Junior Lightweight monarch Erik “El Terrible” Morales, 47-2, 34 KO’s, is winding down after going over several of his numerous stable mates in preparation for his March 19th MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV, slugfest against Freddie Roach’s well kept secret weapon in southpaw and former IBF Super Bantamweight, and former featherweight Filipino hurricane, the one man demon speedster and dynamo Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao, 39-2-2, 30 KO’s. It isn’t hard to find a band-aid these days for a badly bruised and inflamed ego inferring onto the current IBF-WBA Featherweight Champion Juan Manuel Marquez. There are deeper issues behind overpricing oneself -being that you’re holding the belts, that I am not quite settled or so very quickly to judge obstinately forbearing. When Marquez pulled out of negotiations with the Pacquiao people for their rematch it was only for some the obvious calamities of the businesses that happens everyday I thought. I frowned a bit that the match wasn’t made, taking all things into account. They rubbed Marquez in a sense the wrong way to lure him back into the ring when they seemingly sought after bigger fish to fry. Again, it’s taking nothing personal, its just business. I had an immediate light bulb flash off in my head that told me that the Pacquiao people shouldn’t have even switched gears midway to stretch and tease our imaginations a bit on whomsoever was the better fight for him. For all we’ve known they could’ve drawn straws.
They’re riding high on the stakes involved for the Pac Man, and almost as it is logically, as it is naturally, isn’t a bad gamble. Pacquiao has gone onto from a flyweight for most of his budding boxing career; leaping in single bounds up to the Super Bantamweight and featherweight divisions without a hitch. He also managed to fight in intensity for his own personal distain and look at poverty, which carried along for his huge successes. Pacquiao could be pleasing his pallet for the exquisite gourmet cooking and expensive champagne tastes in other forms of eminent disguises. Those set to tell you what you want to hear. He changed his management as if a changing shoe, so desperately to rid him of an unmanageable and ungoverned boxing career. One that came with promise at the expenses of supporting a lot of people I may add. You get a good sense that Pacquaio won’t die a martyr.
Manny Pacquaio may not have gotten the WBA-IBF Featherweight Championship from Marquez, but he’s been given a better lease.
A time to fully be recognized potentially as the legitimate Super Featherweight best on God’s green earth. Whether or not he will -can cast a bigger shadow overcastting blue skies.
When Manny Pacquiao didn’t hesitate to sign a fight with former WBC Super Featherweight ruler Erik “El Terrible” Morales, many mostly stood in disbelief as to why he hadn’t waited for bypassing it. Ring magazine if you recall hadn’t exactly favored to be smitten with Erik to be their champion at the top of the division since the Barrera fight, and from what we could ascertain they weren’t going to decide until a fourth fight settled that very tussle. For Morales it simply meant redemption as his opportunity and honor for him to get right back to business after Marco Antonio Barrera defeated him. Not to mention having two other questionable decisions previously before that between the two.
Something Pacquiao desperately needs as leverage in the gateway to be popping out the chute whilst being fed frantically a steady diet of laboring being devoured by boxing connoisseurs and devotees alike these days is a fight against Erik. He would also have to cross the bridge about what weight division he does particularly belongs in after he fights Morales. You cannot distance yourself from the possibilities no matter how remote they may be.
Manny should steer clear of naysayers dampening his opportunity. Surely between Barrera and Morales, there is plenty in the division to ensure us more action doing up a storm. This all just may cause JM Marquez to consider him fortunate enough to be joining in on those same assorted sweepstakes. Or will he?
There was an unsettled feeling, and more so of an issue than the ceramics when May 8th 2004 came rolling around with a decision DRAW rendered between Marquez and Pacquiao. Maybe even for some failing to have had any acceptances or recollections as much about it. I don’t know. In a world were a boxer dares to be great, he thus must forge ahead, and be damned by the simple merited measures should they impede opportunity in quite another direction. In a way I agree with that definable renegade outlook.
I began reflecting on some of the games 118-126 LBS entrants moving into the junior lightweight division from the past. Most of which hadn’t faired so well in their attempts to unseat an established champion campaigning at the better weight. But these days we aren’t speaking the same weighing in the day of the fight, or about pouring your guts out in a sauna to make weight. We even aren’t talking about any ballpark weight constrictions for stepping into the ring by fight time in any fight. Hell, the other guy can balloon up to 20 pounds over you and it would only get you to be ridiculed to not inflate as much. You’re living in a boxing masochistic state to not adhere to the difference otherwise.
“Pac-Man” Pacquiao should pay stricter attention to the significance of such a preparatory. When Juan Manuel Marquez rebounded well from those vicious assaults during his fight with Pacquiao, I wondered just how well Erik Morales studied those tapes thoroughly.
I told our RSR Publisher “Bad” Brad the other day that I somehow felt we’d hadn’t seen the last of the Morales-Pacquiao arrangement, that it is perhaps a good thing that it lasts.
People are funny having lesser predictable things to say these days when you ask them on this particular fight. I’m hearing such contrite and opinionated assumptions to things like, he’s been battered before, to Erik has seen fatigue with plenty scars and ravishes of wars, to, “Manny is going to eat him alive like Pac Man.” I will reserve for my own views on later. However, I’m going to tell you that if Erik Morales doesn’t go with guns blazing, I would be surprised.
