Can Pacquiao become the GOAT?

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  1. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    We will see how the doctors will have to empty his inside like doctors needed to do with schwartzenegger so that he didnt die. You dont juice like that and dont pay a toll, that's for sure.
     
  2. MVC!

    MVC! The Best Ever Full Member

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    Uh, no. He's barely top 40, and he's far far far far far away from a Sugar Ray Robinson, or a Greb, or a Langford.

    That being said, Floyd is ahead of him too.
     
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  3. 22JM

    22JM Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I wasn't talking about Mayweather...
     
  4. mirkofilipovic

    mirkofilipovic ESB Management Full Member

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    Yes. Everyone back in the day was overrated.
     
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  5. 22JM

    22JM Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Lmfao, no words
     
  6. thesmokingm

    thesmokingm Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It's probably impossible given how much more cred is placed on fighters from past decades. Fighters from the past have the luxury of generally only being remembered for the positive things they did. It's the same with any sport. And Pac has the other disadvantage of the fl0m0s dragging him down.
     
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  7. divac

    divac Loyal Member Full Member

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    Pacquiao's place in boxing lore is cemented no matter what the outcomes are in his future fights.

    Don't see however how anyone could rationalize GOAT when you figure he lost to the two best fighters he ever faced in Mayweather and Marquez, two of his peers as far as age bracket, and really in the case of Marquez a fighter several years older than he was able to beat him at different weight classes and using different styles.

    Pacquiao is without question a great, just not GOAT.
     
  8. Jambon

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    Only the greatest of the last 40 years.
     
  9. Braindamage

    Braindamage Baby Face Beast Full Member

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    Funny, I see it the other way around. If he beat Crawford. I think Crawford is a much better fighter than Spence. People call out Spence, Porter, Therman and Garcia. Can't think of too many that call out Crawford. Pac didn't want it from Crawford. I think Pac is already in the conversation of being the GOAT. His resume may will look better as time goes on in my opinion.
     
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  10. thesmokingm

    thesmokingm Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Pac said over and over he wanted Crawford. Arum wouldn't do it. Lmao, you sound like you believe TC saying Pac ducked him. Right... That's why Pac left to seek possible fights with PBC and he did. Whilst TC does what, but wallow in isolation fighting bum after bum.
     
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  11. Braindamage

    Braindamage Baby Face Beast Full Member

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    So Crawford ducked Pac? LOL If anything I will chalk it up to politics.
     
  12. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    Mayweather:pipiPacquaio Fluid doesnt deserve to be in the same sentence as Senator Emmanuel Paquaio
    let alone the same ring:duh
     
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  13. thesmokingm

    thesmokingm Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Did I write that? If you chalk it up to politics then why'd you decree that one ducked the other? C'mon man. Obviously if we take each at theor word, they fight each other. But it never happened and the one who obviously could have made it happen... they didn't make it happen. That's not politics. Was Pac ducking TC when he left for PBC to fight how many fighters? To fight the 1# ranked welter. And now next up is possibly Spence or whom ever is mando? This ain't politics. It's down to ones POV.
     
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  14. Braindamage

    Braindamage Baby Face Beast Full Member

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    I am saying that I don't see Either guy ducking. After your first response, I started thinking and Pac doesn't work that way. His resume tells all. Crawford said he wanredthe fight. So what else could it be but politics.
     
  15. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    i agree. perhaps they both want it all, but pac is the one putting himself in line to take it all. crawford, well....
     
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