Is the reason why people think Pacquiao is on roids....

[rao007]

.....because Pacquiao just jumped up in weight rather than taking his time and competing with a lot more people in the 135, 140 division?

Alexis Arguello took his power all the way up to welterweight. He competed with a lot of opponents in each division before moving up. Pacquiao isn't as active as Arguello was when you compare careers. No-one complained about Alexis using roids. Thoughts?

[Sicario]

man... not this again

[rao007]

No, I'm not accusing Pacquiao of roids..just some perspective here.

[Bogler]

anyone in this same situation would have done the same. who would've pass a multimillion megafight w/ delayohoya. even darchinyan expressed he wanted it lol. after oscar, it's all megafights from there, and the next big draw is hatton. floyd was in retirement. so yeah even if he did want to clean up 135, there wasnt a chance.

[kymira]

anyone in this same situation would have done the same. who would've pass a multimillion megafight w/ delayohoya. even darchinyan expressed he wanted it lol. after oscar, it's all megafights from there, and the next big draw is hatton. floyd was in retirement. so yeah even if he did want to clean up 135, there wasnt a chance.

.............Co-sign

[rao007]

anyone in this same situation would have done the same. who would've pass a multimillion megafight w/ delayohoya. even darchinyan expressed he wanted it lol. after oscar, it's all megafights from there, and the next big draw is hatton. floyd was in retirement. so yeah even if he did want to clean up 135, there wasnt a chance.

Pacquiao should've been more active in 2005-2007. Anyways, he has a perfect chance to show his dominance at 140 with the winner of Timothy Bradley vs. Lamont Peterson.

[Left Hook Tua]

Pacquiao should've been more active in 2005-2007. Anyways, he has a perfect chance to show his dominance at 140 with the winner of Timothy Bradley vs. Lamont Peterson.

2005-2006 was when he had his trilogy with morales.

morales-pacquiao trilogy was some of the highest grossing ppv's ever under 147. averaging about 350,000-360,000 ppv buys a piece.

during this time period he couldn't rematch barrera and marquez yet (the top fighters at 126 and 130 aside from pacquiao and morales) because golden boy and top rank was suing each other.

when gbp and tr settled their legal dispute , that's when pac-barrera and pac-marquez rematches could be made.

[rao007]

2005-2006 was when he had his trilogy with morales.

morales-pacquiao trilogy was some of the highest grossing ppv's ever under 147. averaging about 350,000-360,000 ppv buys a piece.

during this time period he couldn't rematch barrera and marquez yet (the top fighters at 126 and 130 aside from pacquiao and morales) because golden boy and top rank was suing each other.

when gbp and tr settled their legal dispute , that's when pac-barrera and pac-marquez rematches could be made.

Okay, take the Morales trilogy out--Pacquiao should've been more active, to dispell all the critics, and done the same in the 135 division and now 140. That's the only way to shut critics up. No amount of roids can substitute skill. He needs to do it. If Timothy Bradley wins--he will be lunch meat for Pacquiao.

[Bogler]

Pacquiao should've been more active in 2005-2007. Anyways, he has a perfect chance to show his dominance at 140 with the winner of Timothy Bradley vs. Lamont Peterson.

so you think after the hatton fight, bradley and peterson were as big and more challenging a fight than cotto and mayweather? gotta be kiddin me.

[Left Hook Tua]

Okay, take the Morales trilogy out--Pacquiao should've been more active, to dispell all the critics, and done the same in the 135 division and now 140. That's the only way to shut critics up. No amount of roids can substitute skill. He needs to do it. If Timothy Bradley wins--he will be lunch meat for Pacquiao.

take the morales trilogy out? that's the fights that made him a star.

he fought barrera 1 (#1 at 126) in 2003 , marquez 1 (#2 at 126) in 2004 , morales 1 , 2 , 3 (#2 at 130) in 2005 and 2006 , barrera 2 (#3 at 130) at 2007 , marquez 2 (#2 at 130) in 2008 , hatton (#1 at 140) and cotto (#2 at 147).

you don't get a better run than that.

name all the guys who had a better 5 year run.