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[Carpe Diem]

Announcer Dude: So does it ever occur to you two to have a 4th fight?

Morales: Well I don't think so. They've asked me with a lot of insistence. I don't think so, and I don't because I remember clearly that he (Barrera) doesn't want to move up in weight. They didn't like 130, and they said they couldn't do 135; I don't want to go below 140.

Announcer Dude: The weight would be the principal matter then...

Morales: I don't think he'll get to 140.

MAB: It's more than the weight. Look...I've mentioned it here, I've seen a lot of emails, the people say "Marco.."....you know, I wouldn't want to stain that trilogy. I'm really happy with the trilogy.

Announcer Dude: A good point.

MAB: I'm happy. (Morales laughs) If he wants a fourth one, then it's a question of us elaborating on that (laughs). Anything can happen, anything can happen; but as he says, there's the weight. For example, if I weigh myself now and I weigh 66 kilos (145.2lbs), for super-lightweight; I bring an extra what, 2 or 3 kilos. So imagine, I'd be even chubbier than I am now, because I've always fought at smaller weights. I went from super flyweight to super featherweight. And so it's already difficult for me.

Announcer Dude: And if there were a good purse on the line, wouldn't the effort be there then?

MAB: Let's see!

Morales: When? When? (laughs)

MAB: Where do we sign (laughs)? No, it's like anything; if Erik Morales and me decide, "I'll give you half", then anything can happen.

(broadcast cuts)

MAB: Don't miss a special next edition of Golpe A Golpe with Erik Morales.

Morales: That's right, we'll be here.

(Broadcast returns with all 3 in the Golpe A Golpe Ring)

Announcer Dude: It's the Golpe A Golpe Ring with Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik "El Terrible" Morales. So Marco, what better opportunity, we're face to face; how did it go then?

MAB: Well we're going to make the people happy and give them a virtual 4th, you could say. And so we'll be seeing the technique of what he needed to do to get the triumph over 12 rounds, and he'll have to teach us the famous "Terribleņa."

Morales: Well what happens is...we're here (gets into stance opposite MAB), and you're always...whenever you throw, he blocks. I throw the (right) uppercut, he blocks; I throw the uppercut, he blocks; I throw the uppercut (feints uppercut, throws overhand right, then pivots into a left uppercut-straight right combination inside) boom-boom-boom! In reality, the blow (overhand right) doesn't have a lot of force with it; what it does do is it positions me to throw a combination; one brings me to the next one. The strongest one is to go downstairs in order to open a hole, throw an uppercut (throws long left uppercut), and stretch myself so that my whole body can go into the punch (throws big right hand.)

Announcer Dude: So it's a combination, not a punch...

Morales: It's a combination, not a punch.

MAB: It's between a feint and a combination. And also, he can show us what the key to beating Manny Pacquiao is, since he's the only Mexican whose been able to do it.

Announcer Dude: You've both fought with him-how many times now?

MAB: Two for me, and three for him, with that one victory, with which he's the only Mexican fighter to beat that great fighter. And so he can teach us, what was I think a bit more of movement and distance (gets into southpaw stance).

Morales: The thing with Pacquiao is that he has this (lead) hand here (out in front), and this other (rear) hand down here, very low. So what he does, what Pacquiao does, is that he attacks you with the jab 2 or 3 times, lunges with his left hand, and steps (MAB steps into left.) It's a very big error. But if you throw the jab this way, and walk in this direction (jabs while stepping leftwards), so what happens? When he tries to step over with the left, I'm right here waiting (leans back and throws counter right-left uppercut-right hand combination) bam-bam-bam! But I never gave him time to let that hand go. I would be here, boom, boom (parries jabs), blocking him, with the (lead) hand held high, crouched, and when he wanted that left to come out, I'd stand straight up and boom (counters over the top with a right straight), because he would throw it here (points to lower point where his head used to be crouched). So distance, movements, knowing how to step....if you watch, all-all-all-all of his fights, his opponents stand in front, and step so lightly to the left (lightly makes leftward steps), not behind him.

Announcer Dude: But is that zone..is that something that you figured during the fight, or is that something that you studied?

Morales: No, no, no. That's something that you study, that you practice; you put yourself to watch videos and you say ok, here are the moments and the timing; there are moments and timings to throw a punch, to block, to throw combinations...

Announcer Dude: And apart from that, what you learn over the course of the fight.

Morales: What you go on to improvise during the fight, yes. For example, he had holes...we'd be here (trades punches with southpaw MAB), I'd throw the jab, throw the jab, and he'd back up like this (holds hands up), and (throws straight right to the body) BOOM! He'd give me the target and I'd throw at it.

Announcer Dude: Clottey spent the whole time in his guard, Erik.

Morales: What he did was stay (in his shell), and he'd get his punches in on him. The only thing missing was his aggressiveness. He'd stay there (shells up), stay there, stay there, stay there...but when he threw (throws 1-2), he hit him. But there wasn't any consistency.

MAB: He (Pacquiao) used his speed, his lateral movements...

Announcer Dude: Now Erik, why did Marco Antonio Barrera cause you so many problems at the end of each round in all of your fights?

Morales: Because I looked to work the whole round; I'd work 3 minutes, and he'd work 10 seconds, in the first fight. And due to how tired I was...

Announcer Dude: So you'd say, "I won the round, I'll rest", and step around?

Morales: Yes, I'd walk, but he'd throw me to the ropes and throw himself at me- with all due respect of course, but he'd throw at me anything that landed, and so that part was made very difficult for me. So due to fatigue I'd almost be facing front against the ropes, withstanding the punches (lays against ropes). I'd get away (wiggles upper body from MAB's punches), but it was difficult.

Announcer Dude: How come you couldn't take advantage of your reach in those last seconds?

Morales: Well because when you don't have the physical condition- the stamina to walk, to move- you said to me of my last fight "Hey Erik, you looked good over 12 rounds"; well that's because I practiced, I had good conditioning, I felt very good in terms of my legs...the fighter I had in front of me does hit hard, but it doesn't overly affect you.

Announcer Dude: It's not all on top of you; you don't have to carry his weight.

Morales: The resources are different for this fighter, for Alfaro. They're very poor. In the case of Marco, he's always on top of you, and especially when inside and short, it was his game. And so I'd work 2 minutes on his outside diameter...

Announcer Dude: But Marco would come on in the end.

MAB: I had to do work to be able to score. The trainers know: the judge is left in his mind with his last impression, and that's what we took advantage of throughout.

Morales: But at the end of the day, I was left with the better impression, and not him, because the judges weren't deceived. But regardless...

Announcer Dude: Well he won 2 of 3.
Morales: Not the first. The first I brought home. I think that, without depreciating the work he did, I pushed, round after round, and he would cover up, and I think that's what the judges took note of. I think he had very good moments; I think his 10 seconds were very powerful, especially to the public, and for the judges, but the judges in the end scored in total and that worked in my favor.

Announcer Dude: What's fact is that it was a fantastic trilogy. There was the Ring of Golpe A Golpe with Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera. We'll return after a brief pause.


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You will never hear any brilliant strategy breakdowns such as this one from any of the Mayweathers.

[Carpe Diem]

(Marquez says they are trying to disguise Pacquiao’s loss as something else, and that the inconsistency of compubox reports can be seen through conflicting statistics of power-punches landed and percent connected; guest announcer says he his surprised by the statement that Pacquiao landed more jabs, when the jab was Marquez’s key. In-Ring Analysis starts at 1:00, right after his gym-mate Jhonny Gonzalez tells him that they know he’s the true champion, a warrior, and to keep in good spirits.)


Announcer Dude: Here we are in the Ring of Golpe a Golpe. We just heard from Jhonny Gonzalez, an extraordinary world champion from the Mexican roster. Well we’re ready to relive what occurred last Saturday. We’re going to talk in depth and see if maybe we end up excluding this section (JMM Laughs.) Let’s see with Juan Manuel Marquez what it was that he did, how it worked against Manny Pacquiao, so that he can explain how it really was and how he lived it.

Guest Announcer: I’ll be the referee; please, a clean fight, no low blows; don’t hit him for real, because…

Announcer Dude: (Laughs) Lets see Juan. Manny Pacquiao was the aggressor; we’re talking an ineffective aggression. But it wasn’t ineffective “just because”; it was due to your great defense, and your counter-punching. What was Juan Manuel Marquez doing when Pacquiao threw his jab to reach you Juan (throws southpaw jab)?

JMM: What we were doing to start, Jorge…we’re making the fight in the middle of the ring, because Pacquiao is a fighter who brings you to the ropes and takes advantage. So we were working in the center of the ring, using lateral steps (circles); he would throw the jab, and I would block it here with this hand (blocks with left), and I would respond right away with mine; I’d take it away, and answer with this same hand. And he always does the same feint. He’ll go like this (steps in feinting as if to go downstairs), and then he gets you with the left hand. So when he feinted, I’d block him here (holds gloves open by his face), block his jab, since he always leads with a jab, and from there I’d move with the waist (slips to the right of the incoming left straight), where he’d always restart and take away the angle… because what I wanted to do was this: lateral step (slips left and pivots out to the right), (left) uppercut-right hand. I wanted to do it but he’d always step right to me, he didn’t let me work.

Announcer Dude: Now, Manny finished perfectly like this (mimes Pacquiao’s high guard), without seeing what you were throwing at him, Juan. But when Manny threw a jab, you’d connect a technically beautiful uppercut, Juan.

JMM: The uppercut I landed multiple times was, he’d throw the jab, and I’d move my waist towards the side (slips outside to the left), and then you have everything to throw the uppercut (throws left uppercut) and land it directly on the chin, as well as the right.

Announcer Dude: Apart from that, the right.

JMM: Yes, so I’d do this (slips to outside of straight left, lands left uppercut-straight right combination), come back with the right, and on top of that perhaps a hook or another uppercut as well.

Guest Announcer: For me, the most important aspect of the fight was how Manny never entered a comfort zone. Every once in a while, he’d shake his arms, and he’d adjust his trunks. But more than anything, what I noticed was that he was always out of range, and he’d jump to connect his jab onto you. How did you maintain that misbalance of Manny?

JMM: What I would do in the ring was be here at a distance, and he’d throw the 1-2, and I’d block them (blocks 1-2). I’d block them and I’d move with lateral steps, and what I did was keep away from his left foot. So I’d bob and weave out, and he’d wait for me right here (pauses as he weaves low to his left and Announcer Dude goes to throw a left straight), and then I’d make the lateral step (pivots out to opponent’s right), to take away the range of his punches.

Announcer Dude: Now they’ve been saying that you’ve employed the technique of the foot-stomp, and we’d have to tell the people that that’s something normal that happens against a southpaw, right?

JMM: That’s right. Why? Because you have your right foot in front, and I have my left foot in front, so…(steps)

Announcer Dude: They anticipate each other (align) very well.

JMM: Exactly.

Announcer Dude: Now, the uppercut-straight; how is it Juan?

JMM: The uppercut-straight?

Announcer Dude: The combination you used with Manny.

JMM: With Manny Pacquiao, a southpaw, half in front of you (square),what I’d do is throw the jab, jab, and then suddenly come in with the uppercut. In this case me, I throw the uppercut instead of the jab, just like that. And because you have your guard open (wide)-Manny Pacquiao has it open- the uppercut enters directly (throws left uppercut through guard), because they never think…

Announcer Dude: It’s a punch you throw while advancing.

JMM: Exactly. It’s as if it were a jab. You’re here, and you go like this (quickly lands left uppercut.) You throw the uppercut while stepping, then throw the straight, and you’re ready to throw a combination.

Guest Announcer: Something that Nacho Beristain said before the fight concerning the leg/footwork was that you’d have to control the “zone of combat”. Illustrate what the zone of combat is.

JMM: The zone of combat in the ring, which we made be in the center, is to be working lateral steps, to be moving the waist, and I’ve always said that things become difficult for Pacquiao if you fight him with the same speed, and you saw it.

Announcer Dude: Do you have the same speed or do you have the timing?

JMM: The timing. The speed, I don’t think so because he’s a fighter that comes forward quick, boom-boom-boom…

Guest Announcer: But it was never seen!

Announcer Dude: And intelligence.

JMM: But here the important thing is that he is always moving his waist (announcer dude bobs and weaves in place). If you move your waist in the same way and you’re equally there with him (moves side to side in the same rhythm), it makes things difficult for him because he didn’t know what kind of answer I would have for him in the fight, when he would attack; whether I’d counter-punch, or whether I’d throw a combination of punches.

Announcer Dude: There’d be a movement to this side, or that side, and you’d get him completely off balance. You’d duck, you’d move in close (inside), and nullify him…but he understood it, and starting throwing uppercuts.

JMM: He threw uppercuts. I saw them, several. What he would do was throw the hook, the right hook, and the (left) uppercut. So what I would do was have my hand here (holds right hand to face to defend), and duck down, but not duck down right in front, because if I duck low in front,-

Announcer Dude: He’d connect.

JMM: He’d connect. So I’d duck to the side (blocks right hook, slips left uppercut outside), and then he wouldn’t find me anymore. A step to the side and he’d lose his uppercut, and wouldn’t land a single one on me.

Guest Announcer: That’s enough now, because the vibe’s getting heated, and you’ve got to have something left for number 4 (everyone laughs).

Announcer Dude: The Ring of Golpe A Golpe.

[thepower]

We really need subtitles when Roger speaks. The only bit I ever seem to understand is "y'all don't know **** about boxin'"

[Carpe Diem]

Guest Announcer: Something that Nacho Beristain said before the fight concerning the leg/footwork was that you’d have to control the “zone of combat”. Illustrate what the zone of combat is.

JMM: The zone of combat in the ring, which we made be in the center, is to be working lateral steps, to be moving the waist, and I’ve always said that things become difficult for Pacquiao if you fight him with the same speed, and you saw it.

You won't hear something like this from Roger.