Let's Be Real: Pac is a top 5 GOAT

[shade darkar]

not sure of top 5 but he has been the best of the last 9 or 10 years.

[7_rocket]

Great fighter, but I'm not really sure where to rank him to be honest. He's given the sport alot of great and exciting fights.

[bojangles1987]

I'm still shaking my head at the way he ran into Marquez's right.

I wonder if that's a contender for top 5 all time KO. We'll be talking about that forever.

Pac is one of my all time favorites, but he's top 40, and no where near top 10, let alone top 5.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Manny took on more challenges, never went into "retirement" and honestly fought two hall of fame careers...

Manny won flyweight, SuperBantam championships

Came to America
whipped featherweight kingpin barrera in 2003
Marquez draw in 2004
Morales lost in 2005
Beat down Morales twice and larios in 2006
Beat down Solis and Barrera in 2007
Sure hall of famer at the end of 2007.....

Beat JMM, Diaz, oscar in 2008 in 3 different weight classes
Destroyed Hatton @140 and Cotto at welter in 2009
Beat down Clottey and Margarito in 2010
Beat Sugar Shane and barely beat JMM in a highly debatable win in 2012
Fought undefeated prime Tim Bradley and Fought JMM
that is a second hall of fame career. First one was from 2003-2007 then 2008 to present
About to fight Rios
No easy fights, no Shambra mitchells or henry bruscles,

[Grimmer]

Just because he's an active fighter who's footage isn't in black and white people don't give Pac the credit he deserves when ranking him all-time.

Facts:

-8 Division champ
-One of the most exciting fighters ever in his prime
-One of the greatest weight jumpers we have ever seen

Notable wins:

-JMM x2 (x3 if the judge had deducted the point from jmm like he was supposed to) - First ballot HOFer
-Morales x2 - First ballot HOFer
-De La Hoya - First ballot HOFer
-Mosley - First ballot HOFer
-Barrera x2 - First ballot HOFer
-Cotto - First ballot HOFer


Has any other fighter destroyed this many HOFers? I seriously doubt it. Only fighters I could see ranked above Pac all time are Ali, Robinson, Leonard and Duran.

Sort of post I'd expect from a ****** wrestling fan.

[Doctor_Tenma]

I wonder if that's a contender for top 5 all time KO. We'll be talking about that forever.

Pac is one of my all time favorites, but he's top 40, and no where near top 10, let alone top 5.

If Pacquiao can resume his career after that and put himself in the limelight, what a comeback that would be.

[DeadLikeMe]

I rate him somewhere in the mid-30s of ATGs. Kinda hard to rank a fighter as a top 5 atg when he was never clearly considered the best of his generation. There is just so much history in boxing that cracking the top ten nowadays would require an inhuman run over like 15 years.

[bojangles1987]

I rate him somewhere in the mid-30s of ATGs. Kinda hard to rank a fighter as a top 5 atg when he was never clearly considered the best of his generation. There is just so much history in boxing that cracking the top ten nowadays would require an inhuman run over like 15 years.

I think it would require a career like Sugar Ray Leonard had, but with a few more names. If Leonard had never had the eye problems that made him walk away, and everything else stays the same, he might have cracked top 5.

In today's boxing world it's impossible to do what the GOATs did, but an impressive enough fighter with the right amount of names could crack that list.

[dan_cov]

This whole 8 division thing is balls. I'm sure if there was as many weight divisions and titles previously as there is today then we'd of had many legitimate 8 division champions.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

De la hoya's resume better than manny's

Oscar fought guys that were- Chavez twice, Whitaker,Hopkins, Floyd, Manny, Shane twice, Tito, Ike, Vargas, Gatti, Ruelas, Molina, Leija, hernadez, Gonzalez, Yory boy, sturm, Paez, Oba


I thought Oscar had the best resume of the last 25 years
And im probably leaving off some guys