PACQUIAO'S POWER TOO MUCH DELIVERS THIRD-ROUND KNOCKOUT VS. MORALES.Byline: ROBERT MORALES Staff Writer LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Manny Pacquiao Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao, (born December 17, 1978 in Kibawe, Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines) is a Filipino professional boxer and reigning WBC International Super Featherweight champion. He is a former world champion at IBF Super Bantamweight, and WBC Flyweight divisions. had looked so good during some of his training sessions that it seemed to many experts like Erik Morales Erik Isaac Morales Elvira (born September 1, 1976 in Tijuana, Mexico) is a retired Mexican professional boxer. He is a former world champion at WBC / WBO Super Bantamweight (122 lb), WBC Featherweight (126 lb), WBC Super Featherweight, WBC International Super Featherweight (130 might stand little chance to defeat him Saturday night. They were right. After a first round in which Morales did well, Pacquiao knocked Morales down in the second round, then knocked him out at 2:57 in the third round in a display of vicious power punching rarely seen in the super featherweight super featherweight n. See junior lightweight. main event in front of 18,276 screaming fans at Thomas & Mack Center. Each fighter appeared to have about half the crowd behind him, as there were scores of Mexican and Filipino flags flying. Morales was game, no question about that. He even hurt Pacquiao with a right hand to the head after getting up from the first of two knockdowns in the third round. But with all the power Morales was throwing at Pacquiao, the brutal punches Pacquiao delivered were simply devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. . Then the end came. With Morales trying everything he could to stay in the fight, Pacquiao came back and hammered Morales with another big left hand, sending the former three-division world champion from Tijuana to the canvas for the third time. Morales was awake, but he never really tried hard to get up, perhaps because he was trying to surmise what was happening to him. Referee Vic Drakulich counted Morales out. ``I'm glad he came out at me,'' said Pacquiao (43-3-2). ``It gave me a chance to knock him out. I was faster and bigger than him. He was coming at me, but he wasn't able to handle me. I was so much faster and stronger. Now I think he has felt my power.'' It was the rubber match of what has turned out to be a thrilling trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. , one in which Pacquiao has demonstrated that he is one of the top fighters in the world, pound-for-pound. ``I did my very best,'' said Morales, 30, who is 48-5. ``I was in great physical condition. Pacquiao was too much. I did my best.'' Morales, who said afterward af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. Adv. 1. afterward - happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here he would retire, said he never tried to get up because he knew it wouldn't matter. ``I was looking at my corner urging me to get up,'' he said. ``I knew it was futile. No point.'' robert.morales@presstelegram.com (562) 499-1338 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Erik Morales, foreground foreground - (Unix) On a time-sharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user in contrast to one running in the background. , gets knocked out by Manny Pacquiao during the third round Saturday night in Las Vegas. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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