If Pacquiao loses to Rios, what does it do to his legacy?

[FALLENSOLDIER]

Pac can lose his next 5 fights and his legacy won't take a hit.....dude paid his dues and did his thing....Pac is certified!!!.....I keep saying the same thing about Roy and James Toney, they're certified....those legacies are untouchable....sorry haters!!

not true at all.... Do you still feel the same about ROY???

Roy has taken a big hit. BOXING HAS ALWAYS BEEN A WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY SPORT.......

I remember watching Terry Norris beat leonard........ I was hurt, if leonard would have lost x4 more after that it would have been bad as well even worse.....

Any fighter that was considered great and loses x6 fights straight (countin da marquez knock out) will fall so far into obscurity it aint even funny.......

especially considering there should not be x5 fighters that can beat PAC..... Come on bro........ This also applies to floyd if he loses five fights straight, of course da legacy takes a hit.. just like it rises if its against good competition and he won...

After the marquez fight look at the articles about pac.... far and few between.....

Hes fighting RIOS!!! This aint no good fight at all. I would expect pac to beat rios and I would bet my house on it... but if he lost....... to rios????? I cant comment any further..............

[FALLENSOLDIER]

it would depend on whether he goes into retirement or continues fighting to the point that people become more familiar with his shot version. If he lost and then retired his legacy wouldn't take a hit, most of the fans nowadays watched him growing up so they'd just accept that he was shot.

If he loses and then continues to fight, ala roy jones, his legacy would take a hit. Whether people want to admit it or not casual fans make up a large majority. In about 5 years time there will be a new generation of fans, some of which won't take the time to do their research, as a result they'd be more accustomed to pacquiao as a shell of his former self. They wouldn't appreciate him as pacquiao the destroyer, or have a belief ( even if misguided) in his invincibility.

exactly......... Well stated my man........

[$tate of Mind]

I don't know why so many of you say that loses don't impact a fighters legacy...that's dumb. You don't just judge fighters based on great wins. You have to take the totality of a fighters career into account, and that includes loses. Loses are a part of the resume too. If Roy Jones would have retired before the 2nd Tarver fight do you think he'd be held in a higher reagard?

[$tate of Mind]

This loses don't count thing is really ******. So you can have great wins and lose 5 fights in a row to end your career, and it means nothing? Somebody give me a logical explanation for this.......

[straightleft]

LMAO @ these butthurt floydiots and their alts. Despite of Pac losses still a lot of people putting Pac above that self admitted a rich coward who confessed he cherry picked his fights for his advantages. Floyd has no love for you because you don't pay his bills.

[$tate of Mind]

the same thing would happen to pac in what happened to a post prime roy jones, mike tyson, hollyfield and so on

everyone knows the beast version of the 147 pacman that beat cotto would have knocked guys like rios and marquez out. Anyone can see that since pac went into politics, he was on a decline, kind of like oscar was when he became a part time fighter

pac only trained in training camps, outside he was on the hot seat, he went downhill not training between camps, look at the marquez fight, the guy gassed after a few rounds and has lost his skills with his movement which he used to use to launch devastating combos

rios is fighting a past prime pac, I still think even a 75 percent pac can beat rios, the problem is, the pac I saw against marquez was at about 80 percent of his best, if he has slipped more then rios will kill him

What makes you think the Pacquiao that beat Cotto knocks Marquez out? When has Marquez ever been KO'd? Manny couldn't do it in 4 tries.

[straightleft]

This loses don't count thing is really ******. So you can have great wins and lose 5 fights in a row to end your career, and it means nothing? Somebody give me a logical explanation for this.......

The same thing about Pac early 2 ko losses. It didn't stop him to became the first and only 8 divisions title holder and 4 lineal champions in the world, Pac started pro at the age of 16 from 106 lbs all the way up to light middleweight.

His current losses right now and future loss will not make those accomplishments disappear into thin air and broke the records somehow. Until someone break it, those accomplishments will stand the test of time and nobody may able to surpass these records for many millenniums no matter how these haters saying it is easy to duplicate.

[gmc_rfc_06]

Not much.

Roy's legacy isn't all that damaged in my book, as I think about a fighters greatness before he was shot. Same with Pacquiao.

However, there is no chance Rios wins this. None. His style is ALL wrong against Pac.

[JOM'S]

pac's legacy is intact if he loose to rios is just mean its time to hang those gloves...