Erik Morales v Carlos Hernandez

Erik Morales produced a masterful performance to beat Carlos Hernandez in Las Vegas and unify the super-featherweight titles.

‘El Terrible’, a modern great and three-weight world champion, showed his full repetoire of skills as he brawled and then boxed his way to a unanimous points victory.

The fight was exciting throughout, with the game and very dangerous Hernandez coming forward at every opportunity and mixing it up with his Mexican foe.

However Morales was always the boss, and had a big crowd at the MGM Grand’s Garden Arena on its feet several times as he showed just why he is regarded as one of the premier ‘pound-for-pound’ fighters in the sport.

Scores were 119-109 (twice) and 115-113, all in favour of Morales, who improves to 47-1 (34) as a result.

Hernandez gave his all in the bout and certainly went out on his shield, and few in attendance will forget the way the two warriors embraced as the bell sounded at the start of the 12th.

Morales has now established himself as the top man at super-feather, yet nobody should ruled out a ‘rubber’ match with compatriot Marco Antonio Barrera after this.