Is Pacquaio becoming more and more irrelevant?

[Chuckguy]

His actions after Cotto, he's choices of opponents, and plenty double talk by his team has turned people off about him.

But, he is fighting Bradley next. And, I'm very excited and interesting in that fight.

Agree. I think I'm te only one hyped for his fight with Bradley frommy circle of boxing chums, some casuals some not.

[madsweeney]

Seems like it. He took a huge hit when he struggled with Margarito, got knocked down by Mosley and then went on to lose to Marquez. His fanbase doesn't really follow boxing, they only follow him and they were attracted to his explosive knockouts. When a fighter starts to decline, the real fans stay but the bandwagon fans start to leave. This is what we are experiencing with Pacquiao's fans.

this is pretty much a perfect post

WTF? Did I just read that?!?

[edgarg]

He's being satirical.

Well...he's very obviously trying to be, but fails badly. He's just being silly. Like the guys who write something clearly contrived and then say..."Oh, wait"... also just as ******. These kids who try to outclever everybody end up looking more and more half-witted.

There's been a flood of new posters on this site in the past few months, all of them raving Mayweather crazies. The lies and contortions they go through to glorify their idol are marvellous to see. They'll probably be ating up women and kids in trying to behave as he does, and likely also ending up in gaol.Then the site can get back to logical and thoughtful boxing considerations.

[edgarg]

I am not sure irrelevant is the word, Pac is still popular globally. The thing is 80% of his fanbase are fairweather non-boxing fans, they are just Pac fans. So the minute he slows down some or doesn't look great in fights, they settle down, because they are just fans of him, not boxing. Unfortunately for them, his career is heading south and it won't be picking back up. As I said, all the choices he has left to fight, most I don't think he can win or he will have tough fights with, no more easy pickings for him. Fans are done with the catch weight BS too. It will be nice when the Pacmania is finally over though, then maybe I will be allowed to go into the green instead of being kept red on here by all of you blind Pac nuthuggers who hate hearing real talk.

I believe that he has really put boxing ins econd place to world fame, that he's hanging on just to collect enough money to have himself elected President. Not bad for a one-time street-kid.

That will be another record.

[fabie]

He has declined naturally in terms of physical prowess due to age and wear and tear but to say that he is becoming "irrelevant" is far-fetched. That's too strong of a word, I think a more appropriate word might be: DECLINING.

If he beats Bradley, would you rather say that it is part of an athlete's natural up and down or rather bio-rhythm?

[boliodogs]

So what does these numbers mean ?

Floyd Cotto sticky 5000 posts 128,000 views

Pac Bradley sticky 500 posts 14,000 views .

Means not many care too much about Pac .

I guess it means a lot more members are interested in Floyd vs. Cotto but that fight is comming up soon.Maybe interest in Pac Bradley will pick up as it gets closer. I did not mean that Pac is talked about more than Floyd because Floyd is by far the most talked about boxer.I just noticed that right now there are 4 active Pac threads.

[ronnie_N.]

irrelevant?, absolutely no...

declined?, hell yes...

[talip bin osman]

the writing is on the wall... (MP losing...)

but i think his relevance will linger on... specially in the future when some boxer finds a great degree of success scaling the weight classes... i feel he is going to be used as some sort of measuring stick by the boxing community for comparissons...

just my 2 cents...

[Paclan]

Pacquiao is irrelevant....

gonna make a thread about it.

[Mr. Philadel]

If you consider being called the greatest of all time by the media and boxing experts becoming irrelevant then yes.