Is Pacquiao this generation’s Roberto Duran?

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  1. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What do you guys think?
    Stylistically and skill wise they’re both very different but they share a similar career path. Pac was a wild, offensive beast in his younger years, like Duran. Both heavily improved on their skills and defense to become more well rounded. Both also moved up many weight classes and fought the very best fighters, took some bad losses along the way to the point that many didn’t think that they had anymore in the tank. Both were also heavily underestimated and still gave scintillating performances against good fighters even while past their prime.

    Pacquiao, I think, has earned the right to be mentioned in the same breathe as other past ATGs such as Roberto Duran. Probably not as great as Duran but pretty damn close.
     
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  2. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    Yes, they do have a similar career path. Duran was very unlucky to not get the wins over Pazienza x2 and Camacho, as an old man.

    Pacquaio is not as great as Roberto, though.
     
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  3. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    without a doubt. nobody else comes close. when you got legends like jcc and mab calling you a top 2 atg, even accounting for the hyperbole, it says a lot about you.
     
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  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Manny isn`t as great as Duran but would have destroyed Camacho and Paz at the age of 40, he is far better than those two at 147+ no matter what the ages.
     
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  5. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What make a great fighter is the ability to bounce back even after being on the downslope. No one believed Pacquiao could come back after getting KO’d by JMM or be able to still hang in there with the young fighters at his age. Duran had his share of having his career in doubt but he still went ahead anyways after bad losses to SRL, Benitez, Laing, Hagler, Hearns, etc.

    It really does show that having losses doesn’t hurt your legacy as long as you keep moving forward and proving people wrong
     
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  6. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    prime camacho outpoints 40yo manny.
     
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  7. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Not at welter and not at the age Camacho was at when he ran away from Duran all night, Manny would have landed much more punches than Camacho did v Duran, Thurman would have beaten Camacho also.
     
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  8. bandeedo

    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    fair points.
     
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  9. Cafe

    Cafe Sitzpinkler Full Member

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    They're cut from the same cloth, true warriors.
     
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  10. titanic

    titanic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Nah, Pacquiao never said - NO Mas in any of his fight....
     
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  11. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon.

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    I've been saying Pac was our generation's Duran and Floyd was our Leonard for years.
     
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  12. JackSilver

    JackSilver Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Pacquiao at 40 is far better than Duran and Leonard were at 40.
     
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  13. Deew

    Deew Active Member Full Member

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    Well, he still has to fight Nomaschenko
     
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  14. titanic

    titanic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    No Mas Chenko DUCKED already. Many times....
     
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  15. Paranoid Android

    Paranoid Android Manny Pacquiao — The Thurmanator banned Full Member

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    Pacquiao started at FLYWEIGHT.

    Sorry, but this matters.

    Pacquiao > Duran
     
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