The best fighters you'd take Pacquiao over in any weight class?

I might favor him over Howard Winstone at Featherweight. Interesting clash, that one.

 

Barrera at Featherweight.

Over ten rounds I reckon he could beat Saldivar at Feather also.

 

Armstrong, Pryor, Chavez and Saldivar. I think he could maybe beat Arguello & Ortiz, but those I'm undecided on. Pac is a nightmare for pressure fighters as a whole

 

It's an interesting one. On the one hand, any fighter who takes the fight to Saldivar might be going about things the wrong way, but Pacquiao had a lot of firepower at the weight. He's certainly capable of hurting Saldivar early. Still, I'd favor Saldivar to weather that storm, turn the tide and come crashing down on Pacquiao in the later rounds.

Those nautical puns do anything for ya?

 

I think quite the opposite, actually. Elite level pressure fighters, anyway.

 

I've always been of the opinion that he was a momentum fighter, although he's been recently improving in that area (albeit against tailored opponents). Against an elite pressure fighter, I do think his speed/power would be thwarted to a considerable degree, stripping of him of perhaps his two most valuable assets. I don't necessarily believe he'd be run over by anyone around his best weight, but I could see quite a few beating him handily. Chavez is one I've little doubts would beat him.

 

I don't see any basis for this and its the style hes taken on and beaten the most at the highest level - MAB (although transitioning to boxer puncher), Cotto, Hatton, Diaz

The pressure fighter typically has several disadvantages against the Pacster. For 1 they are typically not that quick so Pac's punches nearly always land first. Secondly if they rely on taking punches they are facing an A Class puncher, not only that their nature of coming forward will be impaired by taking the punches and push them on the backfoot. Then there's the fact are coming forward so he doesn't have to look for them and its hard to get out of the way of such fast hands at close range. They also often rely on outworking their opponent but are facing 1 of the best conditioned boxing athletes ever who can easily throw 100 punches a round

 

Shivered my timbers.

It's just those fast straight shots from Pac and his overall speed. I reckon he can sharp shoot straight down the middle and then get back away. After about 5 or 6 rounds Saldivar will start to come on but I reckon it would be too late.

A 12 rounder I'd favour Vicente though. A ten rounder is much more open generally, though.

 

An interesting 1, DLH didn't do that well against faster opponents or ones who could match his speed. But Oscar has size advantages and despite dominating Pac didn't look too comfortable punching up against a 5'11 man. I'd hesitantly lean towards Oscar