Pacquiao was supposed to fail at any weight higher than 126 pounds

Exceptional. Pacquiao is the greatest fighter of this millennium so far. Mayweather was a superior boxer and would have been a favourite against him at any point during their career but even his accomplishments pale in comparison to the miracles Manny made happen.

 

The thing which helped Pacquaio as he rose the higher weight classes was his speed and ferocity which at times were just too much for any of his opponents who were not able to counter him effectively. The only thing that kind oof looked suspicious was how he was able to maintain that power in his hands that were wrecking fighters all the way upto 150 like the huge Margacheato who's eye looks terrible even to this day.

 

I used to consider Pac a natural WW, upon reflection I've decided he was better as a FW fighter.

There he had the speed and reflex advantage but also a power advantage.

Floyd was better at WW than the lower weights though, i firmly believe that.

Two great fighters.

 

Yeah this is how i see it.

 

True,plus the fact people forget to recognise pac is naturally at least 2 weight classes lower,conceded every demand to floyd plus wouldnt fight him in his prime.
People prefer to follow the smoke and mirrors which isnt a term that should be used because there was no smoke or mirrors just blatant avoidance of his only real challenge.

 

Its just annoying that people will slate him when he couldnt have been more entertaining or courageous if he tried.
I went vegas supporting hatton vs floyd,the ref was a joke but would i use it as an excuse that it would be any different ? No,floyd was mugging him when it went on the inside anyway.
The annoying part about floyd is that he refused to take any form of challenge he thought he could lose.
He was a master boxer,love him or hate him he was,why say otherwise,but fighters have their bogeymen,prime pac was floyds.
He used drugs as an excuse when pac has never failed a test in his life,then gets caught himself using iv for what other reason than to flush his system ?
And why for that matter wasnt he pulled on it ?
He never fought 1 fight in his career when u sat back and thought hes gonna lose here.
I backed against pac vs ledwaba barerra morales marquez dlh hatton cotto margarito at least,he had no right to win most but did so in amazing fashion.how can you pick any holes in it.
Hes not ko'd anyone in years so hes lost it ???
Who has ever stood and traded with him 2 divisions at least above his natural weight and ancient in terms of the style of fighter he is and the wars hes been thru.
Its not even close in terms of greatness.
Greatness is defined by overcoming the odds time and again when your up against it.
Floyd is too small for ggg,why wasnt pac too small for floyd ??
Anyway rant over

 

I think pac became a complete fighter after morales 1.he was just reliant on the left and was more dimensional.how he obliterated hatton cotto dlh and margo was jaw dropping considdering

 

Pacquiao was on PED's pretty much his entire career which accounts for any noteworthy "accomplishments." Against mayweather he wasn't allowed to cheat and, as one would expect, he failed miserably...if he hadn't been cheating all those years, he wouldn't have had any success above 130.

In other words, pacs' entire career was a fraud.

 

you say he never fought a challenge but people argue he lost the first Castillo fight and instead of moving on he gave him the rematch. Same thing with Maidana people argue he lost and gave the rematch thats taking a challenge. Alsovif you're gonna say Pac is a natural 126 pounder then floyd is a 135 pounder.Cant pick and choose what fits your fighter. That said Im glad I got to see both because as we can already tell not many can dominate like they did and draw attentiom to the sport

 

It does not. Manny's greatest success came from being a Floyd boogeyman.