• Source: Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales III

Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales III, billed as The Grand Finale, was a professional boxing match contested on November 18, 2006, for the WBC International super featherweight championship.




Background


The bout took place at the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States and was distributed by HBO PPV. The bout is the last of the Pacquiao-Morales trilogy, widely considered one of the greatest boxing trilogies of all time. The fight also marked a return to HBO for Pacquiao, and the first fight in his four-year contract with Top Rank as his promoter.




The fight


Similar to the second fight, Pacquiao entirely dominated the fight, scoring a total of three knockdowns to knock out Morales in the third round.




Aftermath


The winner of the fight was supposed to become the mandatory challenger of WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera, but it was cancelled due to a legal dispute between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions.




Undercard


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Broadcasting






References

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