can any fighter in modern history become one of the greatest, if not the greatest?

For me personally, I'm not into all these lists of greatest of all-time so for me I just throw all the elite fighters in one catagory. Anyway, to answer your question, no I don't think any fighter today can be considered the "GOAT" based on the fact that some people can't accept Pacquiao in their "top 10" or "top 20 all-time great fighters" so If Pacquiao, can't do that then nobody can.

 

It will be extremely difficult, and the standard in boxing would have to pick up a bit first. I do think it will happen though.

 

Better than Armstrong?

No.


They can´t for three simple reasons:
- too many belts
- too many divisions
- lack of depth in talent

They may come close achievementwise, like Pac does, but when it comes to the most important thing, resume, they just can´t keep up. The era is just too shitty.

 

Pacquiao > Armstrong

 

Nice argument, buddy. No go back to the sandbox and play with shapes.

 

I absolutly agree.

Too many things in sport have changed over the years, rules, conditions, modern sport stars are generally conditioned in more stringent and modern techniques the fairest way to compare is to compare achievments, but you gotta also take into account the standard of opponants at the time too.

 

Shapes? "No?" **** you, ******.

 

This question is asked time and time again and the answer is always NO.

Why? fighters today arent tough like fighters of yesteryear and will not ever fight frequently enough against top opposition to ever gain that kind of respect.

If Floyd and Pac were fighting 50 years ago we would already be on the 5th fight between them, instead we are caught up in girly negotiation antics and stupid drug testing.

There will never be a guy as tough as SRR, armstrong or Harry Greb ever again.

 

How is it fair to compair acheivements when someone like Sylvester can grab a belt and call himself world champ? Same as Hagler or Monzon achievementwise?

 

Tststs, are you upset, kiddo?

 

they wouldnt be historians if they focused on the present. give it 20 years and pacquiao will be recognized as one of the greatest definitely. look what hes achieved so far, he has to be.

 

Tststs? WTF is that? Upset? I'm merely trying to understand how much if this is due to language barrier, cultural barrier, or the simple maneuverings of a ******. Don't bail out so quickly, vagina.

 

Even if they are conciderably better they just won't surpass the champions of old. Even if there was a guy today (at any weight) who would whoop all of his competition inside 4 rounds, unify all the belts and be #1 until he retires 50-0, 50KO's, a lot of boxfans and historians blame the depth of the division, the lack of populairity of the sport and the fact he didn't fight 120+ bouts.

There's no winning this... So just forget about it.