In order for someone like pac to ever compete with srr or Henry Armstrong as a goat

In less than 2 years Armstrong won the lineal titles from featherweight to welterweight. No catchweights, no paper titles, no steroids.
Pacquaio couldn't carry his jockstrap.

 

I have perceived a slight against an old timer and thus you shall be dismissed as a heretic henceforth.

Kind of agree actually. It's pointless comparing fighters from such vastly different times imo.

Loads of fights back in the day were just sanctioned sparring. Adjust Manny's record accordingly and his true record is like 320 - 15

 

Or maybe be ....46-0 with over 20 title defenses being the GOAT of that division. Lol

 

I am sure Armstrong would have liked fighting twice a year on PPV and making tens of millions of dollars doing so, but as it stands, fighters needed to make money back then too so they fought a lot of stay busy fights in-between their title defenses. Nothing wrong with that.

 

Manny wouldn't have to do too much to be on their level resume wise. Robinson and Armstrong had about 40-45 title fights and he's had something like 33. He'd need about ten more title fights. In there, he'd probably have to beat the likes of Mayweather, Thurman, Khan, Brook, Crawford, Spence, Porter, and Canelo and then he might be in their league. If he just cleaned out welter and knocked off a top junior middle like Canelo, Lara, or Andrade. If he beat the current crop of fighters and the best of the generation coming up, he would be up there with Robinson.

The opportunities are there for anyone to be the best of all time, but most people don't have the ambition to push themselves and achieve it.

 

Resume is the most important thing but the problem is, SRR in particular, fought a ridiculous amount of Hall of Famers and World Champions (when having a belt actually meant something).

Manny has done about as much as I could expect anyone from this era to do though.

 

No comparisons, Armstrong and SRR are immortal

 

No one "like pac" could ever compete with the elite of the atg'standings. Way too high a % losses and ktfo way too many times.

This board doesn't even let the fighter who fought and BEAT every top fighter from 130 to 154 that mattered WHILE going undefeated for 19 years compete.

If fmj can't compete in many eyes NO ONE can.
Way too many Homer's thinking athletes get worse by the decade

 

This fact hurts too many "historians"

 

Pac isn't even the best fighter of his generation. Nobody thinks he is as great as those legends.