There were questions about Morales’ struggle to make weight, once again. He seems to torture himself to make weight. He looked dried up and weakened during the official weigh-in. Ayala made the 126-pound weight easily and even looked good doing so.
After watching this slaughter, we saw Erik Morales go from the division limit of 126 pounds, which he made at the weigh-in on a retry, to 141 pounds before he left his dressing room the following evening. The much bigger Morales stopped Fernando Bobby Boy Velardez at 1:02 of round five. Erik had such a tough time making weight that he vowed never to fight at 126 pounds again, and he will only meet Marco Antonio Barrera if Barrera steps up to meet him at 128 pounds.
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