Graceful exit for El Terrible?

It is difficult to find insight in an article that claims a two-pound weight bargaining chip constitutes a ploy for an honorable exit. I personally find none. Moreover, the article is guessing that it is a ploy for a graceful exit. A guess is not a fact and cannot be considered correct unless/until eventually proven to be a fact. In most parts, the article narrated how much the author lost in his bet on Erik, how he shifted his loyalties and, then, proceeded to bash Erik. I cannot find any of those in any way correct. There have been several fights in catch-all weights, and none were ever considered attempts at creating new divisions. I am among those who find Arum's/ Erik's ploy for a 132-lbs. meeting-- in effect, a proposal to breach a specific term in the return-bout clause-- distasteful but to say that it is a ploy to give Erik a graceful way out is speculation that takes a stretch to substantiate and must be considered as such.

it wouldnt be pacman breaching the contract. there is nothing saying or implying that the fight would be at 132 lbs. pacman dont care about 2 pounds. hes just doing what morales was doing in the first fight hes imposing his will upon morales the challenger. one of morales moves was to make pacman wear the winning gloves just to mess with him. now pacman is doing the same to erik. neither is scared of the other or they wouldnt have fought twice.

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You Pacquiao fans must be insecure about Pac's victory over Barrera. Why is it that you guy's bitch and whine about a fight that Pacquiao has already won "convincely". Barrera is no "joto". Barrera beat Ayala after everyone was thinking Barrera was done, and also won a huge fight against Morales. It's also funny to me how Pacquiao fans talk shit about Barrera fighting and beating Fana, then bitch about Barrera not fighting Sucio,(A guy who lost to Fana). The only bitching I could understand about that and his fight against Peden (which was considered dangerous because of Barrera's age) was the fact that those two fights were on "PPV". Last but not least, Pacquiao fan's call Barrera a chicken even more for moving up to take on Jesus Chavez at lightweight, and try to become the first 4 weight division champ from mexico against an even more dangerous fighter. Barrera has already said he wanted to fight Pacquiao this year but cant now that Morales wants the rubber match. I guess Im gana have to be hearing the "Joto" bull till that day comes. Peace http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/czars_salad/chicken1.jpg

You Pacquiao fans must be insecure about Pac's victory over Barrera. Why is it that you guy's bitch and whine about a fight that Pacquiao has already won "convincely". Barrera is no "joto". Barrera beat Ayala after everyone was thinking Barrera was done, and also won a huge fight against Morales. It's also funny to me how Pacquiao fans talk shit about Barrera fighting and beating Fana, then bitch about Barrera not fighting Sucio,(A guy who lost to Fana). The only bitching I could understand about that and his fight against Peden (which was considered dangerous because of Barrera's age) was the fact that those two fights were on "PPV". Last but not least, Pacquiao fan's call Barrera a chicken even more for moving up to take on Jesus Chavez at lightweight, and try to become the first 4 weight division champ from mexico against an even more dangerous fighter. Barrera has already said he wanted to fight Pacquiao this year but cant now that Morales wants the rubber match. I guess Im gana have to be hearing the "Joto" bull till that day comes. Peace http://www.nps.gov/nace/oxhi/chicken1.jpg

the rubber match wont happen. morales will pull a corralles and back out. he knows he cant win this fight will not happen. That's one funny line son...LMAO!

the rubber match wont happen. morales will pull a corralles and back out. he knows he cant win this fight will not happen.

The article offers a graceful exit in the fashion of an iron fist encased in a velvet glove (that does not necessarily bear the brand Cleto Reyes). After saying so much, it concludes by offering nothing but the most graceless litany of speculations one can see. The author may be the one looking for a graceful way out of his predicament after betting on Erik (I guess a mortal sin in the Philippines) by tarring the very same guy be had bet on. Utterly in bad taste. He tried for the graceful exit, but in my eyes, he miserably failed.

Explain to me how it's bias? YOu might wanna look at yourself in the mirror! Pac has been the one doing the chasin' for a rematch with Barrera for 2 1/2 straight years! What is Barrera waiting on? Oh I get it he's playing that DelaJoto move of duck,duck goose. you some kind of idiot who has de la hoya ducked

Man, me myself a big Morales fan lost thousands of pesos in bet, and suffered a deluged of hate emails from my countrymen who thought I committed treason, concedes now the dude was over the hill. I thought then his Raheem campaign was just on style where the latter act like an Olympic sprinter. The poor boy even complained the physical strain was on the 135 lbs (Lightweight). A Filipino who bet on Morales to win against Pacquiao? That's akin to a fat person going on a hunger strike.

Explain to me how it's bias? YOu might wanna look at yourself in the mirror! Pac has been the one doing the chasin' for a rematch with Barrera for 2 1/2 straight years! What is Barrera waiting on? Oh I get it he's playing that DelaJoto move of duck,duck goose. You Pacquiao fans must be insecure about Pac's victory over Barrera. Why is it that you guy's bitch and whine about a fight that Pacquiao has already won "convincely". Barrera is no "joto". Barrera beat Ayala after everyone was thinking Barrera was done, and also won a huge fight against Morales. It's also funny to me how Pacquiao fans talk shit about Barrera fighting and beating Fana, then bitch about Barrera not fighting Sucio,(A guy who lost to Fana). The only bitching I could understand about that and his fight against Peden (which was considered dangerous because of Barrera's age) was the fact that those two fights were on "PPV". Last but not least, Pacquiao fan's call Barrera a chicken even more for moving up to take on Jesus Chavez at lightweight, and try to become the first 4 weight division champ from mexico against an even more dangerous fighter. Barrera has already said he wanted to fight Pacquiao this year but cant now that Morales wants the rubber match. I guess Im gana have to be hearing the "Joto" bull till that day comes. Peace

Your thoughts on this? Graceful Exit for this Hogwash Rubber Match By Mortz Marcelo Ortigoza PhilBoxing.com 11 Feb 2006 Legally, the team of Manny Pacquiao can dishonor their contract with the Erik Morales camp on the stipulation that in case the latter would lose on their January 2006 rematch Morales could invoke the rematch clause. Pacquiao can breach this contract because Morales was asking to slug it out at 132 lbs instead of the 130 lbs meeting of minds. Or was it a dare on the Hispanic-Aztec gladiator part who knows that the Filipino southpaw will not buy it thus a safe exit for him to hang his gloves for good? Pacman was a Super Bantamweight fighter (122 lbs) who just wrecked havoc and broke hearts in the Super Featherweight Division (up to 130 lbs). He was only able to make it at 127 ½ lbs at the scale the day he faced El Terrible. But with the 132 lbs crap the Mexican hisses, Pacquiao would look like The Penguin in one of the Batman Movies. While Morales will be the Joker, because he will be the biggest joke in contemporary boxing history as he summersault every time he will be hit! Man, me myself a big Morales fan lost thousands of pesos in bet, and suffered a deluged of hate emails from my countrymen who thought I committed treason, concedes now the dude was over the hill. I thought then his Raheem campaign was just on style where the latter act like an Olympic sprinter. The poor boy even complained the physical strain was on the 135 lbs (Lightweight). After, the second fight with Pacman, he decried he was weakened with 130 lbs weight reduction! And then he is asking for a trilogy in 132 lbs. What is thissss? Plain and simple swindling. Or just one way of saying: Mi Ultimo Adios! Erik should remember what happened to former boxing great who persisted to box. An ill advised venture for Muhammad Ali to fight his former sparring partner and the guy with the greatest left jab Larry Holmes. Holmes refused to punish and instead beg Ali to stop the fight. Ali sensible corner pulled their fox – strutting ghost after the 10th round so he can lie on the stretcher bound for the hospital. We don’t know if Pacquaio will do a Larry Holmes in September. What I know as a Filipino, that ghost (we call it aswang) in the Philippines is chased and bludgeoned to death every time the hoi polloi caught him/her as told to me by my grandpa when I was a kid. We may not expect poor Erik lying on a stretcher bound for the hospital again but instead the late Erik (God forbid!) lying on the stretcher bound somewhere else. Again, the thin-padded Cleto-Reyes glove will be the culprit to do the mayhem. I was correct in my prediction the said glove was a veiled sledge-hammer, but my confidence pushed me to bet for the Gibraltar-chinned of El Terrible but to no avail, the chap was done. “Already Done” as belted by my favorite folk-rock guy Neil Young. As a businessman myself, financially this rubber match is a no-no for profit seeking boxing promoters except probably Bob Arum. Latest survey at SecondsOut.com has only 3% respondents indicating they want to see a Pacman – Morales III. 15% was keen for Zahir Raheem, 18% for rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez, and 64% wanted to see a return with Marco Antonio Barrera. Common sense dictates, more people will pay for Pacquaio’s re-assassination of the Baby-Faced Assassin Barrera. Furthermore, this trilogy heap is much worst than the Corrales-Castillo III that Bob Arum is presently promoting. My two cents worth of advice to the Pacquiao legal team: To hell with the Morales contract, just breach it! And call pronto Oscar dela Hoya of the Goldenboy production to produce his duck named Barrera for another hunting expedition for our boy Pacman. (Send reactions to: totomortz@yahoo.com. Or mobile phone # 09192760964) lol, this was all biased opinion. The very last sentence also proved that when he said,"call pronto Oscar dela Hoya of the Goldenboy production to produce his duck named Barrera for another hunting expedition for our boy Pacman".