(Marco Antonio) Barrera had beaten Morales, and Manny had beaten Barrera, and I just think Manny took him lightly, believing he was on the downside. But we miscalculated. We won't do that this time. Morales will still have the reach and height advantage, but Manny will have speed going for him. And he knows he has to win this fight.
Quotes about barrera (10 Quotes)
Barrera keeps talking about his Mexican heart. Come Saturday, people will be talking about my Australian heart.
With those two starters back, plus Barrera and Nolan, I think you have to call them the favorite. They have two top-flight pitchers and strength up the middle.
I raise a brow at the speed and seeming exactitude of his ambition. Well, maybe four years, ... As long as I don't allow myself to get distracted I think that's possible. If I keep focused like Morales or Barrera then I can do it. Why not.
I thought Josh Barrera did a very, very good job as a starter tonight.
Marco Antonio Barrera has a lot on the line in this fight by going for his fourth title belt. It hasn't been done. He'll be the first in history to be a four-weight division champ, if he were to accomplish his feat. But, of course, he won't accomplish it with Jesus.
I'm very excited. Barrera is considered the best Mexican fighter out there right now and my job is to keep him from making history.
Manny has fought Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez and Erik Morales in his last (four) fights. He's been in tough fight after tough fight, he's been taking on the best fighters of the era and I don't believe that a fighter needs to be a life-and-death fight every time. In this case Manny's coming off a real war with Morales and this is a tune-up fight for the next war with Morales.
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them
He (Barrera) was unstoppable. He played excellent. Griffith was the man of the night for Lejeune though.