Erik's standing in his era

[chamiley]

Now that erik's career is over where does he stand amongst the great fighters of his era like roy jones, bernard hopkins, marco antonio barrera, felix trinidad, oscar de la hoya, winky wright, prince naseem hamed, juan manuel marquez, jose luis castillo, shane mosley, fernando vargas, zab judah, kostya tszyu, johnny tapia, james toney, diego corrales, rafael marquez

remember erik always fought tough opposition one after another and never really took a tune up fight like most fighters do. apart from diaz and raheem who I believe erik would have beaten in his prime erik defeated the fighters who beat him. also many people have a tendency to hold fighters in the lower weight divisions in less regard so do not give someone a nod over erik just coz they fought in higher weight classes.

I think a prime Moralez would beat Paquiao every time. Considering that PACMAN is #2 in most P4P lists, that should give you a good idea of how I rate him.

I think Barrera won in the first fight. I didn't see the other two though I heard some say that Morales deserved the decision in one of them. They both had similar accomplishments and I would put them about even in any rankings.

Among all the fighters you mentioned above he would make top five easy.

Prime Morales would have difficulty against a Prime Pacman. Prime Morales would have beaten a Prime Barrera but not Prime PAcman.

I think a prime morales beats prime pacquio 9 times out of ten. all you need to beat manny is to have a concrete chin to withstand manny's assault and loads of firepower and courage to answer back and morales was the epitome of all the aforementioned characteristics. even a semi-shot morales was good enough to beat manny the first time therefore a prime morales would cause havoc on pacman