Maidana vs. Morales

Kelly Swanson Thanks everybody for joining us. We are but almost a week away leading up to a terrific show. That, of course, is Érik Morales versus Marcos Maidana in the main event of the April 9th Action Heroes HBO pay-per-view and presented by Golden Boy Promotions. As you saw from your press conference call [...]

Part 4 – Training Camp Winding Down; Fighters Firing Up Las Vegas, Nev. (March 31)…The April 9 “Action Heroes” fight week festivities kick off in less than one week and the excitement continues to build with new fights added to the card including James “Mandingo Warrior” Kirkland vs. Nobuhiro Ishida and Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi [...]

By Dan Ambrose: The last person you would think would have the style to beat the slugger Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) is 34-year-old Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s), a smaller, fading slugger himself. Morales is like the super bantamweight division’s version of Maidana, except that Morales’ time at the top was from 1997 to [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It’s sad that former three time world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) is very likely on the verge of being ground up into hamburger by the heavy hitting Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Sean McDaniel: Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) says he has a lot of respect for his April 9th opponent 34-year-old Erik Morales, whom he fights on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, Maidana is unashamedly looking past Morales and is hoping to get a big fight against Timothy Bradley, [...]

By Jim Dower: Former 2008 Olympic heavyweight Gold medalist from Russia Rakhim Chakhkiev (9-0, 7 KO’s) has been added to the Marcos Maidana vs. Erik Morales April 9th undercard at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chakhkiev, now fighting as a cruiserweight, will be facing 6’4” American Harvey Jolly (11-16-1, 6 KO’s) in a [...]

By Sean McDaniel: 34-year-old Erik Morales is hoping to challenge for a title on the light welterweight division if he can beat Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) in two weeks in their important bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Morales has previously won three world titles and wants to capture a 4th [...]

By Jason Kim: The April 9th fight between Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) and Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 Ko’s) will have referee Tony Weeks working the fight. Usually fighters aren’t all that concerned about who the referee will be for the fight.

By Dan Ambrose: Former three time world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) has picked the wrong fighter to try and resurrect his career against with the hard hitting light welterweight contender Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s). On April 9th, Morales will come into the ring a heavy underdog in his fight at the MGM [...]

By Jason Kim: There’s talk of former lightweight champion Nate Campbell (33-7-1, 25 KO’s) facing unbeaten light welterweight contender Danny Garcia (20-0, 14 KO’s) on the undercard of the Marcos Maidana vs. Erik Morales fight on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Adding Campbell and Garcia to the card will make [...]

By Chris Williams: The April 9th fight between Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) vs. 34-year-old three-time former world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) will be going for a steep $44.95 price tag on it for the fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. I don’t know about you, but that’s a lot [...]

By Jason Kim: The April 9th match-up between Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) and 34-year-old Erik Morales (51-5, 35 KO’s) will be a great example of what happens when you take a guy that’s been out of the ring for too long, make him up move up in weight several divisions, and then put him [...]

By William Mackay: On April 9th, 34-year-old Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) is going to be asking a lot from his aging body when he takes on Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) in light welterweight action at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By William Mackay: It’s too bad that former three division world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) can age in reverse because he’s going to need to be at least seven years younger than he is now to have any kind of chance at beating Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) on April 16th in their [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Erik Morales and his dad Jose Morales don’t mind if Rudy Perez trains Marcos Maidana and makes him a better fighter, but they are concerned that Rudy Perez may try to teach Maidana dirty tricks to use against Erik.

Mexico City, MEX (March 10) – The countdown to one of 2011′s most exciting nights of boxing has begun and the stars of the April 9 “Action Heroes” main event Erik “El Terrible” Morales and Marcos “El Chino” Maidana are deep in training.

By Dan Ambrose: With many boxing fans feeling that three-time world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) is a shot fighter, this puts Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) in a tough position of not only beating the 34-year-old Morales on April 9th, but beating him impressively by either knockout or a 12 round beating when [...]

By William Mackay: Knockout artist Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) says he doesn’t want to put 34-year-old Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) out of his misery and end his career on April 9th in their fight for the WBC Silver light welterweight title at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a fight [...]

By Francisco Hernandez: Rodolfo “Rudy” Perez is not well known by the average casual boxing fan who has usually only heard of Freddie Roach. Rudy Perez is the trainer that formed and polished Marco Antonio Barrera into a great fighter and guided him to legendary status as a world champion. Rudy Perez outsmarted eminent trainer [...]

By Sean McDaniel: The hard hitting light welterweight knockout artist Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) is not happy with the way things turned out against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan in his Maidana’s last fight in December 2010. Maidana lost that fight by a 12 round decision despite hurting Khan badly in the 10th, [...]

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 [...]

LOS ANGELES, February 16 – In what promises to be an explosive night of fights featuring six all-action boxing heroes, on Saturday, April 9 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., five-time and three-division World Champion Erik “El Terrible” Morales (51-6, 35 KOs) returns to the pugilistic forefront when he faces power-punching [...]

By Jim Dower: The recent pairing of legendary trainer Nacho Beristain and light welterweight Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) has reportedly fell apart before they even started their first training session after Beristain failed to meet Maidana in Mexico after he traveled there to begin training. Maidana says that Juan Manuel Marquez doesn’t want Beristain, [...]

By Jim Dower: One of the benefits of training under the tutelage of new trainer Nacho Beristain is that it may give Argentinian knockout artist Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) the opportunity to spar with the great Juan Manuel Marquez to learn some things from him in the sparring sessions to help improve Maidana’s game [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Knockout artist Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) has started his training with new trainer Nacho Beristain for his next fight against three-time world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 27-year-old Maidana decided to go with the experienced Beristain to get [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former three division world champion Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) would appear to have almost no chance at beating Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) when they fight for the vacant WBA light welterweight title on April 9th at the MGM grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The World Boxing Association title, which was [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Marco Maidana’s ex-trainer Miguel Diaz sees Maidana easily beating 34-year-old Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) when they face off on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Diaz was recently replaced by Nacho Beristain as the head trainer for Maidana.

By Jim Dower: Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) has had exactly three fights since making his comeback in 2010 after a three-year retirement following four consecutive losses. Morales, 34, hasn’t looked good at in his three fights in 2010, and there’s an argument that you can make that Morales should have lost two out of [...]

By Gerardo Granados: Erik “El Terrible” Morales was supposed to fight against Juan Manuel Marquez next April 9th, and the winner would become the first Mexican boxer to achieve championships in four different weight divisions; negotiations failed so now he will be facing Argentinean power hitting Marcos Rene Maidana for the vacant WBA World light [...]

By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (29-2, 27 KO’s) will be trained by famous trainer Nacho Beristain for Maidana’s next fight against Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KO’s) on April 9th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Maidana, 27, and the 34-year-old Morales will be fighting for Amir Khan’s WBA [...]