Pacman #1 P4p Now?

barrera is a dirty fighter. pacquiao needs to do that so that the referee sees it. remember that pacquiao plays basketball.

and to some of the people here especially the haters and floyd fans, of course you will not give pacquiao credit. if pacquiao was american, he could be the p4p#1. unfortunately he isn't so he must ramain at #2.

 

That's a cop out....please don't start playing that card. It has nothing to do with him being American, most of the top 10 P4P isn't American. PBF is simply considered a better fighter right now, and Hatton is a tougher fight than MAB at this stage IMO and many others. If Pacman was #1, and he was dropped from #1 without losing, you would be singing another tune entirely.

 

i admit i'm a little overboard. but when there's a little talk of pacquiao surpassing mayweather on the p4p list, here comes the mayweather boys and their line that mayweather is very way ahead and no matter what pac will do, he will be below him.

i think mayweather is still #1, unless he loss or undecisively win to hatton. but a little objectivity and open mindedness from our american friends seems fine.

 

I don't put much thought into the Hatton fight, Mayweather is going to obliterate Hatton and Hatton is a specifically hand picked opponent.

On the flipside, this fight with Barrera meant little at this point also.

So as it stands -

Mayweather #1

Pacman #2

Pac has to take out the Guzman/Soto winner or JMM to jump to #1 for me, Mayweather would have to definitley obliterate Hatton and then beat Shane/Cotto winner to ensure that Pacman is not catching up on him.

 

I understand your position. If the PBF fans go overboard, you are fighting fire with fire.

Gotcha.

 

Since everyone agree's that this Barrera-Pac bout had minimal significance at this point, save for the Pacman nutballs, I think my next target should be bringing realisation that Hatton-PBF is a hand picked bout and also means little.

Not that obliterating Hatton, which will definitley happen, Ricky's getting destroyed and stopped, hurts his ranking as Pacman being the #2 does not even step up after tonight, but it surely doesn't cement him in like some think it does.

Ricky Hatton at 147 is no Miguel Cotto and he's on the slide on top of it, despite the Castillo win. To add more on the pile, people are dumb to think that a slick counter puncher isn't Ricky's ultimate stylistic nemesis, I suppose they think all pressure guys are the same.

This is as certain as it gets in boxing for a Mayweather victory. Cotto would have definitley been a competitive fight, real close, Hatton's an after thought at the elite level for 147.

 

Nope.

Not yet.

If he beat fellow p4p JMM and either Soto or Guzman, then that would be it.

And if PBF did not impress in his next two fights, I might add.

 

The signifigance lies in the fact that PBF would be beating a top rated champion, an elite level and P4P fighter. Regardless of how easy it turns out to be. You cannot use a prediction of ease to somehow remove the quality of the win based on the stature of the fighter.

Jones would always beat Toney because of styles and make it look easy. That doesn't lessen the signifigance of the victory. Beating a highly rated champion is signifigant.

Another example. You have called for Calzaghe to win some signifigant fights with ease over some highly rated fighters of the past AND current. You have also stated that these fights would raise the profile of his resume. Does you prediction of the fight being easy (like your prediction here for PBF-Hatton) mean that you feel that those fights WOULDN'T raise the resume and profile of Calzaghe? Cuz you know they would.

 

If Pacman wants to be p4p no. 1. he should beat Marquez and winner of Guzman-Soto. For me, that would be convincing enough. However, he will not be able to achieve that....

 

You missed the assessment of where Hatton is at 147, which is an after thought at the elite 147 level, he's also on the slide. It has little to do with how easy Floyd will dispose of him, because he'd also do it to some guys at 147 that would paste Hatton.

2 years ago this would have meant something, but not much now really. Hatton's an elite at 140, he's just an ordinary top 10 at 147.

Calzaghe may defeat Kessler easily, Kessler's a massive, skilled, elite SMW, he's not a guy who's undersized for the division coming up.

In a good comparison, this bout means about as much as Wright jumping to 170, a weight where he's not effective, if that makes sense.

 

I didn't miss it. I just don't agree with it. Besides, Hatton won't be fighting at 147...he says he will fight at his 140 fight weight. And that is his best weight. I don't know why you think he is on the slide.....

And before you say that Hatton fighting at 140 is a disadvantage, we all know PBF is not a big WW, and PBF himself just fought DLH as a WW giving DLH a size advantage.

Wright jumped 2 weight classes. I still think this fight is signifigant. We won't agree on this no matter what.

 

:yep

cosign!

:good

 

It's significant only because Hatton is so highly rated, which I have always liked Hatton but have also always debated his rating.

Floyd is not a big WW, but he's grown into a full WW and he will stop Ricky Hatton, who's in over his head against anyone who can compete at the top level at WW or higher.

I'd be confident in picking Witter over Hatton even.:yep

But yes, we won't agree, but I've always been fair in ranking Floyd Mayweather, this just means very little all in all. The Luis Collazo bout is all anyone needs to watch before they absurdly insist that Hatton has a chance in this fight and that Hatton is ANYTHING at all in the WW mix.

WW top -

Floyd, Cotto, Mosely, Williams, Cintron, Margarito and even Clottey -

You see Hatton having a snowballs chance in hell against any of those guys at his 5'6 stature and overall poor defence with no solid WW durability? Of course not. Any of those names there take him out with ease.

 

hahahaha thats a bit rough hey.

 

I have no problem if anyone ranks him #1.

But I personally have him at #2 behind PBF.