Date | March 19, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title(s) on the line | vacant WBC International and IBA super featherweight titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Morales wins via 12-round unanimous decision (115-113, 115-113, 115-113) [1] |
Erik Morales vs. Manny Pacquiao, billed as Coming With Everything, was a super featherweight boxing match. This match occurred on March 19, 2005, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States and was distributed by HBO PPV. [2] [3] The bout is the first of the Pacquiao-Morales trilogy, [4] widely considered one of the greatest boxing trilogies of all time. [5] [6] [7]
Morales controlled the pace of the close fight. In the fifth round, Pacquiao suffered a cut over his right eye caused by Morales' right cross. [8]