By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia’s dad Angel Garcia is predicting a 5th round knockout victory for his son over 36-year-old Erik Morales (52-8, 36 KO’s) later this month on October 20th at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Angel thinks that Morales is too fat now, and needs to retire from the game. He suspects that Morales is still fighting because he needs money.

Angel said to RingTV “I say five [rounds] to be nice, Danny says four…I didn’t know he [Morales] was that big [fat]. It was all here [pointing to his midsection] too. That’s bad. Honestly, [he’s still fighting] probably cause he needs the money. If it was me, I wouldn’t let him fight. Listen, your day is over, that’s it. If you can’t walk around at 50′ at least, and you’re walking around at 180, that’s bad.”

Morales did look soft in the middle in his last fight against Garcia last March in losing by a one-sided 12 round decision. While some boxing fans saw it as a competitive fight, it really wasn’t. Morales broke Garcia’s nose with a hard jab in the second half of the fight, but it really wasn’t much of a fight because all Morales could do was jab. He wasn’t going to win the fight by jabbing Garcia, because he was getting nailed by Garcia’s big left hooks and right hands nearly at will for the entire 12 rounds.

Garcia looked like he was just coasting and not really stepping his game up. The fight looked like a sparring session more than an actual fight. Later on, Garcia revealed that he gave Morales too much respect for who he was as a fighter, and didn’t want to just go after him to blast him out like he would a normal fighter out of respect for his past accomplishments. In other words, Garcia seemed to feel sorry for Morales. This time, however, Garcia plans on not letting Morales have it easy by taking the fight to him and destroying him early in the fight by the 4th round. Angel thinks that Morales will last as long as the 5th, but no more than that. He sees him going down.

It might be a good idea for Morales to retire after this fight because there’s nowhere for him to go after this fight. Morales can move down in weight to lightweight, but I don’t think he can make that weight anymore, especially if he’s having to drop a lot of weight for his fights. If he’s walking around in the 180s like Angel Garcia says, then that’s a lot of weight to lose to try and get down to 135 if Morales were to move down in weight. Even at 140, losing 40 pounds is really hard on a fighter and it tends to strip them of a lot of their power.