Did Manny Pacquaio get overrated in his career?

Nah mate look at Pac's earlier career when he fought guys in their prime at their proper weight like Barrera, Morales and Marquez. Pac was a lot smaller than Floyd and still was a massive threat to him at Welterweight which is why he didn't want anything to do with him circa 2009. He also took apart Margarito who Floyd also didn't want a bar of.

 

No one that popular isn't going to be overrated. We're all just human. All glory goes to God. God decides who wins and who loses. But my promoter decides who fights.

He waited for Barrera to have a metal plate put in his head before he even thought about giving him a shot at the Pinoy title.

 

i think he was underrated. i cant think of a smaller welter that has achieved as high a level at welter that manny did. he gave up size to everyone there. all after having collected a nice belt full of hof scalps on his way there.

 

Oh well then he must be overrated then. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

Cheers mate haha. It's Jimmy Darmody from "Boardwalk Empire" great show I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it mate. It had a lot of the same writers as the Soprano's. I have been re watching it recently.

 

JMM completely exposed Pac, everybody has that playbook now.

Pac comes in with his 1-2-1-2 bs, slip to the left, stick out your right hand (or throw it deadly) and Pac runs right in to it. Follow with the hook. He was extremely overrated and would have had strings of losses after JMM showed the way.

 

You're welc-wait a minute! I've tried that on other posters! It's not gonna work when it's turned around on me!

 

He had a great prime but if anything I agree and say he gets overrated a bit.
He should have lost most of the Marquez series, In fact I’m not sure if he clearly won one, he lost at least 3 of them. And that was him in his prime.

Morales schooled him and even trolled him, albeit a Pac coming up in weight.
He did win the next two, how pumped up he was with roids at that point who knows.

He destroyed Hatton, but Ricky found his level that night and his lifestyle caught up to him.
De La Hoya was shot and old.

Good wins v Cotto, Margarito etc, but I never thought too much of them except maybe Cotto.

He was stopped twice in the lighter weights although he was young, he looked terrible against Singsurat who was never exactly great.

He was a physical beast in his prime, but he had a lot of help let’s say..his boxing ability for an all time great was not the best, Mayweather, Morales, Marquez, even Singsurat at the time were all better boxers.
PACs speed and power were unusual though.