ITS OFFICIAL!!! Morales vs Barrera III

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Looking back at this thread, it's funny how most folks (PacMan fans, obviously) thought MAB - EM III was gonna be a boring fight, and that EM should grow balls and face Manny, and the likes.

5 months and a Fight Of The Year later, I guess most of them would like to take their words back.

i just dont think you got the point of those comments. well let me just bring it to you anyway. Top Rank and EM was planning to move up after chosing a bout with MAB III and havent mentioned any plans on taking Pacman. then most Pac fans made those comments hoping it would reach EM and just to make him stay in his division to fight Pacaman. and now here they are getting ready to a fight that was ignited by Pac fans. should you be more thankful that its now gonna happen? btw, it may have won the fight of the year but i believe it did only coz of they're history of rivalry and not coz of the fight they've put up. IMHO, it still should have been Pac-JMM that was the fight of the year. EM-MAB is nothing compared to PAC-JMM fight with all the blood, KDs, display of techniques etc. and was so close that it ended as a draw. while in EM-MAB, it was so obvious that MAB dominated EM. this is why there's no point of taking any words back.

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i just dont think you got the point of those comments. well let me just bring it to you anyway. Top Rank and EM was planning to move up after chosing a bout with MAB III and havent mentioned any plans on taking Pacman. then most Pac fans made those comments hoping it would reach EM and just to make him stay in his division to fight Pacaman. and now here they are getting ready to a fight that was ignited by Pac fans. should you be more thankful that its now gonna happen? btw, it may have won the fight of the year but i believe it did only coz of they're history of rivalry and not coz of the fight they've put up. IMHO, it still should have been Pac-JMM that was the fight of the year. EM-MAB is nothing compared to PAC-JMM fight with all the blood, KDs, display of techniques etc. and was so close that it ended as a draw. while in EM-MAB, it was so obvious that MAB dominated EM. this is why there's no point of taking any words back.

MAB - EM III was a frickin great fight. The display of ability, endurance, heart and will made it unique. Michael Katz, one of the most respected boxing scribes, said right after the fight that MAB - EM III was probably the best bout he had EVER seen.

Pac - JMM was a very good scrap, but after the first round it became kind of predictable. As a fan, you knew what was coming -Pac attacking and getting pounded by JMM's counters immediately after. It was a great display of power by Pac and a great display of technique by JMM.

MAB - EM III just had it all.

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MAB - EM III was a frickin great fight. The display of ability, endurance, heart and will made it unique. Michael Katz, one of the most respected boxing scribes, said right after the fight that MAB - EM III was probably the best bout he had EVER seen.

Pac - JMM was a very good scrap, but after the first round it became kind of predictable. As a fan, you knew what was coming -Pac attacking and getting pounded by JMM's counters immediately after. It was a great display of power by Pac and a great display of technique by JMM.

MAB - EM III just had it all.

well i respect your opinion about that but i just dont think we're seeing it the same way. EM-MAB did not had it all. everything you said about EM-MAB fight was even well emphasized in Pac-JMM fight. the abilities (boxing skills and power punches), the endurance (it lasted 12 rounds that both were still exchanging punches that rounds can be scored either way), heart (damn have you seen how JMM got back after being KD 3x in the 1st round with a busted nose and Pacman giving his best despite his injured left hand and blistered toe?), will (both gave everything they've got that no one person could realy justify that one deserves to win over the other and that made the decision good enough for most spectators). but i did not see in EM-MAB the kind of power we saw in Pac-JMM curtesy of Pac and niether the kind of technique that JMM showed or in short EM-MAB didn't realy come close to how great Pac-JMM fight was. IMO, niether EM nor MAB could even beat any of the two (Pac and JMM).