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he does, he didn't come out of the ortiz or khan fight on his knees did he? styles makes fights though. erik feasted on guys like maidana in his prime. people put too much stock in maidana's youth and power going into this fight. they forget that chino has terrible stamina and with age aside, i thought morales has enough knowledge and technique to exploit and neutralize maidana's crude power, he proved me right tonight in some of those rounds. it's morales ffs too, this is a guy who went life and death multiple times and still managed to school a young and hungry pacquiao lol. you can never count him out.Comment
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If that was Maidana's best than he has no chance against Zab or Devon. I seriously doubt it was his best though. I think this performance, like his fight against Corley, can not be compared to some of his better performances. It seems like he may have a problem getting up for "easy" fights. He didn't look well conditioned at all. He looked spent after two rounds. I noticed that he was walking very slowly back to his corner, and was breathing heavily. And that was after two rounds!
He still has some very impressive results on his resume. He lost a close, contested decision to Kotelnick in Germany. He stopped Ortiz in a war. He almost stopped Khan in a great fight. How can we explain this performance, or his performance against Corley?
Did Morales just do a tremendous job of exposing his weaknesses (like total lack of head movement or defense)? Again, I don't think so. He didn't seem to have any stamina tonight. He looked good physically, but he "looked" out of shape the way he was sucking wind and shuffling back to his corner.
As for him needing the rematch... Well, you are right that this fight did nothing for his reputation. As far as what it did for his career prospects, it can go one of two ways... He will either have top light welters lining up to get a shot against an "over rated" fighter or, if he is still somewhat feared, he will not be able to get a shot against a top fighter. With his reputation in tatters, the risk/reward ratio is not there anymore.
Tonight he did pull it out in the "Championship Rounds", but I still think it was a disgraceful performance. Time will tell whether this fight was more indicative of poor training or poor skills.Comment
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" I felt great, I thought I won, I would easily beat Marquez if I fought like that "
~ EricComment
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This was a total robbery. Morales won the fight and everybody knows that even maidanas trainer. What did maidana say when they asked him? Umm o well i think i did. Same thing happened to ponce de leon. Somebody better look into them f..k..ng judges. Anyways terrible is a legend and he proved it again.Comment
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