I see people saying Pacquiao would whoop Garcia now, just because Spence did. (Old) Pacquiao vs Garcia is a 7-5 type fight today, either way. I think Pac has the edge, but it's close. Just because Spence 12-0'ed him, doesn't mean Manny does better all of a sudden now. Spence would probably 12-0, 11-1 Pac, too.
This. PAC with experience has the ability to still compete with anyone at 147, but I wouldn’t bet money on him against the top guys in the division, since PAC’s stamina and timing have slipped a lot with age.
The Broner fight showed that Mikey and Old Pac are on similar levels. Boxing fans have been revising history since the beginning of time.
Pac is special he's still better than most Mikey who i think is damn good isn't no amazing power or speed his boxing iq is above average tho
That heavy slow ass Garcia? Pacquiao pinpoints a left cross and sends him to the canvas. Garcia can see the final bell but he'd be messed up. Margrito wasnt the only guy to get his bones crunched by pacquiao, He broke de a hoya's eye too, and put a fracture from the eye down along the entire jaw on a sparring partner for marquez. You don't just stand infront of pacquiao.
For the same reason the USMC(probably the biggest history revisionists in history) do -- ecause it sounds better and sells better. Silly question.
Mikey and Pac are the same size, Pac can't just dominate Mikey with height, range and a jab. He has to get into Mikey's punching range. Would be a Marquez Pac type fight. Same as Floyd vs Marquez was easy, so was Spence vs Mikey.
Yes they are. But mikey came in at 154 and was too sluggish. Even pacquiao said they were planning on bulking up for margarito and he was getting too slow and not looking good, so they pulled him back, in the end he came in 148, same as his welterweight bouts. Garcia after the fight has said he didnt have the agility and speed at 154, he has admitted to being too sluggish, he's not taking pacquiao in this state, he's a punching bag.
People become emotionally invested in fighters, so whatever they can do to prop them up and drag others down as the situation requires they will do.
I'm not really sure about Garcia case in particular but I wanna touch on the revisionism thing. A lot of so-called revisionism is actually realizing the guy who was hyped up wasn't as good as you thought. So when he loses in an embarrassing fashion (talking generally here, not Garcia) people will come to you and say "Hey now you have to give my guy full credit, you said this guy was the real deal" and you have to pretend you think this guy is still as good as you originally thought even though you don't, just in order to stay consistent.
Were people before the Spence fight picking Garcia over Pac even an old and faded one, really? I for one wouldn't have, Pac beats him of that I have no doubt. But then I didn't rate Garcia that highly to begin with. People see how many titles he's won at different weights but in this era winning titles at multiple weights is so much easier than before, I mean Broner has won world titles at 4 weights too and look what Pac did to Broner. I'm more impressed with a fighter cleaning out a division now than winning titles at 3 or 4 weights where you can just move through the weights and pick off the weakest title holder.
