Comments Thread For: Erik Morales Explains Why He Refused To Shed Weight

[Willy Wanker]

As a huge Morales fan im very disappointed and it is clear to me he just doesn't have the hunger anymore. Look how flabby he is....

i believe it was morales' "hunger" for tortillas and chorizo that got him into this mess to begin with.

[-Spinal-]

Why not just make the fight at a catchweight higher than 140 in the first place?

[ricky1978]

A little disappointed by his excuse, but he sure being looking flabby as hell since he came back from retirement....For sure not the same Morales....

[boxingfeind]

What a cheater, just like Mayweather did with Juan Manuel Marquez. Since he has enough money he will pay for the extra pounds and get an advantage instead of making the previously agreed contract weight. I hope he gets knocked out.

Considering how ripped Floyd is and the fact that when he went into camp for Marquez he weighed in his 150 or 160`s.I doubt Floyd could have made 144 for the Marquez fight without it draining him.

[PlayerKiller]

What? Those 2 pounds aren't of "good weight" but of fat actually. The guy is 35 years old and was around 180-190 pounds during his temporary retirement. Those 2 pounds he couldn't shed are actually bad for him, it only means that his preparation wasn't good enough.

Well actually it is both. The extra weight may mean he didn't struggle so much.

[piojo del norte]

**** that belt, morales was going to get forced to fight the mandatory thats been waiting for a while and facing that mando is not in his plans, he wants a big fight if he wins this fight.

I thought danny garcia was the mandatory??

That isn't his belt anyway. I hope Garcia ends Erik's career, and I like Morales. It's just his time to go. He's got nothing left to prove. He's won 7 titles in 4 weight classes, of the course the 7th title and 4th weight class was bogus, but he's an ATG. Why not retire once Danny beats him??? He has wins over Zaragoza, Jones, Ramirez, Barrera, Kelley, Espadas Jr, Chi, Ayala, Velardez, Chavez, C. Hernandez, and Pacquiao. He has nothing to prove. I for one thought he should have retired after losing to David Diaz in 2007, but that's just me. I remember Morales saying after he lost to Raheem and than Pacquiao back-to-back that he didn't "have it" anymore.

That is the thing he did win his 4th title when he BEAT david diaz but was not given the decision. It's just his karma, he deserved it even though he won that belt at 135lbs years ago.

Morales has gone fat. He was fat last time and again now. It was plain to see at the weigh-in.

He looks like a skinny Morales like always I am not surprised looks ready to go.

Idk why people are surprised at the way Morales looked. He's looked like that since he came back from retirement for all his fights. If anything, should be amazed he was so fat and is able to fight at 140 now.

Very true.

[piojo del norte]

Garcia wants the belt and he can make 140.

Why not just make the fight at a catchweight higher than 140 in the first place?

[iLovesoccermoms]

i cant believe people are crapping on erik when Pacquiao help built his famed career on past it drained fighters and catchweights,

[arcruz]

Erik Morales overweight

What? Those 2 pounds aren't of "good weight" but of fat actually. The guy is 35 years old and was around 180-190 pounds during his temporary retirement. Those 2 pounds he couldn't shed are actually bad for him, it only means that his preparation wasn't good enough.

It does not matter what those two pounds are. The fact is that he signed a contract to fight Garcia at 140, not at 142. Garcia put the work to get to 140, Morales did not. He is cheating Garcia and the public for his poor conditioning.

[HEZEKYHWH]

According to Morales, he was trying to avoid a repeat of his past mistakes against Manny Pacquiao, where the Mexican veteran killed himself on the scale to make weight and got knocked out badly in their rematch and their trilogy meeting.

“I believe that it was better to take care of the fight than the championship. I tried [to drop the weight] but I couldn't do it. I was worried that if I [attempted to remove] the weight, it was going to [affect] the fight. Nevertheless, I think we made a good decision, now I can look good and we can recover [from the weigh-in] and win.

He would have been hit with a half a million dollars per pound against pacquiao....SMDH, but somehow hes (PACQUIAO) an ATG.....