DC's DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley has lost his bid for a second world title as he dropped a 12-round unanimous decision to Junior Witter tonight at the Alexandra Palace in London, England.
According to Boxrec.com, the judge's scores were 117-111, 118-112 and 116-113. Corley's record is now 31-5-1, 17 KO's. This is his third straight loss in a world title bout (The other two were to Zab Judah and Miguel Cotto. The Floyd Mayweather bout was a WBC title elimination bout.)
Corley told the BBC that he thought he won the bout on a split decision and he pulled out the bout in the last two rounds. When asked where would he go from here, the former WBO champion was noncommittal, saying that he would have retired if Witter had knocked him out, but now he says he would have to talk to his management and family before making a decision.
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Boy...Corley is just good enough to beat the C and B-level guys, but lose to the A-level ones. He always gives them a good go, though. Kind of reminds me of a latter-day Oba Carr in that regard.
No slam on the area fighters but once again, they step up to Level A fighters and they always lose. The only one who never got a chance to really fight the big ones was Mark Johnson.
But Joppy, Holmes, Mitchell, and Chop Chop who were all world champs could never beat anyone past a B- level fighter..
Well...Perhaps true, but you folks still have a better scene than we do here in the Northwest! (LOL)
BTW- It was indeed a shame that Johnson never got a 'big fight' between 112-118, but then again...It was that Ricardo Lopez never got one between 105-112 as well. Just kind of the way it goes in the fly/bantam divisions sometimes. A shame, as there are many great fighters in those divisions in the past, and this could be a very good flyweight era as we speak. If only the promoters would wisen-up to this. Carbajal & Gonzalez proved that little men could put up big numbers back in the 90's.
Peace...
Come on people. Cruiser you make some great point. Chop Chop can't beat a fighter that's on top of game. Evey tome he fight a. A class fighter. He is happy to just. Compete. To and just go to distance so he can say I didn't get stop. He had Cotto out on feet with ober 1. Or. 2. Minutes left in the ring. I'm happy he got is but click he turned his bback on the fighters from DC.He he always come in with ring with them.Its difrence it you are working wiyh yhe fighters but come in rain with that's terribl
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