“It’s so difficult,” he chuckles. “For instance, if I were to get too defensive about it and establish some sort of like, well, this is why I lost, it’ll become, oh, he’s making excuses. He can’t accept the loss. He’s never going to get better from here, yada, yada, all this stuff. And I’ve been the gracious loser, where I’m like, okay, well I get it, I’ll just get better. I’ll take some notes from this. And I think, mentally, that’s the best way to go about it. But it’s hard when other people are putting their two cents in, and this goes from family and friends, where it’s, oh, you won that, but X, Y, and Z or these judges. So again, that’s another reason that I was telling my managers, just get me back in there. I got to go fight. The one thing I know how to do is fight. I may not win all the time, but I can get out there and go fight.”
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And if Morales has his way, he’s leaving the judges out of it in Mexico City.
“I’m only focused on trying to finish this kid,” he said. “He hasn’t even been finished in his single loss, and I think that’s the main thing that’s going to set me apart from the pack. I got to get out there and finish this dude.”
