Harada Vs Pacquiao at fly or bantam

Harada KO1 Pacquiao

 

Pacman wasnt even a quarter of what he is now when he fought at those weights.

 

Harada wins. That would be peak Harada vs far pre-peak Pacquaio. No question that Harada was better at the small weights.

 

Harada KO1

Pac sucks

 

at any of those 2 weights, harada takes it. he matched pacman's power and speed. it wouldn't be easy for harada, but he also had a patience to him and knew when to attack. he also had a certain finesse about him. manny was more hyper and of a pressure type, but harada would probably stop him on cuts or decision.

 

At least people are being reasonable. I expect johnco (a.k.a. harrison) to jump in any minute proclaiming that Pac (the same one who was being schooled by Sasakul and was destroyed by guys like Torrecampo and Singsurat) would've KO'd any Flyweight. It wouldn't have even been competitive at Flyweight, where Harada was an all time great and Pacquiao was a young, weight-drained kid.

Pacquiao was FAR from his prime at Flyweight, not to mention was terribly weight-drained and weak, which is why he skipped over 115 and 118 altogether. I'd pick Harada over him clearly up to 122, where Pacquiao was more comfortable, but had yet to hit his prime skill-wise. At Featherweight it gets tricker, as Pac was more suited to the weight than Harada but still not what he is today in terms of overall skills, while Harada showed against one of the best FW's of the era in Famechon that he still had it (albeit in that one final great performance). Would've been very interesting to see the Pac from the Barrera fight against the Harada from the Famechon fight.

Obviously anything above FW is Pac's domain.

 

Harada wasn't the greatest Asian fighter prior to Pacquiao.. I would rate Pancho Villa and Gabriel Flash Elorde above him. Elorde has wins againts greats like Saddler and got cheated in a rematch due to dirty tactics.

 

There's little argument for either fighter ranking above Harada. Villa's main clame to fame is his win over a past prime Jimmy Wilde (though he did a bit more than that) whereas Elorde's win over a past prime Sandy Saddler is his primary achievement (although he was a very consistent 130 pou8nd champ at his best). Villa was clearly an amazing talent but wasn't able to fulfill his promise, and Elorde was one of the best fighters of the lower weights at the time, but neither fighter can match Harada's accomplishments, nor was either fighter better in their peak IMO.

 

Elorde ruled his division for 7 years and was Roberto Duran's inspiration...

 

harada wins this pac is just to young.

but prime for prime pac kills him

 

so where is this fight being held? in japan again where 98 % of all harada's fight occured and most of the judges were japanese with the so called close decision went to him just like the 2 fights with jofre geeh, must be nice fighting in your home turf most of the time and being proclaimed as the greatest asian champion. atsch

 

Hi JohnCo.. don't you get tired of being wrong?

 

what is funny are those people who are always picking against pac in actual fights. in fantasy matchups pac's record here in ESB is 0-48.