He would have had to have 100 fights ... long reigns as champion ... win a junior middleweight title ... or have been active during he 30's
Its almost impossible for him do do that. However.... Cotto win Mayweather ko win Paul Williams Ko win/Pavlik ko win (depending on who wins) end Hopkins career at 170 Beat Calzaghe(175) in hes comeback and send him back into quick retirement challenge klitchkos 1 after the other and beat them both.............then hes really close
howis anyone the #1 all time great...it is just opinion...I think pac is GREAT but he has not beaten any prime fighters that were stars aside from JMM who i feel beat pac in the second fight...he would have to beat cotto, floyd, and maybe even paul williams to be considered alongside the SRR SRL armstrongs...Floyd has a better chance cuz he has never been beat if he beats JMM, pacman, cotto, and then PW at MW maybe....to never taste defeat is amazing if those are on ur resume
Now you say that they stayed in ONE division their whole career right? Now, you say that they only stayed in TWO divisions their whole career...right lol. See, now you know you done fukked up right...lol, you done fukked up!
higher than duran? don't think so and i'm not being biased on this. pacquiao would have to beat a top welter, in this case cotto(duran beat leonard), beat a solid 154lber(davey moore), and then the top 160lber, either pavlik or abraham(duran beat barkley.) still, duran was at an advanced age when he did this and he was alittle unconsistent. manny would have a long ways to pass duran, who is easily top 5 atg. i don't see him passing duran, but somewhere in the top 50. of course, he's not finished yet
All those ATG's you mentioned started at a higher weight than pac. Pacquiaos got lineal belts below 135 and fought tremendous fighters.
it's impossible for pac to reach the #1 position, and i think no one can surpass the resume of the top 3 ATGs
it simply wont happen, fighters these days make way too much money to even think about having as many fights as they did back then, the best he can hope to do is be the greatest modern day fighter you simply can't compare the career of fighters these days to fighters back then, because the whole game is completely different
As good as he is in my opinion he can never be rated as 1 ATG or even close to the top 10, he is really good and easily the best around at the moment however boxing is not as good as it used to be and everyone nose that so i dont think he can rank anywhere close however i do think he is probably the best in this decade