Quite possibly. I never really thought about the outcome when i posted it, just figured it would a great matchup. MAGO is there to be hit, but he had a very solid chin and would fight back with heart. I know it's a MM, but these are the kinds of fights they need to put on big PPV undercards.
MAG had pop too(more then enough to dent Chico's chin) and he was pretty skilled as well. But mainly he wins just by virtue of being the far more durable of the two. MAG was about on the same level as Castillo, and JL Ramirez. All very good Mexican lightweight champs who fell short of being JCC.
My money would be on Gonzalez, & for just the reasons Xplosive correctly outlined. Corrales was also someone who struck me as something of an up-&-down fighter, too --- not simply just from night-to-night, but even round-to-round. It was one factor which kept him at the very good level, unable to break into the upper-echelon of great pound-for-pound fighters (in his era, not all-time).
Chico wasnt really an up and down fighter, he just couldnt handle guys with speed, and movement. But anybody who stood in front of him, and was there to be hit was asking for trouble due to Chico's offensive ability and power. So while MAG wins, I definitely think he'd have to survive some shaky moments along the way.
I must say, though, I've never seen a fighter pull quite anything like Corrales' jumbo-screen fixation in the fight with Mayweather. I'm sure you're familiar with it. It astonished me a fighter could be so cavalier --- even in-close, he repeatedly took his eyes off the prize in favour of the screen. Astounding. That's a man whose head isn't screwed on straight if ever I saw one. Corrales had enough distractions going in without that business.
I think that right there was the main factor. Not that it woulda mattered much... Floyd owns Corrales 100/100 times.
