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by Cliff Rold - On March 12, 2005, Manny Pacquiao experienced something for the first and only time since the calendar ventured into the 2000’s.
He lost.
It wasn’t a bad loss. The victor that night, Erik Morales, was and remains a bona fide Hall of Famer who turned in an incredible performance. With titles in three weight classes, Pacquiao was already the first man in history to officially win the lineal Flyweight and Featherweight titles (it reads officially because it is a feat better scoring could have conveyed to Fighting Harada decades earlier). The Morales loss wasn’t going to keep Pacquiao from Hall of Fame accolades. He’d proven a great enough fighter already to likely secure such honors.
Pacquiao has moved well beyond ‘great enough’ since.
In thirteen fights since the Morales loss, Pacquiao has won every time, eight times by stoppage. [Click Here To Read More]
He lost.
It wasn’t a bad loss. The victor that night, Erik Morales, was and remains a bona fide Hall of Famer who turned in an incredible performance. With titles in three weight classes, Pacquiao was already the first man in history to officially win the lineal Flyweight and Featherweight titles (it reads officially because it is a feat better scoring could have conveyed to Fighting Harada decades earlier). The Morales loss wasn’t going to keep Pacquiao from Hall of Fame accolades. He’d proven a great enough fighter already to likely secure such honors.
Pacquiao has moved well beyond ‘great enough’ since.
In thirteen fights since the Morales loss, Pacquiao has won every time, eight times by stoppage. [Click Here To Read More]
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