Prime Erik Morales vs Manny Pacquiao

seems like everybody is discounting the loss to morales was pac's 1st fight at 130.

 

Pax is damn lucky he caught WARales on a slide.

 

Or....EM is lucky PAC wasn't at his physical prime when they fought.

 

You mean his physical prime aka no longer able to balloon up 15 lbs on fight night and get a size advantage?

You're proving to be quite the pacturd in all these threads son :deal

 

WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRALESs!

 

I'm keeping things in perspective kid....Pac by far has accomplished a lot more than EM....Pac has proven that he's the overall better fighter. And Pac and EM are the same size....EM is actually bigger, naturally.

I always look like a "Pacturd" to the Pac haters out there. so when has Pac ever ballooned up 15 pounds on fight night?:think. Erik was more polished and always will be...but he wasnt working with the exterme talent that made Pac a special fighter who made boxing history.

When Pac destroyed the great Erik Morlaes.....Erik wasn't in his prime but he was overall the more experienced fighter between the two and wasn't "shot" like you Pac haters would like everyone to believe.

Pac was the younger fighter who had not reached his peak....who was simply more talented in terms of speed and reflexes. Those qualities overshadowed EMs experience and thus we saw Pac win 2 out of the 3 fights.

Relax.....you say I'm a Pacturd......OK...I'll be that.....coming from you I expect that given how you've more than proven your a very upset Pac hater.

 

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At 130 he regularly weighed in as a welterweight on fight night. as a pac lover you should know this.

No one is saying Morales was shot, but he was clearly past it when he and Pac had his trilogy

 

:rofl OK....if you say so.....Pac rarely ever reaches the welter weight limit on fight night now and you are telling me that he weighed 147 on fight night when he campaigned as a feather weight or light weight? :think

Pac has never been a fighter who ballooned up in weight.....neither has Floyd or Hopkins who always stay in shape in between fights.

 

:happy

 

I don't know who wins for sure, but I can tell you this much: Pac doesn't run over EM or MAB at 122 like he does at the higher weights.

 

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floys should fight morales now and morales would transform from a shot fighter to a the best version of morales just like cotto.

 

Pacquiao is stylistically all wrong for MAB and would most likely dominate him at any weight class.

 

To get a proper analysis, you have to measure when is their actual primes.

Prime Morales was the guy who fought at 126-130. Sure, he's a monster at 122, but later on his skills got seasoned with experience and made him even more formidable.

Prime Pacquiao, or his absolute peak, is during the period where he pancaked Hatton and bludgeoned Cotto. His athleticism, lateral movement, and non-stop workrate was there.

Of course, an honest analysis would be a prime Morales beating the Pacquiao that fought at 122 and 126.

But it would be unfair for Pacquiao if you judge him with that as he was still a WIP at that point.

My take is that the prime Morales would have difficulty with the prime Pacquiao the way he did against Barrera. It would be close, but Pacquiao's power will give him the very slight edge.