Emmanuel Pacquiao the most overrated boxer of all time

I have never understood why people are so obsessed with a fighter who has never really looked good in a fight when you take into account all the circumstances. Pacquiao has one good win and that was his domination of Barrera. This was unbelievabely impressive, I couldn't believe it when it happened. However after that he was dominated by Morales, who even toyed with him at the end of the fight. JMM made him look like an amateur in the first fight and won the second fight in any resonable persons opinion. He rematched Morales and won after Morales was humilated and looked horrendous against some nobody, so it really meant nothing. Pacquiao was getting outbox most of the fight too.

Rematched Morales again ... Barely beat Barrera in a rematch, who was considered "shot". Fought some unknown nobody named Diaz with no KO power. He then fought someone who Roach admitted was "shot, couldn't pull the trigger anymore, looked pale and sickly coming into the ring and had I.V marks in his veins because he was so dehydrated. De La Hoya was also "a part time fighter". Then he fought Hatton who had never looked good in any fight and was literally almost KO'd everytime he fought, no matter how feather fisted his opponent was.

Is this really the resume of someone who is truly great, or someone whose trainer was able to cherry pick opponents in which he really had no chance of losing against. There were exceptions of course early in his career like against Barrera, JMM, and Morales, but he really didnt fare to well in those fights exluding Barrera.

So in the end I feel Pacquiao doesn't have much more to offer than speed and power. Even in his brutal KO of Hatton, he didn't look very impressive to me. He appeared to be blindly throwing his right hook while ducking and looking down, something that worked because Hatton is predictable and always drops his left hand to throw his jumping left hook. The exact same thing he did when Mayweather ko'd him.

 

speed and power doesn't always kill. It can win you fights and some rounds, but I think JMM and Morales have demonstrated that it can only go so far when your boxing ability is not up to par.