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Erick Morales: Nacido para pelear.

Con su derrota ante Danny García culmina la carrera de uno de los más grandes boxeadores del mundo: Erik Morales.

El Terrible Morales

Mexican boxing is
Boxing distilled. Boxing stoicized. Boxing hyperbolized.
- James Ellroy

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Erik Morales nació en el lugar perfecto para ser peleador, tan perfecto como las calles de los barrios duros de Panamá, Colombia o México, que vieron crecer a esa clase de peleadores para quienes estar en un ring de boxeo fue parte esencial de su expresión personal: Durán, Cervantes, Olivares. Incluso más. Morales no pisó un gimnasio de boxeo por una afortunada casualidad. Morales se crió en uno, en la Zona Norte de Tijuana, donde Olivaritos, su padre, era el entrenador.

Así como los cronistas y sociólogos nos han acostumbrado a leer sobre los orígenes duros y humildes de muchas glorias del boxeo, un peleador es también un fenómeno cultural. En cada época, en cada país, esta expresión ha encontrado sus propios derroteros. En México un peleador ha encontrado un ambiente tan natural y propicio para ejercer su arte como el que para el surrealismo encontró Breton al viajar a México por primera vez. Los lienzos pueden ser radicalmente opuestos, así como las consecuencias, pero durante su historia palabras como “guerrero” o “luchador” han dado al país uno de sus matices más dramáticos y excitantes. Es un país de peleadores.

A principios de la década de 1990 Tijuana era una ciudad cuya mejor rima (“sexo, droga y marihuana”) resumía muy bien su carácter. No es raro que uno de los descastados más famosos del boxeo, Jack Johnson, se haya sentido como en casa en Tijuana. El arribo de esta década, además, daba el toque final a una época dorada del boxeo que había visto a Durán, Hagler, Hearns, Benitez y Leonard enfrentarse unos contra otros hasta acabarse.

Para México fue una década difícil (marcada por las debacles económicas y los levantamientos armados) y Tijuana, en particular, adquirió un carácter demasiado relevante cuando en 1994, en una de las colonias más pobres de la ciudad, el candidato a la presidencia por el Partido Revolucionario Institucional, Luis Donaldo Colosio, fue asesinado por el “asesino solitario” Mario Aburto.

Tres días después del magnicidio, en la capital del país, Erik Morales subió al ring para enfrentar su novena pelea profesional. Tenía 17 años. Ya desde entonces (y sin duda debido a la experiencia de sus 118 peleas amateur) su superioridad era más que evidente, incluso cuando enfrentaba a hombres experimentados que habían disputado peleas de campeonato nacional. Era la época de Armando el “Monstruo” Castro, Héctor “Acero” Sánchez, Alberto “Húngaro” Martínez, Héctor Ulises Chong y Víctor Rabanales. En el plano mundial el boxeo mexicano contaba en especial con dos grandes exponentes cuyos centros neurálgicos eran Culiacán y la ciudad de México: Julio César Chávez y Daniel Zaragoza.

Muy poco sabía aquel joven de 17 años que él mismo sería parte importante de una nueva época brillante del boxeo conformada por boxeadores de primer nivel como Junior Jones, Naseem Hamed, Marco Antonio Barrera, Kevin Kelley, Wayne McCullough, Manny Pacquiao y Juan Manuel Márquez.

Pero en aquel entonces mientras se ocupaba en mandar al retiro a veteranos como José “Pepillo” Valdés y cosechar campeonatos nacionales, Morales encarnaba ya la combinación perfecta de boxeador y fajador, con un jab letal y una figura tan perfecta que sus primeras apariciones en la televisión estadounidense no se hicieron esperar.

Ahora conocemos a la perfección el arco de triunfos y derrotas -sí, derrotas- que lo llevaron a la cima: el nocaut (1997), vía un derechazo al estómago, que en el onceavo round propinó a Daniel Zaragoza para ganarse su primer título; las defensas de su campeonato ante oponentes formidables como Junior Jones (1998) y Wayne McCullough (1999); su primer enfrentamiento contra Marco Antonio Barrera (2000); su nombre en la discusión para posibles peleas contra Naseem Hamed y Juan Manuel Márquez; sus victorias sobre Kevin Kelley, Rodney Jones (2000) y Guty Espadas Jr. (2001); su primera derrota en el boxeo ante Barrera (2002); su victoria ante Manny Pacquiao (2005) y sus dos derrotas también ante el filipino (2006).

En lo que políticamente abarcó el supuesto comienzo de una transición democrática en el país, liderada por el más bien inepto Vicente Fox, 2001-2006 debió ser la época más dulce y agria para El Terrible. Para sus admiradores, sin embargo, fue todo esplendor. Y como en las escenas más memorables de una película épica uno puede cerrar los ojos y recordar aquellos momentos: Qué tal cuando en el doceavo round Morales decidió cambiarse a la guardia zurda invitando a un confundido Pacquiao a que lo noqueara?; o qué tal esa imagen de golpes dados y recibidos que bien puede comprimir los 36 rounds que compartió con Barrera?; o la fatídica tercera pelea contra Pacquiao cuando la cámara enfoca a un Morales que sentado sobre la lona guiña un ojo y dice que es suficiente, como dando la razón a quienes pensaban -¡desde aquel entonces!- que El Terrible debía colgar los guantes. Y como en un rosario de violencia cada uno de esos momentos se trenza con los de incontables momentos en que Morales se lanzaba al ataque con una decisión y abandono que hoy en día resulta una rareza.

Fueron seis años perfectos, incluso en la derrota. Lo que vino después es una coda que en nada demerita su lugar entre los grandes.

Este sábado 20 de octubre, en el Barclays Center de Brooklyn, vimos probablemente la última pelea de El Terrible, víctima de esa ilusión llamada “regreso” en la que caen muchos veteranos que alguna vez escucharon el canto de sirena del público. Morales no pudo resistirse y en el cuarto round Danny García, que cuenta con menos peleas que Morales nocauts, lo contragolpeó con un gancho de izquierda y lo mandó a la lona. Fue una cuestión de simple matemática, como cuando años atrás un joven y pujante Morales mandara a la lona a un viejo Zaragoza.

No queda más que agradecer a El Terrible todo lo que generosamente ofreció al boxeo y a sus aficionados. Dio, incluso a riesgo de su propia integridad, más de lo que era necesario. Y ese tipo de generosidad, viniendo de gente que arriesga la vida en un ring de boxeo, es de celebrarse.