1. Diego Corrales was a multiple-time world champion in two weight divisions, having held the IBF super featherweight title from 1999 to 2000; the WBO super featherweight title in 2004; the WBO lightweight title from 2004 to 2006; and the WBC, and Ring magazine lightweight titles from 2005 to 2006.
In 2005, Corrales received Fight of the Year honors by The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America for his acclaimed first bout with Jose Luis Castillo.
Diego Corrales was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2024.
Diego Corrales reached the first round of the featherweight bracket at the 1995 Pan American Games, losing to Arnaldo Mesa.
Diego Corrales won the fight, via TKO in the tenth round, making Diego Corrales a two weight champion.
On May 7,2005, Diego Corrales defeated WBC and Ring Lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo via TKO in the tenth round, giving Diego Corrales his fourth title in 2 weight classes.
Diego Corrales wobbled to his feet at the referee's count of ten, causing the fight to end.
Diego Corrales was scheduled to defend his lightweight title in a third bout against Joel Casamayor on October 7,2006.
Diego Corrales served 14 months in the Deuel Vocational Institution, a correctional facility in San Joaquin County, California, after being convicted of domestic battery on his then pregnant girlfriend.
On May 7,2007, exactly two years to the day after his first fight with Castillo, Diego Corrales was killed in a three-vehicle accident near his Las Vegas home.
Diego Corrales was riding a 2007 Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle, traveling northbound on Fort Apache Road in the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley when he struck the back of a car and was thrown more than 100 feet into oncoming traffic and struck by another vehicle.
An ambulance was called by the witnesses at the scene, Diego Corrales was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.