What's ironic about Erik picking Pac is that when Erik beat Pac, he said that his whole strategy was copied from Marquez. Erik watched the Pac-Marquez fight a bunch of times, and then adopted Marquez's strategy. That's why, in Morales-Pac I, Erik stepped back and counterpunched for the first time in his career.

I'm guessing what happened is... someone told Erik that MAB was picking Marquez, so Erik felt he had to disagree with MAB and as a result picked Pacquiao.