Which era would Manny Pac have won the least world titles while moving up?

The 40s. He has to beat Pep, Robinson or Ike Williams. Good luck, buddy.

 

Good luck against Napoles and Cervantes. Hell I would make McFarland, Wolgast, Nelson, and Gans the favorites as well.. Early 1900s were just scary as hell

 

You can throw in Saddler as well .. KO Sandy

 

I might be in the minority here but I feel like if Pac fought even one year earlier, we probably never would've heard of him. And it wouldn't get no better the further back he gonna go.

 

Taking a flipside approach, his best chance of an Armstrongesque racking up of lineal titles at feather, lightweight and welter might be around 1958-60 if he jumps through the weights quickly. Kid Bassey, the ageing Old Bones and Don Jordan are all guys who you'd probably make him the favourite against. A convenient window post-Saddler, Pep, Gavilan, Basilio etc and pre-Ortiz, Ramos, Saldivar, Griffith etc. Obviously he isn't boiling down to bantam and fly in that era. It was a straddling era at bantam too between Ortiz and Jofre that would have suited him were it possible to make the weight. Macias, Halimi, Becerra etc. Even Perez winding down at fly would be ridiculously outsized. But yeah, academic seeing how Pac was a weight draining cheat.

Hard to see him losing to Harold Gomes too if he could squeeze in a stop at super feather, though having Elorde as a first defence like poor Harold did might chop any potential reign there abruptly short, albeit in an absolute monolith of an occasion in the Philippines. Loi and Perkins at 140 would be interesting, though I'd expect him to lose to Ortiz there.