just saw him with one of those hats with the tickle ball thing on it. Yeah, you saw Esteban from the commercials at 2 in the morning.

Well, yeah, that guy, he slings guitar tapes. How come I didn't know? Learned to play shitty guitar tapes. I don't realize how my brain connected that until you pointed it out. Yeah, it's that. It was a pretty simple A to B, honestly. You weren't going around the circuit or over the mountain or anything like that. Is that guy that famous?

Is he? I don't know. Esteban? Yeah. They make jokes about him on SNL. I think they had sketches. Plus, there was a local comedy club, a shitty local comedy club that had him. That's why I know it.

And we made fun of the guy because the guy talked about how pure comedy was all that was good. And then he had Esteban Phil at night night who's neither comedy nor pure of anything. I don't think I don't know what he is, but I don't know. So he's a pure guitar player. I'll tell you that. Yeah. So now Diego, they're happy to have him. God damn it.

God damn it. They were thrilled to have him thrilled to close down for comedy that night to have old people watch a guy pick fucking Spanish tunes from 50 years ago. He was just... That's all he was. They were like, oh, I recognize that. Okay. Is that La Bamba again?

I don't think it's La Bamba, but okay. That's fine. Play La Bamba. We like La Bamba. That is not mine. We still, we like it. We don't care. Play it again.

Just do it. We don't give a shit do you know the macarena can you can you play tequila it's the only day can you do that one do that alone is that possible do you need drums can you play lowrider is that yours no shit what other goddamn spat martha we all know martha's a hot piece of ass. Martha! What other Spanish songs do we... I don't know. That's all he knows. I think that's all he knows.

He's got... He's got an... I don't know. I don't know if he knows any American songs. Jesus Christ. It hurts so bad. Old people. La Cucaracha?

Can you play La Cucaracha? Whatever you're playing, play it louder, please can't hear you you can't i know we're right here so diego diego's a tall guy yeah for his weight he's tall he ends up growing up to be 5 11 but he fights at 130 pounds for a long time. So think about that. That is a tall, thin son of a bitch, which he's got reach like nobody else in that weight class and somehow has a lot of pop behind his punches, too, which just makes him super dangerous.

Well, you're swinging down. Yeah, but you would think a lot of times, though, I don't know, you would think he wouldn't have a lot of power because he'd be too lanky or something or wouldn't have a lot of. He's not very, you know, very thick. So you'd think, oh, well, he's not going to have a lot of power. But no, no. Punching is like throwing a baseball where you could see somebody and you go, they don't look like shit. But somehow, like the people throwing a baseball, you could take a guy who's the most athletic looking person in the world and they can't throw 60 miles an hour.

Take a guy who's the most athletic-looking person in the world, and they can't throw 60 miles an hour. And you can take some skinny kid out of a fucking field somewhere in the Dominican Republic that doesn't— And he can throw 98 miles an hour out of anywhere in any country. You just happen to be able to put all that weight behind that particular area. Throwing is one of those things. You've got Pedro Martinez, who's 5'8", weighed 145 pounds, threw 98 miles an hour. Isn't that small? He's a fucking tiny little guy. And then you have a huge guy you can't throw for shit.

It just has nothing to do with physique or size. Punching's a lot of the same way. C.C. Fabathia didn't throw fast, did he? It was just a nasty slider, wasn't it? No, in his career, in his peak, he was throwing in the mid-90s. Oh, okay. Mid-90s, yeah. He was a big boss.

I just see him throwing a nasty fucking slider that he can't hit anyway. He had a nasty fastball in his day. He just hasn't been around for so long, he's forgotten about it. He's one of those guys, every time I see he's scheduled to pitch, I'm like, oh, yeah, he still plays. Holy shit. Somehow, he still collects $30 million a year for this bullshit he does on the mound and he's starting yeah oh yeah well they'll play that's a long story there they don't want him starting it's a every spring training that's a yeah that's an ordeal but there's so many injuries it doesn't matter eventually eventually so many people get hurt

they have no choice we need cc so uh diego corral is a long reach so that ends up helping him a lot and i really enjoyed watching his fights for that reason, because he would just pick you apart. Guys would try to come in on him and he'd just pop, pop, pop, keep him away. And I don't recall the name, but I'm sure I've seen a fight. I'm sure you have. So he's had a couple of real famous, a few famous ones to a couple of wars. One is considered one of the best fights of his weight class in the history of boxing

is a war. It was awesome. Father leaves at a real young age. And apparently his father's an asshole. And there's this article that his father does later on talking about how, well, you know, I watched the boy from afar, but I made sure everything. And I left because I was into crime and all this type of shit. Jesus.

So I left because you can't give a kid's a good upbringing like that so yeah it was all like a real like hey you know i'm a real uh real good guy i'm doing this just for them not for me at all i don't want to just go around and fuck off and do drugs and fuck women i'm just i'm trying to make a better life for my kids by leaving them i don't want them I don't want them to see this horrible shit I'm going to do. Yeah. Where then the mother, in a response to the article, would go, you lying motherfucker. And literally would answer everything he said word for word. First of all, and she'd address it right to him.

You don't know what you're talking about saying this because you were never there. You didn't do shit. It's awesome. It's like a vicious agent taking a proposal and then just like redlined. Yeah, it doesn't like it. Fantastic. Well, the father says, quote, the father leaves early, like three years old. The father says, quote, I wanted to run with the gangsters.

I didn't want to be stuck at home with a family. I didn't want that responsibility. I would never say I was right in what I did because I wasn't. I was wrong. But then he goes on to say, but, you know, I think I did the right thing in the end. So back in Carolina, this is I know this is they moved to Sacramento. He left in Sacramento. Yeah, he left in Sacramento.

Now, the mother, the mother will give you some background here. She says, the first thing I'd like to address is the name Corrales and how it came about. Now, Corrales, the way Diego's name is spelled, C-O-R-R-A-L-E-S. That's Corrales, the way Diego's name is spelled, C-O-R-R-A-L-E-S. That's Corrales, okay? She said, I married James Avery Corrales, but it's Q-U-A-W-R-E-L-L-S. Right, but same thing. That's Corrales. Yes, exactly.

He said, this is the birth name of Diego's biological father. I would like to say that I remember why he changed his name, but I don't. I do remember him asking how you would say James Corrales in Spanish. I wasn't sure on the Corrales, but I told him Corrales, and the first name would be Diego. He liked this fake name and decided that he would be called this new name. So he just went by that and then named the kid Junior. Holy shit. And named the kid that Junior.

That's not how that works either. Not at all. Because he's a junior of an alias basically so right away his he's not even there it's like it's like back to the future like his picture would be disappearing on the polaroid like what what how it's disappearing oh he's going away he doesn't exist it's like being named baby face nelson junior no a junior of a thing that doesn't exist. It's amazing. Biggie Smalls Jr. No.

Sorry. Not a thing. So it's fucking awesome. Unbelievable. She said he liked this fake name and decided he would be called by this new name. We never went to any judge or court to change his name legally, but he just began telling everyone that Diego Corrales was his name. Okay. name legally but he just began telling everyone that diego corrales was his name okay my marriage certificate shows his legal birth name and my divorce decree shows i divorced mr james avery

corrales with the old spelling of the q and the alias diego corrales senior is on there uh now now uh he always the father will reference uh someone who raised helped raise diego and he always calls him this man he never calls him by his real name how how do you go through life being like yeah my name is diego and then you show your id and you're like james we're not calling you that diego diego listen james we can't do there's no stage names here at uh pipe masters sir yeah or the dmv for that matter jesus or the electric company to pay your fucking bill we want to know your real name there's no there's no alias here sir what's your social security number how about this whatever number name that's attached that's what we're gonna use that's you that's you so you can call yourself whatever you want go ahead

yeah so uh she said ray was the guy that really did everything. Ray is the guy who comes in and is his stepfather, Diego's stepfather. The mother says, quote, he is and was the only dad that your children ever knew. This is directly to the father and love because of your self, your chosen self-imposed exile from their lives. chosen self-imposed exile from their lives he had been their dad since diego was uh three years old and esteban was a year and a half and he is grandfather to the seven grandchildren uh we have i'm appalled at the fact that you state that you've made the right that you made the right decision to leave let me refresh your memory i left on my own accord after you beat me and threatened to kill me or did that conveniently escape your memory i took all i could take from you you didn't quit you got fired uh yeah that's what she just and uh it gets worse by the way oh my god you tricked me at 15 years old by telling you you would take me away from my sheltered existence in nebraska and show me the world and i was foolish enough to believe

you when i ran away from home with you. A grown man, nine years my senior. So 24 and 15. Yeah, that's gross. Yeah, a 24-year-old takes my 15-year-old on the road. I will hunt him like an animal and kill him. I will track him. Take me and show me the world. This is South Carolina.

This isn't far enough. She's going to follow a trail of your blood after I slit your throat if you take my daughter anywhere. I'll tell you that right now. I'm going to follow it about 10 feet before you fall over. Before you bleed out. That's how it's going to work. You fucking mess with my kids. Yeah, this is ridiculous.

So, yeah, nine years my senior. Do you know what they call that, don't you? Yeah, pedophile. Oh, my God. She doesn't say pedophile, but she says you do know what they call that, don't you? I took, yeah, pedophile. Oh, my God. She doesn't say pedophile, but she says you do know what they call that, don't you? I took five years of your abusiveness toward me and my boys, or politically correct, I should say, our boys, quote, unquote. I refused to let you take my life, and I vowed that my children would never be like you. Do you not remember how I met Ray?

This is fucked up. This is Diego had a fucked up childhood. Now, Diego's nickname is Chico. He always goes by Chico's son, the son, Diego's junior. I was like, his dad's got a fucking name. Yeah, he's got he's we're confused with his names already. Let's not even if he had a nickname. I wouldn't tell you about it at this point.

We've we're already in knee deep in names with this fucking guy. Diego goes by Chico. He's Diego Chico corrales is his boxing name and like he appears later on and things on tv and he's credited as chico corrales like that's that's what he goes by son right i don't know if that's to separate himself boy i don't know if this is separate himself from his father yeah or what should it not be diego to because that's what that guy goes by. But so she references Chico. She's talking about young Diego.

Got it. Quote, at two years old, you had Chico out there begging for your nasty habits. Remember how you would send him outside and beg for your cigarettes or steal them? Ray actually was the fellow that came to our apartment to tell me that Chico stole his cigarettes while he was shooting the shit with his friends. Do you remember you left me with the embarrassment to talk to this stranger about Chico's act and no sooner than I closed the door,

you were so quick to praise this shameful act? I would like to thank you, though, because you and your shameful acts have put me in his sights and the beginning of a relationship than a marriage that has lasted 30 years. Hold on. So she ended up getting together with ray the guy who got his cigarettes stolen by two-year-old diego while he was shooting

the shit with his friends and then his son his dad high-fived him for stealing yes his dad because he was stealing him for his dad his dad told him to go out and steal cigarettes so he was using him like some kind of spider monkey like to like a some sort of like indiana jones thing that was trained to pickpocket people as much as i agree with with mama corrales at this moment uh she sounds a lot like that teacher's council lady or parent tv council lady that was like you knew the lady that when jackson showed her nipples yeah yeah she's like you i saw it and it was really nasty yeah it's not that bad of an act. He stole cigarettes, for fuck's sake. Calm down.

Wait a second. Hold on a second. You can't send your two-year-old out in the street to steal cigarettes. No, you can't. To pickpocket people. It's a shitty thing to do. I think. But it's not that bad of an act.

I think it's as bad to send your toddler into the streets to, he's in diapers. Yeah, but. He's pickpocketing people. It's 1980. Those cigarettes cost like a quarter. He's in diapers. He's pickpocketing people. It's 1980.

Those cigarettes cost like a quarter. To steal anything, you're sending a toddler into the street to become a fucking thief. Like, on your command. I don't think that's right. It's real Aladdin street urchin. If you go to Mexico and kids come up to you, you go, oh, that's so sad. What is this? Same. This is worse.

At least those kids are selling chiclets. You might want chiclets. They're selling chiclets. Yeah, they're selling. You might want chiclets. They're selling chiclets for you to pull out a 20 and be like, that's all I've got. And then they're like, that'll do. And then they run off. At least they're not stealing your cigarettes. They're stealing more.

They're stealing cash. You don't have to pay that much for chiclets. It's your own guilt. It's because you have some, you know. I'm just saying the monetary gain here is so minute. No, it's just the fact that you're sending your baby. Oh, it's scummy as fuck. Your baby.

It's like the Dave Chappelle joke. Hey, baby. Like, that's Diego. He's on the corner. I'm selling weed. I got kids, motherfucker. Yeah, I was like, what? Shit, roll the window up.

Yeah. I was not in the club. She ends up hooking up with Ray, who is the man who had a cigarette stolen and came to complain that your toddler stole my cigarettes while I was out there. Pretty awesome. Which is kind of embarrassing, yeah. So she says, quote, oh, and for you, and as for your life of crime, James, while married to me, the only crimes you committed was marrying a minor and teaching your son the art of theft.

Oh, and let us not forget the many relationships outside the marriage that fostered the many children you have. Now you're talking. Have they garnered as much attention as Chico has? I know Esteban hasn't. Could it be that he's not as famous and successful as Diego, that he's not your favorite? Or could it be that he's alive and had much to say and nothing that you want to hear? alive and had much to say and none of you, nothing that you want to hear.

Remember correctly, James, you were a horrible person to me, my mom and my sister. They seen you throw knives at me while they were visiting from Nebraska. Remember that? Or maybe you can try to remember driving them to the bus station and being so angry that they were leaving that you went ballistic and scared us all half to death. Then you threatened to kill us and you refused to give them food and money to eat with on the three or four day trip back to Nebraska. Did you ever stop and think why they left? As a mother, I understand. My mother couldn't watch what you were doing to me.

That's why she left. If you're going to talk about yourself and the kind of person you are, tell the truth, all of the ugly truth. I understand your embarrassment. I'm even embarrassed to tell it. But if you want to come out and tell a story you couldn't uh painfully tell and be brutally honest about that you shouldn't have said anything she did this through the press she did this in the press because this guy put a he put like a bullshit spin on you know i'm a gangster that's why yeah so i took a step back and i just watched him from afar and all that she was like listen motherfucker

let's talk about the real shit of why you left it's because no one wanted you around right now she says quote this is the end of it here uh you stole my children from me when i left and i let you see them and spend time with them i even let them spend the night and you left uh and you left with them thank god for your aunt bernice not your grandfather after call after calling her looking for you she told me she would call and if and when you showed up her exact words when she called me was he is here come right now to pick these babies up he has no business with these kids because he's a fucking crackhead apparently i don't know if you cried as we drove away but i have a clear picture of you cowering in a corner holding my kids and telling me that you would kill them before you let me have them your aunt talked to you and took the kids from you so this is diego's upbringing

this is his young life it's pretty beautiful it's yeah he's had a his formative years his first couple years are filled with some uh interesting shit angsty to say the least yeah he doesn't he doesn't have a nice relaxed environment. This is moving around a lot. He's stealing cigarettes. He's got a lot going on by three. He's got an active social life by three. He's got a lot happening. He's got his dad telling him, before your mom gets you, I'm killing you.

I'm going to kill you. And they're stealing kids and back and forth. That's what's going to happen next. So you can imagine he's going to, you know, you's you can see some maybe some anger pent up and stored up. Ends up being a pretty happy-go-lucky kid. And kind of his personality kind of to the public and to pretty much everyone that knows him, except for a couple women later on, is pretty much a happy-go-lucky, you know, known as like a happy guy. He doesn't even he's not even a big shit talker in boxing like he's kind of the guy where you really gotta poke and prod him a lot before

he'll start talking shit about you he's that kind of guy he's just kind of a happy dude uh it's interesting here and we ever bring this shit up before fights well yeah people would well people would bait him a little bit and uh you know he didn't really take the bait all that much but sometimes he would but it was always an unpurposed thing like oh let's let's you know it was more like guys he was friends with would be like let's talk shit let's make it let's make it yeah let's you know make this a big deal but guys he didn't know or like he wouldn't really engage with that's hilarious he had a really funny back and forth with mayweather him and may mayweather's shit talking to him is some of the funniest shit ever and most ironic shit ever.

It's amazing. So, yeah, he as a kid, he was he grows up in a really rough area in Sacramento. Not a not a good area. He's introduced to boxing by his stepfather, Ray Woods, who becomes his trainer later on. You see him in all of his fights. He's the guy in the corner there. And he said that he knew it was his life's calling immediately. his trainer later on you see him in all of his fights he's the guy in the corner there uh and uh he he said that he knew it was his life's calling immediately everybody did ray did diego did he's

uh boxing's one of those things if you're really good at it and you can you could see it immediately it's it's uh it shows it's like throwing a ball or hitting a ball or shooting a basket there's if a kid's really good at it immediately, it really shows up. And apparently, there's conflicting reports here. He says that he had problems with the law as a kid, like 11, 12, 13. Really? Yeah. He says he kind of was hanging around gangs but didn really join gangs, but would joyride in stolen cars.

He got in trouble for that, kind of being in a stolen car a couple times. He would miss school, and truancy officers would come looking for him and shit like that. Is he just running with the wrong crowd, do you think? He's running with the wrong crowd. He's in a shit area, and he's running with the wrong crowd. That's all it is. It's tough. Sacramento, people don't know that that place is kind of hood.

A little bit, yeah. By the way, Sacramento was pretty cool. It that's the greatest great show there that we had but we didn't have to hang out in the shitty parts really we just went and did a show right at the uh what is that the punch line and uh it was good so yeah he's so he he's he's looking like he's kind of going down the same road as all the other kids in the neighborhood except also he's a really good boxer on the side and they're worried about him fucking that up you know just running the streets being an idiot yeah uh now he says this is a pretty good fight story here from when he was 11 or 12 fighting this is pretty funny he says this is from diego how weird is that to say out loud what 11 or 12 and he's fighting fighting like well viciously oh viciously yeah they have all the way down to like

eight years old they'll send little kids out there with headgear it looks like they're gonna fall over because the headgear is so big and the gloves are so big and they're just tapping each other with these big it's the weirdest looking thing you ever want to see it's so weird to say that the only thing that's weirder is when you see tiny tiny kids tackling each other in football with giant helmets and pads and they just run and they get to they look like masc and they look like mascots. They look like the Milwaukee Brewer, like the relish. Remember when the guy, what was it, Randall Simon hit one of the mascots with the bat? He tapped the mascot, and there's a very sensitive weight differential on those big Milwaukee Brewer mascots. It says center of gravity's off.

It's over. He tapped him on the top with the bat, and dude just tumbled forward right on his face and hurt himself and shit and it was a fucking mess it might have been a lady even i'm not sure but uh they sued him and she was injured i think he got arrested probably i think he got taken away after the game i think he got taken away after the game and coughs damn he was fucking around it wasn't vicious if you watched it it was literally like i'm gonna tap this big foam thing right you know this won't hurt this person but you know you gotta you gotta know the physics work there now uh diego says of this fight quote i was a kid 11 or 12 i was fighting a kid in hereford louisiana i was fighting a kid who did karate we were fighting really hard i was beating his butt pretty good all of a sudden he jumped in the air and did a karate kick on me right on my

side it was amazing kicked the crap out of me. My parents were videotaping it. It was the craziest moment in my life. So that's pretty hilarious. This kid just like lost his mind. He's getting his ass kicked and he just desperation move. He crane kicks him. Okay, I think I'll start kicking now.

These aren't working, but what about these? That's the weirdest shit in the world. these aren't working but what about these that's the weirdest shit in the world now there is uh like i said conflicting reports of how deeply he was into like gang shit when he was very young okay conflicting uh some says that he just did joyride it a little bit and you know was kind of uh on the periphery gang estuary yeah he's kind of waiting in the waters there outside uh and some people say that he was uh saw a drive-by shooting of one of his good friends when he was uh like 13 years old and that kind of uh you know escalated scared him away from that oh yeah that kind of uh pushed him out made him concentrate more on boxing so there's conflicting reports of what that of what exactly

yeah made him really buckle down because for a while everybody was saying he was fucking off and he wasn't taking it seriously enough and he was going to blow his you know gift and all that type of shit and then after a while it's something makes him just really buckled out and focus uh he trains mostly at the uh sacramento police athletic league boxing gym that's a police station that's not the police athletic league where they, it's basically they sponsor programs for inner city kids. So they don't have to go arrest those kids.

I like that. Yeah. If you're all here, we don't have to arrest you out there. Right. I think is what the, what the goal is. We can keep an eye on you,

which I, I would, if I was 14, I would have never done anything with the word police on it. I would have been like, this is a fucking trap. There's no way this is real. There's no way they're trying to help us out.

Fuck that. I would have walked right away. I would have not trusted that for a second. This is a trap. But a lot of these... You're like the roadrunner. You're like, ah, I see that cave. Yeah, I don't know.

That cave is painted on a rock. That's not real. There's got to be a big acme anvil hanging above here by one of those ropes, I think. What's this birdseed about? This is bullshit. It's too big of a pile for right. I could see a couple of kernels if they fell out of someone's pocket, but who drops a pile of birdseed in the middle of the road?

Nope. Meep, meep. Meep, meep indeed. I'm out. So that's how we should open the show. Yeah. Meep, meep indeed, Jimmy. I'm out.

So that's how we should open the show. Meet me, Jimmy. So a lot of the kids end up, a lot of the boxers started out at police athletic league gyms because a lot of times they come from shitty areas where they don't really have access to the equipment for boxing and the police athletic league. It's kind of like on the wire where Dennis Wise opens up the boxing gym for the kids because there's no other place than the box in the neighborhood and then uh avon barksdale has to donate a lot for equipment and uh never mind fucking what happens he gets the equipment and then oh gets a nice boxing gym eventually beautiful he also gets kneecapped by a gangster that's no uh so that was bad uh but does he teach kids to box some of them okay ones who don't end up becoming gangsters and getting him kneecapped while he tries to go get them back into the box.

The kids got him kneecapped? Oh, yeah. He tries to. He goes to reach out to a kid in the street, Jimmy. Young Michael needs help. And it fucking backfires? And he didn't want his help. And some of Michael's crew said, get the fuck away from him.

He doesn't want to talk to you. And they ended up shooting him in the leg. And so that was that. When you said kneecapped, I get that they're shooting people. But I assumed fucking like a, like fucking Tonya Harding kneecap. No, no, no. With a gun. Fuck.

Much worse. That's a much worse kneecap. Yeah. Nancy Kerrigan was still popping triple axles a month later. Wow. This guy had no more he was triple axle time was done for this man there goes soccer yeah that's it no never mind it's a ben affleck movie yeah it's my favorite part of the movie when uh

jeremy jeremy renner shoots a gangster mexican guy in the knee and he goes there goes soccer like right in his face oh yeah okay it's a great there you go it's a racist very funny thing to say to somebody that's now bleeding in their living room no soccer for a 40 year old ex-convict starting a children's boxing gym in the wire either. So there you go. He said that boxing was becoming less of a priority on the street. But people convinced him as a teenager that he was disrespecting the sport by not training as hard as he could and disrespecting himself and all that shit. He ended up quitting boxing totally because he said said he wasn't people were breaking his balls he wasn't he wasn't training hard enough and he just said well fuck it then and quit rather than

rather than training harder yeah sounds like a champion already right but he ends up having a will that's pretty amazing so he he comes around he's gonna come back i know he will you know i know because i work with a guy uh who does the same shit where when there's a challenge he goes fuck it it's over then his name is james petrogallo yeah yeah and he comes right back he goes you know what i've thought about it we just had this conversation james it's true i know he's gonna keep going but this it's true it's true fuck it's true. Fuck it. Never mind. He will quit when told he's shitty, though. That's the thing.

I get angry when I'm told I'm shitty. It's a different thing. I'll do it on spite at that point. I won't quit. Yeah. So he quits and moves to Amarillo, Texas. Yeesh. Which we've been there.

Not a good place. Panhandle action there. He gets a job in the shipping department of Montgomery Ward. Well, all right. Yeah. That's zero forethought. He didn't know about their business plan. Montgomery Ward ship.

I think that was a job that was hiring. It said hiring. Can you lift shit? And he went, I can lift shit. And then he went there and got paid $7.25 an hour. We're talking this is you know 1994 so it's minimum wage is 5.10 an hour or some shit at this point i think no i don't even think it's that at that much i think it was lower i think it didn't get ready yeah it was some shit like that at that point it's probably what he's making did the internet ruin that company

ruin what company montgomery ward it had to right because it was like finger hut you got a fucking magazine yeah well there's that and all those service merchandises and all those ones that were kind of uh those not real specialized department stores everything have gone downhill since uh the internet i think that's what did it yeah and also malls have died a little off and that's kind of where they were a lot of times. They were off in the back, though. Like, not even in the mall. Not in the corner. Sometimes they had their own wing. Right. Their own entrance.

You don't park in the mall if you're going to Montgomery Ward. You just park outside the washer-dryer section of Montgomery Ward. Pull right up to there and walk in. Next to the Sears Tire Center, out in the corner. They have their own weird little food court that only has, like, two things and an off-brand slurpee you're like this is fucking weird i don't think i want to be here so uh he gets lucky though here uh he's working the shipping department oh at uh at montgomery ward and a talent scout from top rank boxing tracks him down yeah i guess had watched him box as a teenager and thought he was good and said, where the hell that one kid go?

And they said, oh, he quit. And he goes, what are you talking about? That guy quit. How the hell he quit? He was the best one here. What are you talking about? So this guy goes, tracks him down and talks him out of, you know, shipping from Montgomery Ward and gets him back into back into fighting here. And he said he says after

this quote my dad kept me going in the gym I was an aggressive kid pretty strong and I always got in fights Ray said I'll take you every day to a place where you can get in a fight never get hurt and never get into trouble which that's how he got into boxing he said quote I just moved so

fast my first national tournament I'm in Newark and fighting for the national title. I remember going to the Statue of Liberty and I came home with a silver medal. I realized, hey, this can really pay off. Yeah. So right away, he's a real natural with this shit. That's the thing. He's a total natural.

And that helps a lot here. He says his favorite early boxing memory was at the Nationals in Newark, New Jersey. He said he went with a guy who was the director of PAL in Sacramento, a guy who was a police officer who now works for the FBI. Jesus. He took good care of me. I just had a ball with him. I was a silver medalist at 95 pounds.

That is just skinny little fists of fury, little children fists fury yeah whacking each other uh i won five fights in that tournament jesus i think i fought every day that can't be safe fuck uh lost uh this is you know 13 14 15 or 16 every day every day uh lost a decision in the final but i got a trophy they gave it to me for the sportsman of the tournament. So my first national, I got two trophies. How about that? Yeah, he's good. As an amateur, he fights, Jesus Christ, 117 amateur fights, which is a lot. And we talk about this guy and any of these fighters, talk about his record.

Think about before he starts pro boxing, he's fought 117 fights. So that's a lot of hits to the head. It just is. I mean, an amateur, you have your headgear on and all that shit. You're still getting hit in the fucking head regardless. So between that and then he gets into boxing and think about all the fights. He goes through a lot of wars. A lot of head blows here is all I'm going to say.

Now, he compiles an amateur record of 105 and 12 which is pretty goddamn good amateur record of out of 117 fights yeah you want 105 105 105 and 12 it's pretty fucking impressive for a child yeah that's his that's his child record unbelievable not too bad in 1994 it is when he took second place at the amateur championships. That was the one in Newark where he loses to Frankie Carmona on points. And Frankie Carmona ends up being a fighter later on. You'll know his name. He gets to the 1995 Pan American Games.

He goes to the first round of the featherweight bracket and loses. There. What now? I'm sorry. I just see him at Montgomery Wards in the interview, and they're like, what qualifies you for this? And he's like, well, I'm a professional boxer. And the guy's just like, you can box professionally? Can you go box that Frigidaire for me?

Actually, I'm a top. No, you messed it up. He's not a professional yet when he goes there yeah i'm a i'm a nationally ranked amateur boxer how'd you like to turn pro kid that's the joke jimmy oh yeah kid how'd you like to turn pro we'll pay in five ten an hour what do you say chewing on a cigar with a gray fedora. Can you do it? You're hired. There's a bedroom set over there.

Box that shit up for me. You sat on Monday. Tell you what, kid. There's a bedroom set and a bunch of dishes. Let's see how you do with big and fragile. And you got four minutes

and go. And go. Let's do it. I thought you were an amateur. Anyway, so. Sorry. That's fucking hilarious. No, no.

That's funny and shit so in my head i'm like there's got to be a boxing there has something there that's amazing uh he uh he also lost the 1995 world championships uh an amateur tournament he loses there also doesn't get a medal but in 1996 he turns pro uh so yeah he's not even 19 yet he's 18 years old his first this is hilarious by the way his first pro match where it is you're gonna fucking laugh because i guarantee you at one point in time you're not you're not proud of it you're embarrassed about it and if you if i, if anyone saw a picture of the shirt you were wearing the night where you were there,

you'd be super embarrassed. But his first fight, March 19th, 1996 at club Rio in Tempe. No kidding. Club fucking Rio. Now, if you're not from the Phoenix area,

you don't know, but this was a douchey douchey club. Yeah. Uh, sort of near the Tempe improv a little bit right off the highway there. It's half mile away it was a douche hole yeah and uh it was just the worst people the amount of assaults and rapes disgusting it's oh basically every time an nfl player would grope somebody and get in trouble for groping someone in arizona they took place there jake plumber got groped.

It's always at Club Rio. It's dark and gross there. If it's not Club Rio, it was Axis Radius, but that was up the road a piece. Yeah, and that was more expensive. Anybody could go to Club Rio and be a douchebag. You got an idea? Get in.

There is just, so the floors are sticky with semen. It's disgusting. It's an absolute, absolute shithole. It's surprising it's closed. Shocker. And leveled. It's a Denny's now, I think, there.

I think they leveled it. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I think they leveled it, and they're building... Like an audio school or something? There's something weird there now. I don't know what it is. Audio Express is right there. Yeah, some shit.

I don't know. That's what I mean. Audio Express outlasted the place, so there you go. But it's a nightclub. It's a shitty nightclub. So that's his first match is at a shitty nightclub in tempe where he may or may not have been uh groped by a douchebag in white sunglasses you never know this night he fights everett berry who's a two and four career fighter uh this is his last fight by the way uh yes uh diego beats him in round three

with a tko at one minute and 12 seconds, making him 1-0, wins his professional debut, even though it's a Club Rio. So not all that professional. I didn't know they did that there. Who the fuck did? Yeah. That's what I mean. It was some off, weird night two days after St. Patrick's Day.

There was probably still green puke on the floor for this fight. And what year was this 96 jake plumber was at oh he was then he was probably groping someone in the crowd i guarantee you he had his unwanted at his finger and a girl in the crowd it's completely unwanted two fingers i'm sure in there well teddy bruski around the corner you never know it was for sure happening douche city we'll just say that oh my god the desert the duel in the desert that weekend would have been bananas oh my god the worst gross the vile people that played for both teams oh the worst so march 28th 1996 that is nine days later yeah he fights again that fight did go two and a half rounds so

that's that's a lot nine days later he's back in the ring this time at the celebrity feet it's a celebrity theater in phoenix why is he here so i don't know why he's here so much but it's a celebrity theater which is a theater in the round yeah where it's got a round stage that spins yeah and it's really weird to watch comedy shows there because they have to figure out where the fuck they are and it's really discombobulating for performers if you can if you still like louis ck his last special was filmed there yeah there's been a lot of specials filmed there it's if you see a round stage where someone's kind of walking it's that's what it is it's the celebrity stupid theater in phoenix uh it's supposed to be not a bad seat in the house it's like yeah you can watch a confused performer from anywhere in the house

good for you how about a few less seats anywhere in the house. Good for you. How about a few less seats and we'll all just watch him from one side? How's that? What the fuck are we doing here? We'll all stare at each other's faces. Rotating stage bullshit. Here he fights Enrique Beltran. This is his debut fight, Enrique Beltran.

So it's a 1-0 guy versus an 0-0 guy. Enrique Beltran turns out to be a 1-7 career fighter before he quits. And this is not his win, by the way. This fight goes all four rounds, though. It's a four-rounder. Diego wins a unanimous decision. But he couldn't knock him out there. He whipped him good, just couldn't put him down.

Couldn't put him away. 2-0 he is, Diego. May 30, 1996. So plugging right along here, two months later. Again at the Celebrity Theater. Just hanging in Phoenix for some reason. I don't know what Sacramento and Phoenix, what the pipeline there is, but there's something. I didn't know

there was this many professional fights here. I didn't know either. I know there's fights around here. I just didn't know where they were, I guess. It's just weird to hear where they are. I just assume they're all at the casinos. Like a warehouse or something. I don't know. Some of these shit fights.

Bar parking lots. Yeah, you wouldn't understand. I don't know. I wouldn't expect them to be at Club Rio. Yeah, that's bizarre. So weird. He fights Celebrity Theater again, this time versus Victor Manuel Mendoza. This is his debut fight again, so he's fighting a lot of young fighters.

He's a young fighter. He's only 2-0 at this point. I wonder if they turn the spinny stage off when they do that shit. I fucking hope so. I want it to just keep spinning. Guys are like, hold on a minute. I'm dizzy. Wait.

Jesus Christ. Am I knocked out dizzy? What's happening? Or is this just the stage? Where am I? This is weird. Where's my corner? Where's my...

You go over to your manager. He's not your manager. You're like, I'm in the wrong corner. Where'd it happen? Where'd you go? I'm over here. Fuck. I'm Diego's. What are you doing over here? God damn manager you're like i'm in the wrong corner where'd happen where'd you go i'm over here fuck diegos what are you doing over here god damn it this is a pain in the ass now mendoza's a 12 and 22 career fighter at the end of his career uh this goes into the third round diego gets a tko at two minutes and 59 seconds almost yeah so they call it that

yeah they the ref calls this one right before the end of the round. 3-0, this brings Diego to. June 7th, 1996. That's a week later, by the way. A week later, he's at Caesars Palace. In Vegas. Yeah, so completely fighting Ciro Canales. He's a 5-3-1 career fighter. Canales is another fighter's name.

You're looking at me like I recognize that name. And there's also Canelo. That's the one I recognize. Yeah, it's the one you're thinking of. This fight goes all four rounds as well. Unanimous decision for Diego again. So he's fighting these inexperienced guys and going the distance and kind of just outboxing them and outpointing them. As we see a lot of these guys, sometimes that's how they start.

And Diego's also a guy in later on in a four-round fight that's he's just getting warmed up yeah he's a slow starter he likes to kind of jab and figure out where he can find you know figure out where you are in his reach and kind of where he's comfortable and then later on in the fight he's a really tough guy i mean we'll see on. When you beat the shit out of him, he keeps getting back up. He has no quit in him whatsoever. And he's the type of guy, as the fight goes on, he's way more likely to knock somebody out. How about that? Later rounds.

A lot of 10th round knockouts and shit like that. Also, I mean, from his early amateur fights that he did, those were all for medals and such. Yeah, that's all points. Right. That's how he's built. That's how medals and such. Yeah, that's all points. Right. That's how he's built. That's how he was conditioned. You see that with a lot of Olympic fighters, too. They come out.

Mike Tyson aside, you see that a lot with the Olympic fighters. De La Hoya never lost that style. He never was entertaining to watch because he's just a point fighter. But he wins. He wins, yeah, because he wins on points. That's what he does. Now, June 27th, 96, so that's, you know, Christ, that's three fights in a calendar month. Unbelievable.

Just a crazy shit here. And that was a four rounder and a three rounder. So three full rounds, four full rounds. It's a lot. You're fighting. Yeah. This is at the Celebrity Theater again. So he's spinning around.

He digs this place. He digs it, man. That's the only place that'll let him fight. Yeah. Fine. I'll fight in the spinny thing. I don't care. This is Lorenzo Raul Cheris' debut.

Here, Cheris. Cheris with an E before the S at the end. That's bizarre. He's a one-in-four career fighter. And again, this is not his win. This is a first-round knockout for Diego. All right. This is where he starts knocking people out.

And from now on, this is where he starts knocking people out and from now on this is this is his style now he comes into purely knockouts pretty much uh five and oh for diego here august 17th 1996 he's in albuquerque new mexico so august it's let me fight in the worst places but amarillo phoenix in the summer in this fucking rotating stage, and Albuquerque at the Sports Stadium in Albuquerque versus Cesar Morales, who's 4-0-2 coming in. So he's an undefeated. He's a 5-0 guy versus a 4-0-2 guy. And you could see two draws happening in those short fights,

those four-rounders. This guy, though, ends up being 5-1-2 for his career. This is corrales this is morales corrales morales caesar versus diego there you go uh yes uh this this is the guy's one loss by the way here he's a tko in round two bringing diego to six and oh september 13th 96 so these are rolling along fast and we'll just buzz right through them here this is at the nap center in des moines yeah he's where's the worst places to fight god damn it i'll wait it gets worse is it the nap center nap oh yeah yeah napp oh okay yeah napp is this where everybody in iowa goes to take a nap

napp got it okay all right in des moines he fights murphy hughes who in actuality is not even a man. He's a leprechaun. Yeah. He's actually a leprechaun. And he's on Iowa's flag. Fucking the most Irish man ever, Murphy Hughes. This is Murphy Hughes' debut. I mean, he's a leprechaun. He's not a real man.

And this is his only career fight. 0-1 career. Diego got his lucky charms, and the guy went home, and it was the end of it. He said i i have nothing left to fight for i'm going home of gold that's it and he goes home he's just just a leprechaun that's all he is with no gold anymore you don't even have to beat him you just punch him and once his little hat falls off it's over that's it that's the end of the fight 252 two minutes 52 seconds in round one that only takes to get a tko out of old uh murphy hughes two that's all that guy's career lasted two minutes and 52 seconds that's awesome of getting his ass kicked by by diego corrales that's incredible so seven and oh for

diego october 11th 96 he is in texas station in north las vegas north North Las Vegas is not Las Vegas, by the way. It is outside of Las Vegas in a much more shitty place. And it's Texas Station? Texas Station is the name of it. Oh, that's the venue. That's the venue. Got it. In North Las Vegas.

So probably a Texas-themed shithole on the outskirts of Vegas. So picture that. I picture it looking like Urban Cowboy, basically, where they ride the bull and Deborah Winger picks up the convict. Likely built by the mob. Likely, yeah. Just to put a foundation down on top of the grave.

That's it. Or just some sort of laundering scheme on the side or where they can eat breakfast after they bury a body in the desert. Something. It's on the way back in. a body in the desert something it's on the way back in so this is versus sergio macias who's a 14 20 and one career boxer a glutton for punishment yeah he is uh this is a tko at 146 in round four diego wins he's eight no november 29th 96 down in tijuana uh don't get it she's fighting in tijuana i this is like a three-fight Mexican tour he does here for some reason.

He fights in Tijuana. He fights Juan Santos, who sounds made up. Doesn't even sound like a real guy. That's his alias. He's got like seven different boxing records under seven different names. He's like, ah, fuck it. I'll be Juan Santos tonight. Anybody that's in there seeing him, they're just like, oh, it's that one.

Oh, that one. Okay. I thought we were seeing somebody else. I know a lot of guys. There's a bunch. So very common. Look at Jim Smith here. That's a Tom Jones all day.

Which Tom Jones? How many Tom's? Fuck. So this guy is a one in six career fighter. Yeah. Total. And his entire career this is not his win no again shocking i know you're shocked uh tko round one for diego diego's a bad man i don't know he's a bad motherfucker i i gotta say i have to tell you watching i watched

a lot of his fights on on the hbo and showtime and shit i loved diego corrales as a boxer watching him fight was fun like back in the day back in the day it was in the late 90s early 2000s there was a really good crop of boxers none of them heavyweights yeah that had died with tyson and lennox lewis and all those guys but holyfield was slow starting to slur his speech already and is there a champion right now whoa there's always a champion some russian guy it's always a russian? There's always a champion. Some Russian guy. It's always a Russian now. It's always a big Eastern European or a Russian or anything.

It's so boring. They're always big plotting fighters and not very exciting. Don't have that flash or that speed of a Tyson or whatever. But yeah, at this point in time, the lower weight classes were blowing up with great fighter. 130 to 154 was awesome at this point. This is when you had, you know, Delahoya, Mosley, Trinidad, Vargas. This was like, there were so many good fighters. Like, there was a ton of good matches all the time that you wanted to see.

And he kind of got into the mix of that in the lower weight classes. Got it. You know, built up a feud with Mayweather, because they were both fighting at 130 at that point. Next fight's December 13th, 1996 in Tecate, Mexico. So he's down there where they make the beer, I assume. The worst. The worst beer. He fights Mario Gonzalez.

Yeah, another one. Another made-up name. Is that one? Oh, yeah. Jesus. Jesus Christ, I thought it was my cousin what get out of my head james jesus three years three years is officially too long we've

yeah same jokes three years is uh what jesus christ it took us three years to do it we made eye contact when the works came out that was too much so yeah you both made the same terrible stereotype joke good for us nice nice moves so uh uh cousin mario here oh the joke is in there is fantastic no it's the fact that we both said it Nice moves. So, Cousin Mario here. Oh, the joke is in there is fantastic. No, it's the fact that we both said it. Yeah. That's the real joke here.

You can't fake that. That's some timing. Can't fake that, people. All right. So, Mario Gonzalez is 0-6-1 coming in. So, real promising fighter here. Oh, dude. He is 0-7-1 career.

This is it. This is another one. You're good at math. His one draw came against an 0-1 fighter, which must have been the saddest fight in the history of the world. Can you imagine? An 0-1 fighter versus an 0-6 fighter fighting to a draw. Can you imagine?

No one even wins. It's over and they go now split decision it's a draw sorry they both walked in and they were like one of us is gonna win nope we're gonna break nope you both still suck that's what the judges said they're both so terrible we can't give either of them a win i'm sorry neither but you're both undefeated. You're just defeated. You know what? It's very much like that Super Bowl yesterday. Neither of you deserve it. You don't deserve it.

You're 0-6-1 and you're 0-2-1. We're going to play it again next week. I, by the way, am way more interested in the new shitty football league that starts next week. What? There's a new shitty football league next week. We have a team in Arizona. What? The Arizona Hot Shots are the name of the team.

I'm in. I love a startup football league. Number one, because I always have. I was a big USFL. When I was a little kid, I loved the USFL and all that. I'll always give a new league a chance. And also because I fucking hate the NFL with a passion. Is it outdoors?

Yeah. Oh, this is great. It's at Sun Devil Stadium. Oh, this is great. It's at Sun Devil Stadium. Oh, this is great. They're playing at Sun Devil Stadium. I looked. There are seats in the first row still available for like $30. Let's go.

And I might go to this game to support a non-NFL football. Because I love football. It's tomorrow? But it's next week. Oh, let's go. I hate the fucking NFL. I love the football of the NFL. But I can't even listen with sound anymore.

I can't listen to the announcers. I can't listen to the announcers. I can't listen to the fucking meatheads there. I can't watch the commercials. I can't look at the fucking fans. I'm so sick of the over the it's because the patriotism isn't isn't even real. It's this fucking pandering. It's almost like when a big corporation. I thought you were gonna say on the wire.

No, no, no, no. It's like when a big corporation that's like a polluting industry gives lots of money to environmental causes and you're like, just stop. Right. Just, you know what? You don't care. You don't have to. And I don't expect you to care. Right.

But don't act like you fucking care to hedge your bets. Right. Be like, oh, but we put 12 bucks into that coffer. Right. So it's fine for us to destroy the gulf of mexico that doesn't work say fuck you we're destroying the gulf of mexico or whatever that's a great point it's like that that's how i feel like it is with that like we love the military no you don't you don't love shit you don't love anybody unless they're fucking paying

for a psl you don't like anyone unless they paying 80 grand. For the right to buy your shitty seat. And fucking pay $80 to park and everything else. Or pay some god awful amount of money. To fly their jets. Why are you charging the military. And then pretending to love them. Why are we paying for that. That's what I mean.

That's ridiculous. So you can go look how patriotic we are. Because taxpayers paid to have a fucking jet fly over. Our shit. To make it commercially more successful aren't we patriotic don't we love the soldiers america how about take the never mind i'm not even gonna get into it i fucking the nfl pisses me off so much i can't stand it we love our players look at them playing with the kids on this fucking what are they the the play United

Way commercials and all that look Look at how great they are. And it's like, we love them so much. Oh, well, you know, yeah, of course some of them are going to have brain damage, but that's unhelpful. But we care, but we really don't. Don't say you care. Say, you know what? It's a tough sport. Some of them are going to get brain damage.

That's the ropes. Own it. That's why we pay them a lot of money. I don't know. Yeah, that's why they have a shitload of money. And then when they're gone. Sorry. Say that.

They get health insurance. Or say, fucking, we care. And actually that's why they have a shitload of money. And then when they're gone. Say that. They get health insurance. Or say, fucking, we care. And actually act like you fucking give a shit. Do one of the two. So fuck the NFL, you liars. Anyway. So support. I think it's the American.

I wish I could remember the name of it now. It's the AAC or some shit like that. Google Arizona Hot Shots. Arizona Hot Shots. You'll figure the league. Football. There's like two. Yeah, there's probably a stripping team named that as well, I'm sure.

The Arizona Hotshots died in the front. I know, the firefighters too. That's what they're named after. Right. Yeah, it's a yellow helmet with like a fire thing on it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And there's only like two people I've ever heard of in the entire league, which is fun. Yeah.

That's great. It's going to be fun. So who do they get? Draft, I don't know who has. I saw Christian Hackenberg is in the league that penn state quarterback the jets drafted a couple years ago a couple other quarterbacks that were remotely drafted in the sixth round of the nfl and shit like that i love this shit yeah bring it on fuck yeah it's like the replacement yeah i hope keanu reeves plays let's go on tv too really

yeah i'm gonna watch this channel i don't remember It's whatever football is on. Who got the contract? CBS? Fox? One of those two. Okay. It's local. It's on local TV. It's network TV. Network TV. Who's behind this? I see commercials during NFL games the last couple weeks.

Who the fuck is behind it? I don't remember exactly, but it's there's some. It's direct competition with the NFL. No, they start the week after the Super Bowl. It's still direct competition. It's spring football. Yeah, it's USFL strategy, strategy basically where if you actually did that it could have worked and they're going well maybe it could work again who knows so uh brilliant

because from now until fucking uh middle of april everything sucks everything's every so i i so i loved the usfl as a kid so hopefully this will be good too who knows we just spent five minutes plugging them so hopefully you're welcome go look at that football it's good i don't it's probably more than anyone else ever knew about it so you're welcome they should give us free tickets arizona hot shots give us free tickets holla at your boy we'll fucking post pictures absolutely we have a lot of followers we'll post pictures that'll be more advertising than you'll probably get from other people so give us good seats and we'll come there and take pictures and say this is great but i guarantee you if they fuck up we'll cover them and take pictures and say, this is great. But I guarantee you, if they fuck up, we'll cover them.

We will. Yeah, don't hire any criminals. Nobody that's been on our show because they might stab us. Anyway, Mario Gonzalez, one of the saddest fighters in history, loses in a first round knockout to Diego here. Big shocker. December 16th, 96. That is three days later, by the way.

Three days. He fought December 13th. He fights November 29th, December 13th, and December 16th in Mexico. So they just lined up tomato cans for him to go kick over. This is in Tijuana versus Julian Vasquez. This is his pro debut, and he is an 0-4-1 career fighter. So in this entire tour, we're talking, including the fights that Diego, the losses here that he inflicts, we're talking a 1-17-2 career record for the fighters.

One win, 17 losses, and two draws for the Mexican tour. Three dudes won one fight combined. One fight combined and lost 17. So that's a first-round knockout again. So these are all pushovers. So he's 11-0 Diego. January 13, 1997, he fights at the Great Western Forum in L.A.,

so that's a big venue. Yeah, this is for Salvador Montes, who's 7-2-2 coming in, and he turns out to be 7-5-2 for a career. So this isn't going to go well first round knockout for diego again right so he's on a streak of those he is brings him to 12 and 0 march 14th uh 1997 this is veterans memorial coliseum where the suns used to play yeah down there the madhouse on mcdowell there yeah yeah uh this is versus Delfonso. I, the letter I, and then Delfonso after that.

That's not good. Bernal is his name. He's a 22, 34, and 2 fighter. So he's been hit in the face a lot. He fights a lot. He probably looks like a hamburger in the face, I would imagine. This is a TKO in round two at 34 seconds. And when was this?

What day? This was March 14th, 97. So this is actually two months. It took two months off here. And yeah, he fights. He makes him 13-0. April 4th, 1997, he's at the Orleans in Vegas. Oh, Jesus.

Oh, boy. We're talking about semen on the floor. Yeah. More there. We got a lot of tweets about how much of a pile of shit that place is. It's a pile of shit. It really is. Change our minds, orlean send us there that's what we're gonna do whenever we talk shit about anything we're gonna go change our minds fix it give us free shit and maybe we'll like you i don't know rectify it because i'm sure that's popular opinion your place yeah it sucks if you drive by and you go that place looks like a shit

doesn't it huh fuck looks like a shit it's like a shit dump bump i'm just like a shit, doesn't it? Fuck. Looks like a shit. It's like a shit dump pump. I'm just like, a shit is plenty. It looks like a pile of shit. Here he fights Steve Quinonez, who's 16-1 coming in, actually. This is a decent fighter. So this is a challenge. This guy ends up being 32-14 for his career.

Diego wins a TKO in round four this is a 12 round fight too so this is kind of the next level for him bringing him to 14 and 0 this also wins him the vacant iba intercontinental intercontinental super featherweight title fantastic which is a fucking long yeah that's a mouthful. But it was vacant. International Boxing Association Intercontinental Super Featherweight title. Wow. Okay. I'm sure there's an acronym for it. I mean, apart from IBA.

It isn't. This is IBA Intercontinental Super Featherweight title. Oh, my God. That's too much. That's too much. That's too much. Mom, mom, I won. What'd you win?

The IBA Intercontinental Super Fe featherweight special super zingy chocolate vanilla swirly strawberry featherweight title it's great you gotta put another quarter in before you finish all that no well okay hold on i got it damn it i'll call collect it's the 90s there's a lot of collect call commercials on right now 1-800-COLLECT 1-800 what was the other one uh 10 10 220 there you go that's one right there there was a bunch of those 10-10 ones. 10-10, yeah, for like the first 20 minutes are only a dollar long distance. People were very concerned with long distance back then.

Now it's a cell phone, it's all the same. But people were like, oh my God, that call's going to cost me $4. What are you doing? It's like 11 cents a minute today over there. So weird. So yeah, this wins him a title. Now he's got a belt at 130 pounds uh may 9th 1997

so he's cruising along here uh pretty quickly here uh march 14th april 4th and then may 9th so every month this is at the orleans again he fights javier pichardo who's a 40 22 and one career fighter and uh diego makes quick work of him with a second round knockout. That brings Diego to 15-0 for his career. And a lot of knockouts, too. So he's pushing right along. He's on schedule as a real up-and-comer. Problem is, he's also an up-and-comer with the police at this point in time.

Because right around this time, he has two different domestic violence problems arrests that go completely unreported by the media, not to the police. The media do not report on this at all. Where at? This shit comes out later on in California. This shit comes out later on. But these are two different incidents of domestic violence with a girlfriend. And he is convicted of domestic violence in 1997 as well and has ends up is some sort of diversion program of, you know, counseling and all that shit.

Doesn't do any jail time out of it or anything. No prison sentence or anything like that. But he has a domestic violence conviction at a a very young age here already so he's 20 years old this my friends yeah this is grace this is grace why do i love that so much it's so good this is it's it really is because you're like this is the tipping point this is where the guy is going up his top of the mountain and then oh, oh boy, here he goes. And he doesn't know that the other side is coming. That's the thing. When you go, when you reach the top of a mountain and then you go down the other side, you know you're going down.

This guy has no fucking idea. This is like Space Mountain in Disneyland. It's pitch black. He has no idea which direction he's going. Nothing. So July 11th, 1997 at the Memorial Auditorium in sacramento he's in his i guess de facto hometown here versus manny castillo who's a 13 16 and 3 career career record who will also uh two fights after this this guy will lose to james kirkland who's another one of our our alum our uh prestigious prestigious alumnus here, alumni. This fight goes 11 rounds out of 12, and Diego wins a TKO in 11.

So that's the other thing. He is dangerous late. Real, real dangerous late. A lot of guys, you'll kind of see them go, once it gets past the 10th, they'll kind of Peter out. They kind of lay back for a little bit and kind of let's go to the cards and whatever. He gets real aggressive at the end of fights. He's like a swimmer.

Yeah, he is. He's real aggressive at the end of fights. He's like a swimmer. Yeah, he is. He's got a little extra in the tank. He's got something in him that you'll see him get knocked down where you're like, oh, he's not getting back up. And he'll fucking get back up and he'll win the fight. That's the other thing. He's pretty incredible like that here. So he wins the vacant IBA Intercontinental lightweight title at this point. So he's stepping up in the world here.

August 22, 1997, the next month, he fights in Sacramento. He fights Isagani Pumar, who's a 31, 13, and 3 career fighter. This is a knockout in round four for Diego, so 17-0. out in round four for diego so 17 and 0 october 18th uh he fights and at buffalo bill's star of the desert arena in prim nevada there's not something in in buffalo no no it's not it's not it's a western themed shithole in nevada here he fights one uh one angel macias who's a 30 20 and three fighter this is a sixth round knockout, bringing Diego to 18-0. December 4th, 1997 in Sacramento, he fights

Angel Aldama, who's a 30-22-1 career fighter. And he's a good fighter. This guy's tough. This goes all 10 rounds. This is a 10-round fight. This is not for a title. Goes all 10. Diego wins by unanimous decision. He beat him, but he couldn't knock him out

this is a 19 and 0 for diego now april 18th 98 at the grand olympic auditorium in los angeles he fights juan carlos salazar who's a 49 20 and one career fighter so he's fighting a lot of veterans now but these are guys like on the way out so this guy this is this guy's last fight really so yeah 49 21 career fighter his last fight so you know what i mean like he's fighting it's weird because every one of these guys we do we see them on the way up they fight nobodies and then they fight these guys who are you know veteran journeymen been around a while their careers are now on the downswing and they beat those guys and then you fight you know guys your own stature who are really good and up and coming and then you start to slip and then you start fighting the young guys you're the guy on the

downside it's like a gang mentality yeah or it's like comedy like you're yeah i was just gonna say that you're ending up yeah you end up back where you came from and now you're featuring for some fucking puppet act or something youtube star yeah and you're like what happened but the the i can see what the reasoning behind this is it's all marketing to try to keep an audience in the in the crowd that's all that is you want to see this is a legitimate fighter right he's not fighting some bum he's fighting a guy who's been around the block if you're a boxing fan you might have even seen him once in a while on the circuit and if you're not here to see our boy, you may be there to see the fucking tournament. One way or another, you're there to see one of the two.

Something. Or at least it just looks legitimate. That too. Yeah, you see 49 wins and you go, oh, that's a legitimate fighter. This is a good fight. Meanwhile, this guy's about to drop dead. He's like wheezing on his last breath. He comes to the ring in a cane and you're like, but he's got 49 wins at some point.

This is the same reason that Muhammad Ali kept fighting when he didn't have it anymore. No, he just didn't, obviously. He just kept going because people show up to see it. Trevor Burbick beat him. You know what I mean? That tells you a lot. So this was his last fight, and this is a first-round knockout for Diego. So this guy says it's time to hang it up at this point.

He's certainly done. It's his 20th win, Diego. So he's 20-0 here. May 30th 1998 in the next month in LA again. He fights Eduardo Contreras who's 12-1-3 coming in and his career record total is 12-2-3.

This is his last fight. This is the second round knockout and Diego knocks the will to the desire to continue with a career out of him in the second round. So that's two fights in a row where he knocks the career desire out of people. They no longer, they changed professions. That's how bad of a fight of a fucking loss they took. They said, I don't want to do this anymore. That's how bad how bad

of a day at work would it take you to just fucking change careers just be like this sucks i give up just blasted away with the stapler yeah it's like i don't have it i can't do it i don't have i don't have what i used to have i don't have what he has the mustard anymore he's taking phone calls like nobody's business scheduling people look at that i don't have it i just can't do it uh 21 and 0 so to celebrate he gets a fight in one of the most prestigious locations i've ever heard of in my life here uh july 5th 1998 at the fantasy springs casino in indio yeah california yeah which is a stop uh if you're driving through the desert you get gas there and you go jesus people live here a lot of people back in your car and you drive as fast away from there as possible there

are so many people in india what why how there's a lot of questions i have for that there's so many why how are the first two i think it's the agriculture there right there's a lot of farming i guess what the fuck else is out there? What else could be out there? It has to be farming. It's just the sun. That's all it's there. That's how it should be called.

You're almost there. A couple more hours. Hang in there. That's what it should be called. Hang in there. A couple more hours. We have bathrooms. Population, whatever the fuck it is.

Population, flushing toilets. Jesus Christ. Here he fights benito rodriguez who sounds like a south american dictator benito rodriguez is taking over venezuela never mind the other two they got down there now benito rodriguez is going to come in and be the strong man that the people need today he's a 35 39 and 4 career fighter uh much like defer to the original bonito there uh this is a technical decision in round seven uh corrales hits rodriguez with a low blow oh now uh the way this works in low blow they give you time to continue if you can't continue then they go to the cards yeah they go to the scorecards and the fight's over and they just call it however it's judged at that

point so uh this rodriguez got hit in the ball so hard he couldn't continue so that's a good shot in the nutsack my god because i've seen guys yeah i mean we you know uh take riddick bow yeah galata just teed off on his nutsack i I mean, he treated that thing like a heavy bag. He was like, I'm going to ruin his cock. And he just went after it with these Eastern European hammer blows to his nutsack. And he continued anyway. But this guy cannot continue. So they go to the cards and Diego wins on points.

Really? So, yeah. Was Diego just tired and he's like, I'm going to the nuts? Just going to whack him right in the ball sack. I think it might have been an accidental low blow, too. That could happen also. I've seen some of those where, like, the poof of the shorts from the blow. Oh, yeah.

Poof. It puffs them up. Like they just jumped in a pool. Yeah. Like, yeah. Puff right out. And you see the expression on their face and face and you're like oh that wasn't a good one that's a bad one yeah that's a tough one yeah that is a guy got this one fight i remember

when i was a kid this korean guy got hit in the nutsack and he couldn't continue and uh the korean immature yes but as a child a korean guy hit in the nutsack makes the funniest face i've ever seen in my life that's a like a seven year old. I was so fucking happy about it. I remember yelling and calling my mother into the room to see and she's like, that's not nice. Mom, watch this. He got hit right in the balls. Check this out.

Just the fact of someone getting hit in the balls was funny. Mom, look, he got all of it. Look at him. Oh, he nailed him. Look at the replay. So 22-0 for Diego here. August 15th, 98 in Los Angeles, he fights Raphael Amorphine, who is, by the way, a non linker like every single fighter he's fought so far. Every one of his 23rd straight non linker.

If you're new to crime and sports, we do a boxing episode the boxers that they fight uh whether they have a wikipedia link or not whether their you know name lights up and you can click on it or not is a non-linker we people after i say that people always go go to this site go to that site obviously i get all their records so obviously i go to these other sites and i know uh of these other sites i'm just saying they're not common knowledge boxers. One guy fought 49 fights and won them. I mean, he was like 49 and 12 or some shit. This guy's 32,

six and one coming into this fight. Non-linker. Non-linker. Unbelievable. 32, six and one. And then, uh,

Diego TKO's him, uh, gets a TKO in round two and he retires at 32, seven and one. So again, beat the very desire to continue in his career out of him. That is a tough fucking sport

to win 32 times and not have a Wikipedia page. Not even have a Wikipedia page. Well, fuck, neither do we. Yeah, to no point. Jesus Christ, how many fucking... 200 and something episodes for nothing. 200 fucking something episodes, lots and lots of listeners,

we fucking win awards and shit. What do we have to do? Good Christ. followers doesn't matter doesn't matter fuck we have check mark no i'm not gonna get into this i'm not gonna get into it but rafael morphine doesn't have a link either so they're fine we don't need a link i'm i don't i don't give two shits about that so anyway net worth is more than a fucking dirt bike that's probably that's probably he's probably got us beat we still got some ways to go. Rafael, we'll get you one of these days. 23-0 for Diego.

Yeah. September 12th, 1998. He loved Indio so much he had to go back again to fight Benito Rodriguez again for control of his small island nation. We'll settle this in the squared ring. That's how it works. Squared circle. Squared circle. we'll settle this in the squared ring that's how it works yeah diego circle squared so diego takes control of this tiny island nation's military uh with a sixth round knockout okay he then gives it back to benito saying he's way too busy to rule over the people feed your people sorry uh 24 and

0 for uh diego november, 1998, back at the Orleans. If he didn't get bed bugs the first try, he's going to give it another shot. Versus Hector Arroyo, who has his 18-10-2 career. This is a fight that begins a five-fight losing streak that ends his career. This Arroyo guy. Yeah, this is a gonna puts him on the on the skid the downward spirals the tko in the fifth round bringing uh bringing diego to 25 and oh december 18th 1998 at the yosemite hall in sacramento he fights gary st clair a linker yeah holy shit it's a fucking linker hey it took him 26 fights and claire before yeah he's fought a few guys before. This Gary St. Clair is 15-0-1 coming in.

St. Clair. St. Clair, yes. It's 15-0-1 coming in. So this is a 15-0-1 versus a 25-0 guy. Undefeated, babe. Yeah, this is, you know, they want this to be. One of these guys is going to go far. Gary St. Clair ends up with a 46-12-2 career record.

So he fights a lot of fights. This fight goes all 12 rounds here. So this is quite a battle. Unanimous decision for Diego, though. Look at this. Diego, he beats him pretty good, but it goes all 12, though. 26-0 for Diego. Next fight's April 2, 1999 at the Convention Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Oh, boy. He fights Claudio Victor Martinet. This is a 63-15-2 career fighter. Man, that's a lot of fucking shots in the head. That's a lot of shit. He has no idea where he put his keys. Is he French or Italian? Who the shit knows?

Claudio Victor Martinet. He's got three different things in there. I have no idea what that is. I can't tell. Who knows? This is a fifth round TKO either way. I'm just trying to figure figure out is he a tough guy or is he waving the white flag you know what after after after 80 fights he doesn't know what nationality he is he's not sure he's probably beaten colorblind he's like if i remember my mother's phone number i'll ask her but until

then i don't know maybe she'll call me hopefully and i'll figure it out i leave here if i can remember 23 and me's website i'll find it somewhere i don't know. Maybe she'll call me, hopefully, and I'll figure it out. When I leave here, if I can remember 23andMe's website. I'll find it somewhere. I don't know my login, though. That's going to be the problem. And they say they'll email you the password, but I don't remember the fucking... How do I log into that? I don't know the password to my email.

I don't know anything. Unless you're texting it directly to me, I don't know. And I can't help you. 27 and 0 for Diego. June 12th, 1999, at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, which there is no Fantasy or Springs there at all. There's a casino, I'm sure, but the rest of those things are a lie. Versus Angel Aldama again, who he's fought before.

This is stopped in the fourth round or after four rounds. He doesn't come out for the fifth. Aldama doesn't come out for the fifth. Aldama doesn't come out for the fifth. It's 28-0 for Diego. He quits. I don't know if there was an injury or something like that or if the corner stopped it, didn't let him come out. October 23, 1999, MGM Las Vegas.

Hell yeah. Here we go. This is something here. He fights Roberto Garcia, who is 32-0 coming coming in now we're not fucking around 28 and 0 verse 32 and 0 at the mgm at the mgm grand this is a big deal no shit right here this is a big fight uh this is for the ibf super lightweight title uh this is a big deal here uh this uh it's a diego ends up winning a tko in round seven great Great. So this was a huge fight for him. This was really like the separates the men from the boys type of deal to see.

All right, we've given him tomato cans. We've given him journeymen. Now let's see what he does with a guy who's 32 and 0. For this fight, I think he made about 200 grand, I want to say. 150 grand, I think I read there. That's not bad. So he's 29-0 now. Okay.

So now 29-0 is no shit. Yeah. That's something, honestly. I mean, that's, fuck, I'd love to be 29-0 at anything. At anything. And he's a champion. Yeah. He's got a goddamn belt.

Yeah. So December 4th, 1999, at the Chinook Wins Casino in Lincoln City, Oregon. Shit, yeah. Which is not the MGM Grand. Lincoln City,ino in Lincoln City, Oregon. Shit, yeah. Which is not the MGM Grand. Lincoln City, Oregon. Lincoln City, Oregon. Which, I don't know, I see a lot of logs. Yeah.

Right? Cabins. Cabins. Yeah. Because Lincoln logs in Oregon. Everybody's got a stovepipe hat. Yeah. It's weird.

They're really embracing Lincoln. And flannel. Yeah. But flannel. Yeah. Like a flannel Lincoln. Yeah. They have a flannel stovepipe. They all get the same beard and everything. Like a flannel stovepipe they all get the same beard

and everything like a flannel stovepipe that is an oregon's official state hat i feel like now the oregon the flannel stovepipe they should have forced abe to shave that thing it was the worst beard it was a patchy they all had that oh such a miserable you were like you were a pussy if you had if you were clean shaven back then you should be a pussy if you can't grow one. That looks stupid. Still, that was like you got to have something coming out of your face. What are you, a pussy? What kind of pussy are you?

Yeah. Seriously, look at every child or a woman. Grow a beard, faggot. Every one of those. That's all it was. Every one of those pictures of those guys, they're bearded and big mutton chops and stupid mustaches worst facial hair ever amish beards lincoln had an amish beard he had a fucking amish so fat but it was

patchy it was patchy and he had no mustache which i don't appreciate it's very bizarre that's a weird choice it is a strange choice so speaking of lincoln this is very odd that lincoln came up he fights john brown what uh who what this is this fight this is weird he fights john brown who uh diego did not agree with his stance on abolition apparently and uh this is right before john brown went into hiding and was found in the barn with his boys this is this is right before that he He had 24 wins, 19 losses, and two draws coming in. Made a big stand against abolition, and then Diego beat him and died. This fight goes all 12 rounds.

It's a unanimous decision for Diego, and John Brown flees the ring immediately. Still undefeated. Still undefeated, 30-0. My Christ. So he is 30 and oh he does have a domestic violence conviction which isn't wonderful uh but he's 30 and oh life is going well otherwise for him uh no other huge problems no giant cocaine busts or anything so that's a plus

uh new year's eve 1999 uh in 1999 december 31st Going into 2000. He meets Michelle, who will become a future wife of his here. By the way, at this point, while meeting this woman, he is barely 22 years old and has three kids with three women. Holy fuck, man. He's got three kids, three separate women already. And now he meets Michelle, and he starts going out with her. Yeah. But he's still fighting, March 18th, 2000, at the MGM Grand. He fights Derek Gaynor, who is a 43-7-1 career fighter.

Pretty good fighter, too. This is a TKO in round three for Diego, bringing him to 31-0. So he's cruising here. A lot of knockouts, too, as you can see. He's knocking everybody out. June 17, 2000, a couple months later, at the Staples Center, he fights Justin Jukow, J-U-U-K-O. It's a weird name. It is.

Justin Jukow. What is that? I don't know what that is. That's a bizarre name. You put Justin in front of it and it confuses the shit out of me. Is that Norwegian or something? Maybe, maybe. Dutch?

I don't see any umlauts or anything on there so i'm not sure but fuck i don't know sounds like a a norwegian furniture company you rarely see two consecutive use yeah that's a very odd that's a nice table where'd you get that oh i got it down a juco i got it a juco yeah j you no no two use look it up yeah oh so it was cheap no no stop it you fucking jerk no idea you don up. Also, it was cheap. No, no. Stop it, you fucking jerk. You have no idea. You don't put it together. It comes all constructed. Very expensive stuff.

He's a 45-12-1 record. And actually, 90% of those fights were just over people making fun of his name. So it's really got to temper. You got to watch out for Juco. This is a knockout in round 10 for diego bringing him to 32 and 0 okay so life is going well for diego corrales right now he met a new woman uh everything is going well every fight he wins every fight he wins oh by the way he met a new woman he's already married do we do we not mention that what he's already married he meets

that woman michelle that he starts seeing but he's already married at this we not mention that? What? He's already married. He meets that woman, Michelle, that he starts seeing, but he's already married at this point. Oh, Jesus. By the way, his wife is also pregnant as well. He's married to a woman named Maria, who is pregnant with his fourth child at this point, right here in July of 2000. He receives a phone call from his pregnant wife. Okay. This is super weird. He interpreted it as insulting.

Apparently it was some kind of prank phone call. She made some kind of joking phone call to him. I don't know to fuck around. Who knows? I mean, people, Jesus Christ, whatever. Not a big deal. Nothing egregious. She didn't like, you know, call his mother a whore she didn't do anything

horrible and say this baby's not yours yeah she does yeah nothing like that she said something like is your refrigerator running he something mild he interpreted it interpreted it as uh as very much uh insulting and uh he gets pissed off okay, this is fucking crazy what he does. Uh, he gets in the car and drives the fuck over to her from where he is. Uh, he says that quote alcohol was involved here. He's, he's shit faced while he's doing this. Well,

he has no problem driving shit faces. We'll find a good point throughout this story. Uh, he comes over and finds his 98 pound pregnant wife, by the way, very tiny woman who is also pregnant, Maria, and beats the living shit out of her. What the fuck?

Beats this poor woman all over the fucking house. Yeah. She has a broken collarbone, broken ribs, bruised spine. He's punching in the abdomen? He's beating the shit out of this woman wherever he can fucking hit her. Unbelievable. He beat her all over the house. It's insane what he does.

He's charged with felony domestic violence for this. The baby survives. The district attorney in the beginning calls it an absolutely brutal beating. And we'll get a little more detail and find out. This is insane. This is a man that punches for a living. You know what I mean? Yeah, very well.

I mean, not that you should. In an undefeated fashion. No one should. No matter how bad of a fighter you are, you still shouldn't hit anybody. Especially a pregnant woman. He goes over and beats up a 98-pound pregnant woman all over the house.

And bad. I mean, this is a sustained beating. This isn't one shot. Not that any shots are okay, but he didn't hit her once and come to his senses. He beat the shit out of this poor woman. She didn't train for this. No, she's not John Brown.

She has no stance on slavery at this point. So he's charged with felony domestic violence, also charged with false imprisonment and having a prohibited weapon. We'll find out what that is in a minute because that's where this really gets even fucking crazier. If you think just the broken collarbone and ribs and all that shit's crazy. He needed a weapon? Oh, wait till you hear this shit.

He's free on $100,000 bail. His bail was increased from $20,000 to $100,000 because they were, you know, they said. It should be some Dr. Evil amount. That's crazy. That's what I mean. The beating was absolutely ridiculous. During the arraignment, when his bail is upped, his victim's mother is outside and she says

that she was unhappy that he could get out of jail just because he's successful. She says, quote, anyone else would be sitting in jail. She loves this man. And he said he was going to take care of her. Thank God the baby is still alive, which I would say. So the district attorney was trying to get bail of $250,000. The judge rejected that. In the district attorney's plea for this, the DA said, quote, this was an absolutely brutal beating. She has a broken collarbone, two fractured ribs, and a bruised spine.

She has not lost the baby yet, but it is of great concern. This is fucking crazy. This is nuts. And he has no reason conceivably to do this outside of alcohol and brain damage and weird ego problem. So she ends up spending the night in the hospital. It takes her a while to recover from this. Obviously you've ever had broken ribs or nothing hurts like that. And if you have a bruised spine and broken ribs and a collarbone is uncomfortable too.

There's nothing you can do for either of those. None of those. Basically if she coughs or sneezes or hiccups, She is in horrible pain in three different places. And she's pregnant, so she sneezes, it hurts, and then she pees herself. And then she pees herself. And she's pregnant, so she's uncomfortable anyway, probably. And then you add this in.

So, yeah, at the arraignment, the DA said that it was a prank call that sparked Corrales' rage. The DA said, quote, he accused her of having something to do with it the prosecutor then says that during the beating corrales diego picks up a sawed-off shotgun what a fucking sawed-off shotgun inspected it to find that it was unloaded and then put it down and resumed beating her he beat her picked up a shotgun was like well let's see if i can shoot her but no that's not loaded well i better keep beating her put He beat her, picked up a shotgun, was like, well, let's see if I can shoot her.

No, that's not loaded. Well, I better keep beating her. Put the shotgun down and kept beating her. So he had the wherewithal and mindset to actually shoot her. He wanted to kill her. Apparently, according to her, he looked at it and I don't know

if he was going to fire off a warning shot or he was going to kneecap her or blow her brains out or who the fuck knows. It's insane. This is bananas. It could be anything at this point once you've gone to the point of of beating the holy shit out of a tiny

pregnant woman i think you you're capable of anything at that point i really do sawed off you're not allowed to have that gun that's it was a prohibited weapon that's why he uh got charged with that is he doing uh that she is five feet tall 98 pounds this woman by the way yeah it's ridiculous. So the DA said, quote, one has to wonder why he has a sawed-off shotgun. Yeah, I would say so. That makes no sense. No question.

Yeah, it's fucking ridiculous, man. So the judge said that basically the bail thing was, the judge believes the accusations is why the judge said they raised the the amount and also he's concerned about the firearm an illegal firearm and a beating at the same time that's extra to this judge and i don't blame this judge at all uh the one prosecutor said his fists are dangerous and deadly weapons he has to learn to deal with his anger yeah that's an understatement i would say after this is because this is his third domestic violence arrest. Remember, and now he's had a conviction and now he's got this over him. Now, the judge said that he would allow Corrales to get treatment from a personal counselor trained in dealing with domestic violence at his next court appearance.

He has to bring true proof of treatment. That's also part of his bail release is that. Now, they said that the now Bob Arum, they talked to him. Silver haired, middle aged white man. Number one. Yeah. The biggest asshole in the world here. He says that the boxers title defense will still take place as scheduled, though.

None of that shit. He says that Arum says that he quote needs to get corrales out of sacramento and quote put him in a different environment because this is all about the environment right right because i know me if i'm in a place that you know i need to get out of i tend to beat the shit out of tiny women i don't know why it's a weird thing i'm like i really gotta get out of here where's a small woman i can just beat with an inch of her life especially if they're if they're super pregnant is she pregnant oh sweet now i have a target yeah great jesus christ otherwise i don't know where to hit her but that's a real you know that's a can really work it over what a fucking asshole man so uh put them in a different environment right thanks bob

appreciate it yeah jesus christ i don't know Bob was such an educated councilman. He's a real humanitarian, this guy. I'll tell you that much right now. So he continues fighting. September 2nd, 2000, Don Haskins Center in El Paso. He fights Angel Manfredi, who is a good fighter. 43-8-1 career fighter he is. But Diego takes care of him like he's a pregnant woman

TKO in round 3 I guess for lack of a better anything 33-0 for him and now his next fight is going to be Floyd Mayweather Jr. now this is in 2000 his next fight is going to be in 2001

think about this Floyd Mayweather jr that is fighting now that you hear all about all the time that you still hear about this asshole this is 18 19 years ago this is going on this is when he was hot shit up and coming you know next big deal right baddest motherfucker around here pound for pound top fighter going so uh in the months leading up to this fight some weird shit happens to diego he finds out that his ibf 130 pound title his managers abdicated the belt and his on his behalf and gave it to and had it given to another fighter in their stable so jesus basically to up this guy's stock

because Diego didn't need it because he's fighting Floyd Mayweather and he's on TV. It doesn't matter. So he says that the whole thing, his managers started fucking him over at this point. He says, this is Diego here, quote, I had a real estate company at the time in Phoenix.

Next thing I know know one of my friends comes on the computer and says you vacated your belt at that is which is crazy he said quote i'm starting to read this article about me giving up my title and i felt like i didn't have the opportunity to give up my belt it was my right to give that up not theirs which yeah i would say so so he sues his managers and settles an arbitration for an undisclosed sum. This is all going on before the biggest fight of his life, which is a distraction that the dude doesn't need going in here. So now Floyd has been all the way up to this fight. Floyd is endlessly fucking with him as Floyd Mayweather talks shit, as we know to this point.

All he does is talk shit. other talk shit as we know to this point all he does is talk shit right well floyd chooses to talk endless shit about something very specific with diego and that's domestic violence oh boy he talks now floyd if you don't know uh has been arrested several times for domestic violence you can't stop hitting women oh we'll do an episode someday don't worry he cannot stop hitting fucking women and i can't read it's way more than you know too because i read up on him a little bit while reading about this and uh yeah so he fought more women than men at this point well if you add the women that he's beaten up into his record it's even more impressive we'll put it that way uh it's fucking ridiculous yeah so corral is though

here i mean mayweather's just fucking with him saying you know oh this i'm dedicating this to all the battered women and i'm gonna knock you out for all the women and you know calling him a punk for beating up women so it's very oh so ironic there's footage out there of him talking shit about diego diego corral is for being arrested for domestic violence which is a hypocrite the most ironic footage in the history of the world the one thing we know for sure is that is that floyd medweather definitely did not read those reports no he didn't he made the top of his head he was he he heard them on the news he didn't read shit he heard them on the news we know yes as he said he doesn't read so uh very nice thing to come out and say that you don't know how to read excellent some reason, it's not brave if it's him. It's like, you know what?

Fuck you. You should have to read the charges against you, you asshole. So every time Floyd would be on TV, though, that's all he would talk about. Talk about Diego's personal problems and talk about all that shit. Oh, absolutely. Diego, like I said, isn't a guy who talks shit very much. He'll internalize it and then try to beat the crap out of you here. But he he kept doing it and he kept doing it.

He kept doing it. Mayweather said that he would, quote, beat Corrales like a dog on behalf of all the battered women in the world. I love it. Not not just his wife. All the battered women, because they all need Floyd Mayweather to stick up for them. All the women that I've chosen not to beat up, that is. Because the ones I've beaten up, they fucking deserved it. I'll tell you that right now.

But all the rest of them, I'm going to beat this guy's ass for it. Floyd Mayweather, you asshole. He also, in this time period, Maria files for divorce against Diego. That's all going on while he's training for this fight. So he's got a divorce. He's suing his managers. He's having all these problems. Floyd Mayweather publicly invites Maria.

What a troll. To the fight. Yeah, he's a total asshole, this guy. To sit in the front row and watch Floyd beat up Diego. That's what he says. She declined. Did she? Yeah, he's a total asshole, this guy. To sit in the front row and watch Floyd beat up Diego. That's what he says. She declined. Did she? Yeah.

She's probably afraid. She's not going to get involved in this insanity. She wants to get away from this lunatic. She's smart. Also, you don't want to be around the guy that beat you up, and now he is fighting. He's trained like a motherfucker. He might jump out of the ring and start swinging at you for all you know in the best shape he's been in months and all angry and shit yeah you don't want that

at all so uh finally though uh diego would talk some shit back a little bit he would you know try eventually he had to because it was just ridiculous but it just got to the point of a just a giant uh shit talking match uh corrales said, quote, As a person, it's a shame, a crying shame, the things he's done, like kicking his own father out of his house. Something like that is uncalled for. Floyd's a guy who acts tough when he has seven or eight of his buddies around him, but this time it's going to be just him and me. All right.

So he's calling Floyd a shit-talking little bitch, basically. And he said, he also took a personal shot. He said, you know, things he's done, like kicking his father out of the house. What's that? His father, also a monster. We have plenty of stuff with him. Bad guy there. Now, for Diego, the main problem here, he doesn't want to fight at 130 pounds anymore.

He can't fucking make weight. He's having a really hard time. Every fight is a struggle to make 130 pounds. He's six feet tall, almost. I can't imagine getting down there. It's really hard for. Every fight is a struggle to make 130 pounds for him. He's six feet tall almost. I can't imagine getting down there. It's really hard for him to make weight. In every fight, it's harder and harder. But this is the big money fight.

The big money fight is at 130. And it's against Floyd Mayweather. So this is what these boxers do. They go up a weight class or go down a weight class to go to the better fight that has the big money involved. So they all say you just have to do it, basically. This will be your last... Figure it out, fucker. This will be your last 130,

but you got to fight at 130. So he has a horrible, horrible time just eating nothing but grapefruit and water and sucking on ice chips and shit. Spitting in a jug, trying to drop as much weight as possible. Jogging in rubber suits, which is dangerous.

You could die like that. Steam baths, just... Sweating everything out horrible man horrible that's dangerous it's oh these guys and then they're gonna go fight all your water weight and then you're gonna fight that's the problem and he he beat he really hurt himself to trying to make weight for this fight because after this he's gonna fight at 135 which is he can get to well 130 is asking a lot of a guy who's yeah you know almost six feet fucking tall here so uh yeah he he just he couldn't couldn't do anything here so he ended up uh he he ended up being 132 when he weighs in he this is crazy man he sheds eight pounds from the morning to the weigh-in of the of the of the fight at night sheds eight pounds all these morning to the weigh-in of the fight.

At night. Sheds eight pounds. All these steam bats and everything, but he's still 132 pounds. So he had to go back in and somehow sweat off another two pounds by the end of the weigh-in. Oh, my God. So he had to go in, sweat off. So he had to go jog in a sauna, basically, in place in a rubber suit to lose two pounds. Rubber Redford in the castle, moving all the rocks.

And they're like, now put them back. Put them back. That's what, well, this is what they do. He then puts the rocks back because as soon as he, uh,

weighs in, he's got to rehydrate. He's going to drop dead otherwise. So he enters the ring at 146 pounds, which you can't, it's just not good for you. Your body can't fluctuate like that. You're not Oprah.

He went, he went, yeah, he went from one 30 to one 46 in a day. You can't, it's just not good for you. Your body can't fluctuate like that. You're not Oprah. Yeah, he went from 130 to 146 in a day. You can't do that. Wow. And just in water weight, because he lost all the water and got it back. And in the last week, all he's been trying to do is lose weight.

So he's weak. He hasn't been eating. He's not, and Floyd was a natural 130. I mean, at that point in his career, he was fine making that weight. He could sit on his ass and be 130. So he was at full strength, and Diego was not at full strength. January 20, 2001 is this big fight. This is at the MGM Grand again versus Floyd Mayweather Jr.

This is a junior versus junior, domestic violence on domestic violence. This is like the crime and sports bowl right here. This is like two beings can't operate uh occupy the same yeah irresistible force versus the immovable object of domestic violence it's ridiculous he's the same guy floyd is 24 and 0 coming in here so uh now diego says he was having problems he says quote I didn't really realize till the third or fourth round that everything was going bad and I was cramping up my legs started cramping real good and I'm going what's the deal here his body is betraying him because he's all just out of whack he doesn't have the right he doesn't have vitamins in him and everything else he's flushed all his

vitamins out and everything he's a mess so uh yeah he's he's uh he's his vitamins out and everything. He's a mess. So, yeah, he's a complete mess. And Mayweather, he's a bad motherfucker. He is. He's an asshole and he's a jerk and he beats women up and all that. But in the ring, there's just nobody that's, nobody can beat him. No. He's still undefeated. He's real good.

He just beats the shit out of you. He's a surgeon. You just can't do anything to him in there. And now Diego is, Mayweather's winning this fight all the way through seventh round diego is knocked down three times three times in one round he kept keeps getting back up though he keeps getting back up mayweather kicks his ass more yeah in the 10th round uh in the 10th round uh diego is knocked down two more times and at this point his stepfather who is his corner man right steps in and throws in the towel at a boy right because diego was not going to quit

he's going to keep going and getting the shit beat out of him and he had nothing left in his body so diego lost it though he's screaming what the hell are you doing he's losing his mind going i don't want to stop i don't want to fucking stop he's brad pitt and fight club bleeding all over ray why'd you make me stop, Ray? Yeah, he's losing, except this is for millions of dollars, so it's a little more important, too. And Diego said, quote, I would rather fell out dead in that ring

than let that fight pass me by like it did. I don't think I talked to my dad for two weeks after that. I couldn't bring myself to talk to him about it. When it came up, I told him, hey, I felt what you did was wrong, but it's water under the bridge. So he wanted to keep going for some reason, weeks after that i couldn't bring myself to talk to him about it when it came up i told him hey i felt what you did was wrong but it's water under the bridge so he wanted to keep going for some reason that's if you've seen the fight there was no reason for him to keep going no he was getting fucking wrong we lost all 10 rounds up to this point why keep going he had you could see it in

his legs he was just he didn't have he had it in his brain to do it but his body wasn't there it just wasn't there if you don't have the strength. So, yeah, it's stupid. So he's lucky he got the towel thrown in. He might have gotten even more brain damage than he's gotten. So this is a TKO in round 10, bringing him to 33-1. And his problems were he also ends up that it comes out later on that he had bronchitis at that same time. So he's losing weight.

He had bronchitis and it's hard to get your air. That is tough stuff. In boxing, box for one three-minute round and you won't be able to breathe for 10 minutes. You won't be able to breathe for 10 minutes. If you don't do that normally, box for 10 rounds getting punched. While you have bronchitis. After you just lost 15 pounds in water and then gained it again in a day and then you have bronchitis. you just lost 15 pounds in water and then gained it again in a day and then you have bronchitis that's brutal it's absolutely brutal here now

in addition to this his managers is that he's suing here this barrett silver his name is silver is barrett silver wow that's yeah barrett's that's oh boy that's silver right there silver with a junior. This is a silver haired middle aged white man. Barrett Silver haired middle aged white man and Cameron Duncan. Yeah. So these are some these are some middle aged silver middle aged white men here. They filed an injunction seeking their share of the purse for the Floyd Mayweather fight of his here. for the Floyd Mayweather fight of his here.

I guess Corrales' lawyer refused to have the purse put in escrow until their dispute could be arbitrated. So they said they need that. Now, Duncan, the one manager, said, quote, I felt so bad for him I had tears in my eyes during the fight. He had nothing. He didn't have his strength and they didn't have any strategy. What he had was some morons who talked him into doing this. So he's trying to act like all we wanted to do is protect him.

Some morons talked him into this, which is true. But you're also a scumbag. So he says that he should have bypassed fighting Mayweather until both were at 135 pounds. Duncan said, quote, Well, promoter Bob Arum got his way. He wanted to put the fight together right away, and that kid paid the price, which is true. The kid shouldn't have been fighting at 130, but Arum was forcing the fight with Floyd at that weight. But Floyd was always going to be there for Diego, and the right time to fight would have been at 135, which Floyd eventually went up

to. Maybe Diego wouldn't have won, but it would have been a completely different fight at 135 that would have been an awesome fight them fighting at 135 would have been fucking fun shit yeah that would have been awesome at that point that would have been great because diego wouldn't have been a wheelhouse a shell and and and floyd eventually went up to 135 and was natural at it you know because floyd was like he looked 12 when he first started fighting he still looks he's still yeah but he's near 50 any he's in his third late oh yeah yeah i think he's in his 40s early 40s 39 now maybe something like that he's closing in way too old to have that kind of hand speed yeah but way too way too old to be that goddamn good yeah he's ridiculous so he's an asshole but he's he's goddamn good so he also says that uh he would have uh he said if

he would have fought mayweather at 135 he would have been in in line for fights uh later on against guys like mosley or delahoya he said those are four to five million dollar fights so much for five years of hard work is what he says because he said he blew it on this whole thing uh this uh another guy says, quote, To tell you the truth, I wasn't shocked by what happened. This is Ray Woods, his stepfather, about the Mayweather fight. To tell you the truth, I wasn't shocked by what happened. He says, I just feel Diego went into this thing overconfident from the beginning and didn't really put in all the hard work he normally does.

Unfortunately, he believed what a lot of people were saying, that he was too big and strong for Mayweather, which he is. He's a lot bigger for Mayweather, which he is. He's a lot bigger than Mayweather. So he threw it in. He said, quote, he threw in the towel. It was Ray. Ray said, quote, we didn't speak for a couple hours.

And he said Diego was obviously mad at him. But, I mean, it was a big setback for him. A big guy. A huge setback. The top-ranked boxing matchmaker said, quote, what I'd say Diego has to do is first take a rest and not let his weight get out of control.

Then he needs to come back at 135 and take a couple fights. Then we can get him a title fight. He's saying he's got to take a step back before he can step forward again. In boxing, when you lose a fight, it just puts you back a rung. Also, you've been fighting all this time to fight the best, and that's the best.

Yeah, you fought Mayweather. You lost, so you've got to step back. You've got to go back. You can't go right back to that. No, especially not at that weight. If they both went up, it would be a different story. This manager also says that he could have gotten another $600,000 had he waited to fight Mayweather. So that's another thing he's

trying to say. It's ridiculous here. So Corrales' attorney said that he's going to cooperate with the arbitration, and then he didn't. He just took the check and didn't put it in escrow. That's how it was here. So his ex-manager

said, our feeling was, if the full purse goes to corrales we'll never see it which yeah i would think not if he's suing you doesn't think he owes you shit i would say no now uh according to these court papers duncan was supposed to receive 140 000 and silver was supposed to receive 280 000 as part of the corrales $1.4 million purse. So that's 10% and 20% for all you non-math doers out there. So that is 30% of his money goes to those two fucking idiots. Fuck that.

And they didn't take a single punch. And then not a single punch. And then there's training and taxes and all this type of shit. And you think about what the hell these guys walk away with. Yeah, after getting their fucking brains beaten in here. So they said basically that the only way he's going to make over a million dollars for a fight is if he goes up to 135 pounds. Now, after this, he has to now go back to his personal life,

which isn't going as well as he would hope either. He's denying all the domestic charges with his wife. He's saying he didn't do any of that shit with his now ex-wife. And he's saying that a conviction here, because he already has a conviction, is going to fuck him good. So his lawyers are trying to convince him to take a plea bargain, and he eventually agrees to take a plea bargain on this charge. a plea bargain and he eventually agrees to take a plea bargain on this charge he admits uh involvement in a violent incident between him and his ex-wife but he uh does not and will not

specify exactly what occurred that's the terms of the deal he'll just say that admit to being in a violent incident but doesn't have to give exact allocution of exactly what he did uh now he outside of the court he has a lot to say plenty to say when it's not in court right he says quote on the record yeah listen to this shit uh this is this is amazing right here uh before being so quick to persecute somebody people should find out the facts first my family took a huge beating behind a bunch of nonsense and that makes for hard feelings oh my god how do you say that when there's a woman that got beat oh god jesus christ how tone deaf can you be of the world to

say he said we took a huge beating and then hard feelings which also took a huge beat no one member of your family took a huge beating by her and then you by mayweather but no no but i mean in the house oh and the baby too so yeah they got their asses kicked wow uh he claims that his ex-wife has her own agenda uh both personal and financial and uh but he ends up pleading anyway here and uh he pleads guilty to felony domestic violence in February of 2001. And the judge here is not very sympathetic with him, as I would imagine. And he gets a you, sir, may fuck off two years in prison for this. He gives him.

Yeah, he ends up serving 14 months in prison. But that's a lot for him at this point, I would say. He could have killed a fucking tiny woman who's pregnant, which I don't know. 14 months is enough for that shit. Honestly, for the beating he put on this woman, that was crazy. So this he said that this gave him the time to contemplate the impulses that led him down the wrong path. That's what he's good now. Yeah.

He says that he didn't encounter any trouble in prison. No shit. You're a fucking professional boxer. You're a man that beat up a woman. You have zero qualms about punching anybody. Well, they probably saw the Mayweather fight and went, well, fuck, Mayweather's pretty good. And he keeps getting up. He keeps getting up every time Mayweather knocks him down.

I don't think I want to fight this man. I don't think a Shiv is going to stop him. I knew. He said he was mostly left alone to jog and shadow box in the yard to pass the time yeah they're watching him going jesus christ look how fast his hands are he beat the shit out of me that's scary uh he says diego about this it was definitely a tough thing to go through actually i got pretty fat i came out about 180 pounds whoa i ate very well whoa that is 50 pounds over fighting weight my fuck a buck 80 in in 14 months 14 months you gained a shitload of weight uh also this is this is crazy um 180

pounds yeah this is at this point uh mayweather's manager james prince shows up here to the jail to the jail to talk to him and introduces himself to him and and he says that uh he ended up becoming friends with him over the time he was in the jail i don't know why he did that this is strange it's really weird he says that corrales said that uh he said about prince this guy he says hey i want to talk to you i want to meet you and corrales said i'm like whatever I'll listen to you. I'm still a little hot about what went on. You know, them talking shit about his domestic violence and shit. He said he came down there.

He talked about us getting together and doing business together. And then he said he'd be back next month. And then he said Diego said he kept his word and he came back the following month. He said this will be the last time I'll see you. But he sent someone down there the last six months for my term i can't respect it i can respect a man that keeps his word like that he checked up on my family and i respect that so he had some he said he felt like he had a lifeline to the business and the people still gave a shit about him he says it's a different world in here in prison no shit guys getting sliced open a guy trying to escape getting shot

i saw things in here you wouldn't believe actually that's prison we'd all believe that i believe that you can tell me just about anything happened in prison and i'd fucking believe it no shit really yeah anything i can't think of a thing that could happen to another to a person where i wouldn't believe if it happened in prison literally anything he contracted aids in prison no shit no shit and so i married an axe murderer he talks about popping the eyeball out and skull fucking somebody's eye socket i i went that could happen in prison yeah i could see that yeah that could happen i'm sure it happens once in a while throughout prison michelle the new year's eve woman that he met, Michelle stood by his side.

He said, at the time I went to prison, I gave her all my money and said, this is to keep the house in order. I said, I won't expect to see you when I get out. I can't believe you. She said, I can't believe you said that, but I can't wait to prove you wrong. So he basically said, here's all my money. Keep my house from fucking falling into disrepair and all that type of shit i know you'll probably just steal my money and leave but i have nobody else to do this so that's what he said that's what he said and she said that uh no i'm gonna prove you wrong he gets out of prison and she was waiting there for him

he said that she visited him every weekend he said maybe she missed a couple but she was there for him the whole time she said he said quote once i was out of the gates i'm looking at this woman and saying this is an amazing woman and then they end up getting married on new year's eve 2003 okay after he gets out of jail so he gets out of jail and they ask him how he feels about jail yeah i think this is this is a good in their own words territory here because it's always you know he's gonna have some self-pity or something like that but we'll find out what he does here so let's do in there i'm sorry have you heard him speak yeah is it is it just like uh talks like a dude just like a dude yeah just some dude uh in their own words quote i can't be bitter the people who come out and are bitter or sour are beaten i can't afford to be beaten

yes i had a tough stretch and yes it's taken me a lot of hard work to get this frame of mind but i can say things like that with a smile it gives me pride yeah what that you beat the shit out of your fucking pregnant girlfriend and went to prison for it that gives you pride not just what are you talking about what you do for a living is something athletic and it takes your body being a good shit and you're fat as fuck right now sir he's stupid asshole so uh fucking idiot you're gonna smile through that a showtime boxing analyst said quote i don't think it's i don't think it's going to be very difficult uh for corrales to regain his form he's young enough to have survived the layoff and jail time without crippling effects corrales was one of the hardest hitters in the game as a 130-pounder.

I'm sure he'll carry his power with him to lightweight. So far, the evidence is he's done just that. He says, quote, I want to get back to being a world champion and supplying a good living for my family. As long as I could do that, that would be great. Yeah, that would be great. At this point, fluff pieces abound. Really?

Everywhere. Diego, turning your life around, fighting uphill and fighting through the hard times. You name the cheesy fighting and demons and, you know, to a better time, horseshit fucking wordplay of every title of every goddamn article. Oh, my God. They talk about how he met his current wife he met michelle before he went into prison and they were so close in prison and now they live with their together their four children in a cul-de-sac in las vegas a nice little house and they said now this one quote a wild night entails swimming in the backyard pool or watching tapes of old fights in their home theater.

Now he's a domesticated, all chilled out. He's good now, everybody. He's good now. It's okay. Everybody back off. He's fine. He's studying game tape and swimming now. Yeah, with his kids. No more pregnant girl punching.

Oh my, never, never. He says, Jesus Christ, this is a promoter gary shaw he says quote my wife met diego and was like he was the one who went to jail for the life of me i can't square it so he's just too nice he's just such a nice guy i can't believe he almost murdered a pregnant woman it's amazing at this point there's an interview if you want to know a couple of little tidbits about it, because it's fluff pieces. And now we got to, hey, they're just like us. Here's his Us Weekly interview, basically, here. First job, he says it was a line cook at Bennigan's in Amarillo, Texas at age 17.

They went this far. Oh, yeah, they're going to this shit. Like the centerfold of Playboy. Yeah. Interest, interest well walking on the beach and you know candlelight dinners first car red ford ranger favorite meal everything about every about everything my wife michelle cooks it's so like hey guys isn't he isn't he just like us favorite breakfast cereal lucky charms yeah which i can't disagree with him that's pretty goddamn

good i beat the shit out of the goodprechaun. It's a good choice. I did. I beat him good. I have a lifetime supply of this shit. Get all I want now. Falls from the ceiling. Favorite ice cream flavor. How about, I don't know, favorite, do you prefer a left hook or an overhand right to a pregnant woman?

Yeah. Which one of those? That's never asked. It's very odd. Favorite ice cream flavor, strawberry. Isn't that nice? He's a strawberry fan. Yeah. Which one of those? That's never asked. It's very odd. Favorite ice cream flavor? Strawberry. Yeah. Isn't that nice?

He's a strawberry fan. Pre-fight meal. He says, day of fight, it varies. Pastas, fruit. I love fruit. Eat a lot of fruit. Day of fight. Salad.

Try to keep it light and simple. Pre-fight feeling is a little anxiety. He said, that's what it's all about. Do you look at your opponent upon entering the ring? He says, absolutely. Basically sending a message. You're not taking anything from me. Livelihood, future, child support.

I'll beat that child out of you. Oh, no, you're a man and we're fighting. Never mind. Sorry. I didn't know what I was thinking. Pre-fight food? Whatever my ex-wife burned, I beat the fuck out of her. That's my pre-fight.

Let me tell you something. Oh, and then I get in the ring, too. Christ, you cut the shit out of her that's my pre-fight let me tell you something oh and then i get in the ring too yeah so you cut the shit out of it ridiculous so january 25th 2003 newly married newly freed everything else he fights in bally's at atlantic city fights michael davis who's a 24 and 17 career fighter a nice kind of credible enough, but we can definitely... The Peter McNeely of that. That's the guy Tyson fought when he first got out of prison. The big white guy that he beat the shit out of pretty easily. That was the guy with the little Caesar pizza?

Pizza Hut. Stuffed crust. It hit him in the face and he fell down. This is a TKO in round five. 34-1 for Diego. And he's on it now. He's fighting like the beginning of. And he's on it now. He's fighting like the beginning of his career, like every month now.

February 22, 2003. Happy birthday, Jimmy. Yeah, there you go. Jimmy's birthday fights less than a month later at the Pyramid in Las Vegas versus Roque Cassiani, who's 21-10-1 coming in. This guy, 21-10-1 coming into this fight. He retired at 22-20 3 so he went 1 10 and 2 for the rest of his career this is not good this fight is stopped after the first round this is you know you're no good anymore mister uh so 35 and 1 for Diego. April 24, 2003 at the Grand Casino in Gulfport, Mississippi. Fuck yeah.

Versus Felix St. Kitts. We've had a lot here. A lot here, yeah. They fight a lot down there. 12-3-2 coming in, and he ends up being 12-8-2. Uh-oh. So just loses the last few of his career. TKO in round three.

Diego wins this one. 36-1 for him. June 20, 2003. So he's got a lot of fights in 2003. He's moving it right along. At the Home Depot Training Center in Dominguez Hills, California. Heck yeah. The fuck is a Home Depot Training Center?

They also have fights there and they teach you how to work the forklift. Teach you how to pick out the good grain of two-by-four. I don't know what you're doing here. This is the difference between a circular saw and a... Never mind. So, yeah. He fights Damian Fuller, who is 38-1. 30 wins, 8 losses, 1 draw career.

Diego knocks him out in three rounds, bringing him to 37-1. October 4, 2003, at Mandalay Bay, he fights Joel Casamayor, who is a bad motherfucker. He's 29-1 coming in. My word. Yeah, he's a tough son of a bitch, Casamayor. 38-6-1 career. This goes six rounds, and it's a TKO in the sixth round. They call the fight Diego loses this one.

Uh-oh. So Casamayor beats him, bringing Diego to 36-2. So that's a tough fight for him. He waits a few months and fights in March of 2004 at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, again against Casemiro. This goes all 12, and a split decision, Diego wins it. Uh-oh.

So he's got a couple of these battles he has with people. Casemiro is his trilogy. 38-2 now, he goes. So that's not bad. Uh-oh. So he's got a little, he's got a couple of these battles he has with people. Casemiro is his trilogy. 38-2 now, he goes. That's not bad. He loses one. If you could come back and beat that same guy, all washed away, like it never happened. August 7, 2004, at the Foxwoods again, he fights Asselino

Frietas, who's 35-0 coming in, which is pretty fucking nasty. Turns out to be 41 and 2 in his career so it's a bad motherfucker uh tko in round 10 diego wins it wow look at this 35 and 0 this guy is and diego shuts him down bringing him to 39 and 2 uh may 7 2005 uh they get the mandalay bay he's gonna fight jose luis castillo okay this is one of the greatest fights in the history of the world this is a fucking war it's awesome absolutely awesome

it wins fight of the year in every publication this is the one this is the one every publication the ring magazine the boxers associate writers association anywhere where there's a fight of the year award okay this is the fight of the year by far should have it in highlights magazine because they're going to be reading that soon yeah they're going to be trying to figure out what's missing what doesn't belong in this picture so uh he says diego says quote in the build-up to the fight there wasn't trash talking i said to him let's make some history bro i wanted a painful bloody brutal war and that's what i got so they just went in and fought they didn't have any bullshit no you beat your wife up yeah no trash talking uh castillo was 52 six and one coming in oh that guy's good he is good uh 66 13 in one career uh diego uh is knocked

down twice in the 10th round before coming back and getting a TKO win in the same round. What? So you don't see, that's what I mean. What a crazy fight. He got dropped twice, got up, and then knocked him out. And then got him to stop the fight. That's how he fully comes back from getting knocked down twice.

I mean, the ref has to be thinking, he wobbles again, I'm calling this thing, and he ends up coming back and beating the guy in the the same round i want to watch that which is wild one thing he did that was tricky and it was smart of him uh it fucked him on points but he didn't care because he was getting knocked down so he knew he was losing the round on points anyway so what he did was each time he got knocked down he'd get up and spit his mouthpiece out now what has to be done you spit your mouthpiece out that's why guys do that they immediately take their mouthpiece out because the ref's got to put the mouthpiece back in oh that's the rule so that gives you yeah whatever so if you

spit it out he's then got to pick it up figure out which way it goes open your mouth put it in that's another five seconds you get to get your shit together yeah so he did it on purpose he got up he did it when he got up. He got up and just spit it right out. The ref came over and that's how it works. Smart. Smart shit. That's just one of the tricks of the trade if you're a guy who's had 41 career fights.

So this is 40-2 now from here. He said this was a war though. They talk about him in a magazine piece that he says that he uh after later on that night he was uh you know trying to walk to go take a piss and he couldn't hardly walk yeah and he was you know he was pissing blood like crazy they call it a war because in war you lose some shit yeah that's what well he lost a kidney function apparently he's pissing blood

he uh he said that he's his eyes, he was so swollen. His ears were ringing the whole time. Couldn't get the taste of blood out of his mouth. He said his jaw was so swollen that everything was messed up. He said his wife had big oversized sunglasses that wouldn't even fit on his face because it was so swollen. He said he was just a fucking mess. But he was thrilled to win the fight because that was a tough fight for him. Now, the next fight for him is October 8, 2005, at the Thomas and Mack Center in Vegas, again, versus Jose Luis Castillo.

So this fight is a knockout in round four. So this doesn't go quite as long. 47 seconds into round four, Diego gets knocked out yeah so this is a weird thing for him so now he's 40 and three uh after that fight so but the first fight like i said all sorts of you know match of the year everything like that but now he loses a fight october 8th later on in the month of october he's arrested for a dui in vegas yeah uh so now he's got another legal thing over his head and it doesn't help that he's got domestic violence and all this type of shit so he gets a dui and you think at this point he's going to chill the fuck out right and not you know withdraw

yeah you're lucky you're not in prison still calm the fuck down well instead he doesn't have another fight between october and march but in march of 2006 he has another dui charge no so yeah two duis in a six-month period how do you do that you by not giving a shit getting drunk and fucking driving i mean he he should have got a dui for driving over to beat the shit out of his wife to begin with in the first one so is he on probation this is too yeah yeah he's got all sorts of problems now. So now that's all coming up, too, because he's got the old shit looming, hanging over his head here.

This isn't just a DUI charge. This is also charges that include speeding and evading a police officer. So he tried to run on top of it. So not smart at all. He's fucking 10 different kinds of dumb right now feeling fucking stupid feelings sitting in his cul-de-sac yeah uh his perfect little life with his new wife and his four fucking kids and uh you know it's perfect life is perfect for him

and he thinks everything's perfect he doesn't understand why the world is after him is what it is little tiny women you know just just urging him to beat them he's got he sees they're urging him to jimmy uh police are just baiting him to drive drunk yeah that's what it is they're saying you know what they say they go diego come on let me buy you five six beers cops do this then they go no no you look great drive you're doing great and then they radio in to get him that's how it works man it's just he has to sit in his house he has to sit in his house and take it and he's mad too because now he's got all these legal things he hasn't fought in a few months so there's no fucking money coming in and he's got a wife with a new kid she keeps spending all sorts of fucking money that he's

going crazy about because she kind of left her in control when he went to prison and said, here's my money. When he got out, he didn't take it all back. No, she's like in control of the finances. So she's doing this. Jesus Christ. He said that at this point she spent more money decorating the house like on furniture than the house cost.

Ridiculous. Fucking hiring ridiculous people. She hired Dexter Manley, interior decorator from New York City. And he said. How is it you've come to arrive here? Like, what is fucking wrong with you? You've made me curse. Like, I'm a professional.

I come to your house and like, I know I have a job to do. I have swats. I have all these things to show you. And you made me curse because you're white trash. I'm sorry. I'm looking around. Not only are your actions white trash, but I don't know where you got this furniture. But it's terrible.

It's white trash as well. You have a beanbag chair. I don't even know what to do with that. I'm going to throw it outside on my way out that's that's free consider that on the house there i've improved your situation your white trash i'm not dealing with it goodbye poof and in a in a puff of of purple glitter and feathered boa he's gone and uh diego's swinging at the air he's he tried to hit him. He really did, but he missed. See, Dexter's quick.

You can't fuck with Dexter. He's pretty fast. People have, you know what? People confuse Dexter sometimes, and he never knows how he's going to come across, so he's always ready to duck and shive and move, and he knows what he's doing, Dexter. You're not going to fucking hit Dexter.

And if you do, Dexter's a trained killer, actually. I'm told. Dexter's a bad man. He's a bad man. I've heard things. Let's just say that. License to kill. License to kill and decorate.

Yeah. July 2006, the most obvious thing in the world happens. His vehicle and motorcycle driver's licenses are revoked. So that is clearly, you knew that was going to happen. No more of that. This is when he is convicted of drunken driving from the October 2005 arrest. The first one. The first one.

He's still got the other one hanging over his head. And on October 7th, 2006, he's also got a fight hanging over his head here at the Mandalay Bay versus Casa Mayor again. Oh, no. So this is, you know, he's got the third fight against a goddamn tough fighter who he's lost a fight against coming up. And he's got all this other shit going on. It's so weird. You see this every fighter.

Once they get out of the realm of just concentrating on boxing and they have legal shit and craziness going on, they fall apart every time. It just happens. So this goes all 12 rounds. Again, think about the beatings and and wars and the brain damage this is giving him uh split decision yeah and diego loses how close is that to go all the way and to have one of the guys said you won yeah you know like fuck man somebody agreed with you yeah so this brings him to 40 and 4 now uh october 2006 he leaves for the promoter gary shaw for golden boy promotions with oscar de la jolla who we've heard a lot about here uh free pair of fishnets every time

he's there you go and some lipstick he says at this point in my diego says at this point in my career it's important that i can go into a fight knowing that the business outside is taken care of shaw his old manager uh here one of his other guys, he says, not manager, but the other, the promoter. He says that he's furious and he insists that he still has a valid contract with Diego and includes the right of first and last refusal on future fights. So he's basically he wants to have Corrales for life is what he says. He says, I could have him for life if I want to, based on this contract is what he's trying to enforce here. Uh, they said that it was, it was a Shaw who took on Corrales after he got out of jail

and he's trying to say that, you know, I helped this guy and I brought him out when he needed my help and now he's trying to dump me and I have a valid contract and all this shit. Basically he's talking about how, you know diego would fail to make weight on fights and you know he was basically trying to say like you know diego was the one thing fuck diego corrales number one he's he's an asshole he beats the shit out of women and all this type of shit so he's a dickhead but uh that still pales in comparison to a manager right uh who would have not only beaten his wife but then uh drugged her and fucked her in the ass if he could have i'm sure that's how managers are they're terrible people uh for every horrible diego corrales out there

there's a guy behind him 10 times worse who wants to steal money from that person based on their hard work and them doing dick in comparison a lot of these boxing managers are bad people and promoters are fucking the worst see bob arum don king anybody so yeah uh they have a fight about this sort of thing january 2007 he has a court appearance for his second dui his march 2006 dui and he does not he fails to appear in court for it what the fuck are you doing i don't know what he's thinking i don't know if he was shit-faced or what he forgot he fails to appear in court which is ridiculous imagine fuck dude think about this i mean like first of all is his new wife who took him on when he's in

jail and you know was stuck with him and all this, has to be pissed off. But think about his poor lawyer standing there. He said he was going to meet me. He said 8.30. Can we have 10 more minutes, Judge? There's got to be. He has to eat a lot in the morning. It's a thing with eats.

Fruit? I don't know. I read an article. There's a lot of it. I don't know what to do. But that's the guy, his lawyer. That would have been horrible. I feel bad for the guy, honestly.

I mean, not nearly as bad as I feel, though. For Diego Corrales, a social media manager and branding and marketing, online marketing manager in Spain in the advertising field there. Diego Corrales, a front end web web designer in the greater San Diego area. Is there a back-end web designer? Yeah, there's front and back-end. Front-end is what you see as a consumer. Got it. Back-end is like all your...

Understood. Record-keeping shit. Diego Corral is regional key account manager at Peru Foods and Beverages in Peru. So watch out, Diego Corrales there's a lot of them most of them are in spanish yeah i couldn't read them so those are the english ones april 7 2007 he's fighting again okay there's no choice he fight it's he's fighting abu ben at the not fighting this person fighting at the abu ben a Shrine Mosque. Wow.

Springfield, Missouri. Oh, yeah. So he's fighting at a Missouri mosque. He's fighting Joshua Clotty this day, who's a 30-win, 2-loss, 1-draw fighter coming in. Okay. He's a 39-5-1 career fighter. This fight goes all 10, and Diego's not right the whole fight.

There's just something off on him. There's a weight thing, too. I think this was a fight he had to go up for, and he just wasn't correct in this fight. There was something off with him because I've seen the fight, and it's a weird fight. It goes all 10 rounds. He hangs in there, but it's a unanimous decision for Claudio.

Diego didn't look like he had it that day. It is over, isn't it? 40 wins, 5 losses for him. It's, Diego didn't look like he had it that day. It is over, isn't it? Uh, that's his 40 wins, five losses for him. It's not going well at this point. His estranged wife now estranged at this point. Wife. She has now left him, uh, is pregnant again. Oh no.

Uh, so now it's got a wife who's pregnant and they were going on and off. She was leaving him because he was drinking and acting like an asshole. Right. Uh, this is Diego's sixth child. She's pregnant with jesus he's got six uh also in 2007 he appears in the movie big stan starring rob schneider oh no which i've never seen because rob schneider is fucking terrible at everything he's not good at things that he does like acting and joking he's just bad at it i have the description of this movie quote a weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud i've seen this movie he hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps him trans who helps transform him into a martial

arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him yeah uh yeah and that's eddie griffin is it really i Yeah. And that's Eddie Griffin. Is it really? I think it is. That's fucking embarrassing. I'm pretty sure it is. Diego appears in the movie as a character named Julio. He's billed as Chico Corrales in this, but he's in the movie.

Shocking. On the prison yard or something. Yeah, he's a tattooed up, tough looking guy with abs who looks like he can throw a punch. Looks like he's boxed before. Yeah, looks like he might have fought a couple of times. Now, May 7 know, abs. Right. Who looks like he can throw a punch. Looks like he's boxed before. Yeah, looks like he might have fought a couple of times. Now, May 7th, 2007. This is, by the way, two years after that Castillo fight that was the legendary fight.

Corrales is riding a 2007 Suzuki 1000 motorcycle. Oh, boy. It's a Suzuki GSXR 1000. Fast as fuck. Yeah. Yeah, is basically what it is insane fast yeah they're dangerous fast like at the dealership they tell you you should take like uh crazy like weird lessons before buying you should likely not buy this yeah never bought them they said literally you should go to like one of those race schools and train before you buy this bike because it's fucking ridiculous they are stupid fast stupid fast so yeah he gets one of these uh it's a 2007 it's brand new he uh he's riding at a high rate of speed uh he is on uh he's going north on fort apache road outside of vegas outside the strip

there he's driving this he purchased this bike two weeks earlier, by the way, at Carter Motorsports, which is a dealer there. So he is trying to pass a 1997 Honda Accord on a residential on the street here to avoid, as he's passing, there's an oncoming Mercedes coming. coming mercedes coming so he gets back in the northbound lane to you know he gets back in the lane behind him and slams into the honda's trunk oh no in front of him he's wearing a helmet with a full shield and all that type of shit he has no license obviously he's thrown a hundred feet from the bike fuck yeah and lands into a 2004 mercedes oh jesus uh yeah uh and is so that's 100 feet off the bike flies off lands into the hood of a mercedes which is like a cartoon yeah you know accident basically uh this is fucking crazy uh he the driver of the honda suffered a minor shoulder injury and diego is pronounced dead at the scene what he's dead it's over it's over holy shit he

flew into a 2004 mercedes-benz uh sedan 29 years old pronounced dead at the scene wow uh yeah uh that's that's like a rob schneider movie it's pretty much a rob he lived a rob schneider movie he died a rob schneider uh yeah his uh, his MySpace page said he enjoyed riding bikes and watching gangster movies, skiing and playing golf in his spare time. He has five children with a sixth on the way coming up here. Yeah. Gary Shaw, his ex-promoter, said he fought recklessly and lived recklessly. That was his style. Yeah.

No shit. He says about riding motorcycles motorcycles they asked him the year before you do a lot of crazy shit kind of out of the ring yeah do you think you should not do that with an athletic career he's fucking dead he said quote i'm only young once and unless someone hasn't told me something yet i only get to live once if i couldn't do this stuff now uh stuff i always wanted to do i'll never get a chance to do it. Well, there you go. You got no more chances. No more chances.

Las Vegas police blame speed and inexperience on that type of bike for the crash, saying it appeared Corrales did not have a Nevada license or motorcycle license. And they said they were trying to calculate the speed, but all they could calculate was it appears he was going well above the posted speed limit of 35 yeah if you hit something and fly a hundred feet off you were going way over 35 he's probably he's probably doing 65 70 he was trying to pass a 35 so he probably slowed down and then jet it in and right it's a fucking disaster uh now they said about the motorcycle riding his his trainer joe goosen quote, it was a concern to everybody.

To be quite honest, that bothered me the most about Diego. He fancied himself as a clever motorcyclist, and I would literally cringe when I'd see him riding a bike. Any of those athletes, yeah. Gary Shaw said he would try to convince Diego to be more careful outside the ring. to convince Diego to be more careful outside the ring. He said, I would try to talk him out of motorcycles and the skydiving, and he'd put his arm around me with a smile and say, chill out, relax, don't worry, it's all good. He was going to go skiing once, and I said, Chico, you don't know how to ski, and he said, I can go very fast down a mountain.

He's just fucking crazy. Yeah, he said, we knew about the motorcycle he lived his life the same way he fought with reckless abandon uh which is true now uh he said this lamparelli who's a close friend of him has said quote it was always a concern i don't know how many times i told him to be careful but the way diego lived his life so carefree especially with motorcycles you just hoped he'd be okay so he at this at this point, was separated from Michelle. She was six months pregnant. He has financial problems.

He owed the IRS back taxes. He tried to, he's being sued by Shaw for going to Delahoya for there. He still has that shit with the management that he's fighting from before. Corrales had also been advanced three hundred thousand dollars by golden boy but spent the money and was unable to repay it so now his estate owes that also uh so some of the press brought up maybe corrales committed suicide they're like if there's easier ways to do it than that um yeah one of his friends said quote yes he had a lot of issues but if he wanted to kill himself, he could have taken a pistol to his head or a sawed-off shotgun or taken a bunch of sleeping pills.

The guy was wearing a helmet. Most motorcycle deaths are from head trauma, so if he wanted to kill himself, he wouldn't wear a helmet when he's going 100 miles an hour. Probably true. He also said that he liked doing those things. He was an outdoors kind of guy. He loved going fast. I don't know if you call was an outdoors kind of guy. He loved going fast. I don't know if you call that an outdoors kind of guy. Goosen, his old manager here, or trainer, said that he thought Corrales briefly,

the thought that he might have committed suicide crossed his mind. He said, but he was an A-type personality. He never did anything that outrageous. His riding was a concern to everyone, including his wife, Michelle, but Diego had been riding motorcycles since he was a kid. If he was traveling 100 miles an hour like they say he was, that's very disturbing. I wonder why would he be so reckless? And it was, like I said, 35 mile an hour.

A witness to the accident told police that he was going considerably faster than the speed limit, which is obvious. It sounds like, I mean, on that bike and it's new, he's ripping on it. Probably. Oh, he's probably jumped on the gas to pass that car. Saw the one coming. So no shit on his brakes. Yeah. That car's right there now.

Right on your tire. Yeah. So that happens. It's over. It's over. That's why you don't ride like a dickhead. Yeah. That's why you got to be super careful.

And if you're a professional athlete, probably just stay off bikes. And you got six kids. How about don't own a bike? That's another thing. You got six fucking kids. Jesus. Now, Diego Senior, the guy or the father we talked about, the not is not Ray. Gangster.

Yeah. I like to hang out with the gangsters. He says, there is a part of me that regrets not being there. And then there's a part of me where I'm very grateful that I made the decision that I made as far as Diego, his mother and his brother. I made the right decision. I gave them a chance. He couldn't have become a champion without me with me being there.

I loved him enough to let them have a life that I couldn't have given them. I was way too far into crime and getting high. And my son deserved a chance. And that's what I gave him. That whole shit that his mother said earlier. That's what he interpreted that. He was a real noble guy. That's what I gave him. That whole shit that his mother said earlier, that's what he interpreted that as. He was a real noble guy.

Like he was super poor and gave Diego to a rich family where he could have a better life. No, you were a scumbag and he ran away on your fucking family. Wow. So June 12, 2007, it comes out that Diego Corrales was driving with more than three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system. There's your problem. When his motorcycle crashed, and he died here. Now, yeah, he said it's quite possible, a police officer said it's quite possible that had he not been impaired, he could have prevented this accident. His blood alcohol level was.25, which is three times the legal limit, and fucking hammered for anybody.

To be on a bike like that? To be on a bike and going fast in Vegas on those strips, you're crazy. The legal limit is.08 in Nevada. Yeah, so one of the police officers said, bottom line, no one else did anything wrong. And they said that he basically killed himself. Everybody else was just driving normally, and he was going around them. They also did a coroner test for 25 different drugs

and found no legal or illegal substances in his system other than the alcohol. They said that he was well above, yeah, so that's it, well above the alcohol and well above, well above alcohol and speed limit is too much. Not great. Now, Lamparelli, a friend of his, said, quote, we did know he did drink,

talking about him and also Corrales' wife. That's what he used to do. The public knowledge as far as his DUIs and things like that, unfortunately, that was one of his demons, obviously. Yeah. So Michelle, due to deliver the baby there uh says this it's going to be a son and she's naming it diego jr no diego double jr the third it continues or the second because there wasn't one because there really wasn't a first uh they've been they said

that they've been trying to reconcile and she's very sad, obviously. And she said, quote, As soon as I got pregnant, Diego knew it was going to be a boy. My two brothers had daughters and our first child was a girl. But he knew this one would be a boy. And so, yes, obviously it is. She says that she has her good days and bad, but she knew she had to move on and couldn't stop living. There was no life insurance. No. Oh, boy.

She had to move on and couldn't stop living. There was no life insurance. No. Oh, boy. He was, Jesus, boxing and fucking going to prison and riding motorcycles and not having a goddamn life insurance policy for his kids. No nest egg from boxing. Three children from three different women were hitting him up for money, obviously. Attorneys fees, lawsuits, IRSs penalty nothing uh she even said michelle owns a curves franchise oh the gym yeah and she said even even that's barely breaking even

so she's fucked financially she said her goals are to keep the seven bedroom home they purchased in 2003 and raise the kids there uh in Seven bedrooms? It's a big fucking house. Sure it is. They made it sound like he had like a three bedroom. It makes it sound like she's destitute. Well, before when they said they lived in a little

Las Vegas cul-de-sac, made it sound like they had a 1,500 square foot, three bedroom, two bath starter home. No. And no. So yeah, she said she wants to keep the house

for the father's memory. She said, I felt like he was somebody who just needed a friend that didn't need anything from him. Everybody around him was there to just take, take, take. He was down on himself. This is talking about prison. So sometimes when you see someone that down on themselves, you try to stay strong for them. He is buried at the Palm Memorial Park in Las Vegas in the Garden of Reflection.

All right. There's space. He can reflect forever. Reflect on his stupid behavior. Space 619, if you want to go give him a visit. A question, James. Asshole or idiot? A little bit of both.

Both. This is a 50-50. Certainly both. This is the same as last week, I think, was a 50-52. Who was last week? We had... The wrestler. No, no, no think, was a 50-52. Who was last week? We had... The wrestler. No, no, no.

That was like two weeks ago. Then we had Darren Sharper. Right. And then we had Jeremy Jackson. There you go. Asshole and idiot. Both. This guy's a Jeremy Jackson type, too.

Both. Yeah. Can't get enough of Diego? No. ChampsUK.com. You can get a Diego Corrales signed boxing glove. Oh. It's some sort of inquire within

for price thing that's kind of cool uh boxing royalty.co.za jesus you can get a diego corrales dvd set of his career it's like 20 fights for 20 20.93 on custominc.com you can get a diego shirt where it's it's just says pain for on it, which was a tattoo that he had. That was his big tattoo. It said pain for love. I don't know what that means. It is too. I don't either.

It is too. That is awfully ironic, though. That's a weird thing for a domestic abuse fucking perpetrator. Again, it beats the shit. Pain for love. Pain for love. Yeah, it sounds bad for him. I would hide that in court for domestic violence, probably.

This is to benefit the Golden State Bloodhounds Boxing Club. It's a fundraiser here. Everything goes to this boxing thing here. It goes to Olga Woods, who's the organizer for boxing equipment and travel for tournaments. The goal is to sell 250 shirts. This was years ago they put this up. They've sold 22. Raised $150 in profit

on that. Not going well. Couple of bags of dog food. Shirts are $25 a piece if you can't get enough of that shit. That is Diego Corrales. Holy balls, what a fucking wild story. Like I said, I watched that guy coming up and fighting and never knew any of this shit. that is diego corrales my word holy balls what a fucking wild story and that's just like i said i watched that guy coming up and fighting and never knew any of this shit and uh yeah what a what a

fucking mess arrest and piss sir he has a steve howe ending yeah yeah that's pretty amazing a hardcore steve howe ending here not good did steve howe suffer a more humane death i think i don't know he shot out of his truck and got rolled over on. That's true. He was on meth. Yeah. So he probably felt, although he was hammered, so he probably felt good, too. Sailing through that last hundred feet was probably very peaceful.

I can see my house from up here. Well, imagine how peaceful that was. It's so quiet. And then, oh, shit. And then there's a Mercedes there. The noise when you hit things on a motorcycle, though, is so loud. It's an explosion of plastic. That rattle and bang.

Yeah. And then the silence. Yeah. That's what I mean. And then flying through the air. And as drunk as he was, it probably took him a second to realize, I am flying. Oh, my God. I just crashed.

Shit, I'm loose right now. Oh, no. I can't even feel myself. Jesus Christ, I just cracked. This is... Shit, I'm loose right now. Oh, no. I can't even feel myself. Jesus Christ, man. Fuck. So that is Diego Corrales, and that is Crime and Sports. It is. For this week, the last show of our second year.

You can call it our third year, actually. Yeah, because we did it. This is our third damn year. Our last show of our third year. Unbelievable. We begin our fourth year of shows here which is goddamn crazy yeah 2016 and 2019 that's three years holy shit so if you like that and if you haven't done it yet in the last three years yeah four years uh three years get on itunes apple podcast the purple icon there

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for everybody. So, yeah, you know, what the hell. These people keep the show running sometimes. Thank you. They're our favorite people, our producers, and you can be one of those people very easily. You can do it right from ShutUpAndGiveMeMurder.com. There is links to go to patreon.com slash crime and sports or you can go to paypal and use our email

address which is crime in sports at gmail.com sports plural sports plural crime in sports at g just like the title of the show weird right do that because somebody's a dickhead yeah and made us crime and sport yeah and uh fields questions and shit fields questions and money and money so yeah crime and sports plural yeah at gmail.com yeah so do that thank you guys so much for every dime you give us there obviously that means the goddamn world to us so thank you why don't you tell us now jimmy the people who mean the world to us this week who are they who do we want to fly 100 feet through the air toward jimmy tell me now this week's executive producers are ari

carison carison uh chelsea fuck what did i do that's a weird last name oh chelsea lanae that's what that is there you go uh chelsea fuck what did i do jesus tanisha teo uh l Lisa Hewitt, Megan Schmelzenbach, thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. That was a fucking unbelievable. Yeah, you guys are so nice to us. Ola, Ola, Ola. Oh, boy. Thank you.

Ole, I am so sorry. Ole, hola, hola, hola, what? Hala, what? Gee? Dude, don't look at me like that. It's a tough one. Ola is definitely foreign. No. That's not a Chad Smith. Ola is definitely foreign. No.

That's not a Chad Smith. Ola Halawadji. Not one of those Midwestern Ola's? Halawadji. That I hear all the time? Halawadji. I think that's it. Oh, okay.

Well, thank you. I like your name, and I wish we could pronounce it better. Howard Wilson, Ben Kastner, Scott Leibarger, and Michelle Gilbert. You guys, thank you so much for... Can't thank you enough. You guys really lead the charge. The life's blood. Thank you, guys. Other producers this week, we have Jacob Harshman, who went to

both Patreon and then over to PayPal. Thank you, man. Karina Walker, Haley Brastaukas, Thomas Smith, Michael Bretz, Jen Stevens, Chris Currier, Matt Dietrich, Benjamin Donaki, Chelsea Morgan. You know what?

She donated twice. Wow. Thank you, Chelsea. Thank you, Chelsea. Wendy Dyes, Suave Marsha Gumbo, or Marcia. I'm not good at this. I don't know what I'm doing. Brendan Ables, Kelly Higby, Amanda Asperheim, Bill Sosinski, Steve Schnell in PA.

Thanks, Steve. That's the right role. Hey, thanks, brother. Heavy metal scientist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. What am I doing? What's up, Steve?

Thanks, brother. And in Pennsylvania, when we were at the Philly Punchline, he told me what he does. It's fucking... Oh, he's fucking smart as shit, that guy. You look at that guy and you go, what's his difference? You talk to him for five minutes and you go, oh, yeah, he's really smart. He's clearly... He's a really smart guy. But you look at him and you're what's his you talk to him for five minutes you go oh yeah he's really smart he's a really smart guy but you look at him and you're like he looks like a psychopath yeah he looks like he he looks like he'd like crush your skull for selling bootleg metallica t-shirts in the parking lot they'd send him out there to like kick your

skull in and then he's a great guy cheap wine out of your skull yeah he's a great dude he's amazing uh quebec uh i don't know if the city donated the whole city i think thanks french people jesse hartman maribel leal uh remy remy uh remy peck peck worry uh is it remy or remy r-e-m-i with like a little thing ramey that's i'll bet it's ramey peckary okay that's right or p query that sounds great i'm sure it's Ramey Picari. Okay. I'll bet that's right, or P. Quarry. That sounds great, and I'm sure it's wrong, but it sounds beautiful. Ashley Veo, James Fraker, Deanne Dooley, Margie Kunze, Tracy Renninger, Jacob Hoem, Jordan Moser, Naima Shea, Marshall Walker, Peyton Mahoons. No, Meadows.

Mahoons? The fuck did you pull that out of your ass, bro? Oh, boy, oh, boy. Under the Sea Fabrics, Edward Kaczynski, Marshall Walker, John Volkanar. Volkanar III. I've said his name a million times and I can't fucking, I'll never get it. Tough one. Jesse Foster, Rachel Robbins, Stephen Rood, Stephanie Smith, or Smith Stephanie.

I'm sure it's Stephanie Smith. Probably. But it came in the other way. Rachel Robbins, Stephen Rood, I said that. Laura Schwartz, hockey. Yes. Janice Hill, Jonathan Wilder, Keith Cole, Ashley Hathaway, McKenna Kota, Dominique Nichols. There you go.

That's the one. This is really frustrating. Alex Calder, Caleb Crawley, Shawna Rogers, Roger Lovelady. What? Heather Mueller, Gary Howard, Barbara Howells, Lindsay Furster. Almost called her Fister. Sorry about that. Fister, hardly knew her.

almost called her fister sorry about that that i fester hardly knew her jean no sean tucker uh misty keen verne parks ted cyrus natalie meyer gretchen jones uh neil jones justin miller uh patricia grace charlie way haley haley marble uh shama parker shama uh. Shama. Yes. Shama Parker. Yeah. Yeah. Tara Jenkins. Hannah Simmons. Donna Englehart. Rachel Stora.

I said Rachel, and I got her again. May Lee Elliott. I hope that's the... It's probably somebody else, but I know somebody that goes by May Lee that does some adult films. I wanted it to be her so bad. Oh, God. May Lee Elliott. I was going to look that up.

Wren Finch. Maurice Peterson. Jordan Bennett. Herb Garcia. Lisa Watson. Luis. No, Levi's. No, Louis.

Louis Tidrick. You've gotten delirious. Thank no, Levi's. No, Louis, Louis Tidrick. You've gotten delirious. Thank you, Levi's. Alyssa with no last name. Krista, Krista. I called her man Levi's. Krista Gibson, Aaron Ishiok, Caitlin Mingus, Heather Norton, Jane Richards, Lindsay Walker, Sebastian Martin, Stacey Hardy, Daniel McDonald.

I am so sorry, Lewis. Spring Monday Wise, Team Crucial on YouTube. I don't know what that is, but you can go look them up. Chad with no last name. Emily Brazel or Brazil. Kelly Pinozian. Yes, Pinozian. Okay.

It's one of those. Yeah. Ashley Wilsey. Summer McClain. Matt Sledge. Sledge. Sledge. Matt Sledge.

Sorry, sir. Levi Sledge. Where's Levi Sledge when you need him? That sounds like something that happens after a lap dance. I got Levi Sludge, everybody. I'll be back in five minutes. I got to go to the can. Carly Dodson.

Jamie loves Jimmy because she's very nice. Kay with no last name. Jacob Cornwell. Desiree Brown. Vanessa Fajardo. Fajardo. Fajardo, Fajardo. Fajardo. Fajardo.

That's it. Daniel Harnois, Lonnie Hall, Plum Foxington. That can't be real, right? I hope so. That's a great name. Kristen Waller, Kurt Atherhalt, Brittany McDonald, Tracy Jones, Laura Fossone, Stephen Tuttrello, Ken Slattery, Jen Collazo, Patrick Fetty, Captain Surly, that's easy enough, Kerry Berger, Colin Shea, Jimmy's Nutsack, that's what that says. Whatever.

You got me. You happy now? Edgar Cordero, Lily Meyer, Dragonfly Girl, Shelly Cassidy, Don Peterson, Mariah Musgrave, Carrie Centeno, yes, and Haley Landgraf. Wow. You guys, it's a fucking unbelievable list, and we can't be thankful enough to to really tell you how grateful

we are thank you thank you thank you thank you everybody you fucking you guys are awesome you are honestly thank you for every goddamn thing you do for us and uh we couldn't appreciate you more we really really couldn't and uh jimmy what if people appreciate you how can they tell you where can they find you to tell you such a thing you can find me at wisman sucks w-h-i-s-m-a-n sucks on twitter instagram and snapchat and it's it's really you guys are the reason this show exists so thank you so much for being around and uh spending your time with us it's nice it really is nice oh you can find me at jimmy p is funny or copy and paste my last name from the show description and use that because it's easier than uh trying to spell it which you'll you'll fail at that.

And I don't want you to fail. I want you to feel good about yourself. I don't want you to feel like Diego Corral is after a bad fight. I want you to feel good about yourself, goddammit. And I want you to keep feeling good about yourself each and every goddamn week, everybody. Every week, live from the Crime and Sports Studios. We will see you next week.

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