Erik Morales Erik Isaac Morales Elvira (; born September 1, 1976) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2012. He is the first Mexico-born boxer in history to win world titles in four different weight classes, having held the WBC ...

vs. Manny Pacquiao, billed as ''Coming With Everything'', was a super featherweight boxing match. This match occurred on March 19, 2005, at the

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. The bout is the first of the Pacquiao-Morales trilogy, widely considered one of the greatest boxing trilogies of all time. 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.

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Morales Morales is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfredo Morales (born 1990), American footballer * Alvaro Morales (disambiguation), several people * Amado Morales (born 1947), Puerto Rican javelin thrower * Bartolomé Mo ...

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