Has it all caught up to him? He got absolutely owned by Zahir Raheem (who?). Now, of course, Zahir's got the Winky Wright problem. I don't expect him to really fight any top-level compitition - plus he's HBO and Showtime's got a lot of the good Lightweights.
Now Barrera probably gets his pick of Morales or Pacquiao if he gets by Peden.
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. - Euripides
That fight was VERY dissappointing. It didn't seem like Raheem was really all that impressive as much as it seemed Morales just didn't want to do anything.
Originally posted by MoeGates Now Barrera probably gets his pick of Morales or Pacquiao if he gets by Peden.
According to this, the Pacquiao-Morales rematch is still on.
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It might be, but I'm sure the purse is definitely being renegotiated. Morales dropping back down to 126 (even though it's only four pounds) also doesn't bode well for him. I'm going to even go out on a limb here and predict the Granite-Jawed Morales gets the first knockdown of his career (I don't count the phantom knockdown in Morales-Barrera I).
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. - Euripides
Well, considering he jest about got knocked down by Raheem....
Morales looked like a shot fighter there, frankly. Raheem was showing some pretty clever stuff while his confidence was up, but at the end, you could see him starting to tighten up as Morales showed a bit of life.
Overall, a fairly impressive showing by Raheem.
Now for something completely different coming up, the Howard Davis Jr.-like boxing skills of Sam Peter vs. the George Chuvalo-like rock jaw of Klitschko the minor...
(edited by Eddie Famous on 15.9.05 0052) As of 2/28/05: 101 pounds since December 7, 2004 OFFICIAL THREE-MONTH COUNT: 112 pounds on March 9, 2005 OFFICIAL SIX-MONTH COUNT: 142 pounds on June 8, 2005 As of 9/12/05: 164 pounds "I've lost a super middleweight"
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Kimbo-s-run-in-the-UFC-is-over-White-cuts-him?urn=mma,239667 Not surprising he gets shown the door. Too old, and no ground game doesn't make for a good showing in any of his fights.