By Dan Ambrose: Three time former world champion Erik Morales (51-7, 35 KO’s) will return to the ring on July 30th against a still to be determined opponent. Marcos Maidana and Marco Antonio Barrera are the possible fighters that the 34-year-old Morales could be facing. Morales recently lost a 12 round majority decision fight to Maidana on April 9th in Las Vegas.
Morales fought well enough to at least earn a draw in the minds of many boxing fans that saw the fight. However, Morales hurt his case for victory by tiring in the last two rounds of the bout and letting Maidana take the fight to him. After the bout, Maidana said he would give Morales a rematch if he wants one. At the time Morales said that he did want a rematch, but recently there has been talk of Morales facing the 37-year-old Barrera for a 4th time. Morales has lost two out of the three past fights with Barrera. With the exception of the last fight, the first two bouts between Morales and Barrera were very exciting with a lot of back and fourth action. The last fight between wasn’t nearly as interesting as Morales looked slower.
Morales’ right eye was closed in the Maidana fight and he also received a small cut over the eye. Morales took a lot of heavy shots in that fight and July could be a bit soon for Morales to be coming back after such a hard fight like this. He’s not as young as he used to be and if he’s matched tough again in a rematch with Maidana, Morales might not look nearly as good as in the first fight.
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