Erik "El Terrible" Morales, training at the Otomi Ceremonial Center in Mexico, is getting more confident by the day. In less than two weeks, he faces Argentina's Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. On April 1, Morales will finish up, and then head to Tijuana, and then Los Angeles, and then finally to Las Vegas for the fight.
Erik "El Terrible" Morales is finishing up his training camp for the junior welterweight clash with Argentina's Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on April 9. Morales has been training for the last few weeks at the Otomi Ceremonial Center in Mexico. He is very confident of beating Maidana, who is regarded by many as one of the most dangerous punchers in the sport.
My plans while driving down Spring Mountain road in Las Vegas, Nevada were pretty simple. I was hoping to catch up with lightweight contender Sharif Bogere at the Pound 4 Pound Gym and later hit up Roger Mayweather and Floyd's gym just down the street to gather a few sound bytes or gym shots from each man. I was a little late in trying to catch Bogere and Mayweather was nowhere to be found but I was pleasantly surprised when Pound 4 Pound co-owner Rich Barrientes advised me that former interim WBA junior welterweight champion Marcos Maidana was in town and training out of his facility.
Érik "El Terrible" Morales is finishing up his camp in the next few days and heading to Las Vegas, where he plans to fine tune his strategy for the April 9 bout with Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand. Erik "El Terrible" Morales, speaking from his training camp at the Otomi Ceremonial Center in Mexico. Morales "took the bull by the horns" and discussed the industry rumors that he has neurological problems.
Earlier this month, Brooklyn-born Zab Judah scored a significant victory in stopping South Africa's Kaizer Mabuza in seven rounds with a viscous seventh-round TKO. With the win Judah did many things as he recaptured the IBF crown that he once held as well as putting his name right back into the mix in the hot and heavy junior welterweight class.
BoxingScene.com has been advised that an agreement was reached in principle for a welterweight contest between former 140-pound champion Paul Malignaggi (28-4, 6KOs), and Jose Miguel Cotto (32-2, 24KOs), the older brother of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. The contracts have yet to be signed. The fight would take place on the Marcos Maidana-Erik Morales pay-per-view on April 16 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Erik Morales continues to push himself in his training camp which is taking place at the Otomi Ceremonial Center in Mexico. The camp is is nearly three thousand meters above sea level. Morales is preparing for his upcoming junior welterweight fight with the very dangerous Marcos "Chino" Maidana, which takes place on April 9 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Photos by Team Morales.
Marcos "Chino" Maidana is looking very strong in camp. The first stage of his training camp is about to end. Maidana and his new trainer, Rudy Perez, will leave their training facility in Mexico and travel to Las Vegas to finish training for the fight against Erik Morales, scheduled for April 9 at the MGM Grand.
As days go by, Marcos "El Chino" Maidana is getting his body in top form. When he arrived more than two weeks ago to Mexico City, he weighed 158-pounds, and now after two weeks of training under Ruddy Perez, he looks to be around 149-pounds. He said that he expects to drop a few more pounds before before traveling to Las Vegas for his April 9 clash with Tijuana's Erik "Terrible" Morales. The Argentine fighter hopes to travel to Las Vegas 10 days prior to the fight. Under Perez, Maidana feels stronger, faster and more confident.