whos better morrales or barrera

[Atwa_66]

Marco Antonio Barrera, barely.

Agreed. I like Morales, but MAB beat him 2 times, and until recently, he was the only fighter to beat Morales, even something Manny couldn't do.

[whdempsey]

take into consideration all of there fight opponents not just thier fights against each other

I haven't read the rest of the thread, but I get the sense tht after they both retire, people will look back on Morales and say that he lost to a worse fighter. Styles make fights.

I'm not going to bother backing up my assertion with stats. I could, but it's really early and I don't have the inclination. I'm just saying that at the pit of my stomach, this is what I feel.

[luisillo22]

This thread always seems to come up but there is never a real conclusion my vote is for Morales like it has been the privious times this thread came up, their rivalry will never end they are even considering fighting a fourth time, so I think that at the end of their careers that is when we should ask this question they are both hall of fame candidates, and they are both great Mexican fighters, but regardless of all of this my vote still goes for Morales.

[amaru]

i think barreras better than morales.

if you look at their whole careers in terms of the fighters they have fought it can be argued that they have a similar resume, dont look at the last 2-3 fights, judge barrera on his WHOLE career and his resume matches erik morales, the only thing morales has over barrera is the fact that he has beaten opposition barrera has not defeated, but look at who barrera has lost to, is there any shame in losing to junior jones or manny pacquiao??? if they were journeymen fighters then i would be raising question marks on barrera but their is no shame in losing a fight against a good fighter.

barrera is a 3 weight world champion, just like morales and has the possibility if rumors are true to become a 4th weight class champion, he will be the only mexican to ever achieve this. he also beat morales twice in their trilogy, when 2 top fighters have basically even opposition, the best way to judge them is on their fights with eachother, barrera has come out on top of his trilogy with morales.

in my opinion barrera is also the better boxer and has more variety when it comes to his boxing. i think if barrera were to beat pacman in a rematch then i dont think this question would need to be asked about who is the better fighter out of barrera and morales.

[Manny_P]

Barrera is betta than Terible. Same way we see Tarver being betta than Roy Jones Jr havin beaten him twice officially and 3 times to the eyes of the public.

[Soliloquy]

Barrera is betta than Terible. Same way we see Tarver being betta than Roy Jones Jr havin beaten him twice officially and 3 times to the eyes of the public.

Let me guess, Pacquaio is better then both of them?

[Manny_P]

Let me guess, Pacquaio is better then both of them?

Pacquiao is betta than Barrera

[Fight_Nightx]

[QUOTE=oldgringo]
-In the h2h matchup Barrera has the advantage on paper, sure. But in my eyes and the eyes of many other...that second fight was a shady decision.
QUOTE]

But Barrera clearly won the 1st.

[oldgringo]

[QUOTE=Fight_Nightx]

-In the h2h matchup Barrera has the advantage on paper, sure. But in my eyes and the eyes of many other...that second fight was a shady decision.
QUOTE]

But Barrera clearly won the 1st.

And you probably thought the knockdown was legit...

[czars_salad]

IMO i dont think EM-MAB 4 will not prove anything.

suppose morales wins, then it will level the matchup (2-2). the question will still be a question.

suppose barrera win, the debate will still not stop. arguments for morales will say that EM still has the advantage since morales beats the man (pac) who KO'ed the man (barrera) who beats him. a 3-1 in favor of barrera will just, IMO, will end up as if it's 2-2.