Barrera vs. Morales 4 in the summer?

By Boxing News - 04/23/2011 - Comments

By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news coming down the pike, 34-year-old Erik Morales (51-7, 35 KO’s) and 37-year-old and Marco Antonio Barrera (67-7, 44 KO’s) could be squaring off for a 4th fight on July 30th. Morales recently showed interest in the fight and Barrera, who hasn’t done much in the past three years, immediately liked the idea and said he’d like to do the fight. Morales recently gave knockout artist Marcos Maidana all he could handle earlier this month in a close 12 round decision loss on April 9th. Morales showed brief glimpses of what he used to be as a fighter despite tiring and losing the last two rounds of the fight to come up short. Morales suffered a closed right eye that kept him from seeing out of the eye from the 3rd round on.

This fight might not be as big as some people think because both Morales and Barrera have been out of the spotlight for so long and many newer fans of the sport will likely have not seen too much – if any – of their previous fights and not be aware that they fought three times in the past. Without either Morales or Barrera doing much in recent years to stay in the minds of fans, it may hurt how well a fourth fight would do with fans. It would sure to be a PPV bout but the success of the fight would be questionable unless they put it along with some excellent undercard fights with younger, more recognizable fighters that the younger fans know well.



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