Who was the better "Fighter of the Decade": Manny Pacquiao(00s) or Roy Jones(90s)?

Defeat#1:You have just admitted you were wrong and have been disproven. You said Hopkins was rated higher when he fought Jones, but Hopkins was not rated ANYWHERE NEAR as highly when he fought Jones. He had never fought for a world title, he had never beaten any top fighters, whereas Barrera and Marquez were viewed as one of the very best fighters in the world when Pac beat them. :smoke

Defeat#2:Bull****. Let's see your scorecard for that fight then, because you are saying it was 117-109 if you say Hopkins won every round other than the one he was dropped twice in, and that scoreline is complete fantasy. I don't think you've seen the fight. Post your card, or admit you're a liar.

 

McCallum What a moron you are. He looked like the cook out of The Shining by the time he fought Roy.

You tried to dispute my statement, and boy did you fail with this post. Pac's opposition over his decade was so much better than you can't even muster a decent argument, despite your penchant for distorting reality and talking complete shite.

 

atsch Except you didn't say that and are now trying to change what you said.

You said:

Barrera was p4p#3 when he fought Pac, and a 2-weight world champion holding wins over Naseem Hamed and Erik Morales.

Marquez was p4p ranked when he fought Pac, and a 2-weight world champion having boxed Pac to a draw in '04 and beaten guys like Barrera, Juarez, Gainer and Peden.

Hopkins was not p4p ranked when he fought Jones, because (a) he had never fought in a world title fight before, (b) he had very limited experience as shown by the fact he had only been the 12 round distance twice before, and (c) who had he beaten???

In the fight before Roy, Hopkins beat the mighty GILBERT BAPTIST, record 26 wins to 14 losses, having lost his previous fight, and having lost 3 of his last 6 in total. B-Hop beat him on points.

Two fights before that Hopkins was in with the much-vaunted ERIC RHINEHART, record 12 wins, 14 losses, 1 draw, had lost 4 of his last 6.


To even suggest that Jones's win over a completely untried and untested Hopkins is better than Pacquiao's wins over proven, prime Barrera and Marquez is exactly the kind of biased **** everyone on this forum has come to expect from you. :good

I'm running from nothing. To say that Hopkins won every second of every round other than the KDs is utterly, utterly ridiculous and gives a completely false picture of how competitive and hard-fought that fight was.

Leaving aside the fact that you initially said Hopkins won every second of every round other than the KDs and now you seem to have magically scored at least 1 round for Mercado thereby completely contradicting your own post, I suggest you watch that fight again. Joe Calzaghe won every second against Jeff Lacy, Bernard Hopkins vs Segundo Mercado comes nowhere even close to justifying that sort of comparison.

 

Similarly idiotic.

Let me ask you, who is a more difficult opponent, a Cotto "ruined by Marg" (yet still had enough left to beat Clottey and brutalize Foreman) or Bryant Brannon?

I could go through each mans' resume and make various similar comparisons, but there's no point, anyone with a brain reading this thread knows my point is solid and PowerPuncher would still not get it.

All in all, there's nothing anyone can say to alter the fact that Pac's comp was stronger over his decade than Roy's was over his - and it's not even close either.

 

Yes, you are quite right, I'll check that changed over pronto!!

 

Still waiting for PP to address this point which he ducked:

 

Mistake rectified: