Fighter of the Decade

Fighter of the Decade can't be identified easily. Floyd and Ward have already retired for years. For me, I still think that Manny Pacquiao should deserve it since he is still active today.

 

What you're doing is holding Floyd to a higher standard than Pac because he was a better fighter, and that's incorrect when creating rankings.

 

Floyd and and canelol are vegas divas. They are manufactured and protected fighter. Floyd was caught red handed with legal Ilegal iv fluid canelo was tested positive and they have not fought prime fighter in this decade. They avoided a more dangerous challenges and cherry pick picks opponents and enjoyed vegas home court judges favorite

 

The sport would be better and healthier if it left Mayweather in the dust bin of history. No need to dredge up attention to him now, he barely fought the last half of the decade and has no future in the sport. I'd hate to give it to canelo because he is a two time proven steroid cheat, but of the choices, he would be the pick going forward. I would pick Loma, personally.

 

Chocolatito was 24-2 in this decade. Proly should have been 25-1 if he were to have got the first Sor Rung fight which lots did. Regardless of opponent value, thats insane. And he fought some top guys along the ten years. I mean floyd and ward went 9-0, so its got to be at least reviewed

 

Not really - I think Pacquaio held himself to a higher goal of achievement generally than Floyd committed to. That’s why I think overall, in light of records set and achieved, it’s hard to vote against Pacquaio. Floyd was content to be smart and calculated - that was his admitted M.O, and he retired midway through the decade. These were both factors I considered when thinking about who was more worthy fighter of the decade in my opinion.

Both are ATG fighters. I don’t slag on Floyd and don’t think Floyd fans should slag on Manny either. They both did extraordinary things. But Pacquaio came out of this decade with records he set as an aging fighter that will likely never be usurped - hard to argue with that historically.

 

pacquiao fotd

 

I'm not talking about GGG vs Canelo was I ?
I am talking about the Pacman....

 

He thought a few very good opponents as well

 

No, what people that choose Pac over May for this particular poll are doing is choosing consistent activity at a relevant and elite level for a whole decade over half a decade of cherry picks with a couple of big wins.

Remember, this is a poll for this last decade.

 

Pacquiao is a mixed bag. He got KTFO by Marquez, was part of the most hyped and disappointing fight of all time vs Mayweather, lost to Jeff Horn. (I won't mention the loss to Bradley because most thought he won, and Bradley was undefeated at the time)

It's hard to put a fighter who got put to sleep by a guy who isn't even known as a big puncher ahead of guys who haven't been stopped or even knocked down over their entire careers and / or achieved more in the sport.

That said, Pacquiao's win over Thurman was really impressive, and to do that at his age was really something. I mean beating Thurman was probably his biggest win for him in the decade.

Hard to argue Mayweather since he retired halfway through the decade and aside from a couple of circuses vs MMA fighters hasn't had a legitimiate boxing match for half the decade. Not only that but he really struggled vs Maidana a guy that he was expected to dominate. The way he beat Ortiz was not legitimate, he needed a catchweight to eek out a close match vs Canelo. I mean he got these wins but the way in which they happened were suspect.

Ward has an argument, the win over Froch looks really good now. At the same time the win over Dawson was suspect due to how drained Dawson was. For some reason Dawson thought he could move down a weight class, that was just idiotic in retrospect. And the wins over Kovalev were anything but clean or clear, but Kovalev was prime so that needs to be taken into consideration. Many think he lost the first bout with Kovalev and the 2nd many don't give him credit for them for hitting Kovalev low.

Canelo's wins were all clean and without this kind of controversy. No low blows, no draining of fighters (OK maybe you can argue Chavez Jr was but not to the extent of how drained Dawson was vs Ward, and Chavez Jr wasn't even one of his biggest wins).

Canelo's the choice that makes the most sense. Never KTFO like Manny, hasn't been retired for half the decade like Floyd or for 1/4th of the decade like Ward, hasn't fouled his way to victory like Ward. He's acheived more than anyone, beat the boogeyman of Middleweight definitely once, arguably twice. Moved up to LHW knocked Kovalev clean out, unlike Ward. Schooled Jacobs, took Mayweather to the limit, I mean what he's done is simply unmatched by anyone in the sport.

 

Again, I said regardless of opponent value. And he fought a handful of top guys easy. But my pick for FOTD is Floyd due to his resume because of the better opposition. He fought everyone. But not even discussing Roman in the discussions is crazy to me. Winning 24 or (25) fights in 10 years is bad ass