Various sources have told MaxBoxing that on March 19th Erik Morales will take on Manny Pacquiao on HBO Pay-Per-View.
There had been much speculation as to just who Pacquiao would be fighting next. Many believed that the Filipino superstar would face Juan Manuel Marquez in a highly anticipated rematch on February 26th, but the fight was never finalized contractually.
Many in the industry believe that the Morales-Pacquiao match-up is being made by Top Rank to put Marco Antonio Barrera and Golden Boy Promotions in a bit of a bind. With Morales and Pacquiao facing each other, Barrera finds himself for the time being without a big-name opponent.
Perhaps, Barrera can face Marquez, who once again finds himself on the outside looking in.
I have a great feeling that this fight will devastating and onesided.
PACMAN will send ERIK into the canvass, Erik should be able to protect his NOSEBRIDGE or else it could cause his EARLY retirement.
PACMAN BY K.O.IN SIX
statements like this make me want to laugh. and its probably because, like most manny fans, people who make these comments didn't know what boxing was before manny came along. boxing history has shown time and time again that it doesn't matter who 2 fighters have beaten. the end result of thier match can only be known when it happens. the thing to remember here is that no two fighters are exactly the same. and statements like this prove that you are either blinded by you love of manny or you truely do not know boxing. now i'm not saying that manny can't beat erik, in fact i honestly feel that the odds are in mannys favor. but its not because mab beat erik in his last fight. personally i think erik will show better against manny than mab did but manny will prolly win the fight. i actually want manny to win this one. i used to like em but after the way he acted from contract signing til the end of the mab 3 fight, i really just don't like him anymore. i would actually like to see manny send him into permanent retirement.
now evo, please tell me that you really don't beleive that just because erik didn't beat mab the last time that you think that it means that he can not beat manny. i still see erik being a bigger threat than mab was in the first fight against manny.
look man, i know your point. but i have my own reasons why i came up to that conclusion.
1st I never saw a difference in EM's style compared to his previous performance that would give him excuses to say why he lost to MAB 2nd time around.
2nd MAB faught EM with the style which he actually used against Manny and which the latter had dismantled.
3rd if those styles will be as they were and physical conditions are the same, logically it's not impossible that it'll be so as how you understood my previous post.
4th please note that i used the term "doubt" about EM's capability to win against the Pacman. i never said he will lose because MAB beat him and Pac beat MAB.
It will be almost impossible to get it from JMM...he runs really fast, no way is Manny catching up with money excuses. :D
I think you're right. I have the same feeling since the runaround last year. Maybe its time for Pacman to just forget about JMM. Let him beg for the fight next time.
The "BELTS" are already losing its luster. Forget those :D
I wanna see Manny reshape Erik's nose into something more familiar to us. Plus get the bigger purse in this fight. PM is bringing home a huge bacon from this fight.
But I want Pacman to settle down to a real BELT. I'm sure he's gonna be as proud of it as I am. Two guys to get it from, JMM & MAB.
statements like this make me want to laugh. and its probably because, like most manny fans, people who make these comments didn't know what boxing was before manny came along. boxing history has shown time and time again that it doesn't matter who 2 fighters have beaten. the end result of thier match can only be known when it happens. the thing to remember here is that no two fighters are exactly the same. and statements like this prove that you are either blinded by you love of manny or you truely do not know boxing. now i'm not saying that manny can't beat erik, in fact i honestly feel that the odds are in mannys favor. but its not because mab beat erik in his last fight. personally i think erik will show better against manny than mab did but manny will prolly win the fight. i actually want manny to win this one. i used to like em but after the way he acted from contract signing til the end of the mab 3 fight, i really just don't like him anymore. i would actually like to see manny send him into permanent retirement.
now evo, please tell me that you really don't beleive that just because erik didn't beat mab the last time that you think that it means that he can not beat manny. i still see erik being a bigger threat than mab was in the first fight against manny.
Fo shaiza, Erik will always be a bigger threat than MAB. This would all depend on Manny's ability to impose himself and Morales' ability to control the distance. EM in my opinion undersestimated MAB like all of us and MAB made him pay. But I will always think he's better, given the same driven mentality.
after EM-MAB3, i had a big doubt over EM's capability to beat Pacman. imagine, EM cant beat a fighter whom Pacman slaughtered lopsidedly. what more could happen to EM when he meets Pacman?
statements like this make me want to laugh. and its probably because, like most manny fans, people who make these comments didn't know what boxing was before manny came along. boxing history has shown time and time again that it doesn't matter who 2 fighters have beaten. the end result of thier match can only be known when it happens. the thing to remember here is that no two fighters are exactly the same. and statements like this prove that you are either blinded by you love of manny or you truely do not know boxing. now i'm not saying that manny can't beat erik, in fact i honestly feel that the odds are in mannys favor. but its not because mab beat erik in his last fight. personally i think erik will show better against manny than mab did but manny will prolly win the fight. i actually want manny to win this one. i used to like em but after the way he acted from contract signing til the end of the mab 3 fight, i really just don't like him anymore. i would actually like to see manny send him into permanent retirement.
now evo, please tell me that you really don't beleive that just because erik didn't beat mab the last time that you think that it means that he can not beat manny. i still see erik being a bigger threat than mab was in the first fight against manny.
Manny will destroy Erik Morales, that's one thing for sure. And the Mexican community will suffer big pain and will consider to put another Mexican sausage in front of the Philipan Warrior a.k.a the Pacman :D
damn right! ;)
Manny will destroy Erik Morales, that's one thing for sure. And the Mexican community will suffer big pain and will consider to put another Mexican sausage in front of the Philipan Warrior a.k.a the Pacman :D
I think Morales is very dangerous for Pac. His chin is rock hard and who knows if Pac will get angry after he takes some good shots and gets careless. As for Marquez i still think Pac will have some new weapons in this fight and will eventually catch him, i would say ko in 8.
what's so dangerous about a chin being rock hard? can a rock hard chin KD/KO an opponent? its just a chin and that's it. :D
just kiddin' :D
I think Morales is very dangerous for Pac. His chin is rock hard and who knows if Pac will get angry after he takes some good shots and gets careless. As for Marquez i still think Pac will have some new weapons in this fight and will eventually catch him, i would say ko in 8.
so do u think pac should be fighten larios?
pac had a terrible fight against nedel hussein
and larios had no big prob with nedel
Larios should pose no problem for Pac. He is too slow for Manny.
I wouldn't say he had a terrible fight against Skinny. He dominated aside from getting knocked down in the fourth.
Nedal Hussien knocked down pac? didnt know that
lmao
are u kiddin me?
pac dominated nedel other then be floored and almost out from a counter JAB?
come on now guy
:confused:
LOL dude, I have the fight in 2 dvds and saw it aprox 11 times. All Nedal did was protect himself while Pac unloaded on his ass. You're gonna honestly tell me that Nedal did better in that fight than Manny?!? Like I said, he got floored by that counter jab which even shocked me and Pac ran THAT whole round, but other than that, please tell me name me the other rounds where Nedal was the clear winner. I'd be surprised if you can name 3. By the way, I don't score elbows, tackles or hitting after the break. :rolleyes:
This, not the Barrera fights, is the defining moments in these 2 fighters careers! This is one that can really go either way. Morales is the better boxer and more experienced, all though he is on the slide in my opinion. Pacquiao is the quicker, harder puncher, but is reckless, which spells doom against Morales. With Pacquiao-Marquez, I thought Pacquiao could afford to make some mistakes, with Morales he can't. Pacquiao needs to be in the shape of his life, he needs to make the version of himself that stopped Barrera look like a bloated cop. This is Morales' most dangerous fight of his career, as Pacquiao is the only fighter I can think of that Morales has faced that can really test Morales' chin. I'm going to with my guts and pick Pacquiao by SD. As long as Pacquiao starts fast, is in great shape, and fights his normal tenacious fight, he will win this fight. But remember, he has to fight the fight of his life. This is no Marquez, this is the real deal.