Want action.Brandon Rios/Marcos Maidana?

Morales struggled with David Diaz a few years ago, thats all I need to know, hes done. Believe it or not hes the same age as Mayweather

 

Maidana woops dat ass.

There's something not right about that guy.

 

All you need to know is that a Spartan Warrior died, came back as an Aztec Warrior, then came back as Erik Morales. I believe Erik Morales can outbox Maidana for 12 rounds

 

If you watched Morales against Limond and Alfaro you will know this **** isn't going to work out well. Maidana will walk through his shots and tee off on him at will. Maidana should be ashamed of himself for signing that instead of taking on available rankers like mathysse, judah, alexander, or kotelnik II. He's going to hurt el terrible, imo. Makes me sad.

 

The odds are against him definatley, i know you're being logical but you lack belief. Greats of the past have beaten the odds against larger men past their primes. Morales is definatley one of those characters that can pull it off, when no one else can

 

Well who knows, Maidana has a "glass body" so maybe he won't get up from Morales' superior version of this? :think

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His only chance :deal

 

I don't blame Maidana taking the fight, even though I think the fight is shittier than the bathroom of your average gas station.

 

Lets hope so. I'm thinking about this fight and i'm too stupid to picture anything other than a glorious Morales performance. I felt the same way about Barrera vs Khan and my heart sank after that fight, but i've always thought that Barrera(although on par and bested Morales) lacked the X factor needed for the heroics, but Morales has it, if anyone. Im so hyped for this fight, i've been ****ing shadowboxing to Morales highlight videos all last week. This is a bigger stage than Limond and Alfaro, he had no business beating Pacquiao in the 1st fight, all things considered, and he pulled it off like the boss he is. One more time he will do it again! He'll rise to the occasion. Maidana is no world beater.

 

I do, broseph. Imagine if this had been Khan or Ortiz taking this fight. The fanbase would have raped either of them. Maidana signing fights against these versions of Morales and Corley... Call them tuneups, call them money fights but what they are is basically bull****, especially in a division where he could be taking on exciting matches. It's not even a case of not having options either. LAME.

. Your enthusiasm is great, and you definitely have a point about there being more on the line here in this fight. But you already mentioned the Pac fight. The boxing gods rarely grant a fighter two swansongs.

 

Khan is a champion, with a unified champion calling him out regular, which would be different. Ortiz, I wouldn't blame either. That's a lot of money to turn your nose up at on principle when it's another consenting adult who wants to fight. I don't think about their "name" or anything. He's just another guy right now, who happens to be up in the rankings, that you can make a lot of money fighting. It's just business. It is what it is. These guys could have their careers or lives ended at any time and they have to earn while they can. I'm not going to blame them for it, that's how I feel. You can **** on people worrying about money like it's dirty but it's your livelihood. Your livelihood isn't like a shallow concern you don't have to worry about and at any time you can blow off an opportunity of high reward/low risk. You have to be a logically opportunistic sometimes.

 

In regard to Khan, I don't really believe he is a "champion" yet. Beating Bradley would let him fit that criteria for me. I'm not thinking about name... It's about ensuring the integrity of competitive matchmaking in boxing, which is already in the shitter.

You can say it's just business, but being complacent or uncritical in regard to this kind matchmaking only lets this situation continue. This fight is the main event on a PPV. Isn't that sad to you? There has never been any doubt about whether money will be made here. I understand Maidana has bills to pay and money to save potentially for a retirement. But that doesn't justify to ME one of the most competitive dudes in the sport taking on a shadow of a boxer who could potentially get really hurt. It's a waste of a fight for El Chino. Is this fight pushing his career forward. Maybe. Morales has some casual fans and maybe they'll turn up for this. But as far as getting back into the mix and maybe setting up a Khan rematch(which IMO he could deserve based on future performances), this?

I don't blame him, I guess. Worse fights have been signed. But that doesn't mean Maidana can justify the legitimacy of this fight. It hurts his integrity as a competitor at this point.

 

Most PPVs are sad to me, Swarmy. I'm being uncritical of Maidana as a man taking advantage of an opportunity, not uncritical of the system that gives him that opportunity in this manner. If taking fights you are a very heavy favorite in hurts your integrity somehow...we don't even have ATG's with any kind of credibility, then. At all. Literally, none. If Maidana were taking on a no-name fighter who offers the same low likelihood of a challenge, would that be bad because they could get hurt badly? Or is that okay because they never used to be special? If fighters want to fight, let them fight. If people want to pay for it, let them pay and watch. I won't pay. But, I have no interest in standing in the way of two consenting adults, whether they want to ****, fight or fart around with each other. It's their business.