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Jessie Vargas Being Trained
By Erik Morales
For June 27 Bout With Tim Bradley
Former four-division world champion and Mexican boxing icon
ERIK "El Terrible" MORALES is the new trainer for undefeated
World Boxing Association (WBA) super lightweight world
champion JESSIE VARGAS. Morales, who received the call a few
days ago, is already in Vargas' Las Vegas-based training
camp preparing him for the biggest fight of his professional
career, against former two-division world champion TIMOTHY
"Desert Storm" BRADLEY JR. Vargas (26-0, 9 KOs), a native of
Los Angeles who now lives in Las Vegas, and Bradley (31-1-1,
12 KOs), from Palm Springs, Calif., will go mano a mano for
the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight
world title, Saturday, June 27, at StubHub Center in Carson,
Calif. The fight will be televised live on HBO World
Championship Boxing®, beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT.
These two gladiators boast a combined record of 57-1-1 (21
KOs) -- a winning percentage of 97%.
"I am very religious so I began to pray for the right person
to train me," said Vargas. "Instantly, the name of Erik
Morales came to me. I was able to track him down and he came
right to our training camp in Las Vegas. I watched
practically of all Erik's big fights - the wars with Marco
Antonio Barrera, the fights against Manny Pacquiao. Erik
always fought hard and with all his heart. That's who I want
in my corner, someone who will give me everything they have
to beat Bradley."
"I've trained many fighters in Mexico. But Jessie is the
best fighter I will be working with and this is the biggest
fight, against Bradley," said Morales. "We will win this
fight. Jessie will put on pressure with intelligence and mix
it up, using counter-punching. Bradley likes to go into his
comfort zone in the ring. We will attack there too."
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