Morales - Raheem - I honestly thought it was close.

[xzworks]

if the KO pucnch of morales are counted.morales wins!?im not sure.opinion pls..(i forgot the round but raheem gloves touch the canvas)

[Knicksman20]

Wait... let me get my head round your logic.... Morales looked like someone who'd taken a beating... but he didn't take a beat... but he still looked like someone who had... ergo he must have done?

HUH????

You're not funny so chill with the nitpicking. He looked like a beaten man in his fight like Mosely in his first fight with Winky, & MAB with the beating he took against Pac. Not taking a physical beating.

[Manny_P]

An(hoe)rak cmon MAN! 7-5 lol. that's outrageous. Raheem landed all ta meaningful shots. Morales dint even hurt Raheem or landed one punch that we can rememba even today. Morales head was a target practice fo Rahee's right hands and left hooks. Ta only reason you dint see Morales gettin beat becuz he takes punches well. But ta strong punches definitely landed and ALL CAME from Raheem.

Morales dint deserve ****in 5 rounds. WTF were you smokin?

[Konstantin]

Is the level of debate going to reach a higher level than this. Just saying "this is how I see it, and if you don't agree you have no credibility" does NOT a debate make.

I had it scored 7-5 in terms of rounds.

Do you realize that Morales never landed more than 15 punches in one round?

Did you notice that Morales landed less than 10 punches in every round except for 2...

That is a shutout. Morales couldnt hit **** that night while Raheem was hitting him with leaping rights. Raheem dominated him on the boxing aspect.

[Brother Mouzone]

Morales was SOUNDLY beaten like Mosely vs. Wright I. Look at his face throughout the fight & that should tell you something. MAB had the same look when Pac delivered a vicious beatdown to him & EM didn't get beat as bad MAB did. Manny Stewart said before the fight started that EM better be on his game or else he was gonna have a tough night & looked what happened. Morales was dominated that night plain and simple.

i agree 100 % especially about the facial expresions they always tell the story he had that look just like mosely they knew they were loosing and could not figure their opponent out ..

[BBFM]

no doubt reheem won i dident say he dident he dident woop anyones ass though HE did out box.

[oldgringo]

the best it could have gone for morales was 8-4 raheem...

[Super_Lightweight]

hmm

But what about those commentators? I have never - NEVER - heard so much bias in my life.

You need to put down the crack rock. Morales got owned. That's simple, true, and the end of the story. Morales got owned, for whatever reason, and he didn't win a single round or many people's scorecards, not just Lederman's.

There was nothing biased about it. Just the fax, ma'am.

[Memorex]

it wasn't competitve. Raheem :PWNED his azz.

I had 11-1 rounds fo Raheem.

i never had a problem with u manny p but now that ur killing morales about this fight, i feel like kicking the **** out of you but we still cool lol

[beez721]

Finally got to see this fight last night.

Now, I admit (with all due respect to the source) I perhaps didn't get to see it pristine as it was a WMV file. But even so... I thought it was competitive. Seriously.

I have no bias on either side, and although Eric was playing catch-up for most of the bout - Zahir certainly beat Morales more convincingly than the only other man to best him, Barrera - he was still in the mix all the way.

The way you'd read it on here (or hear it on HBO - more later) you'd think it was a total one-sided shut-out. Even Julie Lederman had it 118-110. Take that on board - one of the judges had it a virtual shut-out. Then add this to the pile of logic - she's the daughter of a total prick who's living in life is to shout "Okay, Jim!!!" like a complete arse.

Morales's power was playing a factor all throughout the night - sure, Zahir's a slick, slick boxer but the way it's been told you'd think he dropped the moves and was just using Erik as a punching bag. Instead he was so aware of Morales's power, even at Lightweight, that was overreliant on the art of escapology, especially in the last two rounds.

Who hit who? To listen to the commentators you'd think Zahir was landing bomb after bomb. Sure, he did register with Erik, though his big assault seemed to have more to do with Erik's "off night" bad balance than a real telling shot. As far as I could see there was only ONE genuine knock down in all the many stumbles during the fight... and when Raheem got hit by Morales and had his glove make contact the ref didn't even notice. Lucky man.

But what about those commentators? I have never - NEVER - heard so much bias in my life. What had Erik done, screwed their wives the night before or something? Every time Zahir connected they'd make out like it was a flush uppercut. Every time Morales was backing him up (which was a LOT more frequent then they allowed) it was "Raheem is dominating". At certain during the fight I honestly thought I had a sound/video synch problem, as I could see Erik manning up and landing, and getting no credit, but Jim Lampley pulling off Raheem's ****. Even Larry Merchant kept getting in the ring to give it a tug.

Don't get wrong, Morales LOST. And he was behind most of the way - in terms of it being a FIGHT, then Raheem seemed to get the best of it. But in terms of it being a round-by-round boxing match, I had it 116-112 Raheem, and that's not including the KD that wasn't scored.

Morales lost? Yes. He was schooled? In my opinion, no.


Ah, what do I care? He's a bad loser anyway. Barrera's the "Baby Faced Assassin", but it's Erik who throws his teddy out of the pram.

and your honestly clueless