The Érik Isaac Morales Elvira vs. Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia Trilogy - CST's Standalone RBR's.

Round 1 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 2 Barrera 10-9
Round 3 Morales 10-9, close
Round 4 Barrera 10-9
Round 5 Morales 10-9
Round 6 Morales 10-9
Round 7 Morales 10-9, close
Round 8 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 9 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 10 Morales 10-9

Both fighters are knackered, Barrera a little more so, Morales is standing back and teeing off on Barrera walloping him with straight rights and one two. Morales seems to have Barrera badly hurt at one point a few seconds later, Barrera comes back and rocks Morales to his core and sends him reeling, Morales recovers, take the fight back to Barrera and finishes strong.

 

Harold and I agree on the 8th and 9th, disagree on the 10th.

 

Round 1 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 2 Barrera 10-9
Round 3 Morales 10-9, close
Round 4 Barrera 10-9
Round 5 Morales 10-9
Round 6 Morales 10-9
Round 7 Morales 10-9, close
Round 8 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 9 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 10 Morales 10-9
Round 11 Barrera 10-9, close

Both dead tired, Morales picking his shots more carefully, less eager to exchange, landing rights and one twos here and there, Barrera occasionally whipping in a hook to the ribs and gut here and there, Barrera finishes with a string dominate last minute backing Morales along teh ropes and pounding him with rights and hooks up top.

 

Round 1 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 2 Barrera 10-9
Round 3 Morales 10-9, close
Round 4 Barrera 10-9
Round 5 Morales 10-9
Round 6 Morales 10-9
Round 7 Morales 10-9, close
Round 8 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 9 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 10 Morales 10-9
Round 11 Barrera 10-9, close
Round 12 Barrera 10-8

Relatively uneventful two minutes with not much to separate them, gives way to a brutal last minute for Morales, Barrera starts teeing over with body shots and one two on Morales who's against the ropes, he slides off gets back to the middle of the ring, Barrera lands a short hook dropping Morales to a knee, the first KD of El Terrible's career, he makes it to his feet, slugs it out to the bell.

115-112 Barrera

 

Harold had it 116-111, once round wider than I.

 

I'll get to the last two either later tonight, or one tonight and one tomorrow.

 

Érik Isaac Morales Elvira vs. Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia II 12 Rounds @ Featherweight

June 22, 2002

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Round 1 Morales 10-9

Erik keeping Barrera at the end of his jab throughout constantly circling to the left, Barrera got through with a few left hooks and rights, but pretty much all Morales, including a hard right he landed late.

 

Round 1 Morales 10-9
Round 2 Morales 10-9

Morales still dancing around the ring, bouncing into range landing hard rights and following up with one twos, then bouncing back out of range. Barrera gets close lands a hard left hook to the head of Morales, Morales' nose is bloody. Morales going to the body, jabbing. Morales walking him down landing overhand and straight right, Hard right from Morales late.

 

Round 1 Morales 10-9
Round 2 Morales 10-9
Round 3 Morales 10-9

Morales boxing far smarter this time around, keeping him behind the jab and making him pay with uppercuts and one twos when Barrera lunges in. Barrera not looking to engage, he's looking to counter as well now too, but Morales jab is too long and his hands faster, he's stil in control.

 

Harold has it 2-1 Morales, giving the second to Barrera.

 

Round 1 Morales 10-9
Round 2 Morales 10-9
Round 3 Morales 10-9
Round 4 Morales 10-9

Morales still coming forward but responsibly behind his jab, Barrera throwing weak jabs, Barrera not looking for a fight, Morales lands a huge left hook up top. and another later, Barrera clips him with a hard right while pivoting away. Morales responds.

 

Round 1 Morales 10-9
Round 2 Morales 10-9
Round 3 Morales 10-9
Round 4 Morales 10-9
Round 5 Morales 10-9

Morales patiently following Barrera around the ring, lunging in with fast sharp rights, same pattern as the last few, however Morales did attack late by pinning Barrara on the ropes and landing several one twos the 10 second warning clacker confused Morales who turned his bac momentarily, Barrera attacked and paid for it, Morales responded in kind and got the better of the exchanges.

 

Harold has Morales up 4-1.

 

Round 1 Morales 10-9
Round 2 Morales 10-9
Round 3 Morales 10-9
Round 4 Morales 10-9
Round 5 Morales 10-9
Round 6 Barrera 10-9, close

Barera standing his ground far more counter with left hooks as Morales lunges in, they have a few small dust ups, Barrera edged most of them, by a hair MAB.