Pacquiao vs Morales III. Who wins it, how, & why?

[pacfan]

PACMAN by total demolition of Morales... PAC got pissed with Morales all talk... Imagine Morales saying that he's the one who made PACMAN famous?

What's wrong with that? To a point he did.

Barerra made Pacquiao famous before Erik Morales did. Morales just proved that Pacquiao wasn't a fluke.

so true, angel eyes. pacquiao was then starting to make a name for himself that's why he was tapped to face barrera as a quick replacement and that win established pacman as a force to reckon with. the morales win just validated manny as one of pound4pound bests.
pacfan, i have to disagree. conditioning would mean everything in the pac-morales rubbermatch. erik, unlike larios has the skills to match or even outbox manny as shown in the early rounds of their previous meetings. even roach knows that manny have to come in the best condition ever to have the edge against erik. motivation is also vital which of course morales has plenty of cos this fight could very well cap his career. anyways, i think manny will still win by unanimous decision or catch morales again late in the rounds.

I beg to disagree there pare, it was their strategic decision not to engage Morales in the early rounds. Remember when Morales came very strong in the first round that got Pac pissed off? he came back on a path of revenge on the second, deviating from their game plan, and almost had Morales knocked down - that proves Pac could've chosen to fight Morales anytime in the fight when he wanted and still win the round. But cooler heads prevailed and he went back to their original plan from the third by letting Morales do his work early - and early to bed. Contrary to what the boxing analysts said, most of whom were very reluctant to give Manny any credit, it was not Morales who lost his steam on the 6th, but it was Pac who started to put pressure on Morales who had spent lot of precious energy in the previous rounds. That was their strategy, to go easy on the first half and to press hard on the second half, putting pressure on Morales, sapping his energy little by little and go for the late KO. That worked perfectly to the tee. I think they got the idea when they probably noticed that Morales almost lost his legs on the 12th round in their first fight when Pac put up a last ditch effort to stop him (I still can't believe how a badly cut and conditioned Pac had so much energy left on the 12th in that fight). Remember, Morales went down to his knees on the 12th during his first fight with Barrera; I think that's been his weakness all along. But I won't totally rule out a decision next time, not because of the Larios fight - I think Pac didn't put up any real effort to stop him... Miss the good ole victory days, no? we were all so elated those days that it was almost craaaazy.