What Is Pacquiao's Greatest Performance?

Brutally KOing Glass Jaw Ricky Hatton

 

First bootleg fight that I watched illegally over the internet.

 

Hatton for me

I actually though Ricky was dead

 

It has to be Ricky Hatton.

Most of his notable wins his opponents were somewhat compromised to severely compromised.

Even Hatton had his chin obliterated just prior by Mayweather.

 

Barrera, JMM, Bradley, Thurman certainly weren't.

 

Never actually watched Barrera.
From the fights I saw Cotto.
The interesting thing about that fight was Cotto had a really good 2nd round and was outboxing Pacquiao until he got greedy at the end of the round and got knocked down heavily. He never recovered from that. At least that is how I remember it.

 

He was certainly in orbit at the least.

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A peak Foreman couldn't have bettered that connection.

 

I doubt it. Even if we had a fighter with his level of ability, there's no guarantee he'd have the same need to consistently test himself against the best again and again and even if he did, there's no guarantee he'd have a whole bunch of great fighters like Barerra, Morales, De LaHoya, Hatton, JMM, Cotto and Mayweather with their high profiles to test himself against.

It really was a great era, you look at 126 to 147 now and it's nowhere near as stacked and lacks the kind of big name draws Pac's era had that allowed Pac to go on such an incredible run.

 

He's a fighter that comes once in a lifetime. You won't see anyone like him for a long time. We're at least fortunate to have witness his exciting run though.

 

The fevour-pitch 'Pacmania' of '09 is guilty of slightly overselling the Cotto win.

Barrera 1 is the best.

 

Has usyk surpassed manny?
I don't think so, but many think he's the best this century