By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten light welterweight contender Danny Garcia (22-0, 14 KO’s) is in a tough position of having to beat a legend in WBC light welterweight champion Erik Morales (52-7, 36 KO’s) on March 24th in a fight in Houston, Texas.

The situation is set up for the young 23-year-old Garcia to fail in this fight, because he’s not the name and is fighting one of Mexico’s greatest stars ever in 35-year-old Morales.

It’s going to be really tough for Garcia, #2 IBF, #2 WBO, #3 WBC, to get the decision. The venue favors Morales because it will be packed with pro-Morales fans from Texas and the Mexico area. Garcia, 23, is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and likely won’t be bringing a storm of his fans with him in any kind of great numbers for this fight. He’s going to dealing with a hostile audience that will be cheering every punch Morales throws – whether it misses or lands. Morales is going to have the fans firmly behind him in this fight.

Morales hasn’t looked good in any of his five fights during his comeback, and I had him losing his first comeback fight to Jose Alfaro in March 2010. Morales won a 12 round unanimous decision despite getting outworked and out-landed in that fight. In his next fight, Morales looked terrible against Willie Limond until stopping him in the 6th round with a series of body shots. Morales then fought Francisco Lorenzo and won another controversial 12 round decision.

I had Morales losing this fight as well. Morales then lost to Marcos Maidana by a 12 round decision in April 2011 and then turned around and stopped 22-year-old Pablo Cesar Cano by a 10th round stoppage to pick up the vacant World Boxing Council light welterweight title last September. This was yet another fight where Morales looked really poor and he’s lucky that Cano was pooled from near the bottom of the WBC top 15, because had he fought Lucas Matthysse instead, Morales almost surely would have lost.