Erik Morales: Fearless legend but doomed against Marcos Maidana
February 18th, 2011
By Francisco Hernandez: The image of legend Erik Morales is imprinted forever in the minds of fans as the hot tempered warrior who never backed down from going toe to toe with his opponents. Even when Erik Morales had the boxing skills and height advantage to easily outpoint his opponents, he never got on the bicycle; instead he preferred to trade leather. To his fans, Erik Morales is the archetype of the fearless warrior.
Erik Morales first gave signs of the excitement that he was to bring to boxing when he fought legend Daniel Zaragoza for the super bantamweight world championship in 1997, the fight was considered a great one. Everyone immediately recognized Morales as a future legend. At super bantamweight Erik Morales was knocking most of his opponents out. It was at this weight division that he defeated another Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera.
Things began changing for Erik Morales when he moved to the featherweight division. Morales still fighting as aggressive as ever but his power had diminished, he wasn’t knocking out as many of his opponents. It was at this division, featherweight, that Erik Morales would lose his first fight to Barrera.
Erik Morales then moved to the super featherweight division, his punching power diminished even more, he was hardly knocking anyone out now, despite punishing his opponents severely. He would lose in this division to Barrera in their third and last fight. The three fights had been close, some fans saw Morales winning the last two fights, but the judges decided for Barrera. What is clear is that what Morales gained in weight he lost in punching power.
After his third fight with Barrera, Morales began losing fights to lesser men like Manny Pacquiao, Zahir Raheem, and David Diaz. In his prime, he, Morales would have dumped all these lesser fighters on the canvas. These losses forced Erik Morales to intelligently take a leave from boxing.
Now Morales is back and he has challenged one of the heavy hitters of the division: Marcos Maidana. Marcos Maidana has lost only two fights, and a good argument can be made that he was robbed in both fights. Maidana cracked Kansas kid Victor Ortiz into a bloody mess. Maidana rearranged Amir Khan’s face as the Brit ran like a feathered barn animal. Morales doesn’t give a damn, he wants a showdown with the toughest man in the division, if he beats Maidana, he will again be in the middle of things, if he loses to Maidana, he has to call it quits for good. It’s only something that a fearless Mexican fighter like Erik Morales would do.
Just like the last of the Native-American warriors, who armed with a single spear would charge a whole army of American Soldiers who were outfitted with the most modern weapons, so the veteran Eagle-Jaguar warrior Erik Morales is making his last charge, armed only with his fearless heart against a powerful armed tank of a fighter named Marcos Maidana.
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That song “Don’t cry for me Argentina” wasn’t even composed by an Angentinian. It’s from a musical of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
But Maidana could sing the tango “No Quiero Verte Llorar” (“I don’t want to see you cry” (composed by Agustín Magaldi).
El terrible is going make maidiana sing”don’t cry for me Argentina”.
Another 20 seconds and big puncher maidana woulda been outta there in the first round. This article is pure B.S.!!!!!
Maidana lost that one 8 rds. to 4.
I think this fight is a mismatch, sure in his day Morales would have given the bigger stronger Maidana a boxing lesson, but unfortunatley for Morales it aint his day and i see him getting steadily pounded on until his corner (hopefully) pulls him out around the 8th round, if his corner don’t pull him out at this time i see him getting carried out on a stretcher around the 10th. Peace x
When you show compassion in the rin you only toy with critacism for not knocking out the opponent.The referee is there for comassion if it is needed.And sometimes confuse compassion with favoratism.
boxing k u r a foool maidana is told who hes fighting by gb and hbo he has no negotiation he wanted khan in uk which would have given big bird khantucky a huge advantage over here in uk but alas he runs and fights a journeyman who he cant lose against does that answer your question khan could have given us what we want he could have fought prescott maidana bradley in april people would have had alot of respect for him but no the big bird runs
Marcos maidanA in 9 round will retire morales for good!!
I’m Gonna Go With Marcos Maidana Cause Right Now He’s The Most Avoided Fighter That Nobody Wants To Face In The Jr.Welterweight Division! Just Ask Amir Khan Who Refuse To Give Him A Rematch After Nearly Getting Knocked Out In The Later Rounds And Escaped With A Unanimous Decision!
let’s go erik morales! you have to shock the world up once again viva mexico! tijuana rules! dont be surpriced when you guys hear this at the end of the bout- and the winner by unanimous decision DE LA ZONA NORTE TIJUANA MEXICOOOOO ERIK EL TERRIBLE MORALES.
What surprises me is that no one is banging on Maidanas door as to why he is taking this HUGE mismatch. Maidana is supposedly in the top 3 in the LW division. Imagine is Khan or Bradley took this fight at this point in their careers!! they would get slaughtered by the biased writers on this site – as for Maidana – there has not even been a splash of paint towards him!!
remember guys erik morales begged for this fight! maidana has a lot of power but he does get knocked down easily, so this should be a great fight i stil think el terrible is crazy for wanting this but i got to give him credit where credit is due for taking on this young big puncher instead busting a manny paquiao and taking the easy way out you feel me. i cant wait for this fight old lion against young lion two of my favorite boxers going at it and i’m a be at the MGM for this one. i got to go with erik el terrible morales in a 12 round u.d.
Maidana will start full steam trying to knock Morales out in the 1sr round.
big bird khantucky is a coward he is arrogant childish fake he even says he outruns pacman in training and beats him in sparring and thinks hesbigger than mayweather what a joke
interesting to see what will happen now big bird dosent have ariza funny how malignaggi couldnt break an egg and hasnt had a tko in about 10 years but his first fight for roach recently and he gets a tko something fishy going on here
big bird khantucky will never get fight against mayweather and mosley would kill him he has unfinshed business in lw with a maidana and prescott rematch but he will run and flap his wings for a big payday
big bird could have rematched maidana or prescott but no he gives us in uk a joke fight against mckloskey who cares exept arabs and irish if it wasnt for cortez being bought that fight would have been stopped it was a joke big bird turned his back on maidana twice in 10th rd which means fight over plus with all the pulling down on back of head pushing and constant running like a scared little boy just shows that boxing is as corrupt now as ever was
erik will use his experience to KO maidana
maidana is the true champion respect to morales for takin the fight he has balls and wont run the whole fight like khantucky did maidana won against big bird and alot of people agree with that kahn says hel rematch maidana and prescott but will all know its just talk big birds movin up after bradley to lose but earn enough money to retire
When Morales beat PAC the first fight his skill was already diminishing,PAC finished his career off the last 2 fights they had
Morales was and always will be a true legend, the unification fight in 2000 between Eric and Barrera was an all time great standing toe to toe with massive exchanges being traded throughout both men true warriors in every respect.But eric is that much older now and although his heart will always be that of a fighting warriorthis will prove a massive test agaist maidana.But i fully expect morales to stand and fifht maidana and NOT run like khan did .Khan is a very good boxer but true warrior he never will be how can you put khans name along the likes of fighting warriors like Morales ,Barrera, Roberto Durran, And the like yes some will say but khan beat Barrera but what they failed to say was he beat a barrera on the decline and NOT the barrera who was in the ring with Morales in that 2000 unification epic,or khan would have been stopped inside 3 rounds.
Morales has been on the decline even before he fought Pac the first time.
except for the khan running part, wich only go’s to show, your lame.
Cool article
Got lots of respect on morales…
Theres small chance.. But I hope erik win.
I FEEL FOR MORALES. I HOPE MAIDAN SHOW’S COMPASION LIKE PACMAN DID TO MARGACHEATO.
i think morales saw some weakness on maidana defence ( bad one) i am really confident that morales will have winning strategy on facing the bigger and better gifted maidana. morales has a long reach and he trow all he’s punches with power(ask manny pacquiao) the card playng in favor of maidana it’s just about miles:ｍｏｒａｌｅｓ ｓｔｉｌｌ ｙｏｕｎｇ ｂｕｔ ｈｅ’s got to many mile on . i can see morales getting ko on trying to overpower maidana . becarefull erick :ｍａｉｄａｎａ change he’s trainer.he might learn how to avoid cheap punches making damage. these it can be the only bad quality of el chino.
Base on the recent performance of Morales ,he doesn’t stand a chance against Maidana but I don’t wanna count out a Legendary fighter because he was called a Legend for nothing and this is boxing anything can happen.
I definitely agree. This is a very bad choice for Morales as even if he can score some knockdowns if he goes toe-to-toe with Maidana, he won’t last very long against the latter’s punching power and I can see this game not lasting more than 4 rounds in favor of Maidana by KO.