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January 20, 2001; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV

DIEGO CORRALES’ post-fight complaint that his fight with Floyd Mayweather was stopped too soon, even though he’d been dropped five times, seemed like hot air. The pair of them didn’t like each other much, with Corrales writing the word ‘kill’ under images of Floyd he’d affixed to various punchbags. “A champ should finish the fight as long as keeps getting up,” Diego said afterwards. “My head was clear. I worked damned hard for this fight.” But Mayweather was

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