How "skilled" to do consider Pacquiao?

imo, one of the top5 most skilled fighters in the sport

 

The most skilled brawler.

 

He's unortodox and does alot of things in the ring that aren't necessarily textbook, but things he has tailored to work for him. He does have classic boxing fundamentals, but tweaked for his benefit.

 

Yeah hes very skilled. Hes always thinking in there. I have to agree top 5 in the sport along with with JMM, Floyd, Hopkins, and Nonito.

 

best p4p
it says it all

 

He's probably the best or second-best combination puncher in the sport today. His counter-punching ability is pretty good, and for all his "hittable" rep, he's tough to track with his waspish movement and upper-body movement, it's more the fact that he opens up so much on offense and takes risks that gets him hit more. In short, he's not the best, but he's very good from a skills standpoint.

 

Yup.

Not exactly textbook, but very, very skilled.

 

Exceptionally skilled.

 

His counter punching ability is overlooked because of his offensive prowess. So is his defense. Mosley and Pac had a common opponent in Cotto. Cotto actually hit Mosley more than he hit Pac yet we don't hear people here talking how Mosley is easy to hit. But we do hear people say that Pac is easy to hit in the Cotto fight.

 

I was watching it on ON DEMAND the other day and it was a hell of a fight. Pac was trailing most of the time but made it a fight. Just couldn't hurt Morales badly enough. Morales paid for it though in the rematches.

 

I don't know about that. I never thought Mosley had better defense than Manny. Mosley has no head movement. Pac is def skilled. He is just not textbook. Like for example when he throws straight punches. Floyd Mayweather Sr thought it was stupid for Pac to throw straight punches the way he does. What he doesn't know is that martial artists throw these type of punches. He might be in the top 5 most skilled boxers in the sport.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Manny does throw textbook straights and then he throws what looks like a karate punch. It uses different mechanics than a regular straight and is just as effective. I guess it helps to have a martial arts background to know that.