Erik Morales said this 3 years ago

Morales at his best at 130 could possibly trouble Floyd, I feel as though Floyd wasnt as smart a fighter back then. Id Still pick Floyd UD though.

 

lolololol...GOTTA LOVE ERIK MORALES!!!! El Terrible = Legend

 

i could see morales giving him trouble at 130 prime

 

Sadly Morales was way past his best by the time he got to 130 . I get your point though and I agree Morales would give him hell. I like Floyds greater accuracy to take it though

 

PBF's speed of both hand and foot would be too much for Morales. Morales was a beast, but he was a beast in ways that troubled a different kind of fighter.

Analyze this objectively- PBF's strengths at this weight were worse for the style of Morales then his strenghts were for the style PBF.

Although past his prime, we saw what an outside fighter like Rahim could do by keeping distance and not engaging with Morales. Now you can't compare that Morales to the prime one, I KNOW THAT, but the mental frustration of a guy who would only engage in spurts (and do so with speed and power rarely seen at 130lbs) is all wrong for Morales.

 

I always love these what ifs,,,

 

Great post abc. I wanted to say the same thing but you put it in better words.:good

 

the problem with this thread is that Morales was past his best at 130lbs. he was a beast when he was a little bit lighter and he was very fast powerful and was tricky. Aren't they both about 5'8 or so?? I can't remember if Morales is that tall but he does have long arms and could throw at weird angles. I think Floyd would beat him...We never seen Floyd around 120lbs to be able to make a comparison. But I think it would have been a pretty good fight.

 

I actually think Barrera would have a better chance at beating PBF at 130.

 

Linares TKO10 this is a fight i really want to see

 

lol I wanna see Linares vs EVERYONE at 122lbs!!!!

 

Joke topic.

 

I have heard rumors they did spar together before and Morales did really well.

I have no idea if its true, but of course they were both under Bob Arum for a long time so maybe they did some sparring back in the day.


The only problem with any of this is that Morales was at his best at 122-126. By the time he was at 130 he was past his best and I think PBF was up at 135 by that time.

Summary - they were never at the same weight at the same time to begin with, PBF was always bigger so he has a huge advantage and would have won in a 12 round fight.