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It's hard to believe that it was 9 full years ago that Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera first met. All three fights were close affairs, but he decided the take a look at the scoring of the first (and in most people's opinion, the best) tangle, because it was a controversial decision, according to some. We learned that those judges really were in an unenviable position.
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The Boxing Bulletin's Scorecard feature, Score it...! is back, and this month we'll be taking a look at the classic first encounter between Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera.
Heading into the bout, most fans picked the undefeated Morales to come out on top of Barrera... and according to two of the three judges, he did. The verdict however was not without a fair amount of controversy, with many observers feeling Barrera had been robbed of the decision.
Let's go back to the Mandalay Bay, February 19, 2000...
http://theboxingbulletin.blogspot.co...rt-1_2149.html -Part 1
http://theboxingbulletin.blogspot.co...-i-part-2.html -Part2
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The Boxing Bulletin's Scorecard feature, Score it...! is back, and this month we'll be taking a look at the classic first encounter between Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera.
Heading into the bout, most fans picked the undefeated Morales to come out on top of Barrera... and according to two of the three judges, he did. The verdict however was not without a fair amount of controversy, with many observers feeling Barrera had been robbed of the decision.
Let's go back to the Mandalay Bay, February 19, 2000...
http://theboxingbulletin.blogspot.co...rt-1_2149.html -Part 1
http://theboxingbulletin.blogspot.co...-i-part-2.html -Part2
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