ok first off let me say that i enjoy watching manny pac fight but lets not get confused here with good and great. yes manny came from a lower weight class but he fought way to many fighters on the way out regardless of size when your done your done and heres the former champions he beat. 1st name MARCO BARRERA, before fighting manny Marco had a record of 57-3 to anybody 57-3 is a lot of fights and everyfight takes a lil out of you no matter if it was a 12rd UD or 5 rd KO. Before Manny, Marco had fought 2 fights with junior jones( champion) Kennedy Mckinney( champion) kevin kelly( champion) price nassem(champion) Erik Morales (champion) all before manny. Marco had to many wars and by the time manny got him he was just a big name that took to many shots and was done. Before you say wait Marco fought after that(yes he did but what name has he beat after the manny fight and please dont tell me manny ruined him because all his fights ruined him.
Next manny fights Marquez, now marquez didnt fight anyone to the point of Marco names and we all know that after 3 knockdowns he started to take it to manny and it ended being a draw. so i give cerdit when its due and manny did a good job here not great bc after 3 kd you should be able to close the show.i kno i kno he wasnt with freddie but well get to that.
Next manny fights Morales. now Morales was 47-2. i once again will say that many fights will take so much from you. up to this point Morales has faced Pualie Ayala, Wayne McCullo, junior jones, Barrera twice, carlos hernandaz, guty espadas and jesus chavez.ALL GOOD OPP. he fights manny and wins. what a war now take time to think you fought all of these guys and u war with manny and ppl think omg i want to see it again but little do they know that ..that was the last time we see Morales at his best..Morales loses to Raheem next and loses to manny in the next two. if you dont believe me check after morales loses to manny and see how many wins he has after. so manny takes the next 2 fights from morales. i mean its a good thing but common not great
Next big fight manny says let have a rematch with marquez which was a war but does enough to win in the judges eyes. this fight was a coin flip and could have gone either way. once again good but not great.
Now manny was to move up in weight who does he choose a soft fist opp in David daiz who has alot of heart. now daiz has a good record at this point i believe only one lost to kendall holt and why does he get a opp to fight pac well maybe bc he beat a aging morales in 07 by scores of 115-113 115-113 and 115-112. to close to call for me esp when morales at this point is done. now manny moves up and knocksout daiz.
Now after david he skips 140 and goes to Oscar. media and ppl are saying manny is to small to fight how about Oscar is over the hill and done. he just came off a win from steve forbes and fight before that he was fighting 154 to 160. now here comes manny and they fight at 147. up to this point oscar has been in wit the best.(Tito,Vargas,Hopkins,Mosley,Strum,Mayorga,Ike Floyd ETC) so if your telling me that oscar was in to many wars on top of having to fight at 147 which he hadnt done in years ur crazy.
Now we come to ricky hatton. Yes ricky was a good fight def not great and to me a big overratted. who did ricky beat?a aging Kosta common luis colazo got robed in the fight with ricky. who did he beat a one dim Urango a aging luis castillo who was already in wars and fought so many times. common floyd disposed of him and manny just finished it off. once again manny looks great but who is this guy. the UK just media hyped him up and thats about it.
Next manny faces miguel cotto. yes at this point alot of ppl were say o well manny met his match now but once again your forgetting that they made cotto fight manny at 145 when the reason for cotto to go to 147 is bc he couldnt make 140 and even had a lil trouble making 147 and now your sayin go down to 145. but most of all cotto was in a war where this man took a beating from margo(now u add the fact that he was getting hit with plaster which i dont care what noone says margo used plaster. u used plaster for mosley who got beat by cotto but u didnt use for cotto fight give em a break. even luis resto deny knowing anything happened intill that documen came out. now manny comes and beats cotto. once again good not great.
Next fighter is Clottley. now they fight at 147 when just one fight ago you tell this man cotto to come in at 145. common pac who are you kidding. clottley a good fighter but who has clottley beat. what did clottley do all fight block. are we forgetting jim sayin Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang. once again beats a good opp but not great.
Yeah, Manny is god. We all know it.
He might be your god, I don't so much about the Dominican culture, maybe they have high praises to Filipinos, if so be it. If you think he is your god than he whatever floats your boat.
But, at the end of the day to say that "your god" is not great is idiotic.
ok first off let me say that i enjoy watching manny pac fight but lets not get confused here with good and great. yes manny came from a lower weight class but he fought way to many fighters on the way out regardless of size when your done your done and heres the former champions he beat. 1st name MARCO BARRERA, before fighting manny Marco had a record of 57-3 to anybody 57-3 is a lot of fights and everyfight takes a lil out of you no matter if it was a 12rd UD or 5 rd KO. Before Manny, Marco had fought 2 fights with junior jones( champion) Kennedy Mckinney( champion) kevin kelly( champion) price nassem(champion) Erik Morales (champion) all before manny. Marco had to many wars and by the time manny got him he was just a big name that took to many shots and was done. Before you say wait Marco fought after that(yes he did but what name has he beat after the manny fight and please dont tell me manny ruined him because all his fights ruined him.
Next manny fights Marquez, now marquez didnt fight anyone to the point of Marco names and we all know that after 3 knockdowns he started to take it to manny and it ended being a draw. so i give cerdit when its due and manny did a good job here not great bc after 3 kd you should be able to close the show.i kno i kno he wasnt with freddie but well get to that.
Next manny fights Morales. now Morales was 47-2. i once again will say that many fights will take so much from you. up to this point Morales has faced Pualie Ayala, Wayne McCullo, junior jones, Barrera twice, carlos hernandaz, guty espadas and jesus chavez.ALL GOOD OPP. he fights manny and wins. what a war now take time to think you fought all of these guys and u war with manny and ppl think omg i want to see it again but little do they know that ..that was the last time we see Morales at his best..Morales loses to Raheem next and loses to manny in the next two. if you dont believe me check after morales loses to manny and see how many wins he has after. so manny takes the next 2 fights from morales. i mean its a good thing but common not great
Next big fight manny says let have a rematch with marquez which was a war but does enough to win in the judges eyes. this fight was a coin flip and could have gone either way. once again good but not great.
Now manny was to move up in weight who does he choose a soft fist opp in David daiz who has alot of heart. now daiz has a good record at this point i believe only one lost to kendall holt and why does he get a opp to fight pac well maybe bc he beat a aging morales in 07 by scores of 115-113 115-113 and 115-112. to close to call for me esp when morales at this point is done. now manny moves up and knocksout daiz.
Now after david he skips 140 and goes to Oscar. media and ppl are saying manny is to small to fight how about Oscar is over the hill and done. he just came off a win from steve forbes and fight before that he was fighting 154 to 160. now here comes manny and they fight at 147. up to this point oscar has been in wit the best.(Tito,Vargas,Hopkins,Mosley,Strum,Mayorga,Ike Floyd ETC) so if your telling me that oscar was in to many wars on top of having to fight at 147 which he hadnt done in years ur crazy.
Now we come to ricky hatton. Yes ricky was a good fight def not great and to me a big overratted. who did ricky beat?a aging Kosta common luis colazo got robed in the fight with ricky. who did he beat a one dim Urango a aging luis castillo who was already in wars and fought so many times. common floyd disposed of him and manny just finished it off. once again manny looks great but who is this guy. the UK just media hyped him up and thats about it.
Next manny faces miguel cotto. yes at this point alot of ppl were say o well manny met his match now but once again your forgetting that they made cotto fight manny at 145 when the reason for cotto to go to 147 is bc he couldnt make 140 and even had a lil trouble making 147 and now your sayin go down to 145. but most of all cotto was in a war where this man took a beating from margo(now u add the fact that he was getting hit with plaster which i dont care what noone says margo used plaster. u used plaster for mosley who got beat by cotto but u didnt use for cotto fight give em a break. even luis resto deny knowing anything happened intill that documen came out. now manny comes and beats cotto. once again good not great.
Next fighter is Clottley. now they fight at 147 when just one fight ago you tell this man cotto to come in at 145. common pac who are you kidding. clottley a good fighter but who has clottley beat. what did clottley do all fight block. are we forgetting jim sayin Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang. once again beats a good opp but not great.
you do realize that Pac WAS NOT AT HIS PRIME WHEN HE BEAT BARRERA?
And that he was the last minute replacement to fight Barrera and had only TWO WEEKS TO PREPARE FOR THEIR FIGHT.
MAB was well past prime. get with the program
I like it when you post. Because, as long as you do. Floyd fans would be regarded as one of the dumbest idiotic worse fan base around.
If we only Cung Le, Modern Talking, Pacdbest, and Hugh Grant can stop posting.
Damn, I guess by these standards its amazing Pac is still wining because he's obviously shot to ****, 3 losses, two of them KO's and hes definitely shop worn from all the wars he's bee in.
The bull**** of this logic is that if you were to appy the same "past it" criteria to Pac himself, he's no longer in his prime.
The only thing u could say about Pac at featherweight was he beat Morales on the downside to his career, and he didn't rematch Marquez.
Cotto at a catchweight definitely holds him back, and Margarito at a catchweight for a title after Margarito was exposed definitely holds him back. But he's on that ATG list. He may not be as high as some Pactards think (saying stuff like if Pac beats Marg he's higher than Robinson), but he's on it. And arguably, he's pretty high on it.
Sasakul, Ledwaba, Barrera, Marquez, Morales, Diaz, Hatton, Oscar, Cotto, Clottey and Margarito are from good to very good if not some of them are great fighters and HOFs. Beating them in one sided fashion except JMM and Marg of course = Pac just a good fighter according to flomos? Someone should tell them coward Floyd is greater than Pac to make their butts happy!
Pacquiao is not just a good fighter, but I wouldn't call him great either. He's a very good fighter, just in between of good and great.
+ rep and Im no fan of manny but respect him as a fighter and can comfortably say he's more of a great physical specimen than an actually skilled boxer but what he does, he does well. So I respect the skills he does possess.
Good post...
Great fighters fight ALL styles...
Great fighters can fight on the inside..
Great fighters move their heads..
Head movement is not necessary to be a great fighter......Robinson and Leonard didn't need to, so they didn't..
My keys to a great fighter
A. Fight EVERYBODY
B. Fight, don't run
C. Initiate confrontation
Leonard didn't run from Hearns, nor did he do the shoulder roll till Hearns was all tired. He fought the whole fight.
This aint nothin but a persons perspective of manny, I love boxing, am i a many fan no am i a floyd fan no, Im a boxing fan, now if your lookn at strickly resume Manny is great, but if you lookin at the perspective of how he fights, he's really good not great, same for Floyd except his is reversed, his resume is good not great, but if you look at how he fights you would say he's great. I personally think Manny is very good not great! I thik Bob Arum picked his fights very well these past few years that y ppl are amazed with Manny. Styles make fights an Arum has picked good 1 for manny plus if you throw n the catch w8 pure genius. Has any1 notice Manny hasn't faced a slick boxer since JMM? All of the ppl he has face hav been old, broken, slow, or come forward fighters. Look its not hate, just like ppl wanna c Floyd fight sum1 I wanna c Manny fight sum1 that posseses the tools to beat him.
If you think Pac cherry picked his opponents like fighting shot, faded or weight drained fighters. Would you care to explain or say who he should fight back then considering the time frame in every divisions where he is in and give me some valid reasons why he should fight them.
Pac fights at 126 he fought Barrera and Marquez currently the best in that division. Take note in Nov. 2003-2004, any fighters at 126 <<< Barrera and Marquez.
Pac fights at 130 he fought the 3 Mexican legends, his trilogy with Morales, rematch with Barrera and Marquez. Take note between 2005-2008, any fighters at 130 <<< Morales, Barrera and Marquez.
Pac first fight at 135 he straight away fought a decent champ David Diaz while most of the fighters will take a tune up fight first, testing the water by fighting a bum or less dangerous opponent. Pac immediately move up to fight Oscar after the distruction of Diaz. Take note in December 2008, any fighters at lightweight <<< Oscar at 147 before the outcome of their fight.
Pac first fight at 147 he jumped straight away from 135 (Pac has only one fight at 135 to boot) to 147 to fight Oscar yet some other ridiculous flomos wanted the fight to happen at 154 or 160 so Oscar can re-hydrate as middleweight against lightweight Pac.
Pac first fight at 140 he moved down from 147 after the Oscar fight to fight Hatton at best weight where he actually undefeated. Unlike Floyd asked Hatton and JMM to move up in his division to his advantage. Take note in May 2009, any fighters at 140 <<< Hatton.
Pac first title fight at welterweight he moved up from 140 after the Hatton fight to fight Cotto at 145. Take note in November 2009, any fighters at welterweight, Floyd (scared), Mosley & Clottey (already lose to him), Margarito (plaster) <<<< Cotto.
Pac also fought Clottey, a big durable welterweight and for the first time Clottey admitted he felt Pac fight was his only true loses.
Put aside the title, now Pac scheduled to fight Margarito at 150. No matter how the flomos spin it, this is a dangerous fight for him than at 147.
Anybody are welcome to say who he should fought considering the time where he is in.
Good post...
Great fighters fight ALL styles...
Great fighters can fight on the inside..
Great fighters move their heads..
You made an alt to make this thread then you agreed with your thread using another alt. One more thing for sure Pac is greater than Floyd flomo. Get over it.
wtf?
who said shot to sh!t? I know I didn't
and wtf does being ranked have to do with anything
you think Peden and Fana were awesome wins? you think the first Juarez fight wasn't close and didn't start to indicate how Barrera was past his prime?
dear goodness Mak please tell me you are not sitting there blindly defending Barrera to sake Manny?
Ummm peden was actually regarded as one of best at that time in that division. Fana just recently became a world champ(still remember marco Knocking him The **** out). So what if the juarez fight was close? Juarez was a handful for anybody.
Good post...
Great fighters fight ALL styles...
Great fighters can fight on the inside..
Great fighters move their heads..
bwahahaha now you can invite each other to a marathon wanking session..
"duh.. thats good post bosss" LOL
He only fights one style and avoids THE BEST style in boxing.
yes, because 7th and 8th championship division titles are just so easy to obtain, catchweight/recently KO'd plodders/avoiding "the best" style in boxing or not...
This aint nothin but a persons perspective of manny, I love boxing, am i a many fan no am i a floyd fan no, Im a boxing fan, now if your lookn at strickly resume Manny is great, but if you lookin at the perspective of how he fights, he's really good not great, same for Floyd except his is reversed, his resume is good not great, but if you look at how he fights you would say he's great. I personally think Manny is very good not great! I thik Bob Arum picked his fights very well these past few years that y ppl are amazed with Manny. Styles make fights an Arum has picked good 1 for manny plus if you throw n the catch w8 pure genius. Has any1 notice Manny hasn't faced a slick boxer since JMM? All of the ppl he has face hav been old, broken, slow, or come forward fighters. Look its not hate, just like ppl wanna c Floyd fight sum1 I wanna c Manny fight sum1 that posseses the tools to beat him.