Marco Antonio Barrera has a chance to become the best fighter in boxing Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio. But it is far from a sure thing.
Manny Pacquiao is his most lethal opponent since Erik Morales last June.
Barrera steadily has climbed up boxing’s pound-for-pound ladder since holding the favored Morales to a draw in 2000. Since then, he has become a complete fighter, beating “Prince” Naseem Hamed, Morales and Johnny Tapia with a jab-and-move style that is a departure from the hard-hooking slugger who gained the imagination of his Mexican countrymen — and the boxing world.
