Going through the old, great fights again.
He fought
Barrera x2
Morales x3
Marquez x2 (2000s)
ODLH
Cotto
Hatton
All of the fights were exciting, he was the aggressor in pretty much every one and always came to fight.
Easiest fighter of the decade ever
Thank you. The whole fighter of the decade scam looked exactly what it was when Marquez lifted that. It was designed to screw Mayweather of his deserved credit forever but in the end KARMA took care of business and made them whole decade fighting award team look like a bunch of crooks. All respect to Marquez which is definitely one of the best ever but we all know that belt was there for Pacquiao to lift. It back fired. This is what i love about boxing, in the end the truth always comes out.
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agreed..pac was an easy choice for FOTD (2000-2009)..you also forgot to mention he beat ledwaba. from 2000-2009 pac won 3 lineal titles in 3 different divisions and 6 different world titles in 6 different divisions. in 2009 he became the first to ever win 4 lineal titles in 4 different divisions, and the first to ever win 7 world titles in 7 different divisions. he was also ring fighter of the year 3 times from 2000 to 2009. plus he was more active than floyd from 2008 to 2009.
haters will hate, but pac was deserving of FOTD from 2000-2009...
Exactly... This is why all that money they spend in promoting Pacquiao (magazine awards, fighter of the decade awards, etc) all is wasted now. They look like the crooks they are. The real fighter of the decade is a bad guy, you probably don't like him but he's the fighter of the decade.
again, Antonio Tarver should be the FOTD coz he TKO Roy Jones?
JMM holds the Champion of the Decade belt so ill go with him
Exactly... This is why all that money they spend in promoting Pacquiao (magazine awards, fighter of the decade awards, etc) all is wasted now. They look like the crooks they are. The real fighter of the decade is a bad guy, you probably don't like him but he's the fighter of the decade.
He beat Marquez twice? He beat Morales 3 times?
He barely beat Marquez once, he lost once to Morales. You can't be listing fighters losses like that to impress people. That's now how you measure accomplishments or how good a resume is.
And I would put Pacquiao as the 4th best fighter of 2000-2009.
Mayweather, Hopkins, Marquez ranking before Pacquiao.
Thank you. The whole fighter of the decade scam looked exactly what it was when Marquez lifted that. It was designed to screw Mayweather of his deserved credit forever but in the end KARMA took care of business and made them whole decade fighting award team look like a bunch of crooks. All respect to Marquez which is definitely one of the best ever but we all know that belt was there for Pacquiao to lift. It back fired. This is what i love about boxing, in the end the truth always comes out.
Barrera trumps any win Floyd has, lets say Hatton
Cotto bigger win than Castillo given that Pacquiao was seen as a midget moving up
Marquez bigger win than Oscar
Morales bigger win (s) than Judah
Corales was a nice win too but you can substitute that for the 2nd Barrera win and that's still pretty close (Barrera just had razor thin loss to Marquez)
Gatti and Baldomir you shouldn't have put on the list, it looks dumb. Margarito and Clottey both better fighters/wins than those two.
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And on which planet is this?
I am sorry Manny only won to spite Floyd,he is the good guy and Floyd is the devil in the medias eyes so of course they gave it to Manny,but oh well,we have all moved on..Floyd is still on top and winning and Manny has a bobsled team now
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you have moved on?
If we're talking entertainment and excitement then yeah it's hard to debate.
But if we're talking who was the fighter of the decade, as in, the best fighter of the decade, then it's debatable.
I think what it all came down to is that in the second half of the decade, Floyd became a part time fighter. Manny basically fought twice as much. That would make a huge impact on who actually did more.
Floyd fought Zab coming off loss from Baldo
True. And how do you evaluate that win given zab lost to baldo? Shouldn't equal standards be employed?
And floyd fought the guy who beat zab.
Barrera was a great win for manny no doubt..but not bigger then any floyd win..corrales is on par with that win
marquez win is disputed and not bigger then floyds oscar win,in that same breath floyd beat jmm to and dominated him
Morales was shot to sh1t and drained,not to mention coming off of a shut out loss
margo win is a joke and clottey never beat anyone worth mentioning,......atleast baldo was the lineal champ and gatti is a hall of famer
Manny lost to Morales than beat him twice after he lost to Zahir Raheem. He was the only fight erik won between late 04-07. are the morales wins really that impressive?
Manny won it whether some feel he deserved it and others feel he didn't nothing is gonna change who won it. Congrats to Manny
To answer the thread question: Yes it can easily be debated.
Barrera was a great win for manny no doubt..but not bigger then any floyd win..corrales is on par with that win
marquez win is disputed and not bigger then floyds oscar win,in that same breath floyd beat jmm to and dominated him
Morales was shot to sh1t and drained,not to mention coming off of a shut out loss
margo win is a joke and clottey never beat anyone worth mentioning,......atleast baldo was the lineal champ and gatti is a hall of famer
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