JCash All American 988 Posts user info edit post |
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2863505 5/8/2007 8:23:28 AM |
simonn best gottfriend 28968 Posts user info edit post |
i'll miss him. 5/8/2007 9:00:08 AM |
beergolftile All American 9030 Posts user info edit post |
people die everyday 5/8/2007 9:00:08 AM |
redirish All American 1299 Posts user info edit post |
Sad to see. He was always entertaining to watch even though he was pretty much done as a serious contender. It looked like he had worked out a lot of his problems outside the ring and was heading in the right direction. Either way, he was still in the best fight of our generation and that's something that people will remember him for years from now. 5/8/2007 9:39:08 AM |
kable333 All American 5933 Posts user info edit post |
He was only 29. 5/8/2007 9:39:51 AM |
Acanthus Suspended 1747 Posts user info edit post |
them god damn motorcycles again
Quote : | ""He crashed on a motorcycle," his manager, James Prince, told ESPN.com's Dan Rafael. "It don't look like he made it through this. He's dead."" |
pretty funny quote5/8/2007 10:39:22 AM |
kable333 All American 5933 Posts user info edit post |
R.I.P.
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Mash Out Posse?! 5/8/2007 2:56:39 PM |
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Motorcycles Obliterate Pelvis 5/8/2007 3:07:26 PM |
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monkeys on parole 5/11/2007 1:05:41 AM |
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My Oblong Penis 5/11/2007 12:22:44 PM |
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Quote : | "people die everyday" |
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hunterb2003 All American 14423 Posts user info edit post |
who? 5/11/2007 12:36:20 PM |
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Master of Puppets 5/11/2007 1:03:15 PM |
tennwa33 All American 920 Posts user info edit post |
Turns out Chico was drunk when he wrecked.
Quote : | "LAS VEGAS -- Boxer Diego "Chico" Corrales was driving drunk at more than three times the legal limit when he crashed his motorcycle and died, police said Tuesday.
"It's quite possible that had he not been impaired, he could have prevented his accident," Las Vegas police Sgt. Tracy McDonald said after toxicology tests showed Corrales' blood-alcohol content was 0.25 percent. The legal limit for drivers in Nevada is 0.08 percent.
Diego Corrales
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Former two-division champ Diego Corrales was one of the fiercest fighters of his era.
"Bottom line, no one else did anything wrong," McDonald said of an investigation that found speed was a factor and no drugs were in Corrales' system when he died May 7 at age 29. "He basically killed himself."
Corrales had a history of drunken driving and was riding without a valid license, court officials and the state Department of Motor Vehicles have said.
Pat Lamparelli, a Corrales family friend, said Tuesday he was not surprised to learn that Corrales had been drinking before he crashed his 2007 Suzuki while trying to pass another vehicle on a busy residential street about seven miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
"We did know he did drink," Lamparelli said, speaking for Corrales' pregnant wife, Michelle Corrales. "That's what he used to do. That's public knowledge as far as his DUIs and things like that. Unfortunately, that was one of his demons."
Those close to him also knew Corrales as intelligent, charismatic and a risk-taker who never turned down an autograph and liked high-risk sports like scuba diving and snowboarding.
Michelle Corrales is pregnant and due to deliver the couple's fourth child next month, a son to be named Diego Jr., Lamparelli said. The couple had been trying to reconcile after separating earlier this year.
Lamparelli said family members did not know where Corrales had been before the crash. He was wearing a helmet, but died of head injuries, the Clark County coroner said. The cause of death was ruled an accident.
The coroner tested for 25 drugs and found no legal or illegal substances in Corrales' system, McDonald said, adding that while investigators did not complete calculations of how fast he was riding it was clear Corrales was "well above" the posted speed limit of 35 mph when he crashed.
The Nevada DMV has said Corrales' vehicle and motorcycle licenses were revoked in July 2006 for a drunken driving conviction on an October 2005 arrest.
He faced arrest stemming from a failure to appear in January in a Las Vegas court on a March 2006 DUI arrest, the Clark County district attorney's office said. Charges in that case also included speeding and evading a police officer.
Corrales fought most of his career at 130 pounds, winning lightweight and featherweight titles while compiling a record of 40 wins and five losses, with 33 knockouts.
The crash occurred two years to the day after his most memorable fight, a bout against Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas that the Boxing Writers Association of America and numerous boxing publications called the fight of the year. " |
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hunterb2003 All American 14423 Posts user info edit post |
who? 6/13/2007 1:16:47 PM |
wolfpack2105 All American 12428 Posts user info edit post |
oh well....when u drink and drive, u get what you deserve
whats that thing about darwin or somethin??? 6/13/2007 5:42:50 PM |