Was Barrera prime when he first fought Pacquiao?

Barrera was considered past it even before his first fight with Morales. After he kind of re-invented his style to last a little longer and was going on a good streak, but he definitely wasn't the young strong bull he started out as. He had about 60 fights by the time he got to Pacquiao the first time. I think he was a little past it and under-trained for the fight, I don't think he took Pacquiao seriously. You can tell by the second fight, Barrera was definitely past it and hardly won a round, but he hardly took as much punishment he did the first time around.

Overall if you are trying to rate the win or consider who is the best, I would suggest it as a great bout for Pacquiao, because he was the inexperienced young fighter who took it to the champ. I think the inexpereince of Pac was more to overcome than the slight decline of Barrera. I would also say Pacquiao has definitely showed his grit and overcome Barrera in skill and greatness. Now if he would just stop being a wuse take the blood tests and stop letting his team pick sorry ass cherries for him to pick on.

 

thats the most ******ed answer yet before the fight he even said "he looks like me when i was 24 i know this is gonna be a tough fight"
but when they wotn let you train what can you do? give barrera credit that he didnt postpone the fight he always turned up no matter what and so does pac both great fighters just came across each other at different points of there careers