Erik Morales

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.”

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (24-0, 15 KO’s) is poised to beat 36-year-old Erik Morales (52-8, 36 KO’s) to send him into a permanent retirement when they meet up on October 20th at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York. Morales is getting a second chance at Garcia despite having previously been badly beaten by him last March in a one-sided 12 round beat down.

The fight was so one-sided that it’s been impossible to generate any real excitement about this fight with the boxing public. It’s like trying to generate excitement for a second fight between George Foreman and Joe Frazier after the first fight was a massacre. Garcia, 24, didn’t quite beat Morales that bad, but he beat him about as bad as you can in dealing with a 12 round decision.

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By Jason Kim: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia 924-0, 15 KO’s) gets to prove for the second time that he’s better than the 36-year-old Erik Morales (52-8, 36 KO’s) on October 20th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It wasn’t enough that the 24-year-old Garcia totally out-boxed a stiff and slow Morales last March in a one-sided 12 round unanimous victory in Houston, Texas, but now boxing fans have to see the same mismatch for a second time.

The reason for this is because Morales had a rematch clause in his contract, so we’re seeing Morales and Garcia fight again despite how one-sided a fight it last time they fought. Morales really should know better than to take on Garcia again, because he was completely dominated the last time and looked really old in losing that fight. But you can kind of understand why Morales might be doing this. After all, he’s getting a good payday out of the fight because Garcia is the WBA/WBC light welterweight champion, and that’s a definite plus for Morales. It isn’t like Morales can get a title shot right now against any of the other light welterweight champs.

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By Sean McDaniel: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (24-0, 15 KO’s) wants to remove all doubt when he faces 36-year-old Erik Morales (52-8, 36 KO’s) in their rematch next month on October 20th at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York. Garcia beat Morales by a 12 round unanimous decision in March earlier this year, but suffered a broken nose in the process of winning the fight and a lot of boxing fans came away from the fight less than impressed with what they saw of Garcia.

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By Allan Fox: WBA World light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (24-0, 15 KO’s) will be looking to build on the last impressive performance in beating Erik Morales (52-8, 36 KO’s) by beating him even worse in their rematch on October 20th on HBO at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Garcia, 24, beat Morales by a 12 round unanimous decision last March in a fight that was pretty much an easy one for Garcia.

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By Allan Fox: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia’s father Angel Garcia is hoping that his son Danny will be able to stop 36-year-old Erik Morales in their rematch when they fight on October 20th at the Barclays in Brooklyn, New Work.

Angel said to RingTV “What Danny has to do is go in there and get the legend. He needs to stop Morales. It’s not going to be satisfying to go out and win a 12 round decision. He needs to go out there and put a stop to Morales.”

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By Dan Ambrose: Former four division world champion Erik Morales (52-8, 36 KO’s) says he’ll retire from boxing in 2013. The 35-year-old Morales has an important fight coming up on October 20th against WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (24-0, 15 KO’s) at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (24-0, 15 KO’s) is tired of Erik Morales’ excuses for him losing to Garcia last March, and this time Garcia want’s to beat Morales beyond the shadow of a doubt by knocking him out when they meet up on October 20th at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York.

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