Comments Thread For: 'I'm back': Manny Pacquiao confirms July 19 date with Mario Barrios

[steeve steel]

Manny is Pacman and he can do what he wants. Go hate on someone else!

[Left Hook Louie]

Say what you want, but Mosley was one of the greatest lightweights ever and his late loses tarnished his legacy in many "casual" boxing fans. You can make an argument for Roy Jones too. Ask for a poll for top 15 lightweights of all time most will forget Mosley.

Definitely RJJ fought on for far too long. Ray Leonard is my favorite fighter of all time and stands out as a top-tier ATG. That's why his swan song was particularly poignant for me.

[IceTrayDaGang]

if Manny loses to Barrios, will this tarnish Floyd's win over Manny?

[Brother Mouzone]

Manny is one of my all time faves , but Jinkee's lifestyle is too expensive he has to keep the money rolling in .................

[MulaKO]

I wish he wouldn’t go through with this farce
All it takes is one punch and out go the lights
Literally

[Southpaw16]

Remember SRL getting stopped by Hector Camacho? What a sad, sad spectacle.
It didn't diminish Leonard's accomplishments or his ATG standing in my opinion, but it was entirely unnecessary.
So is this fight. Manny probably has more left than Leonard did when he lost to Camacho, but still.....

I think he has less left. This will not be pretty.

[Southpaw16]

Manny is Pacman and he can do what he wants. Go hate on someone else!

This is the point. He’s not a young man and he can’t do whatever he wants. What he wants, is to turn back the clock and win, but he’s 46 and it won’t happen.

I’m willing to guess he hasn’t been sparring yet, because that would probably raise enough red flags to not schedule this lunacy.

[MalevolentBite]

I don't think Mosley would even be in the Top 20 Lightweights of all time

Definitley not Top 10.

You're crazy now. Name your top 20 lightweights. Imma watch you pull Some bs from the early 1900s you never seen fight live. Let's see this list.

[MalevolentBite]

Benny Leonard and Duran will be 1 & 2. Lets see the 18 above Sugar Shane Mosley. Mosley went undefeated at lightweight and had 8 title defenses at lightweight. All KOs. Let's see this.

[IronDanHamza]

You're crazy now. Name your top 20 lightweights. Imma watch you pull Some bs from the early 1900s you never seen fight live. Let's see this list.

Haven't done a Lightweight list for a while but it would be something like this (no order)

Carlos Ortiz
Benny Leonard
Roberto Duran
Pernell Whitaker
Joe Gans
Henry Armstrong
Tony Canzoneri
Freddie Welsh
Ike Williams
Barney Ross

That's off the top of my head.

Then after that would be names like (no order)

Joe Brown
Packey McFarland
Beau Jack
Sammy Angott
Battling Nelson

So that's 15. Erm who else?

Lou Ambers
Ken Buchanan
Ismael Laguna

I'm sure there's quite a few more. Lightweight is historically one of the most stacked divisions in history.

Benny Leonard and Duran will be 1 & 2. Lets see the 18 above Sugar Shane Mosley. Mosley went undefeated at lightweight and had 8 title defenses at lightweight. All KOs. Let's see this.

Ok that's fantastic but you aren't honestly trying to argue he has a strong resume at Lightweight, are you?

How many ranked fighters did he beat at Lightweight? Like two? I think it's two, it might be three but it's no more than 3.

He only beat one fighter in the Top 5 and that's Philip Holiday who he didn't even beat in convincing fashion and look pretty crap in that fight really. Which again was the only Top 5 ranked fighter he fought at Lightweight.

His Lightweight resume is garbage. I don't think that's even debatable. The idea of him being "one of the greatest Lightweights of all time" is laughable.