🥊 Floyd Mayweather vs Jose Luis Castillo II | FULL FIGHT | WBC/RING Lightweight Titles | 7/12/2002

Floyd Mayweather Jr. 28–0 (20 KO) vs. José Luis Castillo 46–5–1 (42 KO) II was a professional boxing match contested on December 7, 2002 for the WBC and The Ring lightweight titles. Mayweather and Castillo had fought eight months earlier with Mayweather prevailing with a unanimous decision. The decision was seen as controversial as Castillo had clearly outpunched Mayweather 203 to 157 and landed over 100 more power punches than Mayweather. The fight's promoter Bob Arum, while not necessarily saying Mayweather didn't win, called the scoring for the fight, with Mayweather having won comfortably by five points on one scorecard and four points on the other two, "ludicrous" and vowed that he would attempt to schedule a rematch on August 10 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles with the bout being carried on HBO pay-per-view rather than on cable. However, Arum's plans were scuttled when Mayweather refused to fight in Los Angeles, claiming he could not trust the judges and did not want to fight in front of what expected to be a largely Mexican crowd that would be in favor of Castillo. As a result of Mayweather's refusal to fight in Los Angeles, the fight was rescheduled to take place in Nevada's Mandalay Bay Events Center on October 5 with the fight happening on a standard telecast of HBO World Championship Boxing rather than on HBO pay-per-view. In preparation for the rematch with Mayweather, Castillo took a tune-up fight with Verdell Smith, defeating him by third-round knockout in his native Mexico in early August. While training for the fight in late September, Castillo developed a case of Achilles tendinitis, resulting in the fight being postponed until December 7. Though Castillo was expected to be healed by October 19, Arum opted to move the fight to December so as to avoid competition from the 2002 World Series. Originally, the Mayweather–Castillo rematch was to be the main event of a boxing card that featured WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko defending his title against Jameel McCline as the featured undercard bout. However, when Mayweather no-showed a press conference promoting the card three days before the event, Arum, having tired of Mayweather's antics, decided to flip the two fights with the Klitschko–McCline bout taking the main event slot, while the Mayweather–Castillo fight was moved to the undercard. 🥊SUCKERPUNCH BOXING🥊 ------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE LIKE 👍🏻 & SUBSCRIBE ✅ ------------------------------------------------------------ #BOXING #FIGHTS #DOCUMENTARY #FULLFIGHTS #CLASSICFIGHTS #UKBOXING