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Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales Boxing Autographs
A Large 12x18 Action Photograph that has been signed by
both modern day boxing legends and Mexican greats Erik Morales
and Marco Antonio Barrera. Guaranteed Authentic and will
make a superb addition to any boxing memorabilia collection.
Morales will not sign these anymore!
Barrera vs
Morales
£175.00
These two first met in February of 2000, and
put on a tremendous show. Morales won a controversial split
decision, but there was no controversy about how good of
a fight it was. A twelve round war with constant back and
forth offense. They met again in a much anticipated rematch
in 2002, with Barrera winning a unanimous decision. The
rubber match was won by Barrera by decision. Barrera's power
punches had more sting to them than those of Erik Morales
and although Morales made a big push in the last frame,
it just wasn't enough.
This trilogy will certainly go down in the
history books as one of the best ever. The only trilogy
comparable to this one in recent times would have to be
Micky Ward-Arturo Gatti. The big difference between the
Barrera-Morales trilogy and the Ward-Gatti trilogy would
probably be the fact that Barrera and Morales do not feel
as warm towards one another as Ward and Gatti did. Though
both fighters have stated that they respect the other as
a fighter, both have also made it clear that it stops there.
There have been a couple of displays of this
bitterness in the past and recently. During a press conference
for their second fight, Barrera hauled back and slugged
Morales. Anybody who was there would tell you that the punch
had nothing to do with hyping up the fight. Then recently
during a press conference for this upcoming fight Barrera
failed to show up, and Morales harshly criticized him for
it. Reportedly Barrera didn't show up was because he did
not want to be in the same room with Morales. The bitterness
between these two fighters is not something that was drawn
up to promote a fight, because these two need no hype to
sell their fight; their past two fights can sell this third
fight alone.
