Rick Reeno
12-01-2004, 01:06 AM
Just about now Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales are beginning to get the full impact of that magic moment they created in vying for the WBC super featherweight crown the other night in Las Vegas.
If it had been a horse race, Barrera would have prevailed by a nose in taking Morales’ title. And the margin was virtually the same in boxing when three judges ruled the new 30-year old champion arrived on a majority decision after 12 of the greatest rounds in the sports’ history.
There were 11,162 bi-partisans in the MGM Grand Garden and each was deeply wrapped in a vocal frenzy that surged beyond the final bell as two of Mexico’s greatest fist-fighters relentlessly gave as good as they got very step of the way.
Going in, even the most ardent of admirers of Barrera and Morales, a 3-1 favorite, didn’t figure these archrivals would put a cap on this five-year trilogy with a breath-taker that outstripped fiction. [details (http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=343)]
If it had been a horse race, Barrera would have prevailed by a nose in taking Morales’ title. And the margin was virtually the same in boxing when three judges ruled the new 30-year old champion arrived on a majority decision after 12 of the greatest rounds in the sports’ history.
There were 11,162 bi-partisans in the MGM Grand Garden and each was deeply wrapped in a vocal frenzy that surged beyond the final bell as two of Mexico’s greatest fist-fighters relentlessly gave as good as they got very step of the way.
Going in, even the most ardent of admirers of Barrera and Morales, a 3-1 favorite, didn’t figure these archrivals would put a cap on this five-year trilogy with a breath-taker that outstripped fiction. [details (http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=343)]