It is not fair to critize Pacquiao for the lack of slick (athletic) Black boxers.

I have been very critical of Manny Pacquiao and I will contune to be so. However I beleve in being critical of him or for that matter anyone else for real issues. In Pacquiao's case taking easy fights and avoiding Mayweather.
Also for using his influance to make his last 2 championship efforts at catchweights.
One criticism of Pacquiao which I think is unfair is the criticism that he has not faced a slick Black boxer. Pacquiao has spent a lot of his career in the lower weights winning championships at Flyweight, Super Bantamweight, Featherweight, Super Featherweight, Lightweight, Welterweight and Light Middleweight.
Historicaly speaking how many slick Black fighters have there been in thes lower weights? Lets make this easier how many Black fighters have there been at those weights espicialy Fly-Super feather. If that is too diffcult what about slick boxers of any Race, Creed, Nationaly and so fourth?
The Lightweight to Light Middleweight range is where the more Athletic or slick boxers really start to show up. It is not intell we get to Middleweight that thy really start to become the dommant force in those weight calsses.
From 160 up is where we start to see more Black and Eastern Europan boxers who tend to be bigger and more athletic than their counterparts at the lower weights.
Pacquiao deserves to be crritcized for things and he has brought those things onto himself. However this is not one of those issues. At 147 outside of Mayweather who is really slick? Mosley is smart and experanced. He packs a great punch but he's not slick. Berto can punch even better than Mosley but he is by no means a slick boxer.
Like I said Pacquiao deserves our wrath for things like taking easy fights and avoiding Mayweather, but not for this issue.

 

If you want to compare resume compare away. Mayweather has the better resume he has fought better oppoents throughout his career. He may not have been fighting as much as of late in comparsion to Pacquiao but at least he takes on challanges. That has been more than can be said for Pacquiao.
I will take Mosley*, Marquez**, Hatton, De La Hoya, Baldmior and Judah. Over
Margarito, Clottey , Cotto, Hatton and De La Hoya.
*Pacquiao is going to fight Mosley it is about time he took on a chalange the last time he did that was at best against Hatton four fights ago.
** Marquez has given pacquiao all he could handle in two fights a match up at 147 or even 144 or 145 (as long as no championship [Pacquiao's this time] is on the line).
There is no comparsian Mayweather hgas not only fought better compotion than Pacquiao has He has beaten better boxers than Pacquiao has.

 

My thought on catchweights is this I am fine with them as long as no championship is on the line. I am not defending anyone for winning a championship in a catchweight fight. However the fact is that Pacquiao has done this twice.

The Leonard/Lalonde bout was for both the Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight championships. If it was contracted for 168 than only the super middleweight championship should have been on the line.
What was the contracted weight for Leonard/Hearns II? If it was anything less than 168 than no championship should have been on the line.

It is not relevent what a boxer weighed in their last fight. In otherwords the fact that Cotto weighed 146 vs. Clottey dose not make lowering the contracted weight ok for a championship fight.

As for Pacquiao weighing in at 150 for his bout with Margarito. There is nothing wrong with that. A boxer can weigh what ever they want. When a championship is on the line the fight should be contracted meaning the maxium weight should be the max weight for that weight class.
As for pacquia giving up 17 Lbs on fight night. This kind of thing nis not that unusual espicialy with weigh ins happing the day before and allowing the boxers to rehaydrate them selves. What did Pacquiao weigh on fight night? I'm guessing not much over 150? This shows that he was in better shape than Margarito to begin with not that he overcame some monster.