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Pride. Motivation. What ever you want to call it. Every fighter has it. But not all of them pay attention to it. The great ones do. They feed off it. The need to prove people wrong. The need to get revenge. It turns a great fighter into an animal. Montell Griffin felt it when Roy Jones destroyed him in 1 round. Hasim Rahman paid for taking Lennox Lewis title. Ray Robinson ruined Randy Turpin for beating him. Morales is one of those fighters. He doesn't just feed off the motivation, it becomes him. He doesn't want to prove people wrong. He has to prove them wrong. He has to get back at whoever did him wrong. He's done it through his career.

1. Enrique Jupiter- Morales was 14-0 when he signed to fight the veteran Jupiter. Many felt it was to soon. He wasn't ready. His own team didn't want this fight. Jupiter had been destroying prospects. Ricardo Vargas 12-1, Jesus Montiel 12-0 and Mario Diaz 16-0 were all knocked out by Enrique. He said Morales was no better than them. Morales insisted on the fight. And stopped him in the 6th round.

2. Daniel Zaragoza- This was Morales first championship fight. Zaragoza was an old man at 39. But he was crafty and was as battle tested as they can be. He was also on a roll having beaten the undefeated Wayne McCullough and former champion Hector Acero Sanchez. Morales had struggled some what in his last 2 fights. Some felt Zargaoza would be too crafty for Morales. Morales didn't. He punished the game Zaragoza to the body and stopped him in the 11th.

3. Junior Jones- Morales did not need to take this fight. Jones was coming off a knock out loss to Kennedy McKinney. But he was extremely dangerous. He had been consider a p4p fighter a year ago. He had been dominating McKinney until he gassed out. But more importantly he had beaten Marco Antonio Barrera twice. Morales wanted to show up Barrera and make a statement. He crushed Jones in 4.

4. Marco Antonio Barrera- The rematch. Morales won the first fight. But was bothered that many felt he didn't deserve it. He went into the rematch looking to convince people that he could beat Barrera. Morales wanted to pick off were they left off, but a cautious Barrera didn't. Morales build up an early lead and weathered Barrera's rally. In the eyes of many he deserved the win. But in didn't matter since the judges felt they needed to make things up to Barrera and gave him an undeserving win.

5. Paulie Ayala- After losing his 0 unjustly to Barrera, Morales needed a big win to show he was still an elite fighter. Ayala was the opponent. Ayala was on an incredible roll. He had beaten Johnny Tapia and Bones Adams each twice. And had been Ring Magazines fighter of the year a couple years ago. It did him no good. Morales punished Ayala for 12 rounds. Giving Ayala the worse beating of his career.

6. Fernando Velardez- This was for his family. Velardez had been dominated by Erik's younger brother Diego. Only to win the fight on a DQ when Diego's corner accidentally entered the ring. To make things worse, Velardez was actually stupid enough to brag about the win and said he could beat Erik as well. Knowing the club fighter Velardez was chasing a career high pay day. Erik didn't care. His family name needed to be avenged. He paid Velardez what he wanted and proceded to teach Velardez a lesson. Flooring him 5 times in 5 rounds.

7. Guty Espadas Jr- Morales didn't need to fight this fight either. He was already penciled in to meet Jesus Chavez. But Espadas had fought Morales tough in there first fight. So tough that many felt Morales was given a gift win. There were no complaints this time as Morales knocked him out in 3.

8. Manny Pacquiao- Many felt Moralas was on the slide. He had just lost the rubber match to Barrera in a fight in which he gave the impression he didn't want to be there. Pacquiao was coming off his destruction win of Barrera and draw against Juan Manuel Marquez. A fight in which he floored Marquez 3 times. Pacman destroyed Barrera, who Morales just loss to. He was given little chance against Pac. Morales went out there and fought Pacquiao at his own game. He hurt him numours times and even taunted him by switching to southpaw in the 12th round and daring him to knock him out. Pac couldn't. Morales had proved people wrong again.

Now Morales finds himself in this situation again. Not only was he stopped for the first time ever in his career he had also lost to an inferior fighter (Zahir Raheem) he had over looked. The critics have returned. Morales is shot. Pac can't be beaten. Blah, Blah, Blah. Morales has heard it all before. He knows what needs to be done. Come November 18, lets us all hope and pray Pacquiao doesn't get seriously hurt.
This guy is really a certified a** licker. While he mentioned past exploits of his idol when he was at his prime, he glossed over the 3 consecutive losses of his idol which was so recently. Yes, Morales had been a terrific fighter during his prime, but it's different now w/ a younger, faster and well conditioned fighter in Pacquiao. As I've said the most well conditioned fighter in the coming fight will win. And I don't see that in Morales.
If PAC could accomplish HALF of what Eriks done in his career he'd (PAC) be happy.
For now and as of today they are 1-1....
But Erik is a future Hall of Famer and a greater fighter then PAC.
he must be very happy then my friend

Pacquiao Morales
WBC Super Featherweight WBC & IBF Super Featherweight
WBA & IBF Featherweight WBC Featherweight
IBF & WBO Super Bantamweight WBC & WBO Super Bantamweight
WBC Flyweight

oh and lets not forget Pac is only 27 years old and already KTFO of both 'Hall of Famers" Barerra and Morales!!
Thats just 1 aspect of things, belts.... I mean all around which includes a lot more then wining belts, it also includes who hes faught, how long has he been World Class and how long he can stay there.... It takes more then racking belts to become a great. Eriks been World Class for years, not just 3 yrs. or so nobody knew who PAC was 'till the MAB fight. Up untill that they he was just another fighter who was in for his pay check and thats it. he made the best of it and has turned his life around and thats great, hes an exciting fighter to watch..... Another thing who had PAC faught before MAB that was World Class Or had he made noise in any other div. in past years World Wide?
Eriks been among the elite since 1997 and stood there 'till recent times. since 1997 def. one after another with no stumbles 'till he lost to MAB.