Just how good is Pacquiao?

[jrosales13]

Those are your words, not mine.

That is why you implied though... But, is cool is your opinion. There is no need to sugar coat it bro...

[Khalid X]

Im interested to see what other people think about this. Duran was no Floyd Mayweather in boxing skills by any stretch of the imagination my dude. He had boxing skills but he was not Floyd Mayweather man.

Who is the most skilled fighter out of these 3:

Hasegawa
Pacquiao
Calderon

Pacquiao by far

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

This gave me an idea for a thread.

The Top 5 Most skilled boxers in the sport. Pac is not Top 5.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Pacquiao by far

Hes not more skilled then Calderon man. Pac isnt even more skilled then JMM.

[jrosales13]

Im interested to see what other people think about this. Duran was no Floyd Mayweather in boxing skills by any stretch of the imagination my dude. He had boxing skills but he was not Floyd Mayweather man.

Who is the most skilled fighter out of these 3:

Hasegawa
Pacquiao
Calderon

Bro, you're seriously overrating Floyd right now.

I rank them overall

Pac
Hasegawa
Calderon

[jrosales13]

This gave me an idea for a thread.

The Top 5 Most skilled boxers in the sport. Pac is not Top 5.

You're out of your damn mind.

[Khalid X]

This gave me an idea for a thread.

The Top 5 Most skilled boxers in the sport. Pac is not Top 5.

that is so subjective because a lot of people define skill by many things. Im pretty sure you think it's only limited to "pure boxing" ability which couldn't be further from the truth.

[pasawayako]

In my quest to see how Pacquiao uses his jab, I come across the Cotto fight. So, i start re-watching the Cotto fight and I notice something that I didn't notice the first time. Besides Cotto looking horrible, not by cause of Pacquiao, he looks horrible in terms of health. That's not the point right now but I noticed that.

Pacquiao was fucking around with Cotto. He stops his flurries half way even when Cotto is feeling the punches. Then he pitty pats at times when Cotto is walking in with his guard open. Honestly, it looked like he was trying to learn timing in the middle of a fight. Then he pauses out of nowhere and just stands there with a hard shell and lets Cotto wail on him some, as if he is trying to learn defense. He even switched up to a textbook style and tried to put in some jabs and followed it with body shots, like a boxing 101 class or something. He was seriously just fucking around with Cotto like a sparring match. Like how Mayweather did with JMM.


I already know Pacquiao is good that isn't the point here. It's the little things that you don't see the first time around that this thread is about. Studying the tape is what this is bout. He is on some video game, movie, robot type ****. I don't know how you can learn during a real fight when your 30.

It's really amazing. He was changing his style constantly, just small little tweaks. As if he was sponging up the new information/experience.

How good is pac? Good enough to make floyd duck the 40 million dollars. Good enought to make floyd think that he's an extra ordinary fighter. Good enough to make mayweather sr. thinks that pac is on a drugs that can't be put down by a gun.

[jrosales13]

that is so subjective because a lot of people define skill by many things. Im pretty sure you think it's only limited to "pure boxing" ability which couldn't be further from the truth.

I think this is the way that he is looking at it... That is where he is coming from.

[F l i c k e r]

Im interested to see what other people think about this. Duran was no Floyd Mayweather in boxing skills by any stretch of the imagination my dude. He had boxing skills but he was not Floyd Mayweather man.

Who is the most skilled fighter out of these 3:

Hasegawa
Pacquiao
Calderon

Hasegawa.

No bs. I may be his #1 fan but watch him fight. He lands everything on the button. Even shots that should be off, they are in a critical zone somehow. Then go watch him train, he doesn't even make a fist when training. Those two combinations just don't match up.