What is the most Defining Win of Manny Pacquiao?

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  1. catasyou

    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    brown_bomber BROWN BOMBER Full Member

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  3. Scar

    Scar VIP Member Full Member

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    Can't really pick one as it's very hard and there's too many to pick from, I'll just say that all his wins are great and there's also more to come.
     
  4. butler08

    butler08 Active Member Full Member

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    in 100 years people will lokk back and see de la hoya and be most impressed
     
  5. bill poster

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    Barrera, but I was very impressed with the Diaz fight- he boxed nr perfectly
     
  6. dits

    dits Active Member Full Member

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    Barrera I put Manny on the map. He had no business dominating Barrera that way and just blew the lid off his potential.
     
  7. brickfists

    brickfists The Nonpareil Full Member

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    i agree the 1st barrera win was his true defining moment it made him a star. but its amazing how quickly some people can turn when the oscar fight was made virtually everybody said manny had no chance he's to small and called oscar a ***** for picking on the little guys. but now no one gives manny his props for overcoming all the odds and beating the **** outta oscar hav you ever considered that maybe it was manny's speed skill and perfect gameplan that made oscar look like he wasnt a live body ?

    i certainly do i dont belive all this weight drained bollocks. he slaughter da dude who 18 months before went the distance in a close fight with the p4p best in the world in a fight that couldve and probably shouldve been scored a draw
     
  8. psychopath

    psychopath D' "X" Factor Full Member

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    There's should be no arguement on this . . . Pac was absolutely nobody before the MAB fight . . . in fact he was just a replacement for that.

    He was supposed to be a sheep being fed to the lion. A stepping up fighter against the Ring belt holder who has just dumped his WBC belt.:yep
     
  9. yyyy1313

    yyyy1313 Active Member Full Member

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    I think your completely off based when you say critics were branding him as one dimesional. In fact after the diaz fight everyone and there mother were complimenting pac's in his as evolution as fighter, showing that not only can he brawl, but also fight. If anything biggest factors were, he was too small, he would lack power, he would lose speed of hand and foot. If anything there was just so many questions about Pac moving that many weights that no one could justifiably predict that he would have passed without any issue for that fight.

    Plus add to the fact that people were percieving and overrating De la hoya on his fight with Mayweather and Forbes and it made him seem as though he had something in the tank, I for one was not in that group! I thought he looked like shyt in both fights, especially considering that he had Forbes move up in weight and for the most part did not look to have landed anything significant in the Mayweather fight. However with that said I did think that Oscar would have won the fight due to all the questions that were on Pac's moving up in weight by, so many levels as oppose to De La Hoya just being the superior fighter etc.
     
  10. bulakenyo

    bulakenyo Am I a boxing fan yet? Full Member

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    No.

    He wasnt an absolute nobody when he fought MAB.

    Check out the facts first.

    Not a household name in the US, I agree. But very few boxers were, at that time.
     
  11. asero

    asero Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    pac is in the top 30 p4p before the MAB fight
     
  12. yyyy1313

    yyyy1313 Active Member Full Member

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    Guess I will say the first time he fought Mab, only because Mab was in his prime and got utterly dismantled to an unknown fighter (outside of the boxing community).
     
  13. huggerfree

    huggerfree Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Barrera was pacs coming out party.
     
  14. yyyy1313

    yyyy1313 Active Member Full Member

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    Damn, yours is just short and sweet :good
     
  15. Monstar

    Monstar The Future.. Full Member

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    i'd say DLH at the moment, beatin Morales and Barrera were of course great wins but, that DLH win was Legendary, it'll be remembered decades from now by boxing fans