Who Was Better: Pacquiao or Marquez?

Nope

 

Pacquiao for sure. He still fought tougher competition and did better against his stylistic nightmare ( counterpunchers) than marquez would do against his own ( pure boxers). he managed to be competitive with marquez for 42 rounds while marquez lost every single round to mayweather, had a close but clear loss against bradley, and was in controversial decisions against C level fighters like chris john and freddie norwood

 

It’s really not that difficult to see Pacquiao has the more formidable résumé. Head-to-head it’s a lot closer. I think Pacquiao edged their first two meetings, but Marquez decisively won the latter two.

 

Pac might not be a head to head monster but he has one of the best resumes in boxing.

 

Let us know what you think of the third fight.

 

That's about how I had it, I remember. In a way though, despite not thinking it was a huge robbery, scoring it for JMM, and being proven correct that they were still essentially the same boxers, except that one clearly has the gifts to beat seven shades out of bigger men, and might find the same problems with a master his own size who knows him, still probably the most frustrating of the matches, to me. Not as fan friendly, and dramatic, and for Marquez to be so undervalued in the match-up, and just almost take it, with an again controversial decision, was immensely frustrating.