DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley

This was my live call:

www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=364926&page=3

I missed rounds 7-9, but at some point in that span Corley scored a cut and shifted the momentum (Provodnikov had been up 5-1 on my card through six) and then closed very strong to sweep all three championship rounds.

So it really shouldn't have been any wider for Ruslan than 116-112 (it was wider on all three official cards), and possibly closer than that depending on those three "lost" rounds.

 

Oh yeah. According to an article by a Russian boxing writer who was ringside, Corley should have won a close one. He gave Provodnikov the 7th and 9th, and Corley the 8th. (which would make for 115-113 Provodnikov for me)

 

I actually noticed that too. :yep I was scanning through his resume to see if he qualified for a bump of Russell's excellent Adding Up 0's Stolen... thread. Alas, no. Chop has gone up against an uncanny number of unbeaten opponents, but this is the first time he's come out on top against a meaningful one.

 

:nod Co-sign

I'm going to also take this opportunity to make cheeky mention of how this run of late for Chop should raise Matthysse's already high stock.

Only guy to really dominate DeMarcus in quite a while. (Dulorme pitched a near shutout, but didn't manhandle him the same way...and El Riel scored a highlight reel KO with a single punch, but Corley had been outboxing him until then...)

 

CHOP CHOP!!

This past weekend headlining a cheapo internet PPV card on www.gofightlive.tv,Corley beat Daniel "Prophet" Attah (best remembered for his 2010 kayo upset of Marvin Quintero on Showtime, and before that for being a fringe contender who got schooled in an unsuccessful challenge of Acelino Freitas and later punitively whipped by Nate Campbell after talking himself up for having supposedly bested Campbell in sparring...)

This is Corley's 2nd W in a row, having returned to action last month after nine months out.

 

Corley, now forty years old, is 5-9 since he knocked out Damian Fuller (which followed an 8-12 slump - putting him now at 14-21 since he last held a world title over a decade ago, with a 28-1-1 record heading into his close loss to Zab Judah)

 

Really cool interview from the night he beat Daniel Attah:

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Couple of cool things here for anyone who can't watch...

Corley is back in action on November 11th. He is hoping to arrange for it to be for at least a minor title of some kind and if not to help get him pushed into the rankings for a title.

He claims that he feels he was always naturally a lightweight even though he campaigned for seventeen years at 140lbs. He says other guys he fought were draining themselves and rehydrated a lot so they weren't really natural light welters, meaning he fought bigger men. He points to Cotto, Provodnikov, Mayweather, Bailey, Maidana, Judah and others having fought at welter and even super welter and says he anticipates Matthysse going up soon too. He says for Cotto he weighed in at 137 and rehydrated only a few pounds up to an unofficial fight night weight of the actual super lightweight divisional limit of 140. Cotto on the other hand came into the ring @ 158lbs with a massive functional size advantage. So, because of all this, at the age of forty he is planning to drop to lightweight and pursue a 135lb title. He says he feels he can do this because he is a gymrat and has always considered himself a smallish light welter (compared with actual light welters, let alone guys cutting lots of weight just making pit stops there on the way up) - this despite being a foodie.

That is the other thing - he says he loves eating and doesn't even particularly watch his diet. Fried shrimp, whatever, bring it. He is also known for being a passionate cook and - this I didn't know and was blown away by - that is where his nickname of Chop-Chop originally came from, not anything to do with his boxing style.

Being an opportunistic and entrepreneurial fellow, he also plugged his upcoming line of athletic equipment for boxers (gym bags, gloves, cups) and his shoes which have been out for years. He also obliquely responded to Shane Mosley attributing his bad performance against Manny Pacquiao to blisters caused by Corley's shoes. He says the whipping Mosley took seemed to have a lot more to do with Mosley stupidly running back in straight lines away from Pacquiao rather than his made-up blisters. :rofl SLAM!