By Terence Dooley
Despite the denials from Erik Morales’ people those close to Glasgow’s Willie Limond insist that the former Commonwealth and WBU lightweight title holder has been approached with an offer to take on Morales in Sacramento, California, with September the 11th now pencilled in as the likely date according to sources close to the Limond camp. Alex Morrison, Limond’s manager, has reportedly verbally accepted the offer to take on Morales pending the contract documentation coming through.
Though the fight seems a strange one, and the denial is in place from Team Morales, there is a certain logic to the contest. Freddie Roach, when speaking to this writer earlier this year, openly stated that he would put Amir Khan in with the faded Mexican great and a win over Limond would give Erik justification, albeit it strange and slight, for a fight Khan.
Limond floored Khan in round six of their encounter. Although a relatively light puncher, only eight stoppages in 33 wins, Willie used his accuracy to trouble Khan before flooring him with a right hand.
Amir was deemed to have been given a long count by referee Marcus McDonnell and the nature of Limond’s loss, an eighth-round corner retirement due to excessive swelling, later found to be caused by a broken jaw, led some to believe that he had been hard done by in the contest. Could Morales play on these controversies and use a decisive win over Limond win to call out Amir? Stranger things have happened.
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