Did Pacquiao duck anybody?

Theres few Super Featherweight/Lightweight fights that would of been interesting aswell vs Joan Guzman, Zahir Raheem, Nate Campbell, Joel Casaymayor, Edwin Valero.

 

Pac didn't duck anyone.............not even Floyd (they didn't duck each other).

It's hard to point out who he really missed out on fighting. For every person he could've fought, he fought someone just as capable

 

People barely knew who Pac himself was yet in 2004.

 

That is of course a superior trio, and in hindsight missing the other three didn't really hurt Pac's legacy.

I'm saying that contemporaneously a lot of experts thought Soto & Guzman (and to a lesser extent Valero, whom some of us always thought was a hype job) were fights he should be making. There was a poster on here that swore for years that Soto would have Pacquiao's number and that he avoided him - and people laughed, because Pac obviously became a much bigger star, but...I'm not sure he didn't kind of have a point. It would have been a decent stylistic match-up at that weight at that particular time for Zorrita. Not saying I'd outright favor him, but...

 

Maybe you're right, Lampley had a different perspective watching it live.

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Nah, I don't think so. The only thing you can really fault him for is letting Arum treat him like a puppet.

 

Rewind six months, before the Barrera victory, and he was someone that diehard boxing fans had been aware of for a few years but casuals absolutely didn't know. This isn't even three full years removed from him beating Ledwaba, prior to which he was already technically a world titlist but still on a global scale totally obscure, just another belt holder that people who DKSAB interviewed at random on the street couldn't name if their lives depended on it. Between the Ledwaba fight and MAB he fought and beat good fighters, but did nothing to make him an international star. Pretty much all the hype that Lampley was fanning the flames of was based on just his most recent outing.

Pac in 2004 isn't the same level of crossover superstar he would be just a few years later heading into the Mayweather negotiations era.

 

No he didn't duck nobody even when he was past it he was looking for smoke wanting to fight Crawford and signed to fight Spence. Sure there's some fighters you can say he could have fought but at the end of the day you can't fight everybody there's always some guy you missed out no matter if it's Pac or any other fighter in history. But duck hell no.

 

Well said! Virtually all of the ATGs missed a guy here & there, it's normal and perfectly acceptable.

 

He ducked Floyd Mayweather in 2010

 

poochiao ducked Valera new he get knocked out

 

Yes folks, real human beings made posts very much like this in that strange period of history that was 2009ish.

Boxing fanthropology is truly a fascinating area of study.

 

Never mind that guy, he's just a DUCKweather nuthugger, IB. He'll do anything to discredit da GOAT (PACMAN!)!!!

 

All the fights mentioned were world champions and better fights than Berto etc were at any time other than Maybe Rios who Pacquiao fought as a comeback after a vicious knockout loss.

 

That's stupid. By the time Valero (Learn the name if you are going to just talk **** BTW) was gaining any type of high ranking at 135, Pac was already out of the division beating bigger and more proven boxers.