Manny Pacquiao is the Smallest Welterweight in the History of Boxing @ 5' 4"...

Because that's not the case. He's 5.5.5 to 5'6... Stop spreading false information around this board. Even longtime pac fans are sick of your garbage.

 

5'5.5" 67" reach. He's got the same measurements as Henry Armstrong, Roberto Duran, Juan Manuel Marquez, etc. Do your research. Welterweight champ Tony DeMarco was 5'5" and Matt Wells was 5'4". Welterweight champs are usually 5'8" and some go as tall as 5'10" but 5'6" isn't unheard of, although it signals that they've come up from lightweight or featherweight, as is the case with all the names I've mentioned.

 

He,"walks around" about 160.
There's video online of him weighing 156 during the Algieri camp

 

Height doesn't matter he beat much bigger guys in Margarito, ODLH, Cotto, Rios, Bradley, Mosley, Ledwaba...

 

In real life, Shane is about 5'6" or so. I used to run into him(worked on the strip for a long time) frequently and was always shocked by how small he really is. Pac is about knee-high to a chicken.

 

I know he's not 5'4, ok den!

 

Its natural for a young man in his early 20s to be lighter than when hes in his mid 30s. If manny was 9 and half stone early in his career all it takes is a bit of serious weight training and you are up a stone of lean muscle easily. Lots of guys who are 5ft 6 can weigh a lean 11 stone with a some serious weight training. It is not a freak of nature that hes a ww champ hes just a short guy for that weight class.

 

Regardless of Manny's ACTUAL height, he's still several inches taller than a former Welterweight champion from early last century by the name of Barbados Joe Walcott (this was Jersey Joe's idol and the reason he chose his moniker.) Barbados Joe was a diminutive 5 '1".

Not only did he campaign at WW, but he was the champion for a decent amount of period and took on such ATG's such as Samuel Langford and Joe Gans. That's crazy to even think about him fighting an animal like Langford, and possibly even more amazing, that it ended in a draw.

 

Routinely faced and stopped middleweights, too. And he still holds the record for being the shortest welterweight champ.

 

I heard from a friend of a friend's girlfriend, whose boyfriend's postman's cousin that said that Pac is standing on lifts there. You read it here first!