Boxer Corrales dies in accident in Las Vegas...

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Boxer Corrales dies in accident in Las Vegas

Associated Press
Posted: 3 hours ago



LAS VEGAS (AP) - Diego "Chico" Corrales, who won titles in two weight classes and won one of the most exciting boxing matches in recent years, died in a high-speed motorcycle crash. He was 29.


Diego Corrales celebrates winning the WBC lightweight crown by a 10th-round knockout over Jose Luis Castillo in May 2005. Corrales died Monday at age 29. (Joe Cavaretta / Associated Press)
Corrales was riding a new motorcycle Monday evening when he ran into the back of a car while trying to pass at high speed on a busy residential street about 7 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip, police said Tuesday.

Corrales was thrown from the motorcycle, which collided with an oncoming car, and pronounced dead at the scene of the 7:22 p.m. crash.

His promoter, Gary Shaw, said Corrales, whose career had faltered the past two years, recently bought a racing motorcycle and was riding it when he was killed.
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