Tough choice for me. I've been watching live boxing for 25 years. Pacquiao Barrera I was the most physically dominant performance I've ever seen. Whereas the Cotto fight saw a guy climbing up to a weight he had no business being at. It was more a technical beatdown rather than a tsunami. This content is protected This content is protected
Margarito. It fundamentally changed the way I handicap weight. It proved these 5 pound barriers are mostly symbolic and we make too much of them. After watching Manny punch Margarito down to his skeleton its hard to give credit to guys venturing 25 pounds above their natural weight class and just existing. Cotto and De La Hoya are great ones too.
I would have to disagree. Mostly because Hatton just ran straight towards Pacquiao with 0 head movement like an idiot. That was amateur hour stuff from Hatton.
Tough call. I do remember threads on here discussing hypothetical match ups between manny and hatton. People were completely dismissive and saying Hatton would absolutely maul him. The idea of him fighting cotto was laughable. The fact that he went on to fight and beat cotto is very impressive.
Barrera 1 as Barrera was a top 3 P4P fighter and Pacquiao dismantled him I personally rank this as the number 1 win for Pacquiao. But i actually think his performance vs David Diaz was the most eye pleasing fight I've ever seen from Pacquiao though he didn't lose a single minute in that fight. In regards to KOs obviously Hatton is his best KO. So if I was to rate them in categories ? Barrera 1 is his best win. Diaz is his most eye pleasing complete performance. Hatton is his best KO.
Hatton. The way he beat him was shocking. Cotto too, though I don't like that Cotto had a re-hydration clause. I'm against that type of stuff.
Barrera is arguably his best win and a very good performance from Pacquiao considering how his style was still raw and not fine tuned yet during that period of his career. 2008 when Pac edged JMM, and thrashed Diaz / ODLH was the beginning of his prime where he was much more well rounded and became more of a boxer. 2009 Pacquiao when he demolished Hatton and Cotto was Pac at his absolute peak of his physical prime where he was brilliant and devastating. Personally for me I think Cotto was his best and most thrilling performance given the historic significance of this win of being the first 7th weight world champ.