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Marco Antonio Barrera (Baby-Faced Assassin) challenges Érik Morales' (El Terrible) WBC featherweight belt. The winner also wins the vacant Ring Magazine featherweight belt. Let's take a look at the stats, odds of winning, and the prediction for this fight.
| WBA | WBO |
|---|---|
| sBT w1 d1 | sBT w2 d13 |
| WBC | WBO |
|---|---|
| FT w1 d1 | |
| sBT w1 d9 | sBT w1 |
This fight between Marco Antonio Barrera and Érik Morales took place on at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
At 173 cm, Érik Morales is the taller of the two by 5 cms; Marco Antonio Barrera is 168 cm. Besides being the taller fighter, with a reach of 183 cm, Morales also has reach advantage of 5 cms over Barrera's 178 cm. They have the same ape index of 10 cm.
Barrera is coming in to this fight with a record of 54-3 (39 KOs). His last fight was 9 months and 14 days ago against Enrique Sánchez, which he won via 6th round RTD.
Morales comes in with an undefeated record of 41-0 (31 KOs). His last fight was 10 months and 25 days ago against In-Jin Chi, which he won via 12 round unanimous decision.
Both the fighters fight out of the orthodox stance.
On the day of the fight, Barrera will be 28 years and 5 months old. Morales will be 25 years and 9 months old.
After considering the both the fighters' stats and their performance patterns, the winning odds is calculated to be at 52-48 in favor of Érik Morales. Note, this is a very close margin, just barely better than a 50-50 case. Here is the prediction for Barrera vs Morales II.
Marco Antonio Barrera defeated Érik Morales via 12 round UD. Morales' undefeated record of 41 wins comes to an end, and Barrera advances his win streak to 6. Barrera is now 55-3, and Morales 41-1.