By Miguel Rivera
Last week, the former super lightweight 'regular' champion of the World Boxing Association, Jessie Vargas, announced that he hired former four division world champion Erik 'Terrible' Morales as his trainer. Vargas returns on the 27th of June at the StubHub Center in Carson, California when he faces former two-division king Timothy Bradley for the vacant welterweight title of the World Boxing Organization.
Morales is very happy to be working with Vargas and believes he has all of the right ingredients to upset Bradley in their HBO televised main event. Vargas (26-0, 9 KO) was previously trained by another former four division champion, Roy Jones Jr.
"He's a young fighter, intelligent, quick. He has the availability to learn the easy things, that gives us a lot of work to start instilling different things, a stronger technical approach, more Mexican style, classic boxing, enabling him to take shots from any angle, defended without problems. Obviously we have a lot of speed," Morales told ESPN Deportes.
"It is a major challenge, to leave a good impression in the ring. I've come out of big fights and I have experience in such situations. I have more than 20 world championship fights. I was in charge of preparations and strategies of many fighters."