Maidana vs. Morales tickets go on sale Thursday, 2/17
February 17th, 2011
By Michael Lieberman: Tickets for the huge clash between Marcos Maidana (29-2, 17 KO’s) and Eric Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) go on sale on on Thursday, February 17th. The fight will be taking place at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also on the card will be Robert Guerrero vs. Michael Katsidis in lightweight action, Ronald “Winky” Wright vs. Matthew Macklin in middleweight action.
Morales’ entire career has been one in which he’s been the slugger. On April 9th, he’s going to have to adopt another approach if he’s to be successful because he simply doesn’t have the power to trade with Maidana for long without getting beaten into submission. Morales didn’t look good taking body shots in his last fight against Francisco Lorenzo in December. However, it’s going to be a lot worse for him with Maidana tagging him because he’s a much bigger puncher than Lorenzo.
Wright, 39, has only fought a handful of times in the past four years and he’s lost both of his last two fights against Bernard Hopkins and Paul Williams. Those are great fighters, but it Wright lost them both and didn’t react well by staying out of the ring. Macklin isn’t in the same league as those guys, but he’s young, active and he’s got good power. If he can push the pace of the fight to a place where Wright’s aging body can’t keep up, we could see Wright lose yet again.
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GREAT CARD. Must see!
This will be a great fight with 2 MEN that will show up and FIGHT…..It will be very competitive …..These men are a credit to the Sport of Boxing
“Marcos Maidana (29-2, 17 KO’s)” You have written Marcos Maidana’s record wrong, its 29 wins 2 losses and 27kos not 17.
GREAT FIGHT!!!!
This is gonna be a real war!!!
this is a high contact bout.i think we will see some facial abnormalities in this one.
LOOK FOR MORALES TO PULL OUT A BIG UPSET.MORALES HAS FOUGHT MORE SKILLED FIGHTERS THAN CHINO.ALL CHINO HAS IS POWER, BUT HIS BOXING SKILLS AINT MUCH TO LOOK AT.IMO MORALES CAN OUTWORK HIM FROM A DISTANCE AND BREAK HIM DOWN.DNT FORGET THAT ERIK ALSO HAS KO POWER SO DNT UNDERESTIMATE HIM JUST CUZ HES A LITTLE RUSTY AT THE MOMENT.WELL SEE ON APRIL 9. !!!ARRIBA ERIK EL TERRIBLE MORALES !!! Y QUE VIVA MEXICO!! VAMOS ERIK SI SE PUEDE!!
Maidana will finally retire morales for good!!
cant wait to see this fight.
We gonna See wut the Ghost is made of. Hes been crien for a shot @ JMM. I Bet M Katsidis gives him more then he can handle…… Just like Eric “El Terrible Beat DowN” his gonna get.
Props 2 GBP 4 a great undercard. I guess Morales thinks he can do what JM Marquez did 2 J Diaz. Good luck W/ dat, this is not @ 135, i just hope 4 his sake he does wut A Khan did. 1, catch him w/ a liver shot or 2, Run nikka!! RUN!! Dnt stand there & trade. Look @ wut happend 2 V Ortiz or Khan after the 10th RD
Gotta say, Morales has huge b4lls, I guess he doesn’t like to cherrypick like some of today’s “champions”.
SLAUGHTER.
What a great card!