Thread: Why do Erik & MAB hate eachother so much?

i only saw the last fight, so im not really caught up with the hatred.

i mean from the last topic i read erik in pacmans corner?
that means he wants to see marco down the the floor by pacman even if hes not the man to do it....lol

can some1 ans the question pls? =)

Originally Posted by toogood4u

i only saw the last fight, so im not really caught up with the hatred.

i mean from the last topic i read erik in pacmans corner?
that means he wants to see marco down the the floor by pacman even if hes not the man to do it....lol

can some1 ans the question pls? =)

Barrera hit Morales in press conference i believe theres always been bad clood there.

yea theres always been bad blood. it all started in mexico, its always been erics people vs barreras people. I'm sure between the lines many things true or false has been heard and has escalated the whole situation. its an ongoing battle,only if we could hear everything between the two.

Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Originally Posted by toogood4u

i only saw the last fight, so im not really caught up with the hatred.

i mean from the last topic i read erik in pacmans corner?
that means he wants to see marco down the the floor by pacman even if hes not the man to do it....lol

can some1 ans the question pls? =)

Barrera hit Morales in press conference i believe theres always been bad clood there.

na,

it was mainly downt ot he first fight, most who watched it will say marco won, but erik got he UD... i believe after it erik went to give marco one his beltt as a sign of respect for the war they fought (it was close but barrera should of go the UD)

ofc barrera was very pissed off and very outspoken about it and erik didn't like it, it all stemmed from there...

The hatred started when Barerra called eric a stuip indian as at the time Eric was the one seen as the next best thing in Mexican boxing and I guess Barerra was not pleased.

Just to clarify, Eric's heritage is that of an indigenous mexican indian whilst Barerra is a decendant of the Europeans (Spanish) who colonised and settled in Latin America.

Multiple reasons:

1. After the first fight, Erik said in the postfight that it was a great fight, Barrera was a great fighter, and that he owed Barrera a rematch.
Then Barrera went for his interview and said that Morales was overrated and that he didn't deserve to get the decision, etc. So that started it.

2. Barrera grew up in an upper middle-class suburb of Mexico City, Morales grew up dirt poor in Tijuana. There's a big disconnect in Mexican culture between Mexico City and the rest of the country.

Originally Posted by SweetPea

Multiple reasons:

1. After the first fight, Erik said in the postfight that it was a great fight, Barrera was a great fighter, and that he owed Barrera a rematch.
Then Barrera went for his interview and said that Morales was overrated and that he didn't deserve to get the decision, etc. So that started it.

2. Barrera grew up in an upper middle-class suburb of Mexico City, Morales grew up dirt poor in Tijuana. There's a big disconnect in Mexican culture between Mexico City and the rest of the country.

That was just an angle the press used to blow this shit up to make it an even more intense rivalry... it was down tot he fact morales showed barrera rspect but barrera didn't show him the respect he wnated/deserved....

Originally Posted by Preme

Originally Posted by SweetPea

Multiple reasons:

1. After the first fight, Erik said in the postfight that it was a great fight, Barrera was a great fighter, and that he owed Barrera a rematch.
Then Barrera went for his interview and said that Morales was overrated and that he didn't deserve to get the decision, etc. So that started it.

2. Barrera grew up in an upper middle-class suburb of Mexico City, Morales grew up dirt poor in Tijuana. There's a big disconnect in Mexican culture between Mexico City and the rest of the country.

That was just an angle the press used to blow this S*** up to make it an even more intense rivalry... it was down tot he fact morales showed barrera rspect but barrera didn't show him the respect he wnated/deserved....

So are you trying to argue that the disconnect I talked about doesn't exist?

4 posts all 4 different stories.

Guess we'll never really know.


Heres my take, Eriks from La Zona Norte in Tijuana of Indegenous decent. I've described Zona Norte many times before that place in short it's possibly the lowest of living. Streets filled with filth, drugs, sex, murder, crime. MAB is from Mexico, City who lived in a middle class family and was well educated of Spanish decent.
2 complete opposites. Leading to their 1st fight in an interview done by Erik, he (Erik) said he would beat and batter MAB for 12 rounds. MAB in reply/return commented to another Mexican station insinuating that Erik didn't know what he was talking about that he was confused and that it must have something to do with who he is and where he is from.
From then on it was a battle of words, back and forth.
You then have the press conference scuffle.
And finally after Erik was announced the winner in their 1st fight, MAB walked over to Eriks corner to shake his hand and congratulate him only to be received by water thrown at him by Erik.

Originally Posted by SweetPea

Originally Posted by Preme

Originally Posted by SweetPea

Multiple reasons:

1. After the first fight, Erik said in the postfight that it was a great fight, Barrera was a great fighter, and that he owed Barrera a rematch.
Then Barrera went for his interview and said that Morales was overrated and that he didn't deserve to get the decision, etc. So that started it.

2. Barrera grew up in an upper middle-class suburb of Mexico City, Morales grew up dirt poor in Tijuana. There's a big disconnect in Mexican culture between Mexico City and the rest of the country.

That was just an angle the press used to blow this S*** up to make it an even more intense rivalry... it was down tot he fact morales showed barrera rspect but barrera didn't show him the respect he wnated/deserved....

So are you trying to argue that the disconnect I talked about doesn't exist?

i'm saying it had nothing to do with why they hated each other.

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

4 posts all 4 different stories.

Guess we'll never really know.


Heres my take, Eriks from La Zona Norte in Tijuana of Indegenous decent. I've described Zona Norte many times before that place in short it's possibly the lowest of living. Streets filled with filth, drugs, sex, murder, crime. MAB is from Mexico, City who lived in a middle class family and was well educated of Spanish decent.
2 complete opposites. Leading to their 1st fight in an interview done by Erik, he (Erik) said he would beat and batter MAB for 12 rounds. MAB in reply/return commented to another Mexican station insinuating that Erik didn't know what he was talking about that he was confused and that it must have something to do with who he is and where he is from.
From then on it was a battle of words, back and forth.
You then have the press conference scuffle.
And finally after Erik was announced the winner in their 1st fight, MAB walked over to Eriks corner to shake his hand and congratulate him only to be received by water thrown at him by Erik.

wait, it was the third fight when barrera won he tried to mend see morales and then had the water thrown over him? then barrera stood back with the 2-1 sign on his fingers?

Originally Posted by Preme

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

4 posts all 4 different stories.

Guess we'll never really know.


Heres my take, Eriks from La Zona Norte in Tijuana of Indegenous decent. I've described Zona Norte many times before that place in short it's possibly the lowest of living. Streets filled with filth, drugs, sex, murder, crime. MAB is from Mexico, City who lived in a middle class family and was well educated of Spanish decent.
2 complete opposites. Leading to their 1st fight in an interview done by Erik, he (Erik) said he would beat and batter MAB for 12 rounds. MAB in reply/return commented to another Mexican station insinuating that Erik didn't know what he was talking about that he was confused and that it must have something to do with who he is and where he is from.
From then on it was a battle of words, back and forth.
You then have the press conference scuffle.
And finally after Erik was announced the winner in their 1st fight, MAB walked over to Eriks corner to shake his hand and congratulate him only to be received by water thrown at him by Erik.

wait, it was the third fight when barrera won he tried to mend see morales and then had the water thrown over him? then barrera stood back with the 2-1 sign on his fingers?

Right, my mistake it was the 3rd fight when MAB tried to just settle it and Erik wouldn't have it.
Good deal Preme.

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Originally Posted by Preme

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

4 posts all 4 different stories.

Guess we'll never really know.


Heres my take, Eriks from La Zona Norte in Tijuana of Indegenous decent. I've described Zona Norte many times before that place in short it's possibly the lowest of living. Streets filled with filth, drugs, sex, murder, crime. MAB is from Mexico, City who lived in a middle class family and was well educated of Spanish decent.
2 complete opposites. Leading to their 1st fight in an interview done by Erik, he (Erik) said he would beat and batter MAB for 12 rounds. MAB in reply/return commented to another Mexican station insinuating that Erik didn't know what he was talking about that he was confused and that it must have something to do with who he is and where he is from.
From then on it was a battle of words, back and forth.
You then have the press conference scuffle.
And finally after Erik was announced the winner in their 1st fight, MAB walked over to Eriks corner to shake his hand and congratulate him only to be received by water thrown at him by Erik.

wait, it was the third fight when barrera won he tried to mend see morales and then had the water thrown over him? then barrera stood back with the 2-1 sign on his fingers?

Right, my mistake it was the 3rd fight when MAB tried to just settle it and Erik wouldn't have it.
Good deal Preme.

i know there was so muchshit with these and all scribes trying to blow shit out of the water to sell it even more, but i seen these a million times and im 99% sure it all kicked after after the first fight when marco was saying he got robbed and clearly won...

before it was the usual pre fuight im going to KO u et etc didn't they try play on the fact morales beat JR jones who twice beat barrera?

other than that there was no real bad bloo,d just the usual pre fight, after the fight the words started and then puches thrown in the build up to fight II...

yea theres no way wen a person who loses teh fight will go and say sorry and end this thing.
except ken shamrock.

so MAB started it cuz of disrepect.
was there anythi that happen outside of boxing that made this even worse.any conflict or anyhting?

Originally Posted by toogood4u

yea theres no way wen a person who loses teh fight will go and say sorry and end this thing.
except ken shamrock.

so MAB started it cuz of disrepect.
was there anythi that happen outside of boxing that made this even worse.any conflict or anyhting?

yea once it started it never stoppd ofc... the war of words got worse, in the build up to the second fight in the rpesser i think morales had said something to barrera like hit me so he got up and smacked him lol

after the second fight also morales give barrera shit for "not fighting like a mexican" so much really but mianly it was just down to a war of words...

(oh it didn't help barrerawon the second when most thought morales won it either lol even though there were "rightly" 1-1 most will say they both won the wrong fights...)