Gary Shaw, left, promoter for Diego Corrales, gives a thumbs-up to indicate that Jose Luis Castillo, right, is too heavy to make weight for tonight's lightweight fight. Also shown are Castillo's trainer Joe Goossen, second from left, and manager Fernando Beltran. Photo by Isaac Brekken/Review-Journal

Some of the local print and television advertising for tonight's scheduled lightweight title fight at the Thomas & Mack Center mistakenly had champion Diego Corrales defending his WBC and WBO belts against Juan Castillo -- rather than Jose Luis Castillo.

Hmmm. Maybe there's a Juan Castillo out there with a pair of red boxing trunks who could make the 135-pound weight.

Jose Luis Castillo sure couldn't.

Three trips to the scales. Two trips to the sauna. Who knows how many trips to the bathroom?

In the end Friday, the former champ couldn't sweat off the weight and was forced to sweat out some heated negotiations between rival promoters Bob Arum and Gary Shaw to see if they would even go ahead with the rematch, likely without the titles on the line.

Finally, it was determined there will be a fight, at a weight of 147 pounds, perhaps even with the belts back in play -- with that last consideration not to be determined until this morning.

Yeesh!

Way to take a beautiful thing, this highly anticipated reprise of one of the best fights in boxing history, and turn it into an ugly, twisted mess in the closing hours.

Shame on the Castillo camp -- and especially the celebrated fighter, who reportedly ate well this week at Wynn Las Vegas -- for not doing a better job of keeping tabs on such a critical detail in the days leading up to Friday.

And now Castillo may pay for it.

What once was expected to be a classic second slugfest between Castillo, who dropped his challenger in the 10th round of their first fight back in May, and Corrales, who twice picked himself up from the mat to score a technical knockout just over a minute later in that round, could very easily turn into a mismatch in favor of the current champion.

Whereas lightweight fighters typically add 10 to 15 pounds in the hours between their weigh-in and the first bell, Castillo, who weighed 137 and then 138 1/2 twice on Friday, can add no more than 8 1/2 pounds before today's 3 p.m. weigh-in for the new, agreed-upon 147-pound limit.

Most of that will have to be water, as Castillo, who appeared drained at Friday's three weigh-ins, has to rehydrate himself. There is not much room for food -- perhaps sucking on a few oranges -- although Castillo could get in a small meal or snack after today's weigh-in, with the fight not expected to start until around 8:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, Corrales, who weighed in at 135 Friday and will not have to be reweighed today, will be able to add the customary 10 to 15 pounds. In addition to water and juices, Corrales was to eat pasta at Piero's Italian restaurant on Friday night, according to trainer Joe Goossen, with two small snacks before bedtime, room-service breakfast this morning, a bowl of soup for lunch and a piece of chicken sometime around 3 p.m.

Hey, who could blame Corrales if he mockingly gnawed on a drumstick in front of Castillo as Castillo stepped upon the scale at 3?

This disparity in nutritional intake leads me to wonder. How much strength, stamina -- not to mention mental focus -- can the humbled former champion bring into the ring tonight?

It is a question Corrales perhaps could answer.

In January 2001, Corrales struggled to lose two pounds on the day of his weigh-in for a WBC super featherweight title fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. The strain of sweating off those extra pounds showed the next night, when Corrales was dropped five times -- three times in the seventh round, twice in the 10th -- before Corrales' camp went to the ring apron to stop the fight.

Yes, Mayweather had a lot to do with that blistering finish. But Corrales was listless for most of the 10 rounds, struggling to keep his hands up and failing to throw significant punches.

Returning to Friday, before this shocking late development I was prepared to throw my "weighty" support behind Castillo in what I expected to be another bruising brawl. Now, I see Corrales winning the rematch -- perhaps even easily.

Beating up on Jose Luis Castillo as if he was, well, just some guy named Juan.

Joe Hawk's column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. He can be reached at 387-2912 or jhawk@reviewjournal.com.